Original subtitles

narrator: Winter is here.

At the world's northern edge,

people and cultures cut off from civilization--

This is an isolated community.

narrator:--are briefly connected by a lifeline

of roads paved with ice.

Whoa, .

Ah, son of a bitch.

narrator: Fearless drivers risk everything--

Out here, you can freeze to death.

Here, you just try not to die.

narrator: - chasing big paydays--

I'll make it work.

If I get back hauls, I get double the money.

narrator: To haul in crucial supplies--

I'm ready to roll.

narrator:--before the opportunity melts away

under their chained tires.

Whoo.

narrator: This season, veterans return--

No hesitations, no practice runs.

Back to bumping up and down.

Let's see if an old man's still got what

it takes to get the job done.

narrator: - and rookies emerge.

This is going to be one hell of a ride.

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Ahh!

narrator: A new company reigns--

Muskie Creek, we have a very good reputation.

We don't leave a load behind.

narrator:--while another confronts legacy.

I started this business to pass it down to my boys.

That was always the plan.

I was introduced to trucking probably from birth.

narrator: The winter window is shorter than ever--

You got to get going.

Haul ass. Haul ass. Haul some ass.

narrator:--forcing everyone to burn at both ends.

It's exhausting when you can't get warm.

I feel beat up, chewed up, and spit out.

narrator:--fighting an unrelenting battle.

Ow. Cut all the way open.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

narrator:--against the unforgiving wilderness.

I'm just so afraid that I've got frostbite somewhere.

Out here, it's me versus nature.

narrator: On the Western Hemisphere's

northern frontier,

the race is on.

You're going into the bush.

It's you against Mother Nature.

Mother Nature is unpredictable.

narrator: And the most ambitious company on the ice

roads is Muskie Creek.

My problem right now is that we have

so much forecasted right now and so many commitments.

I'm short on drivers.

We've got seven loads to load tomorrow.

My name is Bill Danh.

And I'm the operations manager here at Muskie Creek.

Apparently, there's an air leak on the air tank.

Did anybody do anything about it?

Our primary goal is to service northern communities

via winter road access.

With about six weeks of winter roads,

we have to slam these loads in as quickly and as efficiently

as possible.

Some of the communities that we go to,

their only source to get food, building materials,

is by local roads.

It'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.

- Bill. - Todd.

Nice to meet you, buddy. - Nice to meet you.

- Yeah. - Heard a lot about you.

I'm Todd Dewey.

And I come from a little town called

Port Angeles, Washington.

Sweet .

After spending five, six years up here being on the ice road,

you know, it becomes a part of you.

I 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.

The last nine years of my life, I have really

focused on family, home.

Now that I'm an empty-nester and the daughters are gone,

it's like the ice roads have been calling me.

Todd, Todd.

I'm taking on this challenge this year

because I have a chance to actually make some money

and build a nest egg back for me and my wife now

and buy my own big rig.

Muskie Creek, we have a very good reputation.

Whatever we commit to, we fulfill.

We don't leave a load behind.

So Garden Hill is where your load is going to be going.

OK.

And then from there, you're going to cross the ice.

Then you're going to travel down here to St. Theresa Point.

That's going to be where I need you to pick up the back-haul.

OK, you got it.

narrator: Todd's burning 800 miles to Garden Hill.

Then he's crossing Island Lake to pick up his back-haul

in St. Theresa Point.

It's loaded.

It's ready, secured, just need a load of screw piles.

They go into the ground.

You can't start the building until those are in, right?

There's a housing shortage in Garden Hill.

So all loads, materials, it's all critical.

Gotcha, 10-4.

My biggest concern is that he

may have lost his edge.

I really can't afford any mistakes to happen.

You know, I'm coming up here with a super set

of skills that not a lot of guys have.

I'm 51 years old.

I don't know if I've got what it takes

anymore to do these roads.

But I'm going to hit it hard.

And I'm going to see if I can make myself some good coin.

Am I nervous?

Absolutely.

See if an old man's still got what

it takes to get the job done.

narrator: 600 frozen miles to the north--

I am kind of nervous to see what we--

what we find.

narrator: Shaun Harris, owner of Harris and

Sons Transportation, is checking the ice

thickness on Wollaston Lake to see if it's safe for big rigs.

We're going to drill a hole or two

and then check the thickness and know how long

before we're going to be able to go across that

crossing with large loads.

narrator: The Wollaston Lake community is only

accessible by boat or a 25-mile ice road

when the lake freezes.

They've had so much snow into Wollaston,

it ended up insulating the ice.

The ice would not thicken up.

It wouldn't form properly.

We're way behind on getting the roads

ready to go for our heavy loads to cross them.

My name is Shaun Harris, and I'm 51 years old.

And I own a trucking business

in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan.

When I started this business, I called it

Harris Logging and Transport.

Years down the road when the boys got involved,

I changed it to Shaun Harris and Sons.

At the age of 17, 18, I went and got my license.

And right out of trucking school, within three days,

I was on the ice roads in northern Saskatchewan.

And it was trial by fire.

So this is my 32nd winter on the ice road.

At this point now, we have 12 trucks.

My company will take jobs that other people wouldn't touch

with a 10-foot pole.

I've hauled some of the biggest recorded loads

across the ice.

The Wollaston run is very dangerous, because the water

is always moving there.

That's generally where the thinnest ice is.

We're hoping today, when we punch through,

we have over 20 inches.

Optimum is 33 to 38 inches to haul

what we haul on here.

First and foremost, you're looking for thickness

to see how much ice there is.

Then you want to look at the quality of the ice.

You want it to kind of have a nice, clear look to it.

This doesn't look like it's--

it's rotten or anything at the top.

Find the bottom of the ice right there.

18, give or take.

We're in trouble.

We may not get in here this winter.

It's always a stress.

Business-wise, I think the biggest stress

is just the communities.

When they can't get their stuff in there, they suffer.

They're out of fuel right now.

They're flying fuel in because they can't get across here

when normally, we'd be hauling across here weeks ago.

We're running out of time.

narrator: Back at Muskie Creek, another ice road

veteran is joining the team.

Hey, you must be Bill.

Lisa, finally nice to meet you.

You guys are, like, top dogs in town.

You got, like, the most trucks, the most loads.

We're at 32 trucks, pounding about 500 loads per year.

For, 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.

Whoa!

Well, that was interesting.

Freezing wind, endless miles, and jobs

that no one else will take.

Oh, I can't--I mean--

oh, . I'm going to jackknife.

Oh, my gosh.

I got a farm in Wasilla in Alaska

with 2 acres and 11 horses on it.

Can you move with me?

Yay, good girl.

Currently, my truck is sitting broken

in the shop in Fairbanks.

And it's not running.

I need, like, a lot of money really fast to get it going.

And these are the hardest ice roads.

So I'm going to make more on them.

And that's why I'm here.

The worst-case scenario is if I don't

make the money to fix the truck,

I'm going to have to start selling horses.

Garden Hill is where you're going to.

There's going to be lots of hills to climb.

OK.

Most important question, what am I driving?

Dang.

So Kenworth, nice.

Haul ass.

Yeah.

narrator: Lisa's also running the 800-mile

gauntlet to the remote community of Garden Hill.

I just can't afford to not have the wheels turning.

narrator: Plunging deeper into the frozen wilderness--

We got a lot of miles to go today.

narrator:--Todd Dewey is battling his first winter

road in almost a decade.

The road is in rough, rough shape.

See, you can't see like that right here.

There's a lot of pieces on here, heavy items.

If they fall off, there's no way

I'm going to manually and physically put

them back on my load.

It's getting a lot worse now, buddy.

You feel that right there?

Yeah, yeah, that's-- that's getting rough.

And I have definitely got something going

on with my load in the back.

The drill bit is sticking out about a foot

on the passenger side.

This is not good.

She is cold.

Well, this is screwed.

This wood beam had slid out of here almost a foot.

Here's a better visual.

The wood has slid this far.

Half the problem is that it's so cold

and the deck is so slick, and these pieces of wood

are just sliding right on the deck.

If it pushes too hard and slides with too much momentum

and busts these straps, that whole thing's just going

to slide right off the side.

And this whole pallet of these drill bits

are out in the middle of the ice road.

That's not good.

Well, I got an idea in my head.

I don't know if it'll work.

But it sure is worth a try.

Here it goes.

Whoa, you gotta love the ice roads, right?

OK.

Now we can link these two together so it's double-locked.

Pull the slack out.

Double-linked that.

Those are bound.

In theory, as I'm backing the truck up,

that chain is going to come tight.

And it's going to pull that load on the trailer.

That's what I'm hoping will happen.

OK, this is it.

We're going to give her hell and give her a try.

I hope this works.

narrator: In the frigid northern frontier

at Muskie Creek headquarters--

Gentlemen, I'm looking for Bill.

You must be Scott.

Yes, sir.

narrator:--it's Scooter Yuill's first haul

at a new company.

Back home, he's an ice road veteran.

But in these parts, he's a rookie.

Looking forward to working with you this year.

Are you sure about that?

Is there something that you got to tell

me that I don't know, then?

I live in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.

I own a couple trucks.

I've been in business now five years.

Trucking was a natural calling for me.

For me, being out on the road on a job,

it's a sense of accomplishment, especially when you deliver

to Northern communities.

I also own Harley's Hard Rock Saloon.

It's a bar in Yellowknife.

This is my bar.

It's a community waterhole.

A lot of the ice truck drivers,

they will come to our bar.

They love it.

They have a great time.

My wife, Kelly, and my daughter Morgan

both work at my bar.

And I have two daughters in Nova Scotia, Bianca and Zoe.

And I'm praying for the best for them all the time.

I really need this season to go well

in order to provide the cash to do the upgrades

up there at the bar.

You are clean and clear to go to Red Sucker Lake.

You've been to Red Sucker Lake? - No, sir.

I haven't been in any of these ice roads.

So this is all new territory for me.

It depends on what kind of truck

you're going to give me, too.

- She hauls ass. - Nice.

Yeah.

This International is a very special truck to Muskie Creek.

OK.

The driver that was assigned this truck

serviced Muskie Creek for a very long time.

Two years ago, Irwin Friesen, we lost him.

Irwin Friesen was a big part of Muskie Creek.

He is one of the biggest reasons why Muskie Creek

is where we're at today.

He passed away two years ago when

he was on duty doing a load.

Sounds like some pretty big shoes to fill.

Well, I hope to make you proud.

And I'll be honored to drive her.

I look forward to working with you.

He's built a little bit of confidence in me.

But talk is cheap.

narrator: Scooter's first foray on these ice roads is

an 800-mile adventure to the northern

community of Red Sucker Lake.

Well, now we're going to check this load out,

see what we're working with, making sure that nothing

is going to come off.

The key thing is keeping your deck clean.

Imagine that, flying that through your windshield.

That'll kill somebody.

And this here has to go.

narrator: Each driver is responsible for securing

their load, confirming it's safe and legal.

14.6.

I'm about to ruin Bill's day.

narrator: Anything over 12 feet needs a pilot truck.

You can't haul this load.

He's not going to like this.

narrator: And none are available anytime soon.

We got us a problem.

What's the issue?

14.6.

narrator: So Scooter and the team need a new plan.

That's the width.

14.6 is how wide we are?

Yes, sir.

Are you sure?

Is that from the tracks or the blade?

Blade.

It doesn't look 14.6.

14.6.

I really wish you didn't in my cornflakes

this morning, eh?

You're going to learn to hate me or love me.

narrator: 400 miles to the northwest--

I'm looking for the crews that are flooding

to try and thicken the ice.

narrator: - Shaun Harris is meeting

the ice road maintenance crew.

To build the road, the crew spends weeks plowing snow and

checking the ice thickness.

Where the ice is thin, they use lake water to thicken it.

The fate of Shaun's business depends on their progress.

If the ice doesn't get any thicker,

the community, they're not going to be able

to get supplies like that in.

This road is very vital.

It's the only lifeline in the wintertime for this community.

How many holes are you guys going to drill?

Two for now?

So what they're doing here is, they've got thin spots

where it's only 17 inches.

So they drill holes.

And now we're going to fire up the generator.

And we're going to start flooding this section of ice

that's thin here, right? - Yeah.

Let's rock and roll.

There we go.

You can see what the boys are doing,

putting water on existing ice.

And they'll keep doing that and doing that.

And they'll build levels.

And that's how we grow the ice.

How long will you guys let this run here,

until she reaches the edges? - Yeah.

And that's all you'll do today

or will you drill another couple of holes

and pump some more?

- Tomorrow. - Tomorrow?

We are late in the season.

If you went across here loaded, you would

absolutely go in the drink.

It's just not thick enough.

These guys are working overtime

trying to get a road open so their community

can get the supplies in that they need.

narrator: Halfway through his first run

and not getting any closer--

It's about to get real.

narrator: - veteran driver Todd Dewey

is gambling on an old trucker trick

to slide tons of steel screw piles back on his trailer.

Oh, come on, you son of a bitch.

narrator: The road pounded a pallet of foundation screws

over the edge.

That's getting rough.

narrator: Now the fastest fix is ice road ingenuity.

OK, here we go, boys.

yeah.

It looks like it moved.

yeah.

It slid right here.

You can see.

This block-- see how far that block is sticking out?

This block was sticking clear out here.

So this whole thing is now slid right back into position.

Now 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.

Tell you what, nothing like being in the bush

and figuring out.

That's why I love being on the ice roads.

All right, re-rigging.

OK, round two.

Oh, hell yeah.

We are back on the trailer.

That's what the ice roads are all about, baby.

Figure out, and just get it done.

Get my load strapped and head back on the road.

I'm ready to roll.

Mission accomplished, baby.

My load is nice and straight back there.

I'm ready to put some miles on here

and get this load into Garden Hill.

Just another beautiful day on the ice roads.

I am hitting the ground running.

narrator: Deep in the frigid wilderness--

No hesitations, no practice runs.

That first road, just knock it out.

narrator:--Lisa Kelly is one of the first drivers

facing a freshly frozen river crossing.

Nelson River, East Channel.

I'm not sure where the river begins here.

There's so much snow on the ice.

I can't tell what condition the ice is in right now.

If it's clear ice, it's a better quality of ice

and holds more weight.

If it's, like, white ice, there's more air in it.

So it's more likely to crack.

First one in a while, so I'm a little nervous on it, you know?

We'll see.

We'll see how this goes.

All right.

Let's do this.

narrator: On a frozen northern river--

Wow, that does not look good.

narrator:--a deceptive expanse of untested ice

separates Lisa Kelly from her offload.

The best strategy I have for the lake

crossing is listening for the cracking.

I'm going to go with slower.

I'd rather be safe than sorry.

The ice is supposed to make the cracking sounds.

But how much is too much cracking, right?

Because it's got to crack to fall through.

So there's got to be a certain limit on cracking sounds.

"Thin ice" sign.

Do you see that?

narrator: A blanket of fresh snow

covers the road and thin ice surrounding

her, obscuring the border between safety

and certain death.

"Danger, open water."

Good gosh.

It's like that whole section is, like, open water.

What makes this any thicker here?

Don't go fast.

I'm almost there.

Don't go fast.

Don't go fast.

First ice crossing of the year out of the way.

Here we come for more.

narrator: Back at Muskie Creek--

It's 14.6 wide.

What the ?

narrator:--Scooter is stuck in the truck yard

until his wide load is legal.

If we take the blades off, we're no trouble.

Beautiful.

That's why you're the pro.

You're talking about a wide guy with a wide load.

I know my--

So then where are your flags?

I'm wearing them right here.

Get the wings off, boys.

On the road, problems start to arise.

And there's only so much I can do from the office.

It's up to the driver.

They have to be the solution to the problem.

We're golden.

Here's my sage.

I always keep a smudge kit with me, tobacco, sweet-grass.

I'm new to smudging.

I've been doing it for the last few years now.

I've been digging into my history.

And I'm pretty proud of it.

I'm Mi'kmaq-- Mi'kmaq, actually, it's pronounced,

from the East Coast.

There's a reason why they were called the First Nations.

They were the first ones.

And they know how to survive off the land.

And I like learning from it.

For me, it keeps me grounded.

It keeps me centered.

It keeps me going.

It gives me hope.

It's kind of hard to do in a truck.

We're going to pray the rest of our trips are blessed.

Spirit of Irwin, you better keep on my good side.

Scooter, you got to get going.

Let's get out of here.

Haul ass.

We're rolling out.

Copy.

First load, finally.

I'm feeling much alive.

I'm feeling much better.

I feel happy now.

narrator: Heading into Garden Hill

in the remote Island Lake region--

Garden Hill, finally made it.

narrator:--Todd'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.

We're going to get this thing unloaded

and be right back out on the ice roads.

I got to turn and burn.

I got another load I got to get picked

up and delivered right away.

Let's get this load off of here.

I don't know how this is going to work.

We're about to find out.

The problem with unloading this is the forklift

is not big enough to move these pallets

off the back of this trailer.

We're going to grab this whole pallet

and see if we can just slide a whole pallet at one

time right onto the ground.

I guess we'll try that.

We'll see what happens.

Go fast.

narrator: In the remote northern community

of Garden Hill--

veteran driver Todd Dewey is racing to turn and burn so he

can pick up his next load.

It's a little messy.

But it worked.

Can't damage these things due to the fact

they're just solid steel.

I thought this was the only way we

were going to be able to get it unloaded with the machines

that we had.

Let's get the hell out of here.

I got another ice road to do.

We came up with a good solution for the bush, didn't we?

Nicely done.

narrator: 450 miles to the west--

Shaun Harris is strategizing with his business

partners, sons Riley and Zach.

My boys, they've both been driving

since they were five years old, and

at 15 probably knew more than guys who have been doing it

20 years.

narrator: They need a plan to salvage

the season if the Wollaston Lake crossing doesn't open.

I wish I could sit in Mexico as much as you do.

Riley is a mini me.

And that's not generally a good thing.

One day, when you have 32 years under your belts,

then you can go to Mexico, too.

I had that under my belt before I was 20.

Oh, this guy.

He is hot-tempered.

But he's a hard worker.

And he'll do whatever he has to do to get the job done.

You gotta have a couple of handsome, capable sons

before you can do that.

Zach is the exact opposite to myself

and his younger brother, Riley.

Zach is probably one of the most relaxed, easygoing

guys you'll ever meet.

We've had lots of snow up north.

So--

both: Cris?

Piss off.

Crispy, my third son, is a potbellied pig.

When we got him, he was no bigger than a loaf of bread.

Go on.

Get going.

Now he's about 250 pounds.

And he used to ride in the semi with me all the time.

He absolutely loved it.

He'd put his little feet up on the dash

and look out the window.

Like I don't have enough problems in my life.

Wollaston is absolutely closed right now.

And I'm getting extremely nervous.

The season is going to be a short one.

We've had an ungodly amount of snow this year.

When you get a lot of snow early, it insulates the water.

So then those cold temperatures can't absorb

to freeze as fast and as hard as we need it.

I think right now, we're going to do some things that we don't

normally do this time of year.

Yeah, no, we'll do what we got to do.

We're going to have a tough winter.

narrator: Approaching Island Lake outside Garden Hill--

The ice crossing just opened up.

It's only open for light traffic, which means that it's

not open for full weights yet.

narrator:--veteran driver Todd Dewey is facing a 13-mile

lake crossing on ice barely thick enough

to hold his empty truck.

That's kind of spooky, if you think about it.

Thin ice means anything can happen.

Here we go.

narrator: He's on a deadline to pick up a back-haul today

that's going to Muskie Creek.

And the fastest way to St. Theresa Point

is across the lake.

The ice is not as thick as it's supposed to be.

I hope you have a will in place set up for your family,

because most likely you ain't making it home.

That's what could go wrong.

It's life and death up here.

I'm a little concerned right now.

I'm not hearing a lot of noise out of the ice.

The cracking of the ice is always spooky.

But that's part of the ice crossing.

You want to hear it cracking.

That actually means that the ice is really, really strong.

When you can't hear any noise at all, that's not a good sign.

I don't like that.

I don't like that one single bit, not at all.

narrator: Cracking sounds indicate

the ice is flexing to relieve stress

from the truck's weight.

If the ice is too thin or too weak to flex under the stress,

it could shatter, releasing Todd and his truck

into the clutches of the deadly frigid depths.

And off the ice.

Hell, yeah.

Go get my next load and turn and burn.

narrator: On the other side of the lake--

I'm headed to Garden Hill with some building

supplies for the communities.

The hills are very abrupt, because it's not a road.

There's no, like, grades.

Like, they didn't build it to be driven.

So when you come upon a hill, it's not smooth.

And it's really abrupt and sharp.

narrator: The Muskie Creek owner's truck

is getting a beatdown as Lisa faces

a final series of hills standing

between her and the offload.

A little rowdy at the moment.

It's supposed to get worse.

What was that?

Hear a noise.

I got to check this out.

And this is a horrible place to do it.

It sounds like it's under the hood.

It's really loud right here.

Oh, good lord.

narrator: The road to Garden Hill--

A little rowdy at the moment.

narrator:--battered Lisa and her truck

and knocked out the hose that moves compressed air

from the turbo to the engine.

Without the turbo, she doesn't have the torque or the power

to pull her load over the hills.

Thank goodness the hose clamp is still there.

My gosh.

I actually think I'm going to have to turn the truck off,

because there's pressure coming out of there.

And it might not be able to get it on.

But turning the truck off is kind of a bush no-no,

because it might not start again.

As the engine cools in

the unforgiving temperatures,

diesel fuel thickens

like day-old Thanksgiving gravy,

preventing the truck from restarting.

All right.

.

Easy, tiger.

OK.

Ugh, my hands are cold.

.

Let me get out of the way.

Get on our way.

I'm kind of in a hurry, because I

want to get out of the way of trucks,

you know, 'cause if my truck cools

down too much, that's going to really screw me.

Get the truck started here.

All right, love.

You ready?

Because it's cold.

Oh, .

Shut up.

All right.

It's cold.

It started.

I'm going to get out of these guys' way.

I feel really bad for holding them up on that little skinny

spot, of course.

All right, back to bumping up and down here.

narrator: Back across the lake--

So I finally made it into St. Theresa Point here.

It's always exciting to get a back-haul.

That just means you're actually getting paid for the way back,

too, not just the way there.

So double paycheck, I'll take that any day of the week.

narrator: Todd's picking up a boat to haul back

to Muskie Creek for repair.

Hi, I'm Todd. Nice to meet you.

Hi.

This is an isolated community.

We usually go from one community

to another community using those boats.

It's very important, the only way we get things delivered.

So it's just like Santa.

The trailer is this wide.

And the boat is this wide.

There's no margin for error.

OK.

Just go real slow and easy.

Keep going.

You're good.

The truck is making me nervous.

I know. Me too.

Go ahead.

You're OK.

Come on.

Keep coming.

Keep coming. You want it to turn

if you turn like that.

All right, go ahead. Go, go, go, go, go, go.

Just hang tight right there for a minute.

Yah!

I need to get this straightened out.

It's working.

This is a lot of work.

Who said the ice roads are easy, right?

The boat pickup was a little bit more than what I expected.

Hup!

I'm tired.

OK, stop.

It's been a long day.

The boat is loaded.

And I'm done.

Gosh, that was a lot of frickin' work.

I do got a lot of ice road left to go to get out of here.

Let's make some tracks.

narrator: After a slow start on his first run--

Oh, yeah.

It's going to be a fun run.

I feel it already.

narrator: - Scooter is finally free

in his natural environment.

She's going to be tight.

One oversized inbound.

This is a road that I've never been on.

All these roads, I've never been on.

It's going to be all kinds of fun.

Here we go.

Oh yeah, baby.

Springs are working hard.

Oh, yeah.

That felt good, right up the sphincter on that one.

Holy .

getting rough.

This is terrible.

Ugh.

We're just a touch of it in.

And it's terrible.

This is going to be interesting

to see what happens here.

Not much room.

We have a narrow-ass road.

And we are wide.

So am I, but so is the load.

Ha.

narrator: As Scooter races into the bush,

Todd's heading in the opposite direction.

We got a little bit of shut-eye,

back up this morning, bright and early.

Oh, .

You feel that right there?

This road is really beating the truck around, really

beating the load around.

Ah, son of a bitch.

We're losing air quick.

We got something broke.

The trailer brakes are completely blocked.

We gotta stop now.

The whole bracket that holds the air lines up

is completely laying on the ground.

Oh, my gosh.

This is broke. That's broke.

This is broke. This one's broke.

That's broke.

And this is broken.

That's my main air supply for the trailer disc brakes.

Un--believable.

It's going to take a while to fix this.

We ain't going anywhere.

We're .

narrator: This season--

Oh, gosh.

Oh, gosh.

narrator:--the ice road truckers battle brutal roads--

.

Any more bumps, my boobs

are going to smack me in the face and blacken my eyes.

Oh.

narrator: - and haul massive loads.

Holy crap.

I don't want to tip this over.

Keep coming. There you go.

Keep going. Right there.

Perfect.

The main concern is the ice crossings

being a maximum weight.

Come on, come on, come on.

You can do it. You can do it.

You can do it.

narrator: The drivers must work together--

Can you not around with it while I'm under here?

Because if this falls, I'm dead.

Don't worry, Zach.

Your little brother's coming to the rescue.

Hey, now back up straight.

narrator:--or fail alone.

We ain't going anywhere.

Ugh, my gosh.

Come on.

narrator: This is their one shot.

My truck's on fire.

Come on.

Tell me this don't get your heart pumping.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.