"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 betties 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 betties 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 trucking'." "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." "Â™ª we got us a jack â™ª" "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." "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..."