Original subtitles

NARRATOR: Tonight on "Ice Road Truckers," the bad boy

of the ice is back.

Oh [bleep] ah [bleep]

NARRATOR: And on the Dalton.

I'm out of here.

NARRATOR: The load count is up for grabs.

Maybe knock the ace off the throne.

NARRATOR: As drivers push themselves.

Oh [bleep].

NARRATOR: And their trucks to the limit.

I'm sitting over here freezing my ass off.

I like him, but I can't pull his weight the whole rest

of the time.

NARRATOR: But one rookie will go too far.

You put me in a bad spot.

Exactly.

That's BS, man.

You know it.

[theme music]

NARRATOR: At the Carlile Yard in Fairbanks.

Hey, Mark.

How's it going?

NARRATOR: Austin Wheeler rolls in hungry for another haul.

This is what we're going to do today.

OK?

I got a pipe dolly ready to go.

I need you to go and meet Jay. - OK.

Now, I know you haven't hauled a pipe dolly before.

Right.

It's not a whole lot different than having just

a real long trailer, and I know you've hauled

a real long trailer before.

For sure.

NARRATOR: Austin's load, five pieces

of long pipe used to connect the oil fields in Prudhoe

Bay to the Alaskan pipeline.

MARK: It's just like having a long trailer.

That's fine.

It's just that there's no trailer

between your back wheels and your drive tires.

NARRATOR: Longer than a standard flatbed, these massive pipes

have to rest on a separate dolly.

MARK: I realize that the last dolly you really played with

was, you know, your GI Joe dolly.

Yeah, I still have those actually.

Do you really?

Yeah, they're in a Rubbermaid Tupperware under my bed,

just in case.

You're tired of me picking on you, aren't you?

No.

[laughing]

NARRATOR: Because of the difficulty and chance

for disaster, this load is usually reserved for veterans.

But after proving himself with some heavy hauls this season,

Carlile is handing this 23-year-old a new challenge.

AUSTIN: Maybe they trust me to do bigger and better things.

So I guess I'm a little nervous but really excited.

I think this is the opportunity I've been looking for.

Here we go.

[horn honking]

[music playing]

NARRATOR: Right out of that gate,

Austin faces a winding stretch of the Dalton.

With one hairpin curve after another,

he's got to be on his game.

AUSTIN: Because when we go around turns,

we're so long that the dolly for the pipe

will be in the other person's lane,

if we go around a sharp corner.

It's just going to be a pain in the ass.

NARRATOR: If Austin meets a truck

around one of these blind corners,

it's a guaranteed collision.

[screeching tires]

I got a pilot car in front of me

to tell me what traffic's coming.

[radio chatter]

I'm about to do a 25-mile corner.

That is probably one of the most dangerous corners

on this highway or in Alaska for that matter.

Here we go.

[music playing]

[radio chatter]

AUSTIN: No problem.

We high-sided that.

That's awesome.

High-sided, whenever a trucker says

we high-sided it or low-sided it,

it means we stayed in the high side of our transmission.

AUSTIN: Aw, dammit.

Holy [bleep].

[music playing]

It was just really close to hitting there

with his other blade.

Because that blade had a big blade on the side of it,

what they call a wing, so it can swoops the corners out way

off the side of the road, but we got around them.

Just not much I can do about it, but let's get on up the road.

let's get her done.

[music playing]

NARRATOR: 2,100 miles to the southeast, in Winnipeg,

Hugh Rowland's fighting to save his stake in Polar Industries

profits.

The roads are going to be slick today.

The sun's out.

It's going to be slick.

It's going to be a short season.

We already know that.

I mean, we're in midseason here.

I'm out here in my short-sleeved shirt here.

It's melting on the road again.

[horn blowing]

NARRATOR: With just a few weeks left in the season and loads

waiting to be delivered, Hugh's got all of Polar's drivers

turning and burning.

Crank her hard.

Crank it hard.

NARRATOR: All except one.

I feel like hell.

HUGH: Rick had some bad luck there.

He had a little bit of a mouse infestation there.

There's some serious evidence of mouse feces.

HUGH: He got a little bit of a chest infection there.

Hey, man. RICK: How's it going?

NARRATOR: Rick Yemm has been out of commission for weeks,

putting him way behind in the dash for the cash.

HUGH: He's gotta learn to deal with this [bleep]..

And let's get her done and get everything.

Everybody wants this [bleep] up there.

Let's get her up there, and we'll make money.

Everybody will be happy.

NARRATOR: With his load of septic tanks strapped down,

Hugh checks in with owner Mark Kohaykewych before hitting

the road.

Well, if you've seen him, after seeing him, you know--

hey.

[music playing]

Mister roll.

What's with the hoodie on?

[chatter]

Bad juju, man.

Oh.

I don't know.

I couldn't do it, man.

What happened?

Truck's trying to kill me. Bad luck, man.

You figure that's what it was. Got to get the blue hair on.

Well, I came blond, it didn't work, did it?

Can I touch it?

You can touch it.

Now you've got to wash your hands,

because you've probably got blue on it.

I just got it done.

Yeah, it's leaking down the front of your forehead there.

Yeah, it's not raining.

So you really go to work?

Yeah, yeah, I'm better.

They gave me the clear for the hantavirus,

and I'm feeling better every day.

Well, if you guys want, we can go get the dispatch sheets.

Hey, I'm back on my feet again.

HUGH: I think he's on board.

He said he's on board.

I hope he's-- for what he's saying--

we're going to get right out here and not stop now.

We should turn and burn every trip we get,

and we'll just head down, ass up,

and just [bleep] get at her.

RICK: You ready there, Mr. Rowland?

HUGH: Yeah, you bet.

NARRATOR: Rick follows Hugh out with another load

of septic tanks [horn blowing] bound for the remote outpost

of Wasagamack.

It's a 300-mile trip that they should

be able to make in one day.

NARRATOR: As long as Rick--

Oh [bleep].

NARRATOR: --and the roads hold up.

It's clicking off pretty good here.

Yeah, as long as the guy who straddles him [bleep] pretty

good.

When you get sucked into them, they

toss you around pretty good.

[music playing]

[bleep] oh, oh, oh.

Oh no, no, no.

The trailer swung right around there and hit the ditch.

Hit this whole bank.

Swung right around there all by itself.

NARRATOR: The slippery road, frost heaves, and tight corners

threaten to jackknife the rigs at every turn.

[music playing]

Yep, here we go.

[bleep]

I keep thinking I'm going to get clogged here [bleep]..

NARRATOR: Hugh's solution, step on the gas,

then pull his trailer back in line.

You gotta keep pulling her straight, because the trailer

is already 90 You've got to keep pulling her straight

or you'll squash your bump.

[laughs]

[music playing]

Whoa.

[bleep]

[horn blowing]

Missed him.

[music playing]

4-wheeler coming.

[bleep] [bleep]

[honking]

Oh [bleep], [bleep], [bleep].

We hit a truck.

NARRATOR: Deep in the Canadian wilderness,

it's Rick Yemm's first day back behind the wheel,

but he's getting no welcome from the winter roads.

4-wheeler coming.

[bleep] [bleep].

[honking]

[bleep], [bleep], [bleep].

We hit a truck.

Did you get any damage?

The plastic?

I couldn't get slowed down.

I locked right up.

Yeah, I know.

I just couldn't even get stopped.

It's so slick.

Sorry about that, man.

I just lugged ya.

NARRATOR: Rick lucked out just scratching the paint.

Yeah, we'll get it sorted out for you.

NARRATOR: It could have come at a bigger cost.

Where you at, Rick?

NARRATOR: But Rick's mistake is costing Hugh time.

Of all people, it was the superintendent for the [bleep]

road.

Well, I'm just sitting here.

NARRATOR: 2,000 miles northwest, in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Mark.

MARK: What's going on, Jack?

Good, we got anything going today?

NARRATOR: The haul road ace is looking to get back

on top of the load count.

MARK: How about this mixed up load here?

You got to stop at mile 339.

Live off load.

If you're hot for this freight, there is a little bit more

that's got to go all the way into Prudhoe Bay.

There you go, big boy.

All right, thanks, Mark. MARK: All right, Jack.

We'll see you later.

MARK: All right, stay out of trouble.

OK.

NARRATOR: Today, Jack's pulling double duty with a load headed

to Prudhoe Bay.

JACK: I've got a lot to get done today.

NARRATOR: And another that has to be offloaded by hand

on the side of the Dalton.

Looking good.

This ought to be a nice load.

NARRATOR: Back at the office.

[music playing]

Morning, Chop.

What's up, buddy?

What we got?

Anything good?

How about this mixed up load here?

We got a little bit of everything on it.

NARRATOR: Porkchop's also dispatched with a load bound

for the oil fields.

MARK: And we're going to make you run with Jack Jessee.

NARRATOR: And he'll be running with Jack

to help with the extra offload.

MARK: He should be over there inspecting the loads

and getting ready to go right now.

PORKCHOP: I'm supposed to run up with him and see what happens.

MARK: It's always nice to go up in a pair.

Safety in numbers, big boy.

PORKCHOP: Yep, that's right.

All right, man.

Any questions?

Nope. gonna.

Get outta here.

MARK: All right see you later.

NARRATOR: But he's not happy about being slowed down.

I'm not here to drag ass.

I'm here to drive a truck.

He can go on his own.

I don't need that [bleep].

JACK: Porkchop, what's going on?

Let's do this.

See you out in the yard.

All right.

It is what it is.

Roll with the punches.

We do the buddy system thing 'cause it's cold,

and you don't want take any chances up here.

Sucks.

JACK: Come on.

Let's get outta here!

Play the game.

That's all you can do.

NARRATOR: 250 miles up the Dalton--

Just been out here by myself.

I always want to get out of Fairbanks bright and early

in the morning.

NARRATOR: Load count leader Darrell Ward is already

a step ahead of Jack Jessee.

The ace--

I know he's back there somewhere.

Maybe knock the ace off the throne.

It would be priceless.

NARRATOR: He's halfway up the road

with a tanker of machine oil.

First kind of a disappointment,

missing Reno's basketball season.

But you gotta have a job, gotta work.

Paying for his way through college.

You know, Reno understand that.

I'll try to get a hold of him, maybe when

I get out on to Prudhoe.

I haven't talked to him for a few days.

Get the show on the road!

NARRATOR: But as he hits the North Slope--

DARRELL: Farther north I'm going, the colder it's getting.

NARRATOR: --the temperature plummets.

Down to 47 below now.

It's cold out there.

It's not any place you want to hang out outside for very long.

[ominous music]

All right.

Here we go.

What the hell?

I'm getting warning lights going off and beepers.

I don't know what's going on.

Check engine.

[beeping]

Yeah.

I'm gonna pull over here.

Make sure everything's doing all right.

So, I don't know what's going on.

I'm going to figure it out, though.

Damn near 50 below zero out here.

[beeping]

Yep.

Alternator's going here.

Belts are still on it.

She ain't charging.

NARRATOR: Darrell's best guess is that the alternator is going

out.

That's all I needed to know.

NARRATOR: But still 30 miles from Prudhoe Bay--

If she'll make it.

Hopefully it's running good.

NARRATOR: --there's no choice but to press on.

You've got to be kidding me.

[beeping]

Come on.

[beeping continues]

Come on!

We're not going anywhere.

The truck's dead.

I'm the only truck here.

Woo!

Damn sure chilly.

NARRATOR: Without any source of heat,

hypothermia and frostbite can set in within minutes.

Build a campfire in here in a minute, dammit.

NARRATOR: Darrell only has two options for survival--

wait for a passing truck--

Oh, it's cold.

NARRATOR: --or pray his phone is in range of Prudhoe Bay.

[dramatic music]

KEVIN [OVER PHONE]: Prudhoe. This is Kevin.

Hey, Kevin.

It's Darrell here.

My alternator's dead.

I have no power.

KEVIN [OVER PHONE]: Oh.

Alternator problem, huh?

So I just shut all my switches and gadgets off.

And I'm sitting over here freezing my ass off.

All right, cool.

Send him over.

Yep.

Send him over and send him-- send some hot chocolate

with him.

Take care of my hypothermia.

I-- I don't have anything to drink in here.

My water's-- my water is frozen.

[laughs] All right.

Thanks, Kevin.

Yep.

Bye.

[bleep] I don't know what they're bringing or how

they're doing it.

But they know where I'm at.

They know what my problem is.

And I need some hot chocolate.

I need something warm to drink 'cause my water

ain't working for me.

[tense music]

NARRATOR: 200 miles up Alaska's Dalton Highway--

It's my longest load of the year.

We're 100 feet long, bumper to bumper.

NARRATOR: 23-year-old Austin Wheeler heads to the oil fields

with a load of long pipe.

AUSTIN: I've never hauled pipe on a pipe dolly.

This is my first time.

Man, this looks a little hairy.

I'm a tad nervous.

Hopefully, everything goes well.

[horn honking]

Long pipe, southbound.

NARRATOR: Pilot driver Carl Reynolds is out ahead,

warning other drivers to stay clear of the extra long load.

It's just more difficult all around.

Got to know where the tail end of that dolly is all the time.

NARRATOR: It's been a struggle to keep the rear dolly

from hitting oncoming traffic.

[horn honking]

Whenever we pass trucks like this,

I just want to be able to see how close we are to the ditch

line.

What is that?

NARRATOR: But now Austin faces a new threat.

Hey, Austin.

Go ahead.

CARL [OVER CB]: You know, it looks like your dolly is

a little off to the right?

Oh, [bleep].

Oh, my god.

Please no.

NARRATOR: The pipe dolly is drifting to the right,

dangerously close to the ditch.

When you load the long pipe on the dollies,

the truck and the dolly has to be in perfect alignment.

If it drags too much to the right,

you risk a chance of the truck getting pulled off the road

by it.

Inexperience doesn't help, either.

[music playing]

We're going to have to stop at the Baker's Knob

and see if Carl can help me fix it.

Hey, Carl?

How much of that-- how much do you think that truck

of yours weighs?

CARL [OVER CB]: Scale had it at 10,000.

About five tons?

That's perfect.

I'm going to pull over.

[ominous music]

Move on along the back.

So what I was thinking is, we'll pull the pickup

behind the dolly.

And I'll chain off to your front tow hooks here.

And I'll ease forward.

Yeah.

And we'll hook a chain to the lifts,

to the driver's side of the dolly.

So it kind of uses it as an anchor.

And hopefully, we can pull it this way.

NARRATOR: Austin's plan-- anchor off to the pilot truck

and pull forward to realign his load.

Thing about it is-- if we pull it too much,

we'll pull it out of alignment.

NARRATOR: If he gets it wrong, the dolly

could be pulled further off center,

making it impossible to haul.

OK, Carl. You ready?

AUSTIN [OVER CB]: All right.

Here we go.

All right.

Go for it.

[ominous music]

AUSTIN [OVER CB]: OK.

[music continues]

There you go.

Pull it nice and easy.

AUSTIN [OVER CB]: OK, Carl.

[dramatic music]

AUSTIN: All right.

That's probably good, huh?

CARL [OVER CB]: Little bit more.

Slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow, slow,

slow.

AUSTIN [OVER CB]: I think that might do it there.

CARL [OVER CB]: She's good right there.

NARRATOR: Finally--

Sweet, Carl!

That worked, man!

NARRATOR: --the dolly is straight and ready to hit

the road again.

Good deal.

Yeah, I could definitely see it in my mirrors, pulled

the front around.

So that was what I wanted.

That's a good truck!

Let's get on the road.

NARRATOR: 2,100 miles to the southeast in Manitoba--

This time, we're going to make her all the way to Wasagamack.

NARRATOR: --Hugh and Rick are back on the road.

Oh, [bleep].

[bleep]

NARRATOR: After Rick's collision with a winter roads

official cost them time and didn't help their reputation.

I was coming down that [bleep] hill there.

And I-- [bleep].

I couldn't get slowed down or nothing.

I'm just picking up speed every time I try and stop.

[music playing]

I don't know what he's gonna do.

Can't blame anybody but himself.

NARRATOR: Hugh's pushing Rick to deliver their loads by day's

end.

But now standing in their way is the 11th largest freshwater

lake in the world.

We just pulled into the start of Winnipeg Lake crossing here.

I brought a load up on Thursday and went across here.

I come back out, and two guys--

rookies-- going across the pressure

ridge and blew the [bleep] bridge out.

They had to close her down for a couple of days to fix it.

So, she's open again now.

We're going to try her again today here and get across here.

NARRATOR: A pressure ridge is like a mountain range that

forms in the middle of the lake where two massive sheets of ice

collide.

For semis to cross this gap, road crews

have to maintain a fragile, man-made bridge.

HUGH [OVER CB]: Are you ready?

Yes, sir.

[ominous music]

[creaking]

[music continues]

Now, we do what we do-- ice road trucking.

[ominous music]

Don't rock the ice.

I'm just watching the cracks here.

There's lots of lineal cracks going down here.

When I go by, as I go over top, they just open up like this.

And they close back up.

Pretty wild.

Can tell the ice ain't very thick.

Well, like they say--

by the time you notice what's going on,

you're already underwater anyway.

So not having it even run through your mind.

NARRATOR: At the deepest part of the lake--

Yeah, you can see where they blew her out right here.

Right down the middle of it.

NARRATOR: Hugh reaches the pressure ridge.

HUGH: And it's actually open water in there.

Oh, she's gonna be rough!

[suspenseful music]

[bleep].

Hold on.

NARRATOR: In the middle of Lake Winnipeg--

Yeah.

You can see where they blew her out right here.

NARRATOR: Hugh gets ready to make the jump from one

giant sheet of ice to another.

HUGH: Oh, she's gonna be rough!

[bleep].

Hold on.

Easy now.

[ominous music]

Yep!

That's the end of her.

I'm up.

I'm safe.

I'm just crossing it now.

HUGH [OVER CB]: OK.

10-4.

NARRATOR: Now, it's Rick's turn.

[dramatic music]

Oh, boy.

Good deal.

HUGH: Let's roll!

NARRATOR: Back on dry land, Hugh and Rick push on,

hoping to make it to Wasagamack without stopping.

[horn honking]

HUGH: Let's get her done!

NARRATOR: 2,100 miles to the northwest--

in Alaska's frozen tundra--

Damn sure chilly.

NARRATOR: --Darrell Ward is stranded at 50

below with no heat.

I don't know what they're bringing

or how they're doing it, but they know where I'm at.

They know what my problem is.

NARRATOR: Help is on the way.

Ooh, and it is cold out here.

It's nasty.

NARRATOR: But in these extreme temperatures,

every second counts.

With nothing to do but wait--

I gotta get a hold of Reno.

I haven't talked to him for a few days.

And I know he's probably starting

to wonder what happened to me.

NARRATOR: Darrell looks to family

to take his mind off the brutal cold.

RENO [OVER PHONE]: Hello.

What are you doing, Reno?

So now-- now, divisions are over.

And you're-- and you're going to state?

RENO [OVER PHONE]: Yeah.

Going to state number one team.

First time we-- first time we beat them all year.

The only time.

What'd you-- how much you win by?

RENO [OVER PHONE]: 53-50?

How's everything going at home?

RENO [OVER PHONE]: Good.

DARRELL: Good?

Right on.

RENO [OVER PHONE]: Yeah.

Well, I'm going to have to get rolling here.

And get on the road. RENO [OVER PHONE]: Got it.

I'm looked up to a tanker.

And get headed out of here.

RENO [OVER PHONE]: Yep.

We're just giving the [inaudible]..

Tell everybody good luck at state.

And if they lose, I'm going to come down and kick their ass.

RENO [OVER PHONE]: All right.

And I'm proud of you, Reno. RENO [OVER PHONE]: Yep.

Talk to you later. Love you.

OK. Love you, too.

Bye. RENO [OVER PHONE]: Bye.

Remind me what I'm doing this for, you know?

[music playing]

[horn honking]

DARRELL: Yes!

NARRATOR: Finally, a loader from Prudhoe Bay

comes to Darrell's rescue.

DARRELL: Wow, it's cold out here.

Woo!

That's right.

I'm just going to yard you out, pick you up, and then carry you

back. - OK.

Nice hat!

Thanks.

It's warm.

You want me to take a spin on that?

Have at it.

And I'll go get hooked up.

All right.

Thank you, sir.

Get a straight trailer D-ring from here.

Otherwise, we'll have to bring another truck over and snatch

this trailer up.

Take her to town.

There you go.

It's a good thing.

You know?

I'd really be screwed.

Thank god.

[beeping]

NARRATOR: As night falls on Darrell's disastrous day--

Hey, Porkchop?

When you come around that switch back,

better stay way to the outside.

You go around it a lot easier.

I'm hanging the outside wall.

In the groove, by god.

NARRATOR: --Porkchop and Jack Jessee reach the North Slope.

And I'm with Jack coming up here.

Don't really like him.

The only problem with Jack Jessee

is he's on Jack Jessee time.

But I gots to make my own.

My pockets is hungry.

My pockets is hungry!

[dramatic music]

Hey, Chop?

We're going to stop here and off load.

Shouldn't take much more than an hour there.

NARRATOR: Jack has to drop off part of his load for workers

who are repairing the pipeline.

I think we're going out there where those lights are.

That's where I'm offloading, I think.

NARRATOR: In these frigid North Slope temperatures,

Jack's relying on Porkchop to help him offload quickly

and get back on the road.

Trying to make contact with the construction crew going on

here.

Hey, man.

It's been good riding with you.

Now, I'll see you in the morning.

NARRATOR: But Porkchop has a change of plans.

Porkchop-- where are you, man?

[static over cb]

Didn't leave me out here, did he?

Jack had to stop back there and unload part of his load.

If that's a fact, then we can't run together.

You know, we're truck drivers.

We're not always going to the same place.

We're not always delivering the same thing.

Porkchop, where you at?

[static over cb]

JACK: Are you kidding me?

He left?

[ominous music]

We are not truck drivers down south.

We don't do that [bleep] up here.

Not happy with him.

NARRATOR: While Jack off loads alone in 50 below, 25 miles up

the road--

I don't see where there should be any hard feelings.

I like him, but I can't pull his weight the whole rest

of the time.

If I sit around and wait on him the whole damn time,

I'm not going to make no money for myself.

Every now and then, you've got to branch out so you can take

care of your own business.

[ominous music]

NARRATOR: An hour later, back at the offload site--

I got a couple more things to clean up.

Then, I'll be out of your hair. MAN: All right.

Safe travels, bub. - OK, man.

Thanks.

[ominous music]

He knew I had to stop and offload right there,

to help me do my job.

He's got a lot to learn about real truck drivers.

NARRATOR: By the time Jack rolls out,

Porkchop's already made it to Prudhoe Bay.

Another beautiful night in Prudhoe Bay!

Hoo!

NARRATOR: And has his mind only on the load count.

When I pass Jack Jessee, and I pass Darrell Ward,

they're gonna scratch their head and say, what the hell was

that?

[dramatic music]

There's a little bit more to it

than just trying to get loads.

As far as I'm concerned, he's burnt that bridge.

I don't give second chances.

[horn honking]

NARRATOR: On the remote Canadian winter roads--

Well, we just come by the 300 kilometer sign.

So we can't have much more than about 40 clicks left.

NARRATOR: --Hugh and Rick are powering through a day

of delays--

Let's get her done!

[bleep].

[bleep]

NARRATOR: --hoping to reach the outpost of Wasagamack

without another stop.

Big one coming.

Ho, ho, ho.

RICK: Easy.

NARRATOR: But on his first day back on the job,

the rough road's--

NARRATOR: --are taking a toll on Rick.

Right now, I'm feeling pretty tired.

I'm still fighting this cold off.

RICK [OVER CB]: I could use a rest, man.

They're counting on us to get them there.

HUGH [OVER CB]: They're counting on you.

Man, like I said-- the thing's done [bleep] kicked me.

Man, I'm still tired.

Time to earn your keep.

RICK [OVER CB]: It's not my fault [bleep] off it.

She's a hard old goal, but you don't see anybody else [bleep]

doing her.

Well, now I'm not nice.

Now, I'm a [bleep].

This is no longer fun.

[ominous music]

I'm just not driving anymore.

NARRATOR: Less than 10 miles from their destination--

NARRATOR: --Rick calls it a night.

OK.

We made it to St. Theresa.

We didn't make her to Wasagamack.

We [bleep] around too much today.

We'll have to see if we can line something up tomorrow

to get unloaded.

Probably waste the whole day here tomorrow.

Yep.

We're cool.

Yep.

Well, I'm gonna shower here.

Then, I'm hitting that [bleep] fart sack.

'Cause I'm tired.

Getting some sleep.

You can sleep in May.

That's what I always tell everybody.

NARRATOR: The next morning at the Carlile yard

in Prudhoe Bay--

Let's go see what dispatch has got for me today.

NARRATOR: Porkchop hits dispatch looking for a back haul.

But he's not the only one.

PORKCHOP: Hey, Jack.

KEVIN: What's going on, Jack?

Hey, Kevin. What do we got?

What do we got going back?

I got a deck set here going back,

if you want to haul that out for me.

I'd appreciate it.

OK.

Not a problem.

I need to talk to you for a second.

Can you come here? - Sure!

Let's go.

[suspenseful music]

I gotta talk to you about last night, man.

- What? - You put me in a bad spot.

Leaving me out there when we was all buddied up the whole trip?

You know, what if something would have happened?

So you want me to just sit with my finger up my rear

while you get unloaded?

That's what we do up here, sometimes.

- In the middle of the road? - Yeah. exactly.

Now that's BS, man. You know it.

No. Not up here, it's not.

Maybe in the states.

I understand you can't stop on the interstate.

This is not the interstate road.

This is the haul road.

If you need to stop wherever to wait on somebody, you do that.

Everybody on this road understands.

So you just pull over on the side of the road?

Yeah, if you have to do that.

If it needs to be done.

We still had 70 miles to go on and get in there, you know?

If something would have happened to me,

and you were out of radio range, what was I supposed to do?

We do things differently up here.

It's-- it's a lot more relying on everybody.

These conditions-- they're just too dangerous.

Get this job.

Get this done.

We've got a lot more to do.

Jack Jessee-- hell, I feel like I'm back in school getting

called in to the principal's office.

I don't know what it is with him, but--

you know, there's no need for all that [bleep]..

Haul road ace has now become the haul road ass, in my opinion.

[music playing]

Porkchop's gonna have to have a talk with Lane.

I've got to inform him on this.

Somebody's gotta straighten that out.

NARRATOR: Jack moves into a tie for the top spot

after his double delivery, while Darrell's breakdown stalled

his load count lead.

Back at Prudhoe dispatch--

Hey, Kevin.

What's up, man?

What's happening, Austin?

Oh, just seeing--

I bought that load of long pipe in.

Sweet.

DARRELL: What are you doing, Austin?

Hey, Darrell! How are you, man?

Oh, you know how I am.

I guess I don't know.

My truck's broke down.

Oh, it is?

Yep.

Oh, man.

All my dash lights, everything was off.

I reached up.

I hit my throttle.

Revved it up a little bit, you know?

And as it idled down, it went all the way to shut off.

Oh, dang.

Battery's totally dead.

What are you gonna do?

Sitting over at Dead Horse.

Another dead horse at Dead Horse.

I'll pull him home.

Well, that'd be better than me waiting here for two days

on an all-nighter. - Well, yeah.

Then, you could have the shop put an alternator in.

And you wouldn't have to do it. KEVIN: Sounds like a plan.

All right.

I'll just-- I'll just take the ride with Austin.

Yeah.

Then, Darrell and I can talk bad about Porkchop and Jack

on the way down. - Yeah.

No doubt. Right on.

I appreciate it. - Yeah, no problem!

Let's go.

[music playing]

That's what I do for our Carlile friends.

All right.

Let's get out of here.

Make sure you don't pull a Porkchop

and leave your trailer sitting back there.

DARRELL: I'd hate to get to Fairbanks without my truck.

Nothing stops the Chop!

Except for Atigun, the Beaver Slide,

not hooking to your trailer--

I mean, holy [bleep], Porkchop.

Keep running your mouth.

He asked me the other day-- he says,

what's the easiest way to not miss gears on this road?

And I'm like, don't [bleep] miss him.

[laughs]

I heard he was running with Jack.

The ace?

The ace of the haul road?

Come on.

Every time I pull into Coldfoot, I find Jack Jessee

sitting in there.

Yeah.

Oh, you know-- all the time.

I told him I was going to paint a spot on the [bleep] parking

lot there with his name on it-- Jack's spot.

What the hell.

AUSTIN: I could talk all day about those guys.

NARRATOR: Next time, on "Ice Road Truckers"--

45 below zero here.

NARRATOR: --plummeting temperatures--

Whoa.

We're spinning out.

NARRATOR: --threaten to shut down North America's ice roads.

Getting colder the farther north I go.

JACK: This looks like an apocalypse out here.

NARRATOR: In the Yukon, Alex fights to keep supplies moving

up the Dempster.

The road has been closed as much as it's been open.

NARRATOR: But in Manitoba, Canada--

Ho, ho, ho, ho.

Getting water showing up.

NARRATOR: --temperatures and tempers--

I am not anybody's [bleep] slave.

NARRATOR: --are at a season high.

Make sure Hughie's happy.

But [bleep] Rick.