Ice Road Truckers Season 12 Episode 03
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00:00It's doing very good here.
00:20Hey, well, we made it.
00:21Yes, sir.
00:22Just pull up to the nose of the graveyard.
00:25Then let's get out and have a look at this.
00:27Sounds good.
00:31Holy...
00:32That crater is really in there.
00:36At the far reaches of the frozen frontier...
00:39Yeah, it does look worse in person.
00:42The Harris Convoy is delivering a massive excavator
00:45so the local road crew can rescue their equipment
00:48from nature's frozen grasp.
00:51Well, I guess we'll dump it right here.
01:00Go that way just a little bit.
01:03Yeah, there you go.
01:03Perfect street.
01:05We've made a name for ourselves hauling huge loads.
01:09We do things other people don't want to do,
01:12too scared to do.
01:13You have to have your wits about you.
01:15Grab them off.
01:16You can't just throw any idiots into this position.
01:20What are we doing now?
01:21We had a client call us.
01:22He's got two file trucks that have to come south for repair.
01:25Okay.
01:26They need them ASAP.
01:28I guess we're going to head into Vaughn-A-Lock.
01:31I went around.
01:33Head of art.
01:34There's no rest for the wicked.
01:36Oh, this is going to be interesting.
01:40Or the Harris Convoy.
01:42I'm just still thinking about these winter roads that aren't open.
01:47We have not had the financial successes this season that we normally do,
01:52so we have to take on work in areas that we don't normally go to.
01:55You know, we all got payments.
01:56We all got a business to run.
01:59It's a battle, but we're scraping through it.
02:02While Sean and his sons dive deeper into the bush,
02:05heading to the remote community of Fond du Lac across Lake Athabasca,
02:09800 miles to the southeast.
02:22You guys, Scooter Ewell, is a man on a mission.
02:25Where am I going?
02:27I got a little bet going, Lisa.
02:30Who can haul the most miles?
02:32What were you thinking about agreeing to a bet with Lisa Kelly?
02:36Who said I was thinking?
02:37Well, let's throw a $100 bet down,
02:39see who can run the most miles this winter road.
02:42That's awesome.
02:43You're going up north.
02:44Okay.
02:45Quite up north.
02:48Lots of hills to climb.
02:50And at the bottom of every single hill, there's a sharp turn.
02:54This load is quite important,
02:56and there's a big push to get the building materials in there.
02:58You're going to be quite heavy.
03:00You're at 43,000 pounds.
03:02Huh.
03:03So you're going to be the heaviest truck that's gone in there this year,
03:07which will restrict you to night travel only.
03:09So it's going to be challenging for you to see kind of the hills engaged,
03:13how big of a drop it is.
03:14Yeah.
03:15It will be a doozy.
03:16So it's going to be an adventure of a lifetime.
03:19Oh, yeah.
03:20Scooter's night mission is a 400-mile gauntlet
03:23to the remote community of Kiwawin.
03:25I'm hauling some building material in this for their infrastructure.
03:29They're dependent on us.
03:30And they want a hell of a load.
03:33We're going to have some fun with this one.
03:35Time to make some tracks.
03:38We can get on the road and get out of here.
03:41Safety, M.O.
03:42What the f*** is this s***?
03:48What does this say?
03:51And this is Trucking 101 for Dummies.
03:53Are you worried that other drivers are clearly better than you are?
03:57Are you driving a big yellow truck?
03:59Then this video is especially for you.
04:01So to turn the truck on, you have to use a key.
04:04This is the key.
04:05This is a steering wheel.
04:06This is how we go around corners.
04:08This is a gear shifter.
04:10It has 18 gears.
04:11I am very well known for pulling pranks.
04:14But Lisa got me first.
04:17Yeah, with her little safety video.
04:19If you're in a miles race with a veteran driver,
04:21you may as well just give up now.
04:24Oh, it's on.
04:26It is on.
04:28Smart ass.
04:29You just wait, you little s***.
04:31She thinks she can play this on me.
04:33Ah!
04:35Oh, I'm so evil with pranking.
04:38I'm coming for you, Lisa.
04:40Lisa, I'm coming for you.
04:46Blasting into the frozen wilderness.
04:49Inbound 100.
04:51Veteran Lisa Kelly has her own plan to win the debt.
04:54This is a good road for the miles race that Scootie Poo has going on.
05:01I need miles.
05:03What do you got?
05:03That's a long, long, long ways.
05:05I just picked up a load here that's perfect for you.
05:09Lac Brochet is very far north.
05:11It's one of the longest trips we can get.
05:12It's a new potential client.
05:14This single load can open up the door to a bunch of opportunities for Muskie Creek.
05:19Is there any polar bears there?
05:20If you see one, take a picture and send it to me.
05:23Lisa's on the longest haul of the season so far.
05:26Running 900 miles from Muskie Creek to the remote community of Lac Brochet.
05:32I have drums of oil.
05:34I feel like they could get punctured easier.
05:36I don't want my load to catch on fire.
05:38It'll definitely combust.
05:40These drums of oil remind me of when I was driving the barrels of fuel up and over the rotating pass in India.
05:49It's definitely out of my comfort zone.
05:53How can you get used to driving these roads?
05:55They're so scary.
05:56It's insane.
05:57And I hope it's all one big mistake with flammable loads like this.
06:02You know, it's all over.
06:06Yeah, this is funky.
06:07It's really bumpy.
06:13It could break.
06:16Oh, gosh.
06:17Oh, gosh.
06:18Hopefully I can get the load there.
06:20It's going to be the heaviest load going in on a road that is a goat trail.
06:36Deep in the frozen frontier.
06:38And with the heavy load, they want us to travel in a night.
06:41Despite the urgency of his goat trail night mission.
06:44Temperatures are colder then.
06:46Firmer on the road.
06:47I'm not going to beat it up as bad.
06:48Scooter makes time for one important stop.
06:55I know I'm about to go on the land.
06:58It's not mine.
07:01I'm about to go on a trip I've never been on.
07:04But I'm going to offer this tobacco blessing to the creator, to the land.
07:14Hope for the best.
07:16I'm Mick Mack.
07:17Mick Maugh, actually, it's pronounced from the East Coast.
07:21Offering tobacco makes me feel good because I'm giving something back to the creator.
07:25It grounds me, it centers me, it gives me a sense of hope.
07:29That's what I need out there sometimes.
07:32Hopefully they look out for me out there.
07:35This is going to be one hell of a ride.
07:37The evening is trying not to die, too.
07:39Almost a day into Lisa's longest of long holes.
07:49Oh, ow, ow, ow.
07:53The driver and truck are feeling the pain.
07:57I did not even see that.
08:00Oh.
08:01Oh, wow.
08:02There's a big billow of smoke coming out.
08:04Oh, crap.
08:05And there's a hill right here.
08:06No, I can't safely stop here.
08:08This is a pretty narrow road.
08:13I really can't stop here.
08:15Brake's overheated.
08:20I gotta get pulled over.
08:24Oh, good gosh.
08:26Yeah.
08:28Oh, it's not my favorite spot, but I need to get stopped and see what's going on.
08:38On a ribbon of ice cutting through the wilderness.
08:53Brake's overheated.
08:55Lisa's brakes are on fire.
08:58The truck's on fire.
08:58Oh, holy cow.
09:01I'm going to throw snow on it.
09:03Holy crap.
09:04That's hot.
09:06I'm trying to get the brakes to cool down.
09:10It's stinky.
09:12I'm just not doing very good here.
09:15Nobody likes to smell the brakes.
09:16It's cooling down a little bit.
09:24Probably got to get that one out before it burst out in flames and burn the whole trailer down.
09:28Yeah, it just must have hung up or something.
09:31My guess is that that brake's adjusted too tight, and I just got to back it off some.
09:36I got to grab a warmer jacket and some tools so I can back that off of there, but, oh, yeah, of course we have dangerous goods.
09:43Don't get too hot in here.
09:44An open source of fire.
09:47Yeah, all right.
09:48Let me see where the slack adjuster is here.
09:50Lisa's trailer brakes were knocked out of alignment.
09:56Now, the brake shoes are dragging on the drums, causing them to overheat and catch fire.
10:01I'm going to back that off.
10:03It doesn't need to come back far.
10:05Come on.
10:06By tweaking the slack adjuster, Lisa's increasing the gap between the shoes and the drum.
10:11I need some leverage here.
10:24There we go.
10:26Okay, that should be enough.
10:28Then I'll fix the problem.
10:30All right.
10:36All right.
10:37That's good.
10:39I need to addle.
10:41I got places to be.
10:43Two hundred miles to the west.
10:53Hey, Riley, you can pull onto the ice.
10:56The 13-mile expanse of Lake Athabasca stands between the Harris convoy and their urgent pickup in Fond du Lac.
11:04Zach, you just kind of stay on the approach off to the side.
11:07We don't want both trucks right on the ice right here.
11:1110-4.
11:16We are pulling onto Lake Athabasca.
11:19We got the three of us going across here.
11:26Something that we've never, ever done before.
11:29Ice road trucking.
11:30It's a dangerous job.
11:31I've had several close calls.
11:33Riley and Zach are both new to these roads.
11:36So, yeah, you're always going to worry about your kids.
11:38So, when we get out there, say, 1.2 kilometers apart, 15 kilometers an hour, you meet another loaded truck, go down to 8 kilometers and pull out as wide as you can.
11:49All right, let's grab her.
11:55My dad, he's willing to put himself in pretty risky situations to get a job done.
12:01It's a little bit scary.
12:02I'm making my way out into the ice here.
12:06But I want to prove to him that I can do it.
12:09Riley and Zach are waiting to take over the family business.
12:13I think I proved a long time ago that I could run the trucking side of the business.
12:18Zach looks after everything on the farming side.
12:21He doesn't love driving trucks the way that my dad and I love doing it.
12:26But before that happens, they need to conquer the ice roads.
12:30And this is their biggest test yet.
12:33We are on the ice.
12:36On the ice, overconfidence can be deadly.
12:41If they drive too fast, the trucks will create a pressure wave that breaks through the ice from the bottom.
12:49If they drive too close, the combined weight could break through the ice from the top.
12:54Either way, it could be their first and last ice crossing.
13:00Am I nervous?
13:05Of course, I think you always have that little bit of what if in the back of your head.
13:11I always worry a little bit.
13:13I've heard a lot of scary stories about the ice.
13:16My uncle fell through halfway between Fond du Lac and Uranium City.
13:23Oh, it was devastating.
13:24I mean, you know, you work in these dangerous places and your family never wants to get that call.
13:29But sometimes it happens.
13:30I don't want to leave my family without me.
13:37I'd like to know how deep it is right now, but I also don't want to know.
13:41If a truck goes through the ice, it'll sink a while before it hits the bottom.
13:46The convoy is crossing one of North America's deepest lakes.
13:50Are you hearing any cracking or popping?
13:54Actually, no.
13:58It's pretty quiet.
13:59When the ice is loud and cracking, like it's strong, that's good ice.
14:04It's when you don't hear any noises.
14:06That's usually when you kind of start peeking around, like, oh, what's going on?
14:09Why is there no weird noises?
14:13You think you've been in some wild places until you're up here?
14:16This is the real deal.
14:23Just going across the last about 100 yards of ice here.
14:28And we're going to be rolling into the community of Bondala.
14:34That a boy.
14:35First trip across the ice.
14:36It's awesome.
14:38So, how was that?
14:40Well, we didn't fall through.
14:42That's always a bonus.
14:44I imagine your brother's pretty happy to see the shore.
14:46He was nervous.
14:48Way to go, my boy.
14:49Proud of you.
14:51You did awesome today.
14:53You didn't die.
14:54You killed it, man.
14:54You killed it.
14:55You survived.
14:57First crossing.
14:59With my first trip under my belt, it was a huge confidence boost.
15:02Oh!
15:03Get out of the way.
15:04I've always wanted the boys to get the exposure on the ice,
15:08because that is a big part of our business.
15:10Never been prouder.
15:12I couldn't be happier.
15:13Let's make some track.
15:16Hey.
15:26Hey, Bill.
15:27Good to see you again.
15:28I'm going to send you up to Casa Bonica.
15:31Load going up there is some building materials for a job site.
15:34Okay.
15:34I've got to get this material up there very quickly,
15:37because there's a screener in Casa Bonica that may need to get brought back.
15:40Okay.
15:40It's critical that you get back here in a timely fashion.
15:42You will be heavy on your way out.
15:45Big piece of machinery.
15:46But you're going to be traveling the Ashwick Road.
15:48Lots of hills, turns, bumpiness.
15:51One of the most notorious roads.
15:53I've been on it before.
15:54I'm ready.
15:55The Ashwick Road will tear the absolute crap out of your body and your truck.
16:00It's a nasty road.
16:01Todd's battle with the notorious Ashwick Road extends 550 miles to the northern outpost of Casa Bonica.
16:16So it looks like the community's definitely giving us a note up here.
16:27They don't want any chains on the road.
16:29That means they don't want their ice road tore up.
16:32They don't want their ice crossings tore up.
16:33So we're going to follow the rules.
16:35No chains.
16:41This road is my nemesis in a way.
16:44About seven years ago in my last season up here.
16:46I was delivering a load and on this road.
16:49The road was the most brutal road that I think had ever put a truck through.
16:54Hold on.
16:57Oh!
16:59I hit a rock and just busted a hole cleaning my radiator.
17:05I can honestly say for the first f***ing time, I've actually been f***ing defeated on a f***ing ice road.
17:12I wasn't able to get the truck out.
17:14It didn't make it.
17:14So, you know, this is kind of like a redemption run, I guess.
17:17Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
17:21Woo!
17:23Woo!
17:23Woo!
17:24Woo!
17:24Trailer took off on me right there.
17:26There you go.
17:26Nope!
17:27That was a little bad.
17:28Ah!
17:29I'm losing control on that one.
17:30Son of a b***h.
17:33It's going to be a nasty road.
17:35It's going to be a long night.
17:36It's just a reminder of how brutal this road could be at all times.
17:41Hang on.
17:41I'm going to get a little bit bumpy.
17:45Hang on.
17:48I want to even the score this time on this one.
17:50I want to get in there and get out of there with my truck this time.
17:53Not without my truck.
17:55This is a bad, bad rough shape.
17:57My goodness sakes.
18:01You joking me?
18:03The road's breaking through all over the frickin' place.
18:06Hold on.
18:06Big bump.
18:07Big bump.
18:08Hang on.
18:09Hang on.
18:10Hang on.
18:19Deep in the frozen darkness.
18:21Hang on.
18:22Todd's getting a violent reintroduction to his old nemesis, Ashwick Road.
18:31The Ashwick Road is definitely a challenge.
18:34I went in with a truck before and came out with no truck.
18:37That road is my nemesis road.
18:39I will fight and battle until the bitter end.
18:43You're driving on three, four feet of snow that's been packed down,
18:46and when that all freezes up tight and it starts to break apart,
18:50then you fall through those broken spots.
18:52And they are like massive, deep chuck holes.
18:55Once they suck your truck in,
18:57if you ain't got enough speed to bring your front end up out of it,
19:00you're stuck.
19:03It's pretty flat out there.
19:07That has got to be an ice crossing.
19:13I'm unsure about this ice, and I am by myself.
19:15Well, I don't want to take a chance, so I'm going to go check it out and see what I can see.
19:23The ice could either be a welcomed ceasefire between Todd and Ashwick Road...
19:27Ooh, she's chilly out!
19:29...or an icy ambush.
19:31Solid ice.
19:36About two inches of snow on the top.
19:40Definitely an ice crossing.
19:41We definitely have water.
19:43There's no turning back down.
19:44All right, here we go.
19:52My crossing is spooky.
19:54You can't see the ice.
19:55Daytime, you can see it a lot better.
19:56All I got is what I can see with my headlights, and that's it.
19:59It is cold.
20:01My face is freezing, but I ain't going to take a chance.
20:03I don't care.
20:03I want to hear what the ice is doing.
20:09You hear that popping?
20:12One more spooky out here by yourself in the middle of the night.
20:15Nobody else around.
20:17Makes a guy nervous, because if something happens, you are completely on your own.
20:20About seven miles an hour, 15 kilometers an hour, and I can't see the end of the ice yet.
20:31This is a way bigger crossing than I expected.
20:38This looks like it might be the other side right here.
20:42It always feels good to roll on land off the ice.
20:45All of a sudden, you get that big relief of...
20:48One more ice crossing down, baby.
20:51Another one for the boots.
20:58Also burning the midnight oil, Scooter Ewell is pushing into the frigid darkness on a road he's never seen.
21:05You're going to cut it.
21:07I'm in the key way wind.
21:09Enjoy the good road while I'm on.
21:13This is not a very nice road already.
21:17Holy...
21:17We definitely don't want to drop here.
21:23Something happened.
21:25We got a truck to move down.
21:27Oh, we just hit that only doing five-globs in the snow.
21:31That's worth it.
21:34Driving at night, it's dangerous.
21:36Especially if you've never been there before.
21:38If dips, if rocks that are in the snow that you can't see, unexpected hazards.
21:43Definitely extreme trucking here.
21:50That's a doozy of them, bang.
21:57Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
21:58Just hit him.
21:59Come on.
22:00Up and over we go.
22:01Oh, dang.
22:03Holy...
22:04Holy...
22:05Woo.
22:08Feel like a martini.
22:10Shaken, not stirred.
22:12Oh, sh...
22:13We're getting into worse sections here.
22:15Oh, yeah.
22:17Oh, yeah.
22:19Oh, we're losing.
22:21We're losing.
22:21We're losing.
22:25Oh, me.
22:32It's terrible.
22:35Just terrible.
22:37Freaking terrible.
22:40Under the same moonless night...
22:42Whoa.
22:44Holy moly.
22:45Lisa's running low on visibility.
22:47I can't see out the mirrors.
22:50All right, I'm going to stop right here.
22:54All right.
23:02I need to see out of my window.
23:04It's always freaking something, isn't it?
23:08Yep.
23:13My window just fell down in the door.
23:16It's a dingy window.
23:18Now it's just stuck.
23:19Are you serious?
23:23It's already freaking cold in here.
23:25I am not driving with a window down.
23:28Unwilling to continue while exposed to the frigid night air,
23:31Lisa's chances of making her offload tonight
23:34are falling faster than the nighttime temperature.
23:37As an ice road trucker,
23:39you've got to be ready for anything at any time.
23:41You get the job done,
23:42I just have to get back on the road.
23:43I want to take the door panel off.
23:45You have to be able to make the best of situations.
23:48I got this tool and this tool and this problem.
23:50How am I going to fix it with these?
23:52Go to yourself.
23:53Don't roll the window down anymore.
23:55I mean, aren't doors overrated?
24:01Oh, mother...
24:02It's not working!
24:11Back on the northern goat trail.
24:14Come on, baby.
24:16Scooter's also trying to get back on the road.
24:19Come on.
24:20When I'm going into a situation
24:23where I've never driven before,
24:25I don't know what's going to happen.
24:27So I have to be ready to think on the fly.
24:31This is going to be a nightmare.
24:37Ice roads will always throw something at you.
24:40There's always a curveball coming.
24:42Come on.
24:45Can I get a little forward?
24:47I'm going to try to move backwards.
24:48Let's see if I can make it work here.
24:59Come on.
25:01Yeah!
25:10Threw me right into the bank.
25:12That one made my heart stop for a sec.
25:15Last thing we need at midnight tonight here
25:17to be stuck in the middle of nowhere
25:18with no one around to help.
25:23This is just the start of my journey?
25:26I can only imagine what's coming next.
25:32And then talking with fellow drivers.
25:35That inbound truck.
25:36This is quite the freaking road here.
25:37It's a terrible situation to get up a hill.
25:53These roads are narrow, dangerous, slippery.
25:57It's on 93 corners with bumps.
25:59Hang on to your butt.
26:09This is where everybody else is sliding down backwards.
26:13Can't even get a good run on it.
26:20Come on, big bear.
26:21Come on.
26:22No, no, no, no, no.
26:25Come on, big bear.
26:27No, big bear.
26:30Fuck!
26:34Oh, come on.
26:39Don't you do this.
26:41Oh, sliding, sliding.
26:46Go sliding, bring it back down.
26:48Come on.
26:48Come on.
26:48Come on.
26:48Come on.
26:49Come on.
26:51Come on.
26:51Here we go. I'm done. Here we go. I'm toast.
27:11It's going to be such a frozen popsicle.
27:15Alone and stopped in the depths of the frozen darkness.
27:19This is going to be a nightmare.
27:22I hate chasing.
27:25Neither scooter.
27:26I am not driving with the window down.
27:29Nor Lisa.
27:30The window, like, just broke.
27:33It's just not going to move.
27:35Are logging miles toward their bet.
27:38I got a proposition.
27:40Let's see who can run the most miles this winter road.
27:42I think you're going to lose.
27:46Both drivers need to fix their ridge to get rolling.
27:49I mean, it goes up-ish.
27:54You see here how this works.
27:56Lisa's improvised surgery on her door reveals the window control hardware is broken.
28:02I think I could jam something down under the window to hold it up.
28:07I'm thinking sticks.
28:08So, I'm going to get a stick, and I'm going to go hunt a moose, cook it on my turbo, and survive right here.
28:19When the job gets really difficult, I really don't have time to think about anything else.
28:24I am focused on, right now, I need to survive this minute.
28:27I need a nice thick stick.
28:29What if Bigfoot's out there?
28:31I'd like to say I've proven myself over the years, because it used to be like, what's it like to be a woman in a man's world?
28:39Holy moly!
28:41Now I'm like, I don't care what they think, because I've been up here longer than most of them.
28:45What?
28:46I might have some troubles, but I'll get it figured out, and I'll get it done.
28:50I can't touch the bottom, and I'm sitting on my crotch right now.
28:54I've never used a Leatherman saw before, but I guess it's a first turn for everything.
28:59I've got this nice guy in a four-wheeler stopping here to help me out.
29:06Hey, I see your four-wheeler's on.
29:08Uh, yeah.
29:08Do you need some help?
29:09I do.
29:10My window won't go up, and I'm going to try to put these under it, but I'm not strong enough to lift the window and put the sticks in there.
29:19Okay, well, why don't I give you a hand up here for you?
29:22Yeah, I can't even lift it.
29:25Yeah, you're way stronger than me.
29:28Okay, so...
29:28Okay, try that.
29:29Close to the center.
29:32Yay.
29:34I really appreciate your help.
29:36Have a good trip.
29:38Have a good one.
29:39Our rule up on the road is you stop and help anybody who's pulled over and got the hood open.
29:44Give this a shot.
29:46This is how we do it up here.
29:48It's up.
29:49It's never coming down again.
29:53Now it's nice and toasty in here for a chance.
30:04I hate chains.
30:06I hate chains.
30:08Scooter's only chance to free his truck from the clutches of the northern wilderness is to chain up so he can chew through the ice.
30:17No driver wants to chain up.
30:19You're working out in these cold temperatures, trying to struggle with chains.
30:24It does take a toll on your body.
30:26Oh, no.
30:28Oh, these don't even look like the right chains.
30:33Right off.
30:38They have the wrong chains in this truck.
30:40We're in a predicament.
30:42We're in a predicament.
30:42When I looked at the chains, they said, no, there's 24s in there.
30:48But these hard chains are obviously for 22s.
30:52A, my fault that before I left that yard, I should have tried them and made sure.
30:57But B, if a truck comes fully equipped, it should be fully equipped.
31:04So, now I'm going to have to be creative.
31:09Sometimes I'm just going to dig around and look for something.
31:12And the only thing I'm going to find is bungee cords laying in the bunk.
31:15I'm going to do the one thing I don't want to do.
31:20Right now, I'm going to throw some bungee cords on it, tighten it up a little bit.
31:24I've got a redneck.
31:26How long is it going to last?
31:27I don't know.
31:29I've been able to death in a lot of situations in all my life.
31:32It's the only way you can survive in this world.
31:35Oh, yeah.
31:37Some unfortunate circumstances happened in my life.
31:40I had nothing left.
31:41And it changed me.
31:44I love my job.
31:45I love my job.
31:47It gave me a sense of clarity of where I want to be in my life and who I want to be.
31:51I will never quit.
31:53I will just keep pushing.
31:55Because nothing in this life is easy.
31:57Let's kick this road's ass before it kicks mine.
31:59But I'm not going to sit back and cry about it.
32:02I am going to do something about it and keep struggling to go forward.
32:06Help me out here.
32:08Hang on for the ride.
32:11Come on, baby.
32:12Come on.
32:18Come on, baby.
32:19Come on.
32:19Eat.
32:20Eat.
32:20Eat.
32:20Eat.
32:20Eat.
32:20Eat.
32:22Eat.
32:22Eat.
32:22Eat.
32:23Eat.
32:24Eat.
32:24Eat.
32:25Eat.
32:29Eat.
32:51Eat.
32:52Yeah.
32:56I can't believe it works.
32:59I really can't believe it worked.
33:16At the edge of the map, on the frigid northern shore of Lake Athabasca.
33:21Keep going.
33:22Okay, now straight. Out and out.
33:23There you go. Keep going. Right there. Perfect.
33:26Now we're cooking with God.
33:28The Harris family is loading two cloud trucks that are heading south for repairs.
33:33That looks good.
33:34Down there and ready to go.
33:36Fifteen minutes ahead of schedule, that's always a good thing.
33:41Hey, Dad.
33:43Huh?
33:43This tire is way low.
33:46Every possible situation you can think of for a breakdown, I've encountered it.
33:51So, we have a flat tire here.
33:54If I had a dollar for every time I've done this, I'd be very rich.
33:56There's nobody coming with a service truck to save you.
34:00You're on your own most of the time.
34:01The deflated tire needs to be popped back onto the rim so it can be re-inflated.
34:06We're going to use just a manual air hose to fill it up.
34:09And then we're going to fill it full of brake light antifreeze.
34:12Light it on fire, explode it, and put air in it.
34:14Filling the rim of the tire with the flammable fluid and lighting it creates an explosion,
34:19which can pop the tire back in place so it can be filled.
34:23Probably going to get one shot at this.
34:27Just like that.
34:28Oh!
34:28I'm just going to fill her up until it almost blows again.
34:36That's how you fix the tire in the bush, boys.
34:40My dad is just about great at everything.
34:43He can fix, he can manage, he can lead.
34:45He's superhuman.
34:46It's crazy.
34:47And as a bonus, you get to warm up while you're doing it.
34:49That puts a fair bit of pressure on me, because I don't always know if I quite measure up to his skills.
34:55Things are just going to come along and learn how to deal with it as we go.
35:00We're going to go on to Lake Athabasca.
35:02Head for the ice now?
35:03Yeah, head for the ice.
35:05We're just going to turn and burn.
35:06We don't have time to piss around.
35:07Okay, take two.
35:10We're southbound and down.
35:12As the Harris convoy heads back across the lake,
35:15800 miles to the southeast.
35:24This is looking familiar.
35:27All right, we're here.
35:29That's it.
35:31The bell has rung on Todd's second round against Ashwick Road.
35:37Finally conquered my nemesis road.
35:41The weather has definitely changed.
35:43We've got snow flying.
35:46You never know when a storm is going to roll in.
35:47Hopefully I can just get the load in as fast as I can.
35:51Turn and burn out of there.
35:52Because if you don't know what Mother Nature is going to blow in,
35:54this slide is pretty easy, I think.
35:57I hope.
36:00Oh, yeah.
36:02The pivot point.
36:03You'll be able to set it down on the ground.
36:05Now for the front.
36:07Get the front lifted up.
36:09There it is.
36:09All right.
36:10All right.
36:10There he goes.
36:15Load.
36:16Delivered.
36:16Woo!
36:18Now Todd needs to turn and burn.
36:21Looks like it's a pretty heavy machine.
36:23If it fits on the trailer, it doesn't matter anything else.
36:25It's movable.
36:26He's hauling back a massive and heavy piece of machinery called a rock screener.
36:32Does it fit the ships?
36:33Yep, fits the ships.
36:34Absolutely.
36:35They built a really nice snow ramp over there to load this machine.
36:41All right.
36:41If you want to back down, you want to just turn it around.
36:44And the motor's on the ass end of it with the big hopper on the back.
36:48Just turning it around is going to create a little bit more weight onto the drivers of my truck.
36:52And that's going to give me a little bit more traction on the ice road.
36:54It's round three with Ashwick Road, and the score is one to one.
37:00This final run determines the winner between the ice road trucker and the baddest road in the northern wilderness.
37:07One of the worst roads up in the great white north I've ever been on.
37:11Perfect.
37:11So I want this thing as sturdy and bolted down as hard and as strong as I can possibly get.
37:18This Ashwick Road is, uh, it's a nasty road.
37:23Well, right now, the score is even on this road.
37:26One for the road and one for me.
37:28Woo!
37:31She's going to be a rough one.
37:41On the northern edge of the world.
37:48Just arriving at Lac Roche.
37:52Lisa's delivering her explosive cargo to Muskie Creek's crucial new client.
37:58Lac Roche is a new potential client.
38:00This single load can open up the door to a bunch of opportunities for Muskie Creek,
38:05and I really want to capitalize on it.
38:07Okay.
38:09Woo-hoo!
38:11I'm going to run through this little hill here.
38:15I'm here!
38:17I can offload and reload and leave!
38:20Woo-hoo!
38:23All my oil is tight still.
38:26None of them fell off.
38:27My waste, flammable liquid products survived.
38:31Good deal!
38:33I'm a happy camper.
38:35Rowdy, you've turned over to 800,000 kilometers on this trip.
38:40Happy birthday to Rowdy.
38:42I think I thought of a good name for the truck.
38:44I've just been just pounding it and jumping and bumping,
38:48and I kind of really like the name Rowdy,
38:50so I think I'm going to name the truck Rowdy.
38:54The way she acts is about the equivalent of, like, a 75-year-old woman.
38:58I know this poor truck's falling apart.
39:00It needs a new everything.
39:02I don't think I have heat.
39:03Now it's just stuck.
39:05Are you serious?
39:07I'm trying to get the brakes to cool down.
39:09Oh, I lost a buddy parched.
39:12Oh, my hair.
39:16This is a really good run for the miles race,
39:18because this is one of the longest roads.
39:20I accomplished my goal.
39:22I should be able to have dessert tonight.
39:25Cool.
39:26Get this unstrapped.
39:28I hope Scooty Puff is successful,
39:30but I hope he's slower and gets shorter runs.
39:33At the end of a slower run, on a shorter road...
39:40Well, I finally arrived.
39:43Scooter also stacked up miles.
39:46I feel beat up, chewed up, spit out.
39:49And they were hard-earned.
39:54Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
39:57Sliding, sliding.
39:59I'm done.
40:00Come on.
40:03We're heading to go get offloaded.
40:06Key Baven Road has been the most challenging,
40:08pain-in-the-earth road I've ever been on.
40:10Mentally, physically, emotionally drained.
40:13We've got the building material here
40:14that the community needs.
40:16It's stayed on, and it's been hanging on like...
40:19It's been hanging on.
40:21There's no words to describe.
40:22That shows you right there
40:23the infrastructure problems they have.
40:26There's a home that's burnt.
40:28They need to replace that home.
40:30People don't realize that all these communities depend
40:33on these supplies to survive to the next year.
40:35All right.
40:36That's your material.
40:37The fun part is going to be that cement.
40:39Oh.
40:40Yeah, we'll figure out a plan.
40:47All the material got here safe,
40:48despite the amount of struggles we went through
40:51getting it here.
40:53It's really important that they get it
40:55so they can start building.
40:56and I noticed there was a house burnt
40:59in the community there.
41:00Yeah.
41:00This is going to help us out there,
41:02the community.
41:03Well, this will make some people happy
41:05to have a nice, get a new home, warm in.
41:07Yeah.
41:08This job is physically hard.
41:10It's mentally hard also.
41:12So when you have successfully delivered something
41:14to a community,
41:15it's a sense of accomplishment.
41:16You know, you've made somebody's day
41:18or their month or their year.
41:20I appreciate your help, man.
41:21Thank you very much.
41:22Yeah.
41:22I hope to see you again.
41:24If you told me out of the snowbank eventually.
41:26Yeah.
41:27Have a good day.
41:28You too.
41:29Off to the next adventure.
41:31To win this bet, I'm with Lisa.
41:33I went out to drive hard.
41:34A lot of hours.
41:35I got to conquer this road.
41:38I don't like to lose.
41:44Team broke.
41:45It's broke because it's so stinking cold out here.
41:47Oh.
41:48That was close.
41:52Oh, no.
41:53Ah.
41:55Come on.
41:56We lost our radio.
41:57It's not working.
41:58It's dead.
42:01I got a load on.
42:02That is right at the limit.
42:04Come on, baby.
42:05Get in there.
42:06I got a load on.
42:22I got a load on.
42:22I'm not sure I got a load on it.
42:23I don't know.
42:23Okay, thanks.
42:24I'm
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