At the top of the world...
Ain't nothing better than an
Icy road in the morning.
There's a job only a few
Would dare.
This isn't disneyland.
This is real [bleep].
One of the most dangerous
Jobs there is.
All that matters to my wife
And my kids is that I make it
Home.
Long as I'm not in a pine box,
We're good.
The ice road truckers are
Back.
They're my roads, you know?
Oh, baby.
Shoot!
Last year, they chased their
Fortunes over the frozen
Gauntlet of the dalton.
The dalton will throw
Everything it can at you.
You don't know what's going to
Happen.
But this season...
Alaska's most fearsome road...
Whoa! Get back!
Is just the beginning...
Whoa! Ho! Ho! Ho!
As the new riders of the last
Frontier...
Come on, baby!
Head off the dalton and over
The frozen rivers of alaska's
Outback.
This is the definition of the
Middle of nowhere.
The weather's moving in and
The temperature's dropping
Really fast.
We may not make it.
This year, the ice road
Truckers finally break through.
Oh, shoot!
Well, I've been driving the
Haul road for about ten years
Now.
I know every corner on that
Road.
What I don't know is what's
Around that next corner.
It could be something
Beautiful...
Or it could be a near-Death
Experience.
And that's the haul road.
On the haul road, also known
As the dalton, there's a dead
Man for every mile and a mangled
Wreck in every ditch.
Whoa! Oh, [bleep]!
Oh, [bleep]!
From the truck yards of
Fairbanks to the oil fields of
The frozen arctic, it's a
500-Mile long gauntlet of
Terror...
Watch out.
Here we go.
Starting in the winding
Curves of the collision zone
Known as "the taps"...
Watch out! Watcout!
To the monster drop of the
Notorious roll coaster...
Okay, hold on.
Over the sheer cliffs of the
Ice shelf...
Through the avalanche alley
Of atigun pass...
Watch out!
Run! Run!
Passed the blinding whiteouts
Of the north slope...
I can't see a damn thing.
Ice road truckers risk it all
Delivering crucial loads to one
Of north america's biggest
Energy reserves.
They depend completely on
Trucks to haul in everything
That they need up here.
But this season, they push
Beyond the dalton into new
Extremes of danger...
By god, let's go trucking.
Across the open ice of the
Widest river delta west of the
Mississippi to the native
Village of nuiqsut...
And over frozen swamplands to
The lost gold-Mining town of
Bettles.
We're driving over 65% swamp.
With new roads come bigger
Loads...
We're over 200,000 pounds
Right now.
Like 1/4-Million-Pound giants
That take three big diesels to
Push...
And bash...
Their way up the ice.
Six truckers take on the ice
Roads in the dash for the cash.
Only one will haul the most
Loads, but all must accomplish
Their mission.
I'll break it down for you.
It's 90 days with 2,500 loads,
50 million pounds, and 500 miles
Of hills and curves and rocks
And snow and wind.
It's go time.
First in line to roll north:
Jack jessee, the king of heavy
Haul trucking.
Last year, jack owned the ice
Road, hauling the most loads and
The biggest.
They put it on the trailer.
They tell me to get it there
Safely.
I get it there.
And jack's first load of the
Season is no different.
Ready?
It's a real tape-Measure job.
We're 100-Feet long.
We're 17-Feet wide and we're
16'6" high.
Right on. Got it.
The cargo: A giant docking
Station for pipes leading in and
Out of the alaskan pipeline.
Well, the biggest concerns
On a load like this is, I mean,
This is a pretty specialized
Piece.
Makes it pretty expensive, so
You definitely don't want any
Damage.
The oil fields have waited
Nearly a year for this piece of
Equipment.
And now, with temperatures
Dipping to a balmy minus 28
Degrees, the ice should be thick
Enough to support its 58,000
Pounds.
Well, it's nerve-Racking.
Most concentration I feel like
I have to do is just getting
This thing out of town and not
Hitting anybody or anything.
The rig is so massive it
Takes a fleet of pilot cars...
All right, I got two that I
Can see behind us here.
And surgical driving skills
To move a mile.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Real slow. Real slow.
I don't know if you're gonna
Make it here.
The slightest miscalculation
And jack damages the
$1/2 million load, or worse,
Takes out a passing driver.
The potential energy of that
Load is just amazing.
I've got a lot of brakes, but
They're only gonna work so good.
Mentally, it's just a...it's a
Strain knowing you've got all
This responsibility on you,
'Cause if anything happens, I
Mean, it's gonna be my fault.
Just come on through there
Nice and easy.
Yeah, go real, real slow.
We're clear back here.
At first light on day one of
The ice road season, jack jessee
Is once again out in front.
It makes you feel pretty good
When they give you a big load
Like this knowing that you're
Gonna get it up there.
They have full confidence that
The job's gonna get done.
Getting the job done means
Navigating the most dangerous
Road in north america...
Without adding another cross to
The roadside.
In fairbanks, 27-Year-Old
Greg boadwine is bound for the
Dalton.
A trip he thought he'd never
Make again.
Hi, guys.
Love you, dad.
Love you guys.
In his second year on the
Dalton, greg is out for
Redemption.
His rookie season ended in a
Terrifying crash when his semi
Loaded with drill pipe
Overturned.
Steer tire on the passenger
Side caught a little bit of
Snow.
Truck starts leaning and I take
My seatbelt off.
Feet go toward the passenger
Side and next thing I know, I'm
Standing on my passenger-Side
Door and window.
About the only thing I thought
When that truck landed on its
Side was, "oh, [bleep]."
I knew I lost my job.
Greg was lucky to walk away
And now he's lucky that his
Bosses are willing to give him a
Second chance.
After my accident last year,
I really feel that I'm just...
Hanging here by a thread.
Okay, bye. Love you.
Have fun.
Don't let 'em beat you up too
Much.
For sure.
As he leaves for his
Make-Or-Break season, greg may
Be anxious, but his family's
Scared.
Sometimes I cry when he
Leaves.
I know he loves his job and I
Try to be as supportive as I
Can, but I can't sleep if he's
On the road.
Until I hear his voice, there's
No relaxing.
I don't want to lose him.
300 miles south is wasilla,
Alaska, home to a certain rogue
Politician...
Sarah palin?
Yeah, sarah palin.
And a trailblazing ice road
Trucker.
I didn't move here 'cause of
Her.
I was here 'cause of the
Snowboarding and dirt biking and
Trucking and the skydiving.
Thrill-Seeker lisa kelly is
Out for one thing: Respect.
To get it, she's saying good-Bye
To her favorite things.
I got my new little pony
Horse and my little family I've
Established over the summers
Here.
I'm gonna miss my rocky boy,
'Cause I've been working with
Training him and stuff and I've
Had him, like, three months and
Now I'm gonna be gone three
Months.
When he comes in, this is his
Herd.
There's two cats and two dogs.
Come in.
Come on in.
I'm gonna miss my buddies, so...
That's for sure.
Well, babe, ready to hit the
Road?
Looks good.
Next stop...
The haul road: Trucking's most
Unforgiving proving ground.
Last year, I think, was a
Good beginning as to proving
Myself, but I don't think I've
Proved it yet.
And my big saying's been I had
To work twice as hard to prove
I'm half as good.
But as soon as lisa hits the
Road, the cb buzzes with bad
News.
What you got?
Apparently not.
Uh, when...when did this happen?
Next, a big rig hits the
Ditch like a 20-Ton bomb.
This is the worst accident
I've seen with a vehicle of this
Size.
Just minutes after truckers
Hit the ice road on day one...
The dalton struck back.
The investigating officer rolls
Up to survey the wreck.
This is the worst accident
I've seen with a vehicle of this
Size.
Something like this, you can get
Serious internal injuries,
Broken bones, and head traumas
From bouncing around in the cab.
The driver was taken to the
Hospital.
His condition is unknown.
While recovery teams race to the
Scene, the officer tries to
Determine the cause of the
Accident.
We have tire marks right here
In the snow where he's losing
His traction.
You can see right over here
Where he'd gotten off onto the
Shoulder, which looks like it
Caused the load to shift,
Tipping the truck over.
When a truck's wheel catches
The soft snow of the shoulder,
It can set off an irreversible
Chain of events.
The mass of the load shifts to
The right, carrying the whole
Rig with it.
You can tell by the debris
Field here he hit real hard and
It spread.
You can see how it went out
About 20 yards.
But until they move the pipes
Strewn across the road, the
Final six miles to prudhoe bay
Is closed.
400 miles south in fairbanks,
The accident is now on
Everybody's mind.
And although it wasn't a
Carlile driver, it underscores
The danger of the ice road.
The safety aspect of what we
Do is huge.
Make sure that we have no
Accidents.
Make sure that we have no
Injuries.
And we have the best drivers in
The world here.
And one of those drivers has
Just arrived for his 29th season
On the ice and his 2nd in
Alaska.
Look what the cat dragged in.
Alex debogorski, how you doing?
My name is alex debogorski.
I'm 6'4" according to the
Doctor this morning and I had
Some friends say they didn't
Know that baloney could be
Stacked that high.
Every year, alex tries to
Out-Haul his hard-Driving rival
Hugh "the polar bear" rowland.
So I'm catching up to you.
Yeah?
Are you concerned?
Not a bit.
Every year, alex comes up a
Load short.
But it's day one of a new season
And hugh is nowhere to be seen.
Alex gets a jump on him with
48,000 pounds of pipe bound for
The oil fields.
But the haul road is just a
Warm-Up to a more dangerous
Journey that will take him
Across the frozen colville
River...
To a remote native village.
And with one trucker already
Coming close to meeting his
Maker, alex is looking for all
The help he can get.
Heavenly father, we ask you
To protect your servant as he
Travels, as he does the good
Work for his fellow man.
In the name of the father and of
The son and of the holy spirit.
Good to get a blessing from
A priest.
Good to have myself blessed and
Good to have the truck blessed.
Some weight's been lifd off my
Shoulders.
Lisa kelly reports for her
First load of the season.
Ryan is gonna run up with
You today.
I've already given him his load
And what I got for you is a car
Hauler.
Word of the wreck is fueling
Her first-Run jitters.
Can we trade?
No.
The thing with the car hauler,
You've never pulled before,
Right?
Right.
Okay.
On the ice road, a car
Carrier stacked 17-Feet high
With pickup trucks is a rollover
Waiting to happen and it's big
Trouble for tires.
If you get going too fast up
The road, those things have a
Tendency to blow tires, so don't
Try to break any speed limits.
Time to go north.
Okay.
We'll make it happen either
Way.
Thank you so much for running
With me.
I appreciate it.
As lisa pulls onto the ice
Road...
It seems to be waiting to take
Her down.
The frame of the trailer is,
Like, this far off my tires, so
If I hit a bump too hard, the
Frame will come down and pop the
Tires.
Lisa's got just 15 hours to
Reach prudhoe bay.
If she goes too slow, she blows
The deadline.
Too fast, she blows her tires.
Her first run of the season may
Be the most difficult 500 miles
Of her career.
It's like running the car
Trailer on balloons over cactus.
Greg boadwine returns to
Dispatch for the first time
Since a rollover accident ended
His rookie season.
That ill-Fated load was 40,000
Pounds of drill pipe, not unlike
What's now scattered six miles
Outside of prudhoe.
Greg.
How you doing today?
Desperate to prove himself,
He'll take any job he can get.
Well, looks like pipe.
Oh, really?
That sucks.
All right.
Another load of pipe.
I'm always concerned about a
Load of pipe.
Doesn't handle that great.
Just makes me nervous.
I don't like round objects that
Fall.
Hauling 47,000 pounds of pipe
Is like carrying a load of
Would-Be projectiles.
But with a new season in front
Of him, greg's got his sights
On the road ahead.
Our absolute primary goal
Today: Making it to prudhoe.
Secondary goal: Jack jessee.
The haul road ace is out ahead.
We need to have him behind us
And keep him behind us for the
Duration of the ice road season.
In the southern foothills of
The brooks range is the
Loneliest 30 miles of road on
The continent...
Branching off the dalton and
Dead-Ending at the town of
Bettles, alaska.
Population...
More sled dogs than people.
Bettles is 30 miles north of
The arctic circle, right smack
In the middle of alaska.
Bettles is isolated from the
Outside world by impassable
Rivers, except for the 30 days
Out of the year that the rivers
Freeze deep enough...
So the most hardcore of ice road
Truckers can roll.
This is really like old-Time
Trucking in alaska.
This is how trucking used to be
Years and years ago.
Welcome to the bettles trail.
It's a trail because it's not
A road.
The trail is a relic of the
Old hickel highway, the
Forerunner of the dalton, built
In a rush after the great oil
Discoveries of 1968.
There's a saying in alaska.
"We don't give a damn how they
Do it outside."
And I think governor hickel was
Operating with that alaskan
Spirit.
Crews bulldozed the
Permafrost to make the road and
In just one year, hickel's
Highway melted away.
As soon as the warm weather
Started to warm up the road, it
Turned into a bog.
One long, 400-Mile mud hole.
It hasn't improved in the 40
Years since...
While mervyn gilbertson and his
Father before him have trucked
The bettles trail.
Their mission?
Deliver freight to the town of
Bettles and fuel to the power
Plant.
We're coming right up to the
Edge here.
Partway in, they're faced
With their first river crossing
Of the winter.
Is this thing...
Is it deep enough to hold us?
Yeah, we're kind of doing
Test holes to see how thick this
Ice is and how far it is to the
Ground under there.
Lot of pressure built back up
In here.
Lot of water wanting to come
Through.
Pressurized water breaks
Through the ice in streams
Called overflows.
Overflows are like natural
Jackhammers busting up the ice.
Ice is too thin.
The water's too deep.
What do you think, merv?
Let's try it.
The first time you go across a
Frozen river, you're always just
On edge.
All right.
As you ease onto it, it's like,
"Okay, is it gonna hold me or
Not?"
80,000 pounds of loaded big
Rig lowers onto the brittle
Bettles ice...
Whoa!
And instantly breaks through.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Careful!
Ahh!
Halfway up the bettles trail,
80,000 pounds of tanker truck
Meets river ice...
And loses.
Whoa.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
Careful.
Ah!
At 42 below zero, a submerged
Wheel can freeze in place within
Minutes.
Mervyn needs to move, or he'll
Be trapped in the ice.
Back on solid ground,
But the mission to resupply the
Town is a bust if they stay on
This side of the river.
You've got freight,
You need to get it to bettles.
Mervyn gives it one more
Shot, hoping the multiple layers
Of ice can hold him.
Power your way through it,
Bust all the ice outta your way.
Chains gripping, he claws
Forward and across the other
Side.
Whew!
Ha-Ha!
But before the month is
Through, the convoy will face
The same treacherous river
Crossing more than 20 times.
Let's go to bettles.
120 miles south...
A new driver is preparing to
Face the beast.
Cold.
Rookie ray veilleux is about
To pull away from everything
He's ever known.
Oop!
Text message.
When he gets a reminder of
What he's leaving behind.
Oh!
It's my daughter.
It says, "hi, dad, miss you and
Love you!"
That's pretty cool.
That's excellent.
With his daughter's blessing
And 40,000 pounds of pipe, ray
Starts his rookie run up the
Dalton.
He heard the legend and he
Studied the maps.
Now it starts for real.
This is where all our hell
Starts.
We're gonna hit roller coaster,
Mackey...all that stuff.
It's gonna get real slow.
But you do what you gotta do, I
Guess.
What ray had to do was leave
His home and family in the lower
48 and start a new career in
Alaska.
I drove truck in montana.
I have my own dump truck and
Stuff like that.
I've been in business for myself
For, like, 20 years.
I was always the boss.
But now I come here, and I have
To start at the bottom.
Down in kalispell, montana,
Ray was living the good life...
Happily married, raising two
Kids, and running his own
Construction company.
But when the housing market
Tanked, ray lost his business,
And suddenly found himself in
The same fix as a whole lot of
Other guys.
What's at stake for me is
Hanging onto the things I've
Worked hard to get.
And I don't wanna lose them.
If you're a responsible parent,
Husband, you're gonna do it.
You're gonna do what you gotta
Do to support your family and
Not lose what you got.
Come on.
For now, hard times may be
Behind him, but deadly moments
Lie ahead.
Every man for himself, so
We're off on our own and we'll
Get it done.
200 miles up the ice is alex
Debogorski...
Rolling through the high country
Of the brooks range.
A little more snow on the
Road and a horse with a...with a
Sleigh behind it, and we can be
Singing jingle bells going down
The road.
It's got that kinda scenery that
You think you should be behind
A horse and a sleigh.
But this winter wonderland
Leads straight to a trucker's
Nightmare...
Atigun pass.
One truck north over the
Pass.
Hey, uh, copy that.
At 4,700 feet, atigun is the
Northernmost high mountain pass
On the continent.
And it's where one of the most
Dangerous tricks of the arctic
Can wreak havoc with truckers.
Holy mackerel!
Temperature went right up to
Minus five.
It's called thermal
Inversion.
The coldest air, being heavier,
Sinks beneath the warmer layers
Of air.
As alex climbs the pass,
The temperatures can
Dramatically rise...
Causing his traction to
Decrease.
Temperature isn't too great.
It's just three above zero.
On these steep hills, I like it
When it's cold, 'cause then I'll
Have a little better traction.
The danger zone is 32
Degrees.
The ice just begins to thaw
And truckers start spinning out.
Uh-Oh, this looks like it's
A little slippery.
Spinout here and there's
Nowhere to go but down.
Hundreds of feet down.
Holy mackerel!
Goodness grief.
Just as long as a person doesn't
Change direction or start using
A bunch of brakes.
The temperature hits the
Critical mark...
Just as alex enters another
Danger zone.
Warm temperatures can also
Trigger avalanches.
Hang on to your socks.
Cold.
But for alex, the stony
Summit of atigun pass rolls by
Without an avalanche or a
Spinout...
But maybe with a few more grey
Hairs.
In getting older, I'm getting
Better.
Next...
A rookie's first run...
Damn it!
Has him hanging on a ledge.
Agh!
Six miles south of prudhoe
Bay is a disaster zone.
Earlier, a big rig ripped into
Pieces and scatted across the
Road.
Word has come in that the driver
Is okay.
Now a d.O.T. Road crew is on
The scene.
But with daylight waning and
Traffic backing up, the whole
Season is on hold until the
Wreck is cleared.
Two loaders on the side of
It, tie off to the truck, and
Just try and drag it back over
And flip it without going in the
Ditch with the loaders.
When it's this cold, metal
Becomes brittle, chains snap
Without warning.
Inch-By-Inch, the cat drivers
Leverage the tons of straining
Metal.
Until...
At last light, the crew finally
Clears the road into prudhoe
Bay.
Nightfall, the northern lights
Flare across the sky.
But even the king of heavy haul,
Jack jessee, can't take time to
Enjoy the light show.
His newest rival, greg boadwine,
Is on his heels.
And look at that.
We've got ourselves a jack
Jessee in the parking lot, by
God.
Jack jessee.
Greg, what's happening?
I've finally caught up to
You.
Starting to wonder if I was
Going to.
I've been sitting here
Waiting on you.
Oh, I do appreciate it.
I got a handicap.
Oh, okay.
How you doing?
Smaller and lighter than you.
You know, buddy, I'd offer to
Trade you loads, but I really
Like mine in comparison.
You know, most people say
That.
Reaching the halfway mark at
Coldfoot, greg needs to refuel.
Giving jack an opportunity to
Take the lead.
But not for long.
We are lean and limber.
Jack's not gonna beat me to
Prudhoe.
Just five miles south is
Lisa kelly...
Nursing her car hauler up the
Ice.
Um, it's rough, so that means
I gotta go slow for my tires.
My wonderful tires.
Gonna take her slow and try not
To blow anything off the
Trailer.
At just 25 miles an hour,
Lisa is playing it too safe for
Her convoy partner, ryan.
Already two hours behind, they
Stand to blow their deadline to
Prudhoe.
Unless ryan breaks one of the
Unwritten laws of the road.
All right...Um...
What?
Oh.
At the truck stop,
Lisa takes it up with the boss.
All right.
It works for me, I guess.
Thanks.
Okay, bye.
Let's just get there.
Let's get it done.
Lisa's never pulled this
Trailer before.
I figured I have quite a bit,
So...To make it a little easier.
And make sure we get to prudhoe
Tonight.
It's a bitter moment for
Lisa.
No trucker wants to admit
They're having trouble with a
Load.
But on the dalton, knowing when
To step down can mean
Everything.
70 miles north is
Rookie ray veilleux...
Coming up on the big mountain
Pass.
We're on our way to atigun
Pass.
And I just hope I make it,
That's all.
Just got my fingers crossed on
This one.
First over the 4,700-Foot
Pass was alex debogorski.
But the old veteran did it in
Broad daylight.
This rookie is facing atigun in
The dead of night.
I'm focused.
Focused.
Gotta pay attention.
And there's a dark omen just
Ahead.
Oh, there's a wreck right up
Ahead of us here.
Ray's heard reports of the
Second major accident of the
Season.
A big rig that spun out and
Crumpled into the ditch.
Wow.
There's the trailer right there.
That's a mess.
Flipped right over.
That's just what we need.
Ray starts up atigun.
So I don't wanna miss a gear
Here.
If I miss a gear here then we're
Screwed.
The darkness beyond his
Wheels is a sheer cliff dropping
1,000 feet.
Whoa.
And ray's running barefoot,
Or without chains.
Okay, I'm shooting for the
Pass barefooted.
We're just gonna hit it and zip
Right through.
It could be that his rush to
Pass the second accident the
Rookie has set himself up...
Holy [bleep].
To be wreck number three.
There go my tires.
We're sliding.
Damn it!
Come on!
On the knife-Edge cliff of
Atigun pass...
Come on!
Ray veilleux loses traction,
Bringing the truck to a full
Stop.
Uh...
I'm done.
What the hell is that?
Burnt out at the pass.
A burnout is when a spinout
Comes to a dead stop.
At the pass, we have a
Burnout [indistinct].
Damn it!
Not chaining up was a rookie
Mistake that could've killed
Him.
I knew it was going too good.
But at least he's still on
The road.
So we're going.
We're climbing up now.
We're still moving forward.
Got the rubber end down.
It's all good.
As night deepens and
Temperatures plunge, the ice
Road truckers rumble over the
Mountains and onto the barrens
Of the north slope.
And the first driver reaches the
Gritty oil town on the arctic
Ocean.
A successful trip to prudhoe.
Alex debogorski beats
Everybody to the top of the
World.
I'm just setting my first
Load of the new season down.
It's nice and cool so there's no
Mosquitoes.
But for alex it's just a
Pit stop.
Come morning, he'll head across
A vast expanse of river ice to
One of the most remote places in
Alaska.
Minutes later, another trucker
Rolls into prudhoe.
It's the rookie.
I'm happy.
It's first load of the season,
So that's good.
After surviving a bad
Spinout on atigun pass,
Ray veilleux settled down and
Made good.
You know, I'm just a rookie.
I'm the new guy.
I just got lucky.
You know, and kept it on the
Road and got the first load up
There.
Just kept truckin'.
20 miles south of prudhoe
Bay, greg boadwine's still
Gunning to pass jack jessee.
Though he's running out of road.
I don't suppose you've seen
Our haul road ace jack jessee
Floating around up here
Somewhere.
No, I sure haven't seen
Him yet.
Jeez, if you haven't seen him
And I haven't seen him yet, I
Guess he's already beat me into
Town.
Then, on the horizon...
Jack.
Tail lights.
Âª we got us a jack ♪
You can see jack jessee's strobe
Lights up there.
All right, we finally see him.
Time to go get him.
Probably got three, four miles
On me.
I guess we lucked out after all
And we're gonna get the king.
You think he'd slow down a
Little more or something.
Oh, that always works.
Pretty sure we got just
Enough distance to catch him.
Gotta catch the king.
Somebody's gotta knock him off
His throne.
Now two drivers duel to the
Finish.
The ace, jack jessee.
The upstart, greg boadwine.
We got just enough distance
To catch the king before making
It to prudhoe.
Time to go get him.
Two miles to go, greg is
Right on jack's tail lights
Looking for room to pass.
Ah, there's greg.
Greg finally caught up with us.
Took us the whole trip, but
Here we are.
I figured he'd catch us a
Little sooner than that.
Jack is running slower but
Bigger and is more of an
Obstacle to pass.
After chasing the king for 500
Miles...
Greg comes up a few feet short.
Oh, yeah.
Still working on you, by god.
You got me.
Well, I'm glad you finally
Made it, I started to get
Worried for a second.
Jack gave me a little bit of
Crap today.
It's basic banter.
The more he gives me crap, the
More I think he might actually
Respect me.
Glad you made it.
The more he gives me crap,
The better I feel about it.
But what makes a family back
Home feel good is just two
Words...dad's okay.
Hi, honey.
What happened?
I'm in prudhoe.
All right, love you.
All right, tell the kids I
Said hi and love 'em.
All right, love you.
All right, love you too.
Bye.
Five miles back, emerging
From the darkness of the
Tundra...
We are right here, right now.
Is lisa kelly.
I'm almost to the prudhoe bay
Here, and, uh, just about
Finishing up this trip.
Halfway through, lisa had to
Suck up her pride and swap
Trailers with her running
Partner, ryan.
It is 34 below.
She's worried it will haunt
Her for the rest of the season.
Lisa's concern was that the
Other drivers out there were
Gonna give her a hard time for
Swapping loads, and that she
Couldn't handle that load.
And that I discount that
Completely.
They say women gossip?
Try truckers.
They're the worst.
Daybreak, day two.
After his night delivery to
Prudhoe bay, alex debogorski
Starts on his second leg.
Far across the river ice to the
Village of nuiqsut.
I've got loader tires for the
Airport loader, I think, and a
Bunch of lumber.
I'll be driving on ice...
On the frozen water.
He reaches the ice bridge on
The colville river.
But the snowpack is so deep
That the only way to tell where
The tundra ends and the river
Begins...
Is the sound of ice cracking.
Here, you're on water.
Whoa, baby.
Even with being experienced in
Driving on ice, it's still a
Little nerve-Wracking when
You're driving over a long
Distance of water.
River ice is shot through
With pockets of flowing water.
Some are large enough to swallow
A big rig.
One more bend and we're in
Nuiqsut.
The ice buckles and moves one
Final time.
And alex is once again on steady
Ground.
After a year-Long wait and a
560-Mile journey from
Fairbanks...
Hi, how's it going?
Alex delivers the first load
Of the season from across the
Ice.
God bless you and your
Family, and thank you for
Everything.
Alex is first to prudhoe bay
And first across the ice.
But just as one canadian grabs
The lead, the invasion kicks up
A gear.
Finally, back in alaska.
Them guys that were making all
Them bets and saying I wasn't
Gonna show up...they're gonna
[Bleep] their pants when they
Find out polar bear's back
In dodge.
Next time on
Ice road truckers...
Let's go just a little tad
Harder here.
The polar bear is back on
The hunt.
I'm not stopping today, I'm
Getting prudhoe bay no matter
What.
And the dalton...
Right now we're in a phase
Two blow.
Begins to take its toll.
When I step on my brakes...
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