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[Jim] This area is notorious

for having plenty of weather for us.

When the winds are blowing snow

across the roadway like this,

visibility drops to darn near zero.

[Big Jon] It's a disaster up here.

The storm kind of caught people off guard.

[Charlie] Just waiting for it to happen.

[Bad Grandpa] We call it Deadman's Curve...

[tires screeching]

...because of the amount of accidents

that happen right here.

We got us quite a mess going on here.

[Jim] I would avoid going across that,

'cause the wind could blow you over.

[Bad Grandpa] Oh no!

[Seth] Stay together, baby.

Time's tickin'.

[Charlie] I cannot afford for this to go wrong.

[Dean] Watch it!

[wind whistling]

[Charlie] Sunny and 54 in Denver,

and then I drove from Denver

to the Eisenhower Tunnel,

and by the time I got to the Eisenhower Tunnel,

it was hammering snow.

[Charlie] I-70 can totally trick you.

You can go from dry roads 10 miles away,

and all of a sudden, a whiteout snowstorm,

and it gets dangerous quick.

[Narrator] When ground-level winds

blast into the Rockies,

the mountains force the air upward.

Rising air cools and condenses into clouds

poised to drop heavy snow.

It's known as an "upslope storm."

[rapidly blasting horn]

[Big Jon] It's a disaster up here.

The storm kind of caught people off guard.

A lot of people are chaining up.

We'll pick up the stragglers

that can't get going after that.

[Narrator] The Mountain Recovery crew

is patrolling up and down I-70,

on the lookout for drivers in trouble.

There's somebody at the 192 eastbound, spun out.

[Charlie] It's snowing hard,

chain law's in,

things are spinning out,

crashes are bound to happen.

This is the chain station at the bottom of Vail Pass,

eastbound.

All right, you all chained up, you good?

They're chaining.

[Seth] We try to help 'em out down here

before they end up in too big of trouble.

You got chains? You all set?

You all good?

All right, cool, man. I'm gonna give you a card anyway

in case you end up needing us, hopefully you don't.

There you go, guys.

[Big Jon] 09, don't worry about chains right now.

Get up here, there's cars all over up here.

[Charlie] Before the night's over,

I would imagine we'd have some sort of incident.

Just waiting for it to happen.

[Narrator] That wait

won't be a long one.

[tires squealing]

[Charlie] That's not good.

[Art Farmer] A lot of people don't know

how to deal with the wind.

That's the biggest issue out here for the transports.

[Narrator] Tonight,

the powerful storm hitting the mountains

is blowing intense gusts across I-80

around Rawlins, Wyoming.

Hey, Chad, Art with Stauffers Towing.

How are you doing today, man?

[Narrator] Veteran operator Art Farmer

is ready for a busy night.

So I've been working for Stauffers Towing

for about four years.

Oh, livin' the dream.

[Art] I like Wyoming,

but if you don't like the cold and you don't like the wind,

don't move to Wyoming.

It's all a dream,

don't matter if it's a nightmare or not, you know? [chuckling]

[Art] If you're empty,

that wind comes by, knocks you in the side,

it can take you right off the road...

[Art] ...and there's nothing you can do about it.

The best thing you can do is slow down.

[Narrator] Heavy winds and blowing snow

can close long stretches of I-80 through Wyoming.

[wind gusting]

[Art] Sometimes the roads are shut down,

they can be shut down for days.

This area is notorious for having plenty of weather for us.

[Narrator] The newest member of Art's crew

is answering a call 75 kilometres east.

[Jim] We're gonna go check on him.

We're gonna be Good Samaritans.

[Art] So, Jim, he's been here three weeks.

So far, he's showing a lot of promise.

[Jim] Right now,

the highway is shut down due to, uh, high blowing winds.

When the winds are blowing snow across the roadway like this,

visibility drops to darn near zero.

[Narrator] When authorities shut the highway,

one semi driver tried to make it through...

and lost traction on the ice.

[Jim] I have no idea why this guy's on the highway

with this kind of weather.

Whee!

I think there's a little bit of wind!

[wind whistling]

The truck spun out on the ice,

so we're gonna try to drag him up.

[wind gusting and buffeting]

[Jim] All right, you ready?

If you have any problems, just blare your horn.

[Jim] Drivers are usually pretty happy to see us

when we show up.

This guy was no exception to that.

A little chilly out there.

These are conditions

you don't want to be on the road during,

but it's, uh, it's part of the job.

Let's go, buddy.

[Jim] There's some ice patches,

but it's not completely iced over.

I can drag him

just with the motor power,

and not have to winch him.

[Narrator] Jim's pulled him past the icy stretch,

so the driver should be able

to make it off the highway on his own.

[Jim] That worked out nicely.

All right, buddy,

stick in the left lane,

'cause there's less ice.

We got him up the hill,

so now it's clean up,

get out of his way so that he can get going.

It's pretty much downhill from here to the next exit.

So, I'm going to keep an eye on him,

see how far he gets.

Hopefully he can at least make it down the hill

without running off the road.

I'm kind of hoping those lights get smaller.

[Jim] And then I see his lights stop,

so time to go up, catch up to him,

see what's going on.

Are you kidding me?

[laughing]

Yeah, I think he just got stuck again.

This guy is just having a bad day.

He can't make the turn.

I think he started sliding making the turn.

Yeah, he got stuck again.

He's stuck in the middle of the road.

[wind gusting]

[Narrator] On I-80 east of Rawlins,

Jim is heading to help the same stuck driver...

This guy is just having a bad day.

[Narrator] ...for the second time

in just minutes.

The driver came off the highway,

got to the top of the on-ramp,

and made a left turn to go across the bridge.

[Narrator] The trailer is now up against the crosswind,

gusting at almost 80 kilometres per hour.

This is going to be interesting.

[shouting] No!

It's cold enough out here,

and the wind is strong enough

with the ice blowing around...

The gloves, blowing off into the wind!

...that you can actually start to succumb to frostbite

relatively quickly.

I would avoid going across that,

because the wind's going to be blowing right at you.

It could blow you over.

Try to go straight back.

Slow little movements, yeah.

One-wheel drive.

He's slipping on the ice.

He just found a nice little ice patch right there,

so I'm going to try to pull him back off that ice patch

so that he can get straight.

[Jim] We're going to hook onto his passenger side

and hopefully drag him sideways...

off the ice, out of the roadway,

and to a safe spot.

Are your truck brakes set?

Yellow handle, pull it out.

I want the front to roll.

I'm going to try to get you off that ice.

Hey, try to go forward.

Yeah, there you go.

And we got the roadway clear!

The road's closed, so just sit tight, okay?

Whoo!

[Jim] Successfully gotten the driver back off of the road,

and he's in a safe spot.

I get to call home base

and figure out which direction they want me to travel

for the next one.

I'm glad I got my glove back.

It was fricking cold.

[wind whistling]

[Big Jon] Let's roll.

We're headed to I-70 at the 1-4-3, westbound.

There's a semi,

double trailers rolled over on the shoulder.

[Narrator] The crew is driving 112 kilometres west

to the scene of last night's double-trailer rollover.

[Charlie] Colorado State Patrol

felt that it should wait until the daytime

to be recovered.

[Narrator] The driver escaped unhurt,

and authorities didn't want to risk a recovery

until the weather cleared.

Now the pressure is on.

[Charlie] CDOT wants everything done by 2:00 p.m.,

you know, and obviously

it's because school starts letting out,

and then work starts letting out, right?

It's going to be a challenge.

[Bad Grandpa] We got about three, four inches of snow

last night,

so we had a busy night.

A lot of us were out all night long.

[Charlie] Bad Grandpa,

he conquers whatever he puts his mind to.

[Bad Grandpa] They call me "Bad Grandpa"

because everybody thinks I got one wife

and three girlfriends.

Well, that's really kind of a rumor.

You never know what we're in for

until you get on scene,

and take a look at it.

We call it Dead Man's Curve.

That's because of the amount of accidents

that happen right here,

and it's kind of out in a desolate area.

06 is on the scene.

We got us quite a mess going on here.

[Big Jon] Sweet, we got a good one.

I wonder if it was icy out here?

They said the driver was okay.

Try not to get run over here.

It basically looked like a yard sale

on the side of the road.

I thought to myself,

"We're going to be here a while."

[Big Jon] It's rolled over.

The two trailers are broken apart from each other,

which is a pretty difficult thing to do.

I've only seen that one other time.

[Bad Grandpa] Yeah, and it looks like

the safety chains have totally snapped

and broken off from the other trailer.

You can see the hitch totally released on it,

and, uh, sent the other trailer flying out of here.

I'm going to pull my truck down here.

We can start working on this one,

and then once we get this lane closed,

we'll reposition a little better.

This 2:00 p.m. deadline,

Charlie might be a little optimistic with it.

We're going to do our best to get it done.

[Charlie] Hey, can you advise HLT and CSP

that we're going to have the number two lane closed

at the 1-4-5 westbound

for approximately a two-hour closure?

[radio dispatch] 10-4, will do.

Nice day.

[Charlie] Are they pretty full, or no?

[Bad Grandpa] The front trailer, 13,000,

and the rear, 7.

[Narrator] It's a mixed load of freight,

everything from pet food...

[Charlie] You got a cat?

[Bad Grandpa] Hell, no.

[Narrator] ...to solar panels.

First trailer that's hooked up to the tractor,

this weird mixed load,

and it's heavy.

[Charlie] I don't know, we're just going to blow

this side of the trailer out, though,

if we just roll it, you know what I mean?

[Bad Grandpa] Oh, yeah, for sure.

[Charlie] We'll get in here with the track machine

and salvage what we can

without trying to blow the side out.

We've got to unload quite a bit more

than what we thought.

[Bad Grandpa] Yeah, this thing is a total loss.

This is a disaster.

[Charlie] Yeah, traffic is still moving.

This semi here is moving a little fast.

Slow him down.

[Narrator] On I-70,

the 2:00 p.m. deadline is coming fast.

[Charlie] You know, we've got a live lane closed here,

and the idea is to get this thing out of the way

as quick as possible.

Hey, it's 03.

Let's talk about what we want to do.

So that one we are going to unload completely, right?

Because we're going to break the side out if we don't.

Yeah, I think that whole wall is compromised,

pretty much ripped through. -[Charlie] Yeah.

[Narrator] For maximum efficiency,

Big Jon will work to upright the rear trailer

while Charlie and crew offload the front one.

Then Big Jon will reposition

to lift the damaged front trailer and tractor.

All right, here we go.

We're going to try to see if she'll come over.

Well, the gamble is just, you don't know what's in there,

you don't know what's compromised, what's not.

[Charlie] The load is not in any way uniform.

Lots of manpower is what that takes

to offload that properly.

[Bad Grandpa] We got the crew showing up,

they're showing up one by one.

Yeah, dog.

We're going move all this stuff out of here,

and then Jon wants to roll this.

[Charlie] Now you're set?

[Gilbert] So trying to work as a team

to get your job done fast enough

to not upset the state patrol or CDOT.

[Charlie] We're loaded really heavy on one end, or what?

[Narrator] The mismatched cargo...

[Charlie] There we go.

[Narrator] ...is already causing problems

for the offload team.

[Charlie] Load me up!

[Charlie] It's sketchy, it's annoying,

the load just wants to shift everywhere.

Everything's on its side,

and nothing wants to line up

and come out in one big piece.

[Bad Grandpa] It's going to break...

Oh, no!

[Charlie] We've got things breaking...

cargo going all over the place...

[crunching]

[Gilbert] There you go.

Yeah, that's it!

Just makes more hand work for all the guys.

[Bad Grandpa] What the hell is that other stuff?

[Charlie] This is way more messy than what we thought.

Time's tickin'!

[Narrator] 20 metres down the road,

Big Jon and his crew...

[Big Jon] Just drop it for a second.

[Narrator] ...are racing to rig up the rear trailer.

[Big Jon] Perfect, it's doing what we want.

I'll get enough lift

to just slide this strap underneath it

for when we're going to roll it over in a little bit.

There was no- no space under there,

so we made some space.

The worst-case scenario you got here

is if something's compromised that we can't see,

it's gonna self-unload itself.

[Seth] Yeah, you got a binder?

[Big Jon] Um... this chain is going to go...

get wrapped into the landing gear,

like right here.

This is going to be our catch line.

All right, let's see if I'm good at basketball today.

This strap is going to have to get hooked

to this chain.

You're-you're a monkey, get up there.

[Seth] Yeah.

[Seth] You're pulling winch lines.

You want a ladder?

My natural habitat.

[Seth] Basically just getting chains

and metal and iron into this thing

so you can grab it where you need to

and make it do what you want.

I'm going to go help these guys

control this load over,

and then I'll come back.

[Narrator] With moving traffic just metres away,

Charlie wants to ensure

the trailer makes a soft, controlled landing.

The quickest way to get that done

was actually to take the track machine

and hook up a catch strap to that

just to make that happen quickly.

I would go off of the main beam

across the top of the--

-Right here? -Yup.

[Narrator] As Big Jon pulls to roll the trailer,

Charlie will add some resistance on the other side,

softening the touchdown.

[Charlie] There's some risks that come with that.

We're a lot lighter than that trailer might be,

and it could take us with it if it wants to.

Hey, you know what you're doing?

Yeah. [laughing]

[Charlie] It's really important

that Big Jon and I work together in tandem

to roll this trailer over.

He gets a little bit ahead of me,

and I don't have control over it yet,

it could roll up,

and then it could roll back over into his truck.

[Seth] We could definitely break this thing,

but try not to.

Try not to make more work for ourselves.

There you go.

[Big Jon] Charlie, go pretty fast.

[Narrator] The plan only works

if Charlie's line stays tight.

[Charlie] Hang on.

Hold on! Hold on! -Ho!

-Hurry! -Hold on!

[Big Jon] Charlie, go pretty fast!

I'm holding the heaviest spot right now.

I can't hold on too long. [chuckling]

[Narrator] On I-70 in Colorado,

Big Jon needs Charlie to tighten his grip

on the suspended trailer.

-There we go. -Good?

[Big Jon] Loosen up a little bit.

[Big Jon] We don't know the weights.

We don't know what's actually in here,

so a lot of unknowns.

[Big Jon] Just about to be all yours.

Yeah, I feel it.

[Charlie] It's really important to control these loads

and to know how they're going to land.

There's a lot of momentum that we're creating, right?

Yeah, and we could

get out of control with that load pretty quickly

if we're pulling on it too hard, too quick.

Yeah, buddy!

[Big Jon] Nice work.

That was good.

[Bad Grandpa] Things are going well right now.

We didn't compromise anything out of the other trailer.

It stayed intact,

so that saves us about four hours of manual labor

right there.

This one wasn't too complicated.

We'll go play with this next one,

it's got a lot more challenges.

This second trailer and the tractor

is pretty much destroyed.

The whole top of the trailer is ripped open.

[Charlie] Ah, this sucks!

[Narrator] ...and the messy offload

is pushing them right up against the deadline.

Oh, man!

[Charlie] Leading up to it,

and even showing up to the wreck

as a planned recovery,

knowing that 2:00 p.m.'s our deadline,

and now seeing what we have to deal with,

I don't think we're going to be able to achieve that goal.

[Bad Grandpa] The odds are zero.

Negative zero that's going to happen.

[Charlie] They're so slippery.

They just slip all over each other.

It's so annoying.

[Big Jon] We're running low on time right now.

We're just trying to get this done.

It's taking a little longer than we expected.

Is it just me, or did traffic pick up?

[Bad Grandpa] I'm trying to keep everybody happy,

keep everything moving here.

That traffic count is picking up.

Definitely feeling the crunch.

[Big Jon] It's taking too long.

Let's just roll this thing over.

[Narrator] Big Jon and Charlie decide to change the plan.

[Big Jon] We're running out of time,

so we got to just try to junk-roll it

and get that thing rolled over,

and hold in as much product as we can.

[Narrator] Rolling it with half the freight still inside

will save time.

The question is, at what cost?

[Charlie] It's always a gamble

when you're trying to lift things

with cargo left in it.

You never know how that trailer's going to react,

and if a wall's going to blow out.

[Big Jon] Seth, do you want to start rigging this with me?

[Seth] Uh, sure, yeah.

[Big Jon] Get it done.

We're going to put another snatch block right there,

and then go to that chain by the front tire on the top.

Now just tip-hook this into that loop.

[Narrator] In Wyoming,

the worst of the storm has blown through...

Little bit of wind going on, plenty of ice on the road,

plenty of snow blowing around,

and temperature is 14 Fahrenheit.

[Narrator] Jim is back on the road,

cleaning up in the aftermath.

When you get truck drivers out here,

and you've got the ice and everything like that,

they start playing truckers on ice.

[Narrator] While Jim heads to a call,

he's not the only Stauffers operator

hitting the highway.

We're on the 2-87,

which heads north out of Rawlins.

I'm Brendan Madia,

a light-duty, medium-duty driver,

training to be one of the heavy boys.

When I get a call on 2-87,

usually my heart definitely drops.

It's a two-lane highway,

speed limit is 70 miles per hour.

There's no dividers, there's no nothing.

The wind blows really hard out there,

so getting a call out there

is definitely, you know,

a "kiss Lillian bye,

tell her I'll be back home later,

and hopefully I make it." [laughing]

[Narrator] Brendan's heading to a job

just down the road from Jim.

[Brendan] It's simple, a pickup truck broken down.

Shouldn't be too hard...

Are you kidding me?

...but there's no keys for it.

Um, we can get a car on and off a bed

with no keys, no problem.

But it is on the shoulder...

which is sloped, and it is stuck in "park."

I can't get it out of "park,"

so it's going to slide a little bit.

It's not going to come straight up the bed.

[Narrator] 10 kilometres south...

[Narrator] ...Jim has pulled up on his own scene.

[Jim] Give me a second,

I'm going to run my lines out

and drag you back on the road.

[Jim] So, he's empty.

We're going to hook up to him,

and we're just going to drag him right back up on the roadway.

All right, buddy!

Uh, release your brakes,

and I'm going to see who's got more pull.

Hold the steering wheel towards me.

[Narrator] It looks simple enough...

[Jim] Turn the steering wheel a little bit that way.

[Narrator] ...but Jim didn't count on

the steep bank of the ditch.

Yeah, turn the steering wheel straight.

[Jim] When the wheels would turn,

or they would catch resistance,

they would start to slide sideways on the ice.

Come on, buddy...

[Jim] For every two feet we'd pull him up,

he'd slide about a foot back down into the ditch.

[Jim groaning in frustration]

All right, go ahead and set your brake.

I gotta call for a second truck.

[Narrator] Jim calls for the only help available.

Hi, I'm turning around.

I'm gonna grab him, um--

he was sliding in too much,

so I needed to turn around,

and I may need you to hook your side-puller

to keep his tail from sliding away from me.

[Brendan] Great, okay.

[Narrator] Luckily even without keys,

Brendan's wrangled the pickup.

[Brendan] We're alone out here.

If Jim needs help, I'm gonna go out there and help him.

[Narrator] He'll quickly drop the pickup at the shop,

and head back out to lend a hand.

I've been doing this for four years now,

and I've tried quitting twice...

and I always end up back in the truck,

so obviously I kind of enjoy what I do.

Beautiful.

All right, let's get the hell out of here.

[Narrator] On I-70 in Colorado,

the crew is ready to rig up the partly loaded trailer...

[Narrator] ...but the level of destruction

has exceeded their time limit...

[Charlie] CDOT gave us a deadline of 2:00 p.m.

to get this wreck out of here,

but we're beyond that already.

It's 3:00 p.m.,

and we're only about halfway through.

[Bad Grandpa] Yeah, we try to do the best we can.

You know, it's gonna be a little longer than expected

with this recovery here.

[Narrator] ...and as time gets later,

the road gets busier.

[Bad Grandpa] This is

one of the heaviest traffic times of the day.

We're getting ready to flip this one on its wheels.

[Big Jon] I have to turn around real quick.

I'm not going to have a good angle.

No, we're not turning around.

They'll kill me. They're already watching this.

[Narrator] With traffic already bottle-necking,

Charlie can't afford to close down the second lane

for Jon to reposition.

[Bad Grandpa] We got school traffic,

we got people going home from work,

we gotta get this going.

There's no way

we're going to get a traffic hold here, though.

It's just... it's going to be impossible on that corner.

[Big Jon] You can work off the front,

but there's no jack legs up front.

There's nothing stabilizing you.

[Charlie] Just hang on,

let me just wait for a break.

[Narrator] So they need to take advantage

of any break in the traffic.

[Seth] We just need a second.

[Big Jon] Let's do it right now.

Traffic's moving slow enough

that we can have Big Jon

turn that truck all the way around

without that full closure.

[Charlie] Go, go, go!

Slowly!

Yoo!

We got it.

-[Big Jon] Nice work. -[Charlie laughing]

[Narrator] The first step,

shift the trailer

to make room to slide straps underneath.

All right, let's do it!

[Big Jon] Yeah!

I think we'll be able to get these straps

pulled underneath.

[Narrator] In Wyoming...

[Jim] Oh, there you go.

[Narrator] ...help has arrived for Jim's sliding semi.

[Jim] Brendan's showing up, so that's good.

It's always good to have an extra set of hands

on any recovery.

[Jim] What I might do

is have you hook to the front of him.

I'm afraid of him sliding back over.

We'll use his truck to hold the tractors

while I grab the trailer

and drag it sideways up out of the ditch.

Take that single and just put it right here...

Yeah.

...and then just hold him,

and then park, like, right here,

and just hold the ass end from going over,

I think we'll be fine.

Okay.

[Narrator] For Brendan,

eager to earn a spot on the heavy crew,

any chance to assist

is a chance to prove himself.

You disconnected

and pulling out from the trailer?

Yeah, I'm going to grab the trailer now.

[Jim] We'll use a continuous loop strap

to a wheel strap between the duals

to essentially lift the tires

and facilitate it to be dragged sideways.

Low or high?

[Jim] Low!

You're just keeping him from sliding in.

[Jim] Brendan's younger

and kind of starting out in his career,

but he's taking advantage

of being able to learn a lot from myself,

and I'm sure he's got plenty to teach me as well.

[Brendan] Come on.

[Jim] There we go.

Oh, yeah, it works perfect!

[Brendan] Well, we pretty much got him out.

There's still a little bit of ice,

so we're going to get out of his way

and have him pull forward,

and see if we can't get him out

without us dragging more cable,

'cause it's still a little icy,

but we'll see what happens.

[Jim] Go ahead nice and slow.

If you start sliding,

I'm going to just have you stop.

Go ahead.

All right,

best of luck to you, buddy.

[Brendan] The best way to learn is just to go out and do it.

You know, we can talk all we want in the shop,

but every situation is different.

All right, let's get the hell out of here.

[Jim] Any sort of job like this,

teamwork is paramount,

and we worked together very well

to make sure that everything got done

the way it needed to get done.

-Good job, man! -[laughing]

Yeah!

[Brendan] It's definitely a different calling

for a different kind of person.

It's hard on your family life, it's hard on the body,

sometimes it's hard on your mental state...

but I can't imagine doing anything else.

[Charlie] Let me pick up on that with my bucket.

There you go.

[Big Jon] This winch line,

I'll bring it right to you on the trailer,

but walk it and drop it over the other side.

[Narrator] Traffic is backing up along I-70

for kilometres.

[Narrator] With their straps now under the mangled trailer,

the Mountain Recovery crew is getting ready to gamble.

Starting a betting pool.

It will either pop in half, or it won't.

[chuckling]

I got 20 on "We got it."

[Charlie] You never know if a wall is going to blow out,

so we're going to roll the dice here

and see what happens.

[Big Jon] The more I look at it,

the more I second-guess

that it's going to come over right.

I need a catch strap over the top of this.

[Big Jon] Pretty big hillside here.

There's a lot of chances

if you didn't have a catch line of some sort on this

that this thing would roll right back over.

Did you get that other strap out?

[Charlie] Yeah, we're good on the other strap.

[Big Jon] Okay, I'll tighten that up.

Sweet. It's coming together.

[Narrator] Charlie will again control the catch line,

with Big Jon using low lines to initiate the roll,

and two straps to ease the unit down.

[Big Jon] See what it wants to do,

if it's going to come out like a dump truck,

or if it's going to stay.

[Charlie] Heads up.

I cannot afford for this to go wrong.

This thing's got to be uprighted without any issues.

[Seth] 20 bucks on "It stays together."

Feelin' lucky.

I-I'm hoping it stays together too.

I don't want to clean up all this [bleep],

so I'm hoping this trailer stays together. [laughing]

[Bad Grandpa] I'm ready.

My adrenaline's pumping.

[Seth] Stay together, baby.

[Charlie] Let's do it!

[Big Jon] She's doing stuff.

[Narrator] It's the moment of truth

for Mountain Recovery.

[metal creaking]

If the trailer holds,

they can finally clear this scene...

but it's a big "if."

[Charlie] We've come this far.

The last thing we want to do is have a wall blow out.

You've got to go more on orange!

[metal creaking]

It's like...

there's that three-foot section that's open.

[Big Jon] I can't keep up with it

to hold that wall.

I'm trying.

I'm seeing the wall kind of wanna blow out.

[Charlie] Come on, man!

[Gilbert] You can do it! Stay together, side wall!

This thing's so busted up, there's no guarantees.

[Charlie] There you go!

You got it!

[Big Jon] Beautiful!

[Seth] Hell, yeah.

Thumbs of a champion.

Thanks, buddy! [laughing]

[Big Jon] That worked well.

That was scary watching that wall

for a little while.

Yeah.

Definitely could have gone either way.

[Big Jon] We're going to drag the tractor over,

then we're going to drag the trailer over,

and get it turned around the best we can

so that we can get it out of here.

[Seth] Watch that on the hub.

[Charlie] All right, we gotta break this down quick.

CDOT wants us down, 'cause we're at--

We have a three-mile backup up there.

[Big Jon] We gotta get this out of the way of the traffic

and get both lanes open

and get this traffic cleared up

before we have a secondary crash.

[Big Jon] My brain's starting to turn off.

Are you all hooked up, ready to go?

[Seth] Yeah.

It's good to see those trailers getting towed away right now.

It's always fulfilling when the job's over

and you see everything leaving,

and it was a success.

[Charlie] I'm so proud of my team.

We worked fast, we worked safe.

There's nothing more that we could have done

to speed this thing up,

and I have no regrets.

[Charlie] That was fun.

[Art] I don't like the fog.

I don't like not being able to see.

[Chuck] This is a pretty deadly canyon.

[Jesse] I didn't think it was so steep.

[Chuck] There's a lot of wrecks, all the time.

That would have been a ride.

[Charlie] Holy moly.

[Big Jon] There's a ten-mile backup in traffic.

[Charlie] There's nowhere to go

when things hit the fan.

[Kory] Can't see.

-Hey, stop. -[Big Jon] Yo.

[Charlie] we got traffic

backed up, like, ten miles.

We need to get this road open.

We're getting a lot of heat.

[Art] We're gonna give 'er hell

see what happens.

Whoa!