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Ice Road Truckers Season 12 Episode 1
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00:00All right, son of a bitch.
00:04Fearless drivers risk everything.
00:06Out here, you can freeze to death.
00:08Either you just try not to die.
00:10Chasing big paydays.
00:12I'll make it work.
00:13If I get back hauls, I get double the money.
00:14To haul in crucial supplies.
00:17I'm ready to roll.
00:18Before the opportunity melts away under their chained tires.
00:25Woo!
00:26This season, veterans return.
00:29No hesitations, no practice run.
00:31Back to bumping up and down.
00:33See if an old man still got what it takes to get the job done.
00:36And rookies emerge.
00:37This is going to be one hell of a ride.
00:39Yeah!
00:39Yeah!
00:40A new company reigns.
00:42Musky Creek, we have a very good reputation.
00:44We don't leave a load behind.
00:45While another confronts legacy.
00:48I started this business to pass it down to my boys.
00:50That was always the plan.
00:51I was introduced to trucking probably from birth.
00:55The winter window is shorter than ever.
00:58We got to get going.
00:59Pull up!
01:00Pull up!
01:00Pull some ass.
01:01Forcing everyone to burn at both ends.
01:03It's exhausting when you can't get warm.
01:06Feel beat up, chewed up, and spit out.
01:09Oh!
01:09Fighting an unrelenting battle.
01:12Ow!
01:12Got all the way open.
01:15Against the unforgiving wilderness.
01:19I'm just so afraid that I've got frostbite somewhere.
01:23Out here, it's me versus nature.
01:25On the western hemisphere's northern frontier, the race is on.
01:42You're going into the bush.
01:45It's you against mother nature.
01:47Mother nature is unpredictable.
01:50And the most ambitious company on the ice roads is Musky Creek.
01:55My problem right now is that we have so much forecasted right now and so many commitments, I'm short on drivers.
02:04We've got seven loads to load tomorrow.
02:07My name is Bill Dan, and I'm the operations manager here at Musky Creek.
02:11Apparently, there's an air leak on the air tank.
02:15Did anybody do anything about it?
02:17Our primary goal is to service northern communities via winter road access.
02:23With about six weeks of winter roads, we have to slam these loads in as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
02:30Some of the communities that we go to, their only source to get food, building materials, is by winter roads.
02:39It's crucial in that short window that we have, we get as much freight up into those communities so that they can sustain for the next year.
02:49Bill, Todd, nice to meet you, buddy.
02:55Nice to meet you.
02:56I've heard a lot about you.
02:59I'm Todd Dewey, and I come from a little town called Fort Angeles, Washington.
03:08After spending five, six years up here being on the ice roads, you know, if it comes a party, you're going to come around.
03:13I got four beautiful daughters at home, and they were at that age where they needed dad around, so I kind of took a step back from the ice roads a little bit.
03:24The last nine years of my life, I have really focused on family, home.
03:30Now that I'm an empty nester and the daughters are gone, it's like the ice roads have been calling me, Todd, Todd.
03:35I'm taking on this challenge this year because I have a chance to actually make some money, build a nest egg back for me and my wife now, and buy in my own big rig.
03:46Musky Creek, we have a very good reputation.
03:49Whatever we commit to, we fulfill.
03:51We don't leave a load behind.
03:52So Garden Hill is where your load is going to be going.
03:55Then from there, you're going to cross the ice.
03:58Then you're going to travel down here to St. Teresa Point.
04:00That's going to be where I need you to pick up the back hole.
04:02Okay, you got it.
04:03Todd's burning 800 miles to Garden Hill.
04:06Then he's crossing Island Lake to pick up his back hole in St. Teresa Point.
04:12It's loaded, it's ready, it's secured.
04:14Just a load of screw piles.
04:15They go into the ground.
04:16You can't start the building until those are in, right?
04:18There's a housing shortage in Garden Hill, so all loads, materials, it's all critical.
04:23Gotcha.
04:2410-4.
04:25My biggest concern is that he may have lost his edge.
04:29I really can't afford any mistakes to happen.
04:33You know, I'm coming up here with a super set of skills that not a lot of guys have.
04:42I'm 51 years old.
04:44I don't know if I've got what it takes anymore to do these roads, but I'm going to hit it hard,
04:48and I'm going to see if I can make myself some good coin.
04:50Am I nervous?
04:52Absolutely.
04:53See if an old man's still got what it takes to get the job done.
04:55600 frozen miles to the north.
05:02I am kind of nervous today to see what we find.
05:06Sean Harris, owner of Harris & Sons Transportation, is checking the ice thickness on Wollaston Lake
05:13to see if it's safe for big rigs.
05:16We're going to drill a hole or two and check the thickness and know how long before we're going to be able to go across that crossing with large loads.
05:24The Wollaston Lake community is only accessible by boat, or a 25-mile ice road when the lake freezes.
05:35They've had so much snow into Wollaston, it ended up insulating the ice.
05:39The ice would not thicken up.
05:40It wouldn't form properly.
05:42We're way behind on getting the roads ready to go for our heavy loads to cross them.
05:46My name is Sean Harris, and I'm 51 years old, and I own a trucking business in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.
05:58When I started this business, I called it Harris Logging and Transport.
06:03Years down the road, when the boys got involved, I changed it to Sean Harris' sons.
06:08At a young age, 17, 18, I went and got my license, and right out of trucking school,
06:14within three days, I was on the ice roads in northern Saskatchewan, and it was trial by fire.
06:21This is my 32nd winter on the ice roads.
06:24At this point now, we have 12 trucks.
06:27My company would take jobs that other people wouldn't touch with a tensile pole.
06:30I've held some of the biggest recorded loads across the ice.
06:38The Wollaston run is very dangerous because the water is always moving there.
06:42That's generally where the thinnest ice is.
06:53We're hoping today when we punch through, we have over 20 inches.
06:56Optimum is 33 to 38 inches to haul what we haul on here.
07:00First and foremost, you're looking for thickness to see how much ice there is.
07:11You want to look for the quality of the ice.
07:15You want it to kind of have a nice, clear look to it.
07:18This doesn't look like it's rotten or anything at the top.
07:22From the bottom of the ice, right there.
07:27Right there.
07:29The 18, give or take.
07:32We're in trouble.
07:33We may not get in here this winter.
07:36It's always a stress, business-wise.
07:39I think the biggest stress is just the communities.
07:41And they can't get their stuff in there.
07:43They suffer.
07:44They're out of fuel right now.
07:45They're flying fueling because they can't get across here when normally we'd be hauling across here weeks ago.
07:50We're running out of time.
07:58Back at Musky Creek, another ice road veteran is joining the team.
08:05Hey, that's me, Bill.
08:06Lisa, finally nice to meet you.
08:08You guys are like top dogs in town.
08:10You got like the most trucks, the most loads.
08:12We're at 32 trucks, pounding about 500 loads per year.
08:18For like the last decade, I've been still trucking on the ice roads, but I bought my own truck and I started my own business.
08:25Whoa!
08:27Well, that was interesting.
08:30Freezing wind, endless miles, and jobs that no one else will take.
08:34Well, I can't.
08:35I mean, oh, I'm in a jackknife.
08:38Oh, my gosh.
08:40I got a farm in Wasilla in Alaska with two acres and 11 horses on it.
08:47Can you move any?
08:49Yay, good girl!
08:51Currently, my truck is sitting broken in the shop in Fairbanks, and it's not running.
08:56I need, like, a lot of money really fast to get it going.
08:59And these are the hardest ice roads, so I'm going to make more on them, and that's why I'm here.
09:04The worst case scenario is if I don't make the money to fix the truck, I'm going to have to start selling horses.
09:09Garden Hill is where you're going to.
09:14There's going to be lots of hills to climb.
09:16Okay.
09:17Most important question, what am I driving?
09:21Dang!
09:23No can work.
09:25Nice.
09:25All that?
09:28Yeah.
09:30Lisa's also running the 800-mile gauntlet to the remote community of Garden Hill.
09:36I just can't afford to not have the wheels turning.
09:39Plunging deeper into the frozen wilderness.
09:49We've got a lot of miles to go today.
09:51Don Dewey is battling his first winter road in almost a decade.
09:56The road is in rough, rough shape.
09:57There's a lot of pieces on here, heavy items.
10:06If they fall off, there's no way I'm going to manually and physically put it back on my lungs.
10:13Getting a lot worse now, buddy.
10:14Feel that right there?
10:20Yeah.
10:21Yeah.
10:22That's getting rough.
10:32And I have definitely got something going on with my load in the back.
10:37Drill bits sticking out.
10:38About a foot on the passenger side.
10:40This is not good.
10:41Okay.
10:42Okay.
10:44I see you're cold.
10:51Well, this is screwed.
10:54This wood beam has slid out of here almost a foot.
10:58Here's a better visual.
10:59Let's get the wood that's slid this far.
11:01Half the problem is is it's so cold and the deck is so slick and these pieces of wood are just sliding right on the deck.
11:07If it pushes too hard and slides with too much momentum and breath bust these straps, that whole thing is going to slide right off the sides and this whole pallet of these drill bits are on the middle of the ice road.
11:18That's not good.
11:19Well, I got an idea in my head.
11:24I don't know if it'll work, but it sure is worth a try.
11:26There it goes.
11:27There it goes.
11:28Oh, you got to love the ice roads, right?
11:29Okay.
11:30Now, if you link these two together, it'll double lock.
11:41Pull the flank out.
11:42Double link that.
11:43Those are balanced.
11:44In theory, as I'm backing the truck up, that chain's going to come tight and it's going to pull that load down the trailer.
11:48That's what I'm hoping will happen.
11:49Okay, this is it.
11:50Well, we're going to give her a hell and give her a try.
11:51I hope this works.
11:52in the frigid northern frontier, the on-
12:20In the frigid northern frontier.
12:24At Muskie Creek headquarters.
12:29Gentlemen, looking for Bill.
12:31He must be Scott.
12:32Yes, sir.
12:32It's Scooter Ewell's first haul at a new company.
12:36Back home, he's an ice road veteran.
12:38But in these parts, he's a rookie.
12:41Looking forward to working with you this year.
12:42Are you sure about that?
12:44Is there something that you've got to tell me that I don't know?
12:45I live in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
12:52I own a couple trucks.
12:54I've been in business now five years.
12:56Trucking was a natural calling for me.
12:59For me, being out on the road on a job,
13:01it's a sense of accomplishment,
13:02especially when you deliver to northern communities.
13:07I also own Harley's Hard Rock Saloon.
13:09It's a bar in Yellowknife.
13:11This is my bar.
13:14You know, it's a community water hole.
13:16A lot of the ice road drivers,
13:18they will come to our bar.
13:19They love it.
13:20They have a great time.
13:22My wife, Kelly, and my daughter, Morgan,
13:24both work at my bar.
13:26And I have two daughters in Nova Scotia,
13:28Bianca and Zoe.
13:30And I'm praying for the best of them all the time.
13:33I really need this season to go well
13:35in order to provide the cash
13:36to do the upgrades up there at the bar.
13:39You are clean and clear to go to Red Sucker Lake.
13:42You been to Red Sucker Lake?
13:43No, sir.
13:43I haven't been in any of these ice routes,
13:45so this is all new territory for me.
13:48That's what kind of truck you're going to give me, too.
13:50She hauls ass.
13:51Nice.
13:52Yeah.
13:53This International is a very special truck to Muskie Creek.
13:59Okay.
13:59The driver that was assigned this truck
14:02he serviced Muskie Creek for a very long time.
14:05Two years ago, Erwin Friesen.
14:08We lost him.
14:10Erwin Friesen was a big part of Muskie Creek.
14:14He is one of the biggest reasons
14:17why Muskie Creek is where we're at today.
14:20He passed away two years ago
14:22when he was on duty doing a load.
14:24Sounds like some pretty big shoes to fill.
14:26Well, I hope to make you proud
14:28and I'll be honored to drive her
14:29and look forward to working with you.
14:33He's built a little bit of confidence in me,
14:35but talk is cheap.
14:37Scooter's first foray on these ice roads
14:39is an 800-mile adventure
14:41to the northern community of Red Sucker Lake.
14:44Well, now we're going to check this load out
14:47and see what we're working with.
14:49Making sure that nothing has kind of come off.
14:53The key thing is keeping your deck clean.
14:55Imagine that flying through your windshield.
14:57That'll kill somebody.
14:58And this here has to go.
15:00Each driver is responsible for securing their load,
15:04confirming it's safe and legal.
15:0614-6.
15:08I'm about to ruin Bill's day.
15:10Anything over 12 feet needs a pilot truck.
15:13We can't haul this load.
15:15He's not going to like this.
15:16And none are available anytime soon.
15:19We got the problem.
15:21What's the issue?
15:2214-6 is the issue.
15:2414-6.
15:26That's the width.
15:2814-6 is how wide we are.
15:30Yes, sir.
15:32Are you sure?
15:33Is that from the tracks or the blade?
15:38It doesn't look 14-6.
15:4214-6!
15:43I really wish you didn't
15:46to my car flex this morning, eh?
15:48You're going to learn to hate me or love me.
15:54400 miles to the northwest.
15:56Looking for the crews that are flooding to try and thicken the ice.
16:04Sean Harris is meeting the ice road maintenance crew.
16:08To build the road, the crew spends weeks plowing snow and checking the ice thickness.
16:14Where the ice is thin, they use lake water to thicken it.
16:19The fate of Sean's business depends on their progress.
16:23If the ice doesn't get any thicker, the community, they're not going to be able to get supplies
16:29like that in.
16:30And this road is very vital.
16:32It's the only lifeline in the wintertime for this community.
16:37How many holes are you guys going to drill?
16:39Two.
16:40Two for now?
16:40So what they're doing here is they've got thin spots where it's only 17 inches.
16:45So they drill holes and now we're going to fire up the generator and we're going to start
16:49flooding this section of ice that's thin here, right?
16:51Yeah.
16:52Let's rock and roll.
16:56There we go.
17:00You can see what the boys are doing, putting water on existing ice and they'll keep doing
17:04that and doing that and they'll build levels and that's how we grow the ice.
17:08How long will you guys let this run here?
17:11Until she reaches the edges and that's all you'll do today or are you going to drill another
17:16couple of holes and pump some more?
17:17Tomorrow.
17:18Tomorrow?
17:19We are late in the season.
17:22If you went across here loaded, you would absolutely go in the drink.
17:25It's just not thick enough.
17:27These guys are working overtime, trying to get a road open so their community can get
17:32the supplies in that they need.
17:41Halfway through his first run and not getting any closer.
17:45It's about to get real.
17:47Veteran driver Todd Dewey is gambling on an old trucker trick.
17:50To slide tons of steel screw piles back on his trailer.
17:55Come on, you son of a bitch.
17:57The road pounded a pallet of foundation screws over the edge.
18:01That's getting rough.
18:03Now, the fastest fix is ice road ingenuity.
18:07Okay, here we go, boys.
18:09It's over.
18:22Yeah.
18:22Looks like it moved.
18:29Yeah.
18:30It slid right here.
18:31You can see this block, see how far that block is sticking out?
18:35This block was sticking quite out here, so this whole thing has now slid right back into position.
18:39Now I'm going to re-rig it, and I'm going to try to do the same thing to the front and get it pulled over.
18:44Tell you what, I'd like being in the bush and figuring it out.
18:47That's why I love being on the ice roads.
18:51All right, re-rigging.
18:56Okay, round two.
19:01Oh, hell yeah!
19:29We are back on the trailer.
19:32That's what the ice roads are all about, baby.
19:34Figure it out and just get it done.
19:39Get my load strapped and hit back on the road.
19:41I'm ready to roll.
19:49Mission accomplished, baby.
19:52My load is nice and straight back there.
19:55Ready to put some miles on here and get this load into Garden Hill.
19:58Just another beautiful day on the ice roads.
20:00I am hitting the ground running.
20:16Deep in the frigid wilderness.
20:18No hesitations.
20:19No practice runs.
20:21That first road, knock it out.
20:23Lisa Kelly is one of the first drivers facing a freshly frozen river crossing.
20:28Nelson River, East Channel.
20:38I'm not sure where the river begins here.
20:39There's so much snow on the ice, I can't tell what condition the ice is in right now.
20:48If it's clear ice, it's a better quality of ice and holds more weight.
20:55If it's like white ice, there's more air in it, so it's more likely to crack.
21:00First one of a while, so I'm a little nervous on it, you know?
21:07We'll see.
21:08We'll see how this goes.
21:11All right.
21:12Let's do this.
21:13On a frozen northern river.
21:34Wow, that does not look good.
21:36A deceptive expanse of untested ice separates Lisa Kelly from her offload.
21:44The best strategy I have for a lake crossing is listening for the cracking.
21:52I'm going to go with slower.
21:55I'd rather be safe than sorry.
21:56The ice is supposed to make the cracking sounds, but how much is too much cracking, right?
22:02Because it's got a crack to fall through, so there's got to be a certain limit on cracking sounds.
22:09Thin ice sign.
22:11Do you see that?
22:14A blanket of fresh snow covers the road and thin ice surrounding her,
22:18obscuring the border between safety and certain death.
22:23Danger, open water.
22:25Good gosh.
22:26It's like that whole section is like open water.
22:32What makes this any thicker here?
22:43Don't go fast.
22:45I'm almost there.
22:46Don't go fast.
22:47Don't go fast.
22:48First ice crossing of the year, out of the way.
22:55Here we come for more.
22:56Back at Musky Creek.
23:12It's 14-6 wide.
23:13What the?
23:15Scooter's stuck in the truck yard until his wide load is legal.
23:19If we take the blades off, we're no trouble.
23:22Beautiful.
23:23That's why you're the pro.
23:26You're talking about a wide guy with a wide load.
23:28I know my wings.
23:28So then where are your flags?
23:30I'm wearing my ears.
23:33Get the wings off, boys.
23:37On the road, problems start to arise.
23:39Man, there's only so much I can do from the office.
23:42It's up to the driver.
23:43They have to be the solution to the problem.
23:46And we're golden.
23:54Where's my sage?
23:56I always keep a smudge kit with me.
23:58With tobacco, sweet grass.
24:03I'm new to smudging.
24:04I've been doing it for the last few years now.
24:06I've been digging into my history, and I'm pretty proud of it.
24:10I'm Mick Mack.
24:12Mick Ma, actually, it's pronounced from the East Coast.
24:14There's a reason why they were called the First Nations.
24:18They were the first ones, and they know how to survive off the land.
24:21And I like learning from it.
24:23For me, it keeps me grounded.
24:25It keeps me centered.
24:26It keeps me going.
24:27It gives me hope.
24:30And I heard doing a trick.
24:33We're going to pray.
24:35The rest of our trips are blessed.
24:39Spirit of Irvin, better keep on my good side.
24:42Scooter, we've got to get going.
24:44Let's get out of here.
24:45Call out.
24:50We're rolling out.
24:52Copy.
24:52Where's Lowe's?
25:06Finally.
25:08I'm feeling much alive.
25:09I'm feeling much better.
25:12I'm feeling happy now.
25:13Heading into Garden Hill in the remote island lake region.
25:28Garden Hill, finally made it.
25:30Todd's racing to offload 45,000 pounds of steel so he can cross the lake and pick up another load by the end of the day.
25:39I'm going to get this thing unloaded.
25:40Right back out on the ice roads.
25:45I've got to turn and burn.
25:46I've got another load.
25:46I've got to get picked up and delivered right away.
25:50Let's get this load off of here.
25:54I don't know how this is going to work.
25:55We're about to find out.
25:57The problem with unloading this is the forklift is not big enough to move these pallets off the back of this trailer.
26:02We're going to grab this whole pallet and see if we just slide a whole pallet at one time right onto the ground.
26:08I guess we'll try that.
26:12See what happens.
26:16Go fast!
26:19Go fast!
26:21Go fast!
26:23Go fast!
26:25Go fast!
26:27Go fast!
26:29Go fast!
26:31In the remote northern community of Garden Hill,
26:39veteran driver Todd Dewey is racing to turn and burn so he can pick up his next load.
26:45It's a little messy, but it works.
26:47Can't damage these things due to the fact they're just solid steel.
26:50I thought this was the only way we were going to be able to get it unloaded with the machines that we had.
26:54Go fast!
26:54Go fast!
26:55Go fast!
26:56Go fast!
26:56Go fast!
26:57Go fast!
26:58Go fast!
26:59Go fast!
27:00Go fast!
27:00Let's get the hell out of here.
27:07I've got another ice road to do.
27:10Came up with a good solution for the bush, didn't we?
27:13Nicely done.
27:14John Harris is strategizing with his business partners, sons Riley and Zach.
27:29My boys, they've both been driving since they were five years old, and at 15 probably knew more than guys who've been doing it 20 years.
27:41They need a plan to salvage the season if the Wollaston Lake crossing doesn't open.
27:46Wish I could sit in Mexico as much as you do.
27:49Riley is a mini me.
27:50Riley is a mini me, and that's not generally a good thing.
27:54One day when you have 32 years under your belt, then you can go to Mexico too.
27:58He is hot-tempered, but he's a hard worker, and he'll do whatever he has to do to get the job done.
28:10You've got to have a couple handsome, capable sons for you can do that.
28:14Zach is the exact opposite to myself and his younger brother, Riley.
28:21Zach is probably one of the most relaxed, easygoing guys you'll ever meet.
28:26We've had lots of snow up north, so here's the road.
28:29Chris!
28:30Piss off!
28:32Chris beat my third son as a pot-bellied pig.
28:35When we got him, he was no bigger than a loaf of bread.
28:39Keep going.
28:40Now he's about 250 pounds.
28:42And he used to ride in the semi with me all the time.
28:45He absolutely loved it, and he'd put his little feet up on the dash and look out the window.
28:49Like, I don't have enough problems in my life.
28:52Wallston is absolutely closed right now, and I'm getting extremely nervous.
28:58The season is going to be a short one.
29:01We've had an ungodly amount of snow this year.
29:04When you get a lot of snow early, it insulates the water,
29:07so then those cold temperatures can't absorb to freeze as fast and as hard as we need it.
29:14So I think right now we're going to do some things that we don't normally do this time of year.
29:17Yep.
29:18No, we'll do what we've got to do.
29:19We're going to have a tough winter.
29:21Approaching Island Lake, outside Garden Hill.
29:30Ice crossing just opened up.
29:32It's only open for light traffic, which means it's not open for full wage yet.
29:37Veteran driver Todd Dewey is facing a 13-mile lake crossing
29:41on ice barely thick enough to hold his empty truck.
29:46That's kind of spooky if you think about it.
29:48It's been ice.
30:06It means anything can happen.
30:12Here we go.
30:14He's on a deadline to pick up a backhaul today
30:17that's going to Muskie Creek.
30:20And the fastest way to St. Teresa Point
30:22is across the lake.
30:26The ice is not as thick as it's supposed to be.
30:28If you have a will in place, set up for your family.
30:30Because most likely you ain't making it home.
30:32That's what could go wrong.
30:33It's life and death up here.
30:35I'm a little concerned right now.
30:46I'm not hearing a lot of noise out of the ice.
30:52The crack of the ice is always spooky,
30:54but that's part of the ice crossing.
30:55You want to hear it cracking.
30:57That actually means that the ice is really, really strong.
30:59When you can't hear any noise at all,
31:02that's not a good sign.
31:06I don't like that.
31:07I don't like that one single bit.
31:08Not at all.
31:12Cracking sounds indicate the ice is flexing
31:14to relieve stress from the truck's weight.
31:16If the ice is too thin or too weak
31:20to flex under the stress,
31:22it could shatter,
31:25releasing Todd and his truck
31:26into the clutches of the deadly frigid depths.
31:39And...
31:39off the ice.
31:43Hell yeah!
31:43Go get my next load
31:47and turn and burn.
31:59On the other side of the lake...
32:02I'm headed to Garden Hill
32:04with some building supplies
32:06for the communities.
32:09The hills are very abrupt
32:11because it's not a road.
32:12There's no, like, grades.
32:14Like, they didn't build it
32:15to be driven.
32:17So when you come upon a hill,
32:19it's not smooth
32:20and it's really abrupt and sharp.
32:22The Musky Creek truck
32:24is getting a beat down
32:25as Lisa faces a final series of hills
32:28standing between her and the offload.
32:30A little rowdy at the moment.
32:32It's supposed to get worse.
32:37What was that?
32:38I got to check this out
32:46and this is a horrible place to do it.
32:49Sounds like it's under the hood.
32:52It's really loud right here.
32:54Oh, dear Lord!
33:08Oh, there's the bottle.
33:29Did the hose came up?
33:31The road to Garden Hill.
33:34A little rowdy at the moment.
33:36Battered Lisa in her truck
33:38and knocked out the hose
33:41that moves compressed air
33:43from the turbo to the engine.
33:45Without the turbo,
33:47she doesn't have the torque
33:48or the power
33:49to pull her load over the hills.
33:51Thank goodness the hose clamp
33:53is still there.
33:53My gosh.
33:55I actually think
33:55I'm going to have to turn the truck off
33:56because there's pressure
33:58coming out of there.
33:59I might not be able to get it on.
34:01But turning the truck off
34:04is kind of a bush no-no
34:06because it might not start again.
34:14As the engine cools
34:16in the unforgiving temperatures,
34:18diesel fuel thickens
34:21like day-old Thanksgiving gravy,
34:24preventing the truck
34:25from restarting.
34:33Easy, Tiger.
34:37Okay.
34:40It's cold.
34:44I've got to get out of the way.
34:50I'm kind of in a hurry
34:53because I want to get out
34:54of the way of the truck
34:55and I want to make sure
34:56my truck cools down too much.
34:58That's going to really screw me.
35:05Get the truck started here.
35:08All right, love.
35:10You ready?
35:11Because it's cold.
35:17Get the body out.
35:21Oh, all right.
35:23Back to bumping up and down here.
35:28It's cold.
35:35It's cold.
35:35It's cold.
35:38I'm going to get out
35:38of this guy's way.
35:44I feel really bad
35:45for holding them up
35:46on that little skinny spot,
35:47of course.
35:48All right.
35:51Back to bumping up and down here.
36:07Back across the lake.
36:08So I finally made it
36:12into St. Therese Point here.
36:13It's always exciting
36:14to get in a backhaul.
36:15It just means you're actually
36:16getting paid for the way back
36:17to you,
36:17not just the way there.
36:19So double paycheck.
36:20I'll take that
36:21any day of the week.
36:22Todd's picking up a boat
36:23to haul back
36:24to Musky Creek
36:25for repair.
36:26Hi.
36:27Hi, I'm Todd.
36:28Nice to meet you.
36:29Hi.
36:30This is an isolated community.
36:32We usually go
36:33from one community
36:35to another community
36:36using those boats.
36:37It's very important.
36:39The only way we get things
36:40delivered.
36:42It's just like Santa.
36:43The trailer
36:46is this wide
36:47and the boat
36:49is this wide.
36:50There's no margin
36:51for error.
36:54Okay.
36:55Let's go real slow
36:57and easy.
37:00Keep going.
37:01You're good.
37:04That's just making me nervous.
37:05I know, me too.
37:10Go ahead.
37:11You're okay.
37:11Come on.
37:13Keep coming.
37:15Keep coming.
37:15You want it to turn
37:16as you're going on like that.
37:18Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.
37:21Just hang tight
37:22right there for a minute.
37:24Yeah.
37:25I need to get this
37:26straightened out.
37:32It's working.
37:38This is a lot of work.
37:40Who said the ice roads
37:40are easy, right?
37:41The boat pick up
37:43was a little bit more
37:44than what I expected.
37:45I'm tired.
37:48Okay, stop.
37:50It's been a long day.
37:52The boat is loaded
37:53and I'm done.
37:56Gosh, that was a lot
37:57of frickin' work.
38:00You got a lot of ice road
38:01left to go
38:02to get out of here.
38:02Let's make some tracks.
38:14After a slow start
38:15on his first run.
38:16Oh, yeah.
38:17It's going to be a fun run.
38:18Feel it already.
38:20Scooter is finally free
38:22in his natural environment.
38:23She's going to be tight.
38:32One oversized inbound.
38:34This is a road
38:35that I've never been on.
38:37All these roads
38:37I've never been on.
38:39It's going to be
38:40all kinds of fun.
38:41Here we go.
38:42Oh, yeah, baby.
38:50Springs are working hard.
38:53Oh, yeah.
38:54That felt good.
38:55Right up the sink
38:56there on that one.
38:58Holy...
38:59It's rough.
39:11It's terrible.
39:12Is it really?
39:14We're just a touch of it in.
39:18And it's terrible.
39:20It's going to be interesting
39:21to see what happens here.
39:25Not much room.
39:27Narrow-ass road.
39:29And we are wide.
39:31So am I,
39:32but so is the load.
39:35As Scooter races
39:38into the bush,
39:42Todd's heading
39:42in the opposite direction.
39:48Get a little bit of shut-eye
39:50back up this morning
39:51bright and early.
39:55Oh.
39:59Feel that right there?
40:01This road is really
40:02beating the truck around,
40:03really beating the load around.
40:11Ah, son of a bitch.
40:14We're losing air
40:15pretty quick.
40:16We got something broke.
40:20The brakes are completely locked.
40:22Hang on.
40:22See, the whole bracket
40:32that holds the airline up
40:33is completely laying
40:33on the ground.
40:36Oh, my gosh.
40:38This is broke.
40:39That's broke.
40:39This is broke.
40:40This is broke.
40:41That's broke.
40:42And this is broken.
40:43That's my main air supply report.
40:44The trailer just breaks.
40:45It's unbelievable.
40:50It's going to take a while
40:51to fix this.
40:52We ain't going anywhere.
40:53We're...
40:54This season...
41:03Oh, gosh.
41:05Oh, gosh.
41:05The ice road truckers
41:07paddle brutal roads.
41:11Any more bumps
41:12and my boobs
41:13are going to smack me
41:13in the face
41:14from the back of my eyes.
41:16No!
41:19And all massive loads.
41:21Holy crap.
41:23I don't want to tip this over.
41:26Hey, you know,
41:26keep going.
41:27Right there.
41:27Perfect.
41:29The main concern
41:30is busy ice crossings
41:32being a maximum weight.
41:33Come on, come on, come on.
41:35You can do it.
41:36You can do it.
41:37You can do it.
41:39The drivers
41:40must work together.
41:42Can you not stick around
41:43while I'm under here?
41:44Because if this falls,
41:45I'm dead.
41:46Don't worry, Zach.
41:47Your little brother's
41:47coming to the rescue.
41:50Hey!
41:51Now back up straight!
41:54Or fail alone.
41:55We ain't going anywhere.
41:57Ah!
41:58My God!
41:59Come on!
42:00This...
42:01is their one shot.
42:04The truck's on fire!
42:05Come on!
42:05Tell me this
42:06don't get your heart pumping!
42:07Ah!
42:09Oh!
42:09Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
42:11I'm coming to you!
42:11I'm coming to you!
42:12I'm coming to you!
42:17Oh!
42:18How is it?
42:19Oh!
42:19I'm coming to you!
42:19Oh!
42:20This week,
42:21what?
42:21I'm coming to you!
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