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NARRATOR: On this episode
of "Ice Road Truckers,"

critical gear rescued
from the ditch.

That's a heck of an angle
to have a truck stay put.

Northbound roller coaster.

NARRATOR: A female trucker
takes on the haul road.

[cheering]

[dramatic music]

And it's chaos over Atigun Pass.

Truck spun out behind us,
spun out in front of us.

They just shut up.

This road is no joke.

[ominous music]

NARRATOR: At the top of theworld, there's a job only a few

would dare.

Last season, the
dash for the cash

was fought on the smooth playingfield of Canada's arctic ice.

This season, two old pros--

I came to the cash.

NARRATOR: --joined four of
America's bravest truckers.

Come on, boys.
Saddle up.

Let's go.

NARRATOR: --to tackle the
continents' deadliest ice

passage.

Just when you thought
extreme trucking couldn't

get more dangerous--

It's the most dangerous
road I've ever been on.

They say she's
a treacherous one,

so I'm here to give her a shot.

NARRATOR: --"Ice Road
Truckers" take on Alaska.

[theme music]

[shattering]

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[shattering]

[shattering]

[shattering]

[shattering]

[shattering]

[engine running]

A new "Ice Road"
season has just begun.

Carlile Trucking has
less than three months

to haul 2,000 loads from
Fairbanks to the oil

fields of Prudhoe Bay.

Here, temperatures
drop to 70 below.

The terrain is some of the
most unforgiving in the world,

and race to bring home the
big bucks is heating up.

In the yards, a new ice road
trucker Lisa Kelly straps down

her first load of the season.

I'm going to throw a
strap back there, too,

because there's not one
there where I want it.

NARRATOR: Out of more than
200 truckers on the Dalton,

only three are women.

And at 28 years old,
Lisa is the youngest.

She's an Alaskan State
Freestyle Motocross champion

who took on extreme trucking
for one simple reason.

Because I wanted to.

I became a trucker
because I wanted to.

NARRATOR: And as a woman
working in a man's world,

she had to want it
more than anyone else.

I think what kind of
fueled the spark was

that I had to worked so
hard to get what I wanted.

NARRATOR: Lisa drove a school
bus until she got her break

in Carlile.

This is only her second
season on the ice,

and she's already focused
on her next big goal.

I would like to
do more big stuff.

So that way, people
can't make fun of me.

NARRATOR: Bigger loads
mean more money and respect

that comes with it.

Yay.

I love this part.

NARRATOR: In an industry
dominated by men,

Lisa's says career choice
often shocks the guys.

They're like,
you're a trucker?

I'm like, I truck down on ice
roads in Alaska and stuff.

He's like, no, you don't.

It's And so this to that guy.

I'm an actual trucker.

I wasn't lying.

NARRATOR: Lisa pulls out of
the yard with 45,000 pounds

of construction equipment.

It'd be fun to
haul oversized stuff.

But once in a while, it'sreally nice to get a light load

and just get-- get
it done, you know?

Get up there, and get
back, make some money.

NARRATOR: With light loads,
speed is the name of the game.

More loads mean more cash.

Now that I can actually
get some trips in, I feel--

I feel much better.

NARRATOR: But
yesterday's rollover

was an evil reminder of how
fast this road devours trucks.

Flipping a truck's a
big deal, because you

lose all the freight, and
the trailer, and the truck.

And if you're a new guy,they're going to be like, yeah,

you're not a good driver.

See you.

I've never flipped a truck.

I don't plan on it.

But you know, accidents happen.

[rock music]

NARRATOR: Back at
the yard, Jack Jessee

is next up with his
second run of the season.

His first load was a massive
modular that not only tested

his skills on the Dalton ice,
but pushed him to the edge

over a frozen Arctic Ocean.

Now, he faces a cargo so big
that it will require a feat

of engineering just to load.

Well, today, we're going to goload some 130-foot pipe spools.

Pipes are 34-inch in diameter
and they're 130 feet long.

Probably the longest load that
we've shipped out of here.

NARRATOR: These
colossal pipes, which

are nearly as long as
half a football field,

are essential for oil productionon Alaska's north slope.

This load today was thelongest single piece of trailer

that I've hauled before.

It's-- it's a pretty
long little setup.

A load like this, you-- you
need the best of the best.

We have a lot of
guys won't do it.

They're afraid of it.

NARRATOR: It takes two
40-ton hydraulic cranes

to hoist the first
mammoth pipe into the air.

Next, workers carefully
lower it onto the trailer.

We've got a good seven
inches right there.

Let everybody know we're
going to back the truck up.

[ominous music]

NARRATOR: The pipe must beperfectly centered for balance.

I think it looks
good right here.

NARRATOR: And tightly secured,
or else the load could end up

in a ditch like so many others.

Once the large 16-ton
pipe is loaded,

two smaller pipes are placed
alongside for added stability.

When I'm stretched
out this long,

I have to have a lot more
of the curve for the trailer

to make sure, you know, the
trailer stays on the road.

So it's probably going to
take us about the whole road

to make a left or even
a right-hand turn.

Debbie, just dive off to
the right side or the left

somewhere there.

NARRATOR: Oversized loads demandan entire team for navigation.

On this trip, two
pilot trucks will

travel with Jack on the
500-mile journey to Deadhorse.

So far, you're
looking good, Jack.

NARRATOR: Locked and
loaded, Jack and his team

headed for the ice.

[honking]

[rock music]

Rookie Tim Freeman is
stuck in Fairbanks waiting

for his broken-down
truck to be repaired.

Well, my truck's Kenworth.

They're going through
the [inaudible],,

trying to find the problem

NARRATOR: Tim's first
crack at the haul road

ended before he
even hit the ice.

This sucks.

I know it.

NARRATOR: 52 miles
into his virgin ride,

he abandoned his load
on the side of the road

after suspecting his truck
wasn't shifting properly.

When he returned to
Fairbanks defeated,

he called his dad
back in Minnesota.

DAD [ON PHONE]: If
you screw up, you're

going to hear about
it for a long time,

so you don't want to screw up.
- Yeah.

DAD [ON PHONE]:
Be a professional

when you're behind the wheel.

I know there's something
wrong back there,

and they're just going to have
to dig through until they find

it.

I won't know until they tell me.

NARRATOR: Back at the garage,
mechanics give his truck

a thorough inspection.

[dramatic music]

The cross member
looks to be good.

The section right here
is the power divider.

It's OK.

We don't see any
kind of a problem

to cause the complaint that
the driver is experiencing

at this point.

This is a new
driver in the truck.

This driver might not be
used to some of the things

that this truck does or some
of the strange tendencies

from one truck to another.

NARRATOR: The truck gets
a clean bill of health.

It's Tim's driving
that's now suspect.

Yeah.
All right.

Sounds good, Ray.

NARRATOR: Over at
Carlile Dispatch,

manager Tim Rickards has more
than 2,000 high-priority loads

to move in the
next three months.

He's got no time to
waste on rookie jitters.

We're going to
send him up the road

today with a van full of Prudhoefreight for one of the oil

companies up north there.

It's a pretty light load.

NARRATOR: Once
again, Tim will be

guided by his mentor and
family friend, George Spears.

We'll go here, and
walk around the truck,

check it out, make sure
everything's good to go.

What happened [inaudible] all
them [inaudible] down there?

That could be what the
problem is right there.

That could be.

NARRATOR: With his father
and George betting on him,

the pressure is on for Tim's
second crack at the Dalton.

I'm a little
nervous this morning.

I want to prove to
everybody around here

I can do a good job.

want to make it to Prudhoe
and make some money, man.

And away we go.

[suspenseful music]

NARRATOR: Tim and George
are hoping to make the run

to Deadhorse in under 16 hours.

Tim, how's everything
going back there?

TIM [ON RADIO]:
Good, George, good.

GEORGE: All righty.

This here is 52-mile.

This is the one where
we made it to last trip

where I had to dolly off my
trailer and head back to down.

GEORGE [ON RADIO]: Chandler,
I want to congratulate you

on getting by 52-mile.

Well, I appreciate
that, George.

NARRATOR: Tim finally rolls offthe pavement and onto the ice.

His first challenge--
a terrifying 56 miles

of steep and twisted
curves called the Taps.

It test the skills
of every driver.

Pick the wrong
gear, you wash out.

Hit the brakes too hard,
and you end up in a ditch.

We're on the Dalton Highway.

We're doing pretty good.

Tim, when we get
up on top of 1-mile,

take your front back in.

We've got to climb up
a couple steps here.

OK, George.

NARRATOR: Tim's truck
seems to be running fine.

It's the road that
now has him rattled.

The Taps are the
particular part

of the road that makes
me nervous, because it's

all numbers, you know?

It's mile markers
for what hill's

what, what curve is what.

It's just up and
down, left and right.

NARRATOR: Tim makes it
up the first two ascents.

The lowest gear we're going
to be in going north with this

load's going to be fifth gear,
because we top two-mile in it.

NARRATOR: But driving downhill
is a whole new challenge.

It not only requires a
low gear, but the use

of a special braking system.

When you got
your Jake brake on,

it's backing your motor
down due to compression.

NARRATOR: Ice road truckers
only use foot brakes

as a last resort.

Their first line of
defense is a Jake brake,

which draws on engine
compression to slow the truck.

This usually allows them to
maintain critical traction

on the drive wheels and
stop without sliding.

But as soon as Tim
engages his Jake brake,

his wheels start
spinning on the ice.

[beeping]

[inaudible]

[dramatic music]

A hundred miles north of
Fairbanks, rookie Tim Freeman

is navigating one of the
deadliest stretches of ice.

The 56-mile passage called theTaps extends from the beginning

of the Dalton to the
Yukon River Bridge.

As Tim comes down off
the last deep hill,

his Jake brake
suddenly locks up.

[bleep]

The truck might
kick off sideways.

NARRATOR: Sliding sideways
is the first stage

of a full-blown jackknife.

[thud]

[rumbling]

Timmy, how we doing?

NARRATOR: Tim eases
up on the brake,

and it re-engages just as
he crosses onto the entrance

to the Yukon River Bridge.

Well, that's what it feels
like when your Jake brakes are

locking up.

NARRATOR: Marking the end of
the Taps and his first victory

on the Dalton.

That was a sweaty
growl there, fellows.

We're so light, what
actually was going

on is we were just going too
slow for our Jake brakes,

you know?

It was they were coming
apart-- they were coming not--

they were too strong for
how much weight we had

on our drivers, so
they were making our--

making our drivers
break loose on the road,

trying to want to kick
around a little bit.

I was pulling a little-- pullinga little squaw handle there

to keep our--

keep our trailer straight,
but we made it down.

GEORGE [ON RADIO]: Timmy,
are things all right?

Well, we slipped and slid alittle bit coming down the back

five-mile there, but
we made her, George.

[rock music]

NARRATOR: 112 miles north
of Fairbanks, Lisa Kelly

is on a mission to get her loadto Deadhorse in a single day.

Go faster.

I don't need brakes.

Brakes are for sissies.

[laughter]

[dramatic music]

This job is all dangerous
because we're driving on ice

and stuff, but it's just
something you kind of learn

and you get accustomed to.

It's like, figure out how to
drive or you go in the ditch

or die, you know?

You can't jerk the
steering wheel.

You can't throb on the throttle.

You can't step on
the brakes fast.

NARRATOR: Lisa is surprisingly
confident on the ice,

but she still has 375 miles
of [inaudible] frontier ahead.

This road is like
a beautiful woman,

beautiful on the outside
but a killer on the inside.

[laughter]

[ominous music]

NARRATOR: Back in
Fairbanks, Jack Jessee

is headed north with a
Titanic load of 130-foot pipe.

The cargo is such an extreme
hazard for the narrow dome

that it must pass a
special inspection

at the weigh station.

When we do oversized
loads, we have

to get permission from the
state to get our permits.

Length of pipe.

MAN: OK.

We've got to
measure everything.

We're going to measure
the length of the pipe.

This is just to make sure that
I'm complying with everything

that I asked for, and he's justdouble-checking everything.

Here's your driver's license,
and you've been cited for size

and weight 8,320 pounds over.

They said the pipe only
weighs, like, 34,000 pounds.

$10 surcharge for the court,
$1,008.40 for the citation.

Oh, you're [bleep] me.

And this is your
offload directive,

which tells you you are going
to take the load back to town.

NARRATOR: Jack's load is
not balanced properly.

We are-- we're
too tail-heavy here.

That, and we're 8,000 pounds
over on our rear axle group.

OK.

So we're going to take
this one back to town.

NARRATOR: When truckers get paidper load, a setback like this

could cost him $1,300 or more.

But the danger of
driving tail-heavy

is that the front of
the truck will not

weigh enough to maintain
traction on the icy hills.

We're going to fix it, make
everything legal and everybody

stays happy.

NARRATOR: Yesterday
on a windswept stretch

called the Shelf, the ice
road claimed its first victim.

Now, I got too close to the
right edge, and over she went.

NARRATOR: As Bruce Carl
reached for the dash,

his right front wheel
caught the edge of the road.

The truck flipped onto its
side and slid into the ditch.

Now, a massive
operation is under way

to recover a load of corrosive
batteries still desperately

needed at the oilfields.

Extracting the
load from the ditch

and preventing any
damage to the environment

requires special skill.

Ben Kryzkowski has spent thelast 25 years recovering trucks

on the Dalton.

It should be just up
over this little knob.

There it is.

There it sat.

Well, that's a long
way down there.

The worst part of the
road right here, narrow.

NARRATOR: Ben's crew
has to move fast.

When the road is blocked,
no one is making money.

But he has to use special
caution with a load

this potentially hazardous.

He goes over his
strategy with the crew,

including driver Bruce Carl.

I want to do all I can to helpget the truck upright and out

of the ditch.

It's the mess I made.

I need to help clean it up.

What I'm thinking is the way
it's all going to be setting

here, we're going to try to
bring the truck right up here.

NARRATOR: Ben's plan is to placeheavy straps around the rig

and pull it upright before
hoisting it out of the ditch.

We're tunneling underneath.

We just need a hole big
enough to get that strap

through there.

Hopefully, we get
it uprighted here

before it gets too dark on us.

[dramatic music]

NARRATOR: 245 miles north of
Fairbanks, our recovery crew

is working swiftly to uprighta load of potentially hazardous

batteries.

Tunneling under that truck inorder to attach recovery straps

has taken four solid hours.

[beeping]

OK, we got everything in line.

We're running cables
down, and hopefully we

get it uprighted here before
it gets too dark on us.

We're ready.

NARRATOR: With little daylight
left, they crank the winch.

If all goes well, they
might just get this out

before nightfall.

[creaking]

[dramatic music]

Now, they have to haul
it up the steep incline.

They manage to drag the truck
to the very edge of the road,

but no further.

Hey.

That's a heck of an angle
to have a truck stay put.

NARRATOR: The flow of
goods to the oil fields

is at a standstill,
and extra horsepower

is needed to haul the
truck onto the road.

I'm going to the back end.

Todd is going to come
in on the driver.

We're going to put the
loader on the front end.

And we're just going to make a
sweep with it, and overworked.

NARRATOR: By nightfall,
three tow lines are in place.

Finally, they get some movement.

[rumbling]

After more than six hours,
mission accomplished.

We're done here, finally.

NARRATOR: The battered truck
gets a tow to Fairbanks.

The recovered load
is sent to Deadhorse,

and the passage north
opens once again.

It's 8 PM, and Lisa is on a
power run through the Taps.

Since drivers are
paid by the load,

the faster they make the run,
the more money they pull in.

But with added speed
comes an increased risk

of a deadly crash.

[crashing]

Of all the hills on the Dalton,none is more appropriately

named than the Roller Coaster.

With nearly vertical
grades on both sides,

it's a white-knuckle ride of
a lifetime that has landed

many drivers off the track.

Lisa barrels to the
top of the first hill,

then starts the great descent.

The strategy is a nerve-rackingtest of precision called

freewheeling.

Pick a gear and don't
brake or risk crashing.

Lisa holds steady,
maintaining precious momentum

as she nears the bottom.

Full speed ahead,
she immediately

swings vertical again.

[cheering]

Lisa still has more
than 300 miles to go,

but this is one ice road truckernot to be underestimated.

LISA KELLY: So far, so good.

We have a goal in mind,
and we're heading for it.

NARRATOR: Back at Carlile,Hugh Roland and Alex Debogorski

are in the middle of a
week-long haul road bootcamp.

They've come to Alaska to testtheir skills on North America's

most deadly road.

Good morning
Fairbanks, Alaska.

NARRATOR: But this ice road
is so extreme that even

pros like themselves are
put through basic training.

Last week, they had to
measure up behind the wheel

of a simulator.

I tipped it over.

NARRATOR: Today's trial,
behind the door of a bathroom.

Hey.

Come on in.

Why the women's bathroom?

This is where we have
our drug testing set up.

So if you're ready, then
I'll just give you this.

And if you just can
fill that up halfway.

You want it right to the top?

No, please.

Thank you, though.

[laughter]

Just let me know
when you're done,

and I'll just be standing
inside the bathroom

right on the outside.

[humming]

Looks like wine.

You want to do a taste test?

Oh, please don't.

Seems to be a lot more
effort in making sure

that a driver's going to
be able to drive this road.

They do have some concerns.

I make a fool of
myself, but then I'm

used to doing that on occasion.

[laughter]

NARRATOR: Next up,
the Polar Bear,

and he's eager to get trucking.

I don't think I can
get any more ready.

And they run me through
the Carlile Mill here,

and I'm ready to go.

If you just can
fill that up halfway.

I just went.

I didn't know this
was coming right up.

Do you want a cup of water?

All dried out.

[country music]

Oh, yeah.

I made her anyway.

And you're done.

[dramatic music]

NARRATOR: A routine trip
to the weigh station

has left Jack Jessee
$1,000 lighter

and a day behind schedule.

In order to balance the
tail-heavy 130-foot-long load,

he's added weight to
the front of the trailer

and finally passed inspection.

After all the good
stuff we went through,

got an overweight
ticket, had to add pipe

to get weighed on the drivers.

It's been one thing after
another, but let's get going.

NARRATOR: His 500-mile
journey to Deadhorse

will take two full days.

With hills and
corners barely wide

enough to accommodate
the load, the Taps

will be like threading a needle.

MAN [ON RADIO]: Come back.

JACK JESSEE: Three tires rollingthere, three tires rolling

there.

NARRATOR: Oversized loads are
given priority on the Dalton,

not only because of
their high value,

but because they often
take up the entire road.

We're starting
to pick them up.

We're heading your way, Deb.

OK, here they come.

Two troublemakers.

NARRATOR: Jack's pilot
car drivers scout the road

to prevent head-on collisions.

You got a
four-wheeler that just--

it's coming through the
top guardrail over here,

two of them.

Sure thing.

NARRATOR: Jack's
advance scout Debbie

is worried about a series
of slick curves up ahead.

There'll be a couple
of windy corners there,

and I have to go through them.

Pull up in the straight
stretch over on the other side

to make sure that the
corners are clear for Jack.

He's going to need
all of the road there.

NARRATOR: With a load
nearly the length

of half a football
field, the ice road

is a disaster waiting to happen.

One misguided turn
and the entire load

could go crashing off the edge.

[sinister music]

The left side over here'sabout a 500-or 600-foot dropoff

there, about a two-to-one slope.

If you went off
that, you wouldn't

stop until you hit the bottom.

[honking]

NARRATOR: Jack has skillfully
navigated this section

of the ice.

But as the daylight comes toan end, the worst of the Dalton

still lies dead ahead.

Lisa Kelly has blazed over
414 miles of unforgiving road

to Deadhorse in a
speedy 14 hours.

[cheering]

But when she arrives at
the Carlile terminal,

she discovers that her
load does not end here.

MAN [ON RADIO]: Lisa, we
need you to take this load

all the way up.

10-4.

NARRATOR: She's given a
green light to the oilfields.

The last 25 miles
are Arctic Ocean ice.

LISA KELLY: You've got to followa lot more rules on the ice

road.

NARRATOR: The speed
limit on this road

is just 10 miles per hour,
or you risk breaking through.

If you get stranded
out there, you could die.

It's something that's just
in the back of your mind.

NARRATOR: On the surface,
the ice stresses and cracks.

Below the wheels, frigid water.

After nearly 16 hours
behind the wheel,

Lisa arrives at her
final destination.

LISA KELLY: We've
done good this time.

This is the way
it's supposed to go.

[beeping]

All right.

The boss needed me
to deliver today now.

Hot load.

NARRATOR: The run is a personalbest for this ice road trucker,

and proves she's going to
hold her own this season.

This desolate area of Alaska
known as the North Slope

was rarely traveled until 1968,when a giant oil discovery

changed the landscape forever.

The government spent
something like $50 million

exploring for oil.

By 1968, this giant discoveryof the oil bands at Prudhoe Bay

changed all of Alaska.

All kinds of smart people
from all over the world

made suggestions about how
do we get the oil to market?

A pipeline seemed like
the most logical one.

The value of Prudhoe
Bay is so enormous.

Oil made Alaska the richest
state in all of the United

States, by far.

NARRATOR: The state of
Alaska is so wealthy

that they can afford to pay
out more than $1,000 a year

to every citizen.

300 miles up the
Dalton ice road,

rookie Tim Freeman and GeorgeSpears are nearing Atigan Pass,

a 4,700-foot treacherous climb
through the Brooks mountain

range.

And it's just begun to snow.

You've got to watch
your steering down

through here, Tim.

That-- you know, that new snow
on top of that snowbank, lot

of times your steering can get
loose with you a little bit,

so take it easy and be
a little more cautious.

The shoulders of
the road are white.

The hills are white.

It's kind of hard to tell
where the edges are at.

It's just hard to distinguish
what's the difference

between the road and the ditch.

NARRATOR: With
conditions growing worse,

George decides to play
it safe and chain up

before climbing the pass.

Pull over up on the top here.

Good deal.

I don't want him to have any
trouble on his first trip.

We're responsible
for him making it

the whole way, so if it means
putting a set of tire chains

on, it's not that big a deal

NARRATOR: Tim throws on
his first set of chains,

but makes a common
rookie mistake.

I had a little problem
because mine were hung upside

down, or backwards, if you will,so that these trigs were facing

down towards the tires.

And like a dumbass, I
didn't look at them.

I just threw the
[bleep] on there.

We've got a lot more
snow than what I expected.

We'll have to be really
careful on this next one.

[tense music]

NARRATOR: Rookie
Tim Freeman has made

it 2/3 of the way
up the icy Dalton,

but the worst is still to come--

the treacherous Atigan Pass.

JARED [ON RADIO]: Have Tim giveme a holler when you get up

this side.

OK, Jared.

Will do.

NARRATOR: At 4,700 feet
over the Brooks Range,

that 12% icy grade is a brutal
challenge for even the most

experienced haul road trucker.

I'm glad we decided we
better put some chains on.

Pretty deep, deep snow
drifts across the road.

Man, it's hard to see up here.

Tim, once we get up
here in the canyon,

there should be some reflectorsalong the edge of the road

to make it a little bit easierto see where the road's at here

just a little bit.

These are the big boys.

These are the bad ones.

If you get over these
two, you're in good shape.

OK.

We'll watch for them.

NARRATOR: Snow plows
have reduced the road

to a single lane and created
a sudden logjam of trucks too

wide to pass safely.

[bleep] damn these
[bleep] idiots.

Hold up a minute.

There's a cluster
[bleep] up here.

[inaudible] stop.

10-4, yep.

Tim, can you get stopped?

Yeah, [bleep]

NARRATOR: Tim slams
on his brakes,

stopping just short of
a head-on collision.

You've got the
blade, but lord,

we've got trucks spun out behindus, spun out in front of us.

Just hold up.

[bleep] damn it.

[dramatic music]

Timmy, we can't do much
until this blower gets out

of the way.

OK, George.

Yeah, here he's
moving over now.

Timmy, once we
get by the blower,

we can pick it up a little bit.

NARRATOR: Slowly, the road
clears and traffic starts

moving again.

Tim and George have
just 150 miles to go.

[country music]

Back at Carlile,
Hugh is undergoing

his third and final test beforehe's unleashed on the Dalton.

This is a do or die
moment right here.

I mean, if you don't
do the pre-trip

and you don't do the driving
test, then you're finished.

You're not even going
to the haul road.

Dude, we're off here.

Holy.

Yeah.

OK, that last corner,
Hugh, we got a--

Problem there.

Yeah, we did.

We had a problem.

We've got to read the road
ahead, assess the lane

position.

Whoops, Jesus.

It's my judgment that
he doesn't have control

or the skills needed.

Absolutely, it's my
call that this is it.

We don't go to the haul road.

You're driving at
a speed right now,

something happens, you
can do something about it.

HUGH: OK.

Good turn.

Very good, Hugh.

That's perfect.

I'll write up my
evaluation, and then we'll

talk a little bit about it whenwe get outside of the truck.

You get up there and you
start talking about it.

My observations is I--

I just increase mirror usage,
you know, four to six seconds,

more if it's--

if inclement weather
and bad conditions.

He's a no bull [bleep] guy.

He-- he made me do everything
that has to be done.

I'm-- I'm eager to go.

He's-- he's a hell
of a good guy.

He knows what-- he
knows his stuff.

I think we're good to sign offon your road test and your pace

drive.

Right on.

Thank you, sir.

Welcome to the team.

Perfect.

Clear.

NARRATOR: Next up,
Alex Debogorski.

Once you get a little bit
familiar with the track,

we'll start doing
some commentary.

You know, you can talk to meabout distant relevant objects,

things that you're
looking for on the road.

The speed limit is
coming down to 40.

The only thing I can see
right now that I'd like you

to increase, Alex, is a
little bit more mirror,

left and right.

Looking-- looking behind you.

Yeah, yeah, left--

left and right.

I'm very strict.

I don't bend the rules.

You either have it or you don't.

So obviously, some of the
stories about the road being

dangerous probably
are true, because they

go to some extremes of making
sure that one can drive

the road before they're going
to let one drive on his own

up there.

NARRATOR: Alex passes
his final test.

You did a great job out there.

Thank you very much.

I'm proud to have
you on the team.

NARRATOR: Boot camp is over,and the Canadians are officially

part of the Carlile team.

Next time they're
behind the wheel,

it will be on North
America's deadliest road.

[suspenseful music]

Tim and George have made
it 350 miles up the ice.

Now, they face the
final assault--

the last 50 miles stretch
called the Bluffs.

But the winds have picked
up to 80 miles per hour

and are blowing heavy waves
of snow across the road.

[honking]

GEORGE [ON RADIO]: Tim, how's
everything going back there?

NARRATOR: Suddenly,
Tim falls behind

and loses sight of George.

Here he comes.

I knew it.

We've been giving him
a real thrill this trip.

MAN [ON RADIO]: 10-4, yep.

Yeah, copy.

[orchestral music]

NARRATOR: Then as fast
as the road disappeared,

it re-emerges from
the blinding blow.

Out in the distance, theshapes of the town of Deadhorse

emerge, and Tim breathes
a sigh of relief

that his first run up the
Dalton wasn't his last.

Altogether, you know, it's
been a pretty good trip.

We're almost to Prudhoe.

NARRATOR: For George, this was atrip they both can be proud of.

Looks like we've made it
to Prudhoe Bay about 5:30.

Tim is right here
by me, looking good.

He's done a good job.

We'll go in here and get our
trailers switched around,

get a bite to eat.

Tim, what we need to
do is get your van off

on this right-hand side.

NARRATOR: After a
punishing two-day ride,

Tim delivers his first load
of supplies to the oilfields.

[beeping]

Well, I'm happy I made it,because there were some doubts,

maybe, you know?

NARRATOR: For now, Tim's
doubts have been answered,

and one more trucker has
made history on the Dalton.

After five days of
the dash for the cash,

veteran George Spears is
in the lead with two loads.

Another day of safe passage
for Alaska's ice road truckers

is in the books.

But as night falls, danger
on the Dalton strikes again.

WOMAN [ON RADIO]: Hey, Jack.

We got a [inaudible] over here.

It looks they're stuck.

They're stuck in-- in
the middle of the road

or in the ditch?

WOMAN [ON RADIO]:
Good Lord, have mercy.

They're way out.

Wow.

[dramatic music]