Original subtitles

[music playing]

NARRATOR: Now--

DARRELL WARD: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Stop! Stop!

NARRATOR: --on the season finale of "Ice Road Truckers"--

Stop!

NARRATOR: --a decade on thin ice--

Holy sh--

NARRATOR: --has all led to this.

You got water.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: I can't force you guys to do this.

TODD DEWEY: I'm interested to go over to find out

how thin the ice actually is.

[cracking]

Oh, [bleep].

[music playing]

NARRATOR: The season is racing to a record early finish

as El Nino's wrath has wreaked havoc throughout the North.

And virtually every trail is shut down.

But deep in remote Ontario, a giant convoy

is rumbling their way down a closed road

and into "Ice Road's" history.

[music playing]

[bleep]

They weren't kidding when they said it was closed.

NARRATOR: Yesterday--

To North Caribou?

Well, we heard about road closed last week.

NARRATOR: --Mark Kohaykewych was presented with a one of a kind

opportunity, to deliver a convoy of last minute supplies

to the town of North Caribou, a closed 400 mile trail

to be opened up exclusively for the urgent mission.

But the venture was so massive--

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: This is the biggest challenge

I've taken on in all my years of business here.

NARRATOR: In addition to company top dog Todd Dewey and rookie

Steph Custance, the Polar boss brought aboard his rivals,

Darrell Ward and Lisa Kelly.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: I'm hopping in your truck, Darrell.

Now let's see if we can just bury the hatchet

and get this done. - Let's get it done.

- I'm down. - [inaudible]

Let's hit the road. Let's go.

Let's go.

LISA KELLY: Oh!

Oh, no!

No, no!

OK.

Here we go.

NARRATOR: And despite conquering 200 brutal miles--

LISA KELLY: If I'm good, I should

be able to get out from here.

NARRATOR: --the groundbreaking convoy still has over 200 mud

filled miles yet to go.

It's pretty epic.

Whoa.

They were all there.

[alarm beeping]

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: What's going on?

I don't know.

My gauges were just [bleep] and all my lights came on.

What the [bleep]?

I smell some wiring.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

DARRELL WARD: Do you smell it?

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Holy [bleep].

What the [bleep] is burning, Mark?

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: Darrell, Darrell, let's get the [bleep]

off.

What's going on?

STEPH CUSTANCE: Oh, my gosh.

[coughing]

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: Darrell, stop the [bleep] truck!

[coughing]

MAN: What's happening?

STEPH CUSTANCE: Mark run out!

Jump down.

Stop! Stop!

Stop! Fire!

Fire!

Holy [bleep].

There's a lot of smoke coming out of their cabin.

What's up? What did you--

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: I need a fire extinguisher.

OK.

Here, right here.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: Darrell, stop the truck!

Darrell!

[bleep] Darrell!

What's going on?

[bleep] I got fire in my cab.

I got something burning up.

Son of a bitch.

DARRELL WARD: Got it?

I got one.

What the [bleep], man?

What the [bleep] is going on?

DARRELL WARD: Back up, guys.

You guys all right?

I got something burning in my dash.

I found some burnt wires, Mark.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: Is that all it was?

Well, evidently it shorted out.

NARRATOR: A short in the dashboard

wiring caused the fire.

Luckily, an easy fix for Mark.

MAN: Here. Get out of the way.

I got to get in there.

DARRELL WARD: Have at it.

We'll get it all back together.

NARRATOR: With some quick patch work

Darrell's truck will be back in business.

Listen.

I know I worked for Mark, but don't let him

do the wiring, whatever you do.

You're going to have another fire down the road.

Shut up, Todd!

[laughter]

Whose team are you on?

The [bleep] guy jumped and opens the door and bails out

and worries about me running over him.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: Hey, Darrell!

Hey, Darrell!

But you know what?

When he bailed out, I missed it as an opportunity.

[laughs]

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: Darrell, shut up and start your truck!

Start it.

[engine revving]

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: See? There you go.

You got gauges.

Well, it was-- it was running before.

By the sound of it, I swear these two

have been married for 70 years.

[laughter]

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: All right.

Let's see if you [bleep] fixed it right or if it's all [bleep]

up.

[music playing]

TODD DEWEY: OK, boys, here we go.

We're finally back to rolling.

NARRATOR: Finally, the convoy is back on the road.

Thanks for settling your differences up there

and getting that fire put out.

Yeah.

There's a lot of [bleep] smoke coming out of some ears.

Oh, enough.

[laughs] OK.

NARRATOR: But the toughest stretch on the trail

is still ahead of them.

[horn blowing]

Hammer down!

NARRATOR: While the convoy moves ahead, 200 miles to the north

in the remote village of Sachigo Lake--

ART BURKE: It's over [bleep].

Everything in there's [bleep].

--Polar driver Art Burke ain't going nowhere.

ART BURKE: The radiator is hanging off.

The fan is all smashed to hell.

This shroud is broke.

All that bang, bang, bang, bang, bang-- the old truck

couldn't take it.

NARRATOR: On the way in--

[music playing]

Holy [bleep].

NARRATOR: --Art and his rig took a beating over the 300 mile

trail.

And on the route's mammoth crossing--

I'm not sure what [bleep] is going on here,

but I think we're a fire.

Oh, [bleep].

NARRATOR: The truck's fan and radiator ultimately gave out.

ART BURKE: [bleep] anyway, bud.

NARRATOR: And he barely limped his way of the ice

and into town.

ART BURKE: I'm going to get as far as I can, bud.

NARRATOR: But now there's no possibility

the truck can last another mile, let alone

the trip back to Winnipeg.

It's the way she goes, bud.

There's nothing I can do.

[horn blowing]

There's Art.

What the heck's going on?

NARRATOR: But the wild card's got his ride home.

ART BURKE: Thank you.

Thank [bleep].

[laughs]

NARRATOR: --as Alex Debogorski finally arrives, after choosing

to take a longer route to town.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: It might take forever to get there

because it's so rough.

How's she going, buddy?

What's happening?

Good to see you and all that [bleep] jazz.

Road's rough, eh?

Yes.

What's the news?

Well, my radiator is all [bleep]..

Come and see.

What did you do, you wrecked it?

All the [bleep] fluid run out.

There's the screen off of that [bleep] thing.

And all the top is beat off the [bleep] radiator,

the whole nine yards, buddy.

The fan went through it.

All the [bleep] I was talking about.

The fan went through it?

Holy mackerel.

ART BURKE: You got to get me out of here.

[laughs] How do you like that?

Well, Alex just landed here and I laid the news on him

that he's taking me back in the back of his truck.

[laughs] What can I say, eh?

Good.

At least you got here.

[laughs] So once I'm unloaded, this van is going to stay here.

And Art's truck is going to go on my trailer.

NARRATOR: Once the rig is loaded onto Alex's trailer,

Art will join the old pro in the cab.

I'll see if I can keep by in one piece now.

NARRATOR: But whether they can make it

over the destroyed trail hauling the 13 ton truck

is anybody's guess.

ART BURKE: I've never been in the cab with Alex.

I imagine it'll be all right.

I can handle it. - It's not that bad.

[laughs]

It's the last-- the last trip anyway, buddy.

NARRATOR: While the two warhorses hit the road,

200 miles to the south--

Yikes.

This road's [bleep], Mark.

--the all-star convoy is Still trudging ahead on the mud

filled road to North Caribou.

This isn't a road.

DARRELL WARD: No.

This is not a road.

It's a [bleep] goat trail.

F that.

I don't even think a goat would walk on it.

Hey.

Is everybody all right out there?

Yeah.

Right behind you.

Yup. 10-4.

I'm right here.

Steph is out and rolling.

Woo!

NARRATOR: The path has been absolutely brutal.

Ah, crap.

Look at that.

NARRATOR: But it's about to get a whole lot tougher.

No, this is-- this is steeper.

You going to make that in this soft crap?

Guess we'll know when we get to it, won't we?

You got a big hill here, guys.

So just keep your distance, please.

We're going to take a run at it here, as best as we can.

That is a good sized hill.

Holy [bleep].

Coming up to big hill here, but we're

going to have to stop and let one truck at a time go.

Because if Darrell can't make it he's

going to have to back down and get run at it.

So we're going to get some space here and see what happens.

Hopefully, we can up it.

NARRATOR: The 15% grade hill would be a challenge

in the dead of winter.

But in the warming temperatures, it

could be a potential trap for the big rigs.

OK, I'm rolling.

[music playing]

Come on.

Come on.

Come on, Darrell.

[bleep] off, Mark.

Push it.

DARRELL WARD: I can only go so fast.

Darrell, your tires are sticking.

[bleep] Come on!

Holy sh--

[bleep].

[music playing]

NARRATOR: Caked in mud and thawing [inaudible],,

a 15% grade hill has proven too much

for the leader of the convoy.

TODD DEWEY: It's got too much mud on it

from the sun beating on it.

There ain't no way they're going to make it up it.

Coming back down.

It's so [bleep] soft that the [bleep]

tire chains aren't going to do me a bit of [bleep] good.

On You know?

They're going to have to unload the loader.

To get up the massive incline, the trucks

will need extra muscle.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: Thank goodness we got this thing here.

So hopefully we can push the trucks up and take it

from there.

NARRATOR: So Mark will use his 12 ton loader to push him over.

These roads are closed.

Nobody's out here.

Everybody [bleep] knew better than to come out here,

everybody but us, of course.

If this doesn't work, I've let the community down.

I've let my drivers down.

The more time that's wasted on this road like this--

it's getting worse and worse by the second.

It's already down to dirt and mud.

And the longer we sit here, the deeper it's going to thaw down.

The deeper it's going to get.

The farther the tires are going to sink.

NARRATOR: With the fate of the mission on the line,

Mark readies the loader for battle.

Darrell, you copy?

OK.

I'm ready whenever you are.

All right.

We're going to move in.

Three, two, one, let's go.

[music playing]

Come on. Let's go.

Let's go.

I'm giving her what I can, Mark.

TODD DEWEY: There they go up the hill.

If you dig the ruts down in deep none of us

are going to get over it.

The loader is going to dig down in deep, too.

And then we're all going to be stuck here.

[music playing]

Looking good, buddy. We're almost there.

Yeah. Come on.

Push. Push.

I got her, buddy.

NARRATOR: Darrell's made it over the top.

All right, Lisa, let's give her.

NARRATOR: But the rest of the troops

need an added boost, too.

Don't let me sink.

Thank you.

All right.

Who's next?

Is that OK for speed, Mark?

That's excellent.

Don't spin out.

You're doing good.

NARRATOR: Each trip, the loader pushes a truck up the hill--

The worst is coming.

Keep going.

Keep going.

Keep going.

NARRATOR: --the more the road gets torn apart.

[horn blowing]

LISA KELLY: Yeah!

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH [ON RADIO]: Good job.

We did it, boss man.

Thank you, kindly.

NARRATOR: So for Todd and his heavy 22 ton haul--

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: All right.

Todd, you're next, buddy.

All right.

We're ready for you, buddy.

NARRATOR: --the last run up the incline will be the hardest.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH [ON RADIO]: Three, two, one, lock.

TODD DEWEY: Here we go.

This one is going to be rough.

[music playing]

Oh, my goodness sakes.

Oh, damn it.

Come on, you son of a bitch.

Come on.

Get me out of here.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH [ON RADIO]: Let me know when you're free.

All most.

About 10 more feet, I think I'll have her.

Yee-haw!

[music playing]

[horn blowing]

Yeah! Right on!

We made it.

Woo!

Good job, guys. - All right.

Let's get that loader and get it back on this trailer

and get out of here.

NARRATOR: With the hill conquered by the Polar boss

and all-star team--

You're good.

DARRELL WARD: I wasn't sure we would be able to do it,

but you know what?

We got it done.

NARRATOR: --it's time to bear down for the final 150 miles.

We're up the hill.

Let's move on.

This ground ain't going to hold up long.

Well, let's just see what other challenges we got ahead of us.

But I know the worst is yet to come.

NARRATOR: 90 miles to the north, on the path

out of Sachiko Lake--

Oh, baby.

Oh, my God.

[laughs]

[bleep] ridiculous.

NARRATOR: With Art's broken rig loaded onto Alex's trailer,

the duo are hitting the trail back to Winnipeg.

Oh, that was right.

ART BURKE: It's just one [bleep] show after another, man.

NARRATOR: But it won't be an easy trip over the obliterated

400 mile route.

ART BURKE: Uh-oh.

Uh-oh.

NARRATOR: And even getting out of town presents a challenge.

ART BURKE: Stop right there.

I don't know how in the [bleep] we're going to do this.

NARRATOR: The truck's so tall on the flatbed

that it won't clear the wires hanging over the road.

ART BURKE: I'm going to see if I can't push that [bleep] wire

up, buddy, so we can get by here.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: I knew we had a shovel for something.

ART BURKE: This is a long way from standard [bleep]

procedure.

But if it [bleep] kills me, I'm telling you I'll be back.

I'll haunt the [bleep] out of Polar.

OK.

Pull ahead, buddy.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: OK!

ART BURKE: Nice and slow!

Com on for [bleep] sake!

Whoa, whoa! Stop!

Stop!

Stop!

OK!

Whoa!

OK!

Go for [bleep] sake!

NARRATOR: One line's behind him.

Let's go, buddy.

I'll just stay here for the next one.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: I'm just worried if there's power in it.

ART BURKE: The other one was a guide wire.

This a little different [bleep] ball game, this one.

This guy-- this guy has got power.

ART BURKE: [bleep] right he's got power.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: I don't really like

the idea of hitting live wires.

We don't need to get blown off the frigging--

off the truck with it.

I'm not real impressed with that, neither,

to tell you the [bleep] truth.

Just slowly, slowly, slowly, slowly.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

OK.

Right there.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: Art's going to give me a heart attack.

Well, that's a-- that wooden broom

is better than what you had there, aluminum.

ART BURKE: Yeah.

OK, Alex, buddy.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: Don't fall down!

[music playing]

ART BURKE: Whoa! Whoa!

Stop!

Stop!

[music playing]

I think we're OK.

Where is he?

Where is Art?

[bleep] sometimes I hate this [bleep] job.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: [laughs] Everything's going good.

Art's not dead, so there wasn't very much power in that line.

[music playing]

ART BURKE: OK, buddy.

Away we [bleep] go.

What a [bleep] show.

Beautiful.

NARRATOR: The wires are finally in the view mirror.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: Whoa, does this ever look bad?

NARRATOR: But with 400 miles of slush ahead of them,

the hard part's just beginning.

Oh, my, my, my, my, my, my.

[laughs]

ART BURKE: Beam me up, Scotty, for [bleep] sake.

NARRATOR: 80 miles to the south--

Whoa!

Unbelievable.

NARRATOR: --the giant convoy is hunkering down on the final 100

miles to North Caribou.

This road this flat keeps getting worse, and worse,

and worse.

NARRATOR: But as warming temperatures continue

to destroy the terrain, each mile

is tougher and slower than the last.

This is [bleep].

It's a mine field of rocks.

You don't want to drive over that stuff.

It'll break something off.

STEPH CUSTANCE: Like, this is ridiculous.

This is no longer clay and mud.

It's just disgusting.

That's some impressive driving, you guys,

going through all that mine field rock.

Nice teamwork, guys.

All right.

NARRATOR: But the biggest hurdle of the entire trail is next up.

We just got to get this ice crossing out of the way.

TODD DEWEY: Wow.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: Look at this water.

DARRELL WARD: I'm afraid the whole lake is flooded.

Holy smokes.

NARRATOR: The road has been closed,

and was opened up exclusively for the convoy.

So it's a guessing game if the crossing is safe for travel.

All right, Darrell, let's do this.

NARRATOR: To test the thickness of the ice--

Oh, I think I got it.

Everybody's loaded, and there ain't nobody going

to cross that ice until it gets drilled with an auger

to make sure that the thickness is going to hold up

the weight of these trucks.

NARRATOR: --the team will drill a hole with an auger.

And who knows.

If that ice ain't thick enough, we

could be turning around and going back.

And nobody is making it in.

So poke a hole and see what we got.

[music playing]

We got water.

That's not thick, you guys.

It's about a foot and a half.

Yeah, that's not very thick.

You can look right in there and see it.

NARRATOR: Ice crossings are usually two to three times

thicker than this one.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: At Polar, we got a right to refuse work.

So, I mean, if you guys feel it's unsafe

and you don't want to do it, I'm not--

can't force you guys to do this.

[music playing]

DARRELL WARD: It is what it is.

It's here.

We got to go across.

TODD DEWEY: I didn't come all this way

to not deliver the load.

So I'm willing to take the chance.

Are we all in? STEPH CUSTANCE: Im in.

- We're all in. - I came this far.

- We're here. - Let's go.

Let's get her done.

[music playing]

DARRELL WARD: You can unload it right here, bud!

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: I'm going to take the loader across.

It's way heavy to go with the loader.

Come on back a little.

NARRATOR: To take every added precaution,

Mark will alleviate some of the weight off Darrell's trailer.

And now the tally will be five vehicles traveling

across the melting ice.

DARRELL WARD: All right!

Let's rock and roll!

[music playing]

Are we ready to do this?

Come on.

Let's roll.

Sounds good.

Let's get her done, Mark.

[music playing]

TODD DEWEY: This is where we find out

how thin the ice actually is.

I'm going to give him a safe distance for a minute.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH [ON RADIO]: Be very careful coming down.

We're dropping down, Mark.

NARRATOR: To ease the pressure on the surface,

the drivers will give each other a safe distance.

[music playing]

It's definitely doing its cracking.

[cracking]

OK.

I just dropped down onto the ice.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH [ON RADIO]: You guys keep a real safe distance,

guys.

Look how brittle this ice looks.

NARRATOR: It's been days since any truck has passed

over the crossing.

And the ice has been subjected to record high temperatures

ever since.

OK, Steph, I think you could drop down now.

But because it's so sketchy, just keep this spacing

and you should be good.

OK.

Sounds good.

I'm going to pull my load across.

OK.

I'm on the ice.

This is [bleep] scary.

[cracking]

TODD DEWEY: What we've got going on right

now is the scariest ice crossings

I think we've ever done at Polar.

Steph, how you doing?

I'm scared.

Copy.

Copy.

Well, as long as you're still on top, we're good.

Oh, my god.

I just want to get off this ice.

I think Steph's out there far enough.

Here we go.

NARRATOR: At 22 tons, the last and the heaviest load

rolls onto the ice.

[music playing]

Ooh.

Easy, easy, easy, easy, easy, easy.

[cracking]

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: Look at the size of this crack to the left.

Holy crap.

Wow.

Do you that crack?

Clear up the fricking center of this whole entire thing.

Holy crap.

Wow.

[bleep] getting ugly.

[cracking]

Oh, my god.

This ice is looking pretty sketchy.

[cracking]

The ice is just cracking underneath.

[cracking]

Oh, [bleep]!

[cracking]

I'm making cracks!

I just saw something I never saw before.

I saw a crack appearing under my.

Tire it was incredible.

Did you hear that?

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH [ON RADIO]: Steph, do you copy?

Yeah, I do.

Oh, my god.

I really want to get off this ice.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH [ON RADIO]: Proud of you, rookie.

You're doing a good job.

Why am I on here?

Oh, my god.

I think she's kind of freaking out a little bit.

[cracking]

Whoa.

Do you hear that cracking?

Come on.

Come on.

Just a little more.

I made it.

Now I just need to make sure everybody else

makes it, as well.

Oh, my gosh.

Woo!

I made it to land.

[horn blowing]

Coming to the end of the crossing.

[cracking]

Major cracks.

And the rookie is off the ice, boys.

Woo!

NARRATOR: Four drivers have made it across.

Holy [bleep].

I ain't never seen cracks that wide.

NARRATOR: Now after nearly 80 tons have already

damaged the ice ahead of him--

I'm watching it move.

As the truck weight hits them, the cracks

are shifting position.

NARRATOR: --the heaviest load of the entire convoy's

all on its own.

It's not good, I'm telling you.

[cracking]

Come on.

Come on.

[cracking]

Woo!

NARRATOR: Despite ice so thin it would have scared away most

any other drivers--

That's spooky, flat spooky.

NARRATOR: --the convoy conquers the crossing--

Everyone's here.

NARRATOR: --and heads out for the final 80 miles.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: We were right at its limits.

I gave everyone a choice.

I wasn't going to force anybody to go across.

But everybody decided on their own will to make it.

NARRATOR: While the convoy presses into the night, 150

miles to the southwest--

[wind howling]

[music playing]

NARRATOR: --two grizzled vets are fighting their way

back home, over a melting trail that's already

totaled one of their rings.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: I got calluses on my rear end.

How far do we get left now?

We must be getting pretty darn close.

We were talking 14 clicks a while ago.

NARRATOR: Alex Deborgorski and Art Burke

are only 10 miles away from the highway,

and off the road out of Sachiko Lake.

ART BURKE: Hopefully, we'll [bleep] make it.

Then when we get out on the main roads

we can [bleep] go to sleep, [inaudible]..

NARRATOR: [laughs]

ART BURKE: Whoa.

I think we got a problem.

What's that?

[beeping]

Something's wrong?

What's that red light right there?

[bleep] I don't know.

[beeping]

NARRATOR: An air leak in the brakes

has caused them to seize up.

There's an air leak somewhere.

NARRATOR: And despite being only steps away from the safety

of the highway, Art and Alex are stuck in the dead of night.

ART BURKE: So Alex is going to crawl underneath the truck

there and see if there's any leaks.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: Art!

ART BURKE: Yo!

Coming, boy.

Coming.

ART BURKE: Oh, [bleep].

That might have a little bit to do with it.

That there, there my friend, that's the air tank.

There's air tanks under there.

That one there tore off the bracket

and it's hanging underneath the truck.

That's our problem.

NARRATOR: Alex locates the source of the leak.

But fixing it on the side of the road is another matter.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: So we need to plug the air tank

and then chain it up.

ART BURKE: Don't let me [bleep] trap you, buddy.

It's round.

It's broke right off.

You're into the thread part, buddy.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: Well, that's where our air is going.

ART BURKE: I wonder how we could plug that.

Well, get a piece of work, I guess.

That's the only thing I could see.

I'll see what I can find, buddy.

NARRATOR: Despite not having tools or a mechanic shop

nearby--

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: Going to have to cut it off and drive it

in with a hammer.

NARRATOR: --the two old pros will use a piece of wood

to try to get the job done.

ART BURKE: Perfect, bud.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: OK.

Now we can tighten it up.

OK.

Try this again.

NARRATOR: With the quick fix in place--

Away we [bleep] go.

NARRATOR: --it's time to see if the wooden spare part did

the trick.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: It's fixed.

We still have air.

ART BURKE: Away we go again, buddy.

If I got 120 feet inside, that's all I need.

NARRATOR: The brakes are back in business.

Just keep her [bleep] going.

This is a wounded machine.

[laughs] After going on that road,

this is a wounded machine.

Lordy, lordy.

I think this is the road.

NARRATOR: And finally--

ART BURKE: This is it, around this turn.

This will be the end of her.

NARRATOR: --the winter road is in the rear view mirror.

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: Mission accomplished.

Well, that's it for the season.

I guess we're done for this year.

Thank the lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Good job.

He got us out here without us beating each other up.

Our truck's still running.

She's [bleep] home.

As you would say, thank the Lord.

How's that?

ALEX DEBOGORSKI: I still have to talk to you

about your language, Art.

[laughs]

NARRATOR: On the final five miles

on the road to North Caibou--

[music playing]

DARRELL WARD: We just got to keep pushing ahead

and get this job done and get out of here.

Well, we got to be getting close.

NARRATOR: --the unprecedented two company convoy

has pushed through the night, and is on the verge of making

history.

Since the epic journey began--

[beeping]

What the [bleep] is burning, Mark?

NARRATOR: --the rugged trail is nearly stopped them--

All right, Lisa.

Let's get her.

Don't let me sink.

NARRATOR: --every step of the way.

Holy crap.

TODD DEWEY: I ain't never seen cracks that wide.

[cracking]

NARRATOR: Now--

My hat's off to each and every one of you.

NARRATOR: --after two days and 400 taxi miles--

DARRELL WARD: I was wondering if we're ever going to get here.

NARRATOR: --the convoy makes it to the remote village.

Yee-haw!

Bam!

[music playing]

That was one hell of a trip.

Yeah.

Pull up on that side of him.

LISA KELLY: Everyone's coming together really nice.

And it's good to see two companies working together

like that, so that these people can get what they need.

STEPH CUSTANCE: We all stuck together

and we all helped each other.

That's something to celebrate right there.

NARRATOR: As the final supplies are off loaded--

[horn blowing]

TODD DEWEY: Woo-hoo!

We got her!

NARRATOR: --the drivers celebrate

completing the toughest mission of their careers.

Last load delivered, buddy!

We did good.

[bleep] we did good.

You know, I'm really proud of what

we were able to do on this run.

Work together, teamwork for the communities.

That's what counts.

Good job, Mark.

Good job, buddy.

MARK KOHAYKEWYCH: You know what?

We make a really good team.

We pulled this off.

So you guys are awesome out here.

I got a new found respect for what you guys do out here.

Everybody in the trucks. So let's bust out, guys.

Let's go.

[music playing]

All right, guys.

On our way home.

Mission accomplished.

NARRATOR: The last loads are in the books,

and the final hauls are delivered.

And as the drivers head back, they'll

take with them memories of the season that almost beat them.

LISA KELLY: It's weird.

You think you're just going out there to truck.

And holy [bleep] was I wrong.

The amount of things that you run into--

I just made it to land, I think.

Todd, I made it.

TODD DEWEY: Your first real big ice crossing.

Proud of you.

We like adventure.

We like the adrenaline rush.

[scream] [scream]

Every load's a contest.

Whoa!

You know, man and a machine against the elements.

Holes and mud--

the road was just a [bleep].

Whoa!

But we got her done, bud.

[music playing]

And we did it as a team, all of us together.

TODD DEWEY: And you know what?

No matter how many tears got to be shed,

no matter how many truck parts get broken,

we get the loads to the community.

And we get the job done.

And we go home with a smile on our face.

DARRELL WARD: What it means to be a trucker--

freedom.

I can say it in one word.

Not everybody gets to do what I get to do.

I feel very fortunate to be an ice road trucker.