Ice Road Truckers (2007) s05e11 Episode Script
Hittin' the Skids
Tonight on Ice Road Truckers Come on! Turn! Turn! Turn! Pretty slick out there right now.
Hugh and Rick are out of control Watch out! Oh, no! Dave is on the edge So [Bleep.]
sick of this thing.
May get fired.
And hauling a It, like, keeps moving around on me.
Whoa.
Lisa faces disaster.
4A.
M.
Winnipeg, Canada.
Morning! How's it going, buddy? Good.
How are you? Right on.
Good.
Thanks for coming up so early here.
Hugh rowland and Rick Yemm load up a set of fuel tanks bound for the remote outpost of St.
Theresa.
Turn and burn.
We got 19 we got to deliver.
So you guys get up there as fast as you can.
We're trying to get more diesel tanks to the communities so they can store up.
The more diesel fuel they can save up during the ice roads, the better situation they are come December, November when they're waiting for the roads to open up.
The daring duo just finished an exhausting run That pushed Rick over the edge.
Hey, you mother[Bleep.]
, you ever [Bleep.]
slam my-- [bleep.]
hit my truck like that again, I'll [Bleep.]
kill ya! Don't be [Bleep.]
taking it out on my [Bleep.]
truck! Bring it down.
I'll [Bleep.]
Smash your [Bleep.]
Face.
Bring it on.
Bring it on.
But hauling these fuel tanks means big money, and Rick's gotten a second wind.
It's been a bit of a struggle, this one, this whole season with, uh--of doing it and stuff, and I've actually been doing really well.
Like, I'm making a lot of money here.
Loads are really starting to come in quick now, so we're just gonna have to pick it up.
And, uh, when I go home and I'm completely beat, I'll know I did everything I could.
If I go home and I still got energy, I didn't work hard enough.
- Hugh, you're good? - You betcha.
We're getting on the way here.
She's pretty slick out there, but we got a few hills there.
We got underwear hill we're gonna have to deal with today there.
There's a whole bunch of fresh underwear on underwear hill.
Yep.
- Even some panties.
- Ooh, some panties.
They're heading into a section of hairpin turns That Rick is all too familiar with.
That's--that's my corner.
That's where I rubbed the siding off a shack there.
What the [Bleep.]
hell? Ricky, Ricky, Ricky.
This is it--the technical part of the rally course.
Like you gotta be right on your toes all the time.
Spinnin' out.
Holy [Bleep.]
.
I couldn't stop here if I wanted to.
Pretty slick out there right now.
The sun's up and it's a beautiful day, so.
Gonna test our skills going around these corners.
Well, with all the truck traffic, it polishes these roads up pretty good.
Come on! Turn! Turn! Turn! She's greasy in the corners.
We got a couple of good kick-outs with the old tractor there.
You could meet a guy in a corner and you're sliding and he's sliding and it's not like you'd hit the brakes and stop.
You're gonna hit each other, so.
It's, uh-- two big trucks hitting each other is, uh, never a good thing.
Lots of carnage when that happens.
Watch out! Oh, no! Uh-oh.
While Hugh and Rick brave the slick roads of Canada, in Fairbanks, Alaska, Lisa Kelly reports for a challenge of her own.
Well, I hope you got your supplies replenished, 'cause we got plenty of trucking to do.
Oh, yeah.
I'm ready to go trucking.
Today, you have a load of long pipe.
Okay.
Have fun with it.
Oh, I'll be fine.
I'll just go slow and easy.
They don't call it long pipe for nothing.
These massive pipes that connect the oil fields to the Alaskan pipeline are one of the longest loads to hit the haul road.
This is our long pipe right here.
I think it's about 90 feet.
80-90 feet.
I'm 100 feet total bumper-to-bumper.
The challenges of hauling this long pipe is that it's so long.
It doesn't take corners very well.
This pipe sits on this dolly.
It's a pipe dolly and there's no trailer.
So the pipe basically is my trailer.
19 and Carlile.
Okay, that works.
Lisa will rely on pilot car driver Christine Dennis to help get her All right, I'm gonna get my log book in shape and then be ready to roll at 8:00, so.
All right.
All right.
My fisheye mirrors today.
Just started getting used to how this thing works.
It'll be a little bit easier.
All right, you got traffic coming by on your right.
The time is not as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
It's all about the pilot car.
Ten-four.
24 mile.
I'm about ready to go around this 35-mile-an-hour corner.
Ten-four.
It's all clear for you.
I'm going through this next 35 and I'll let you know if it's clear.
I've always wanted to haul a pipe on a pipe dolly.
So it's kind of one of those dreams-come-true thing.
So it always feels good to check stuff off the checklist.
But just a few miles into the trip Lisa's pipe dolly is swinging out into the other lane.
Does it look like I'm driving sideways? Yeah, just a little bit.
Yeah, this thing tracks so bad to the driver's side.
So, like, when I'm, like, in the middle here, my trailer's in the other lane.
Yep, ten-four.
It, like, keeps moving around on me.
I'm gonna need the whole-- the whole road.
I can't be meeting anyone, like, in these With the pipe dolly crossing the center line on every turn Lisa's worried that her extra-long load could smash into an oncoming truck.
If a corner ain't wide enough and I meet someone in a corner, my, uh, back of the trailer's gonna hit 'em.
Shoot! Whoa! Fairbanks, Alaska Shoot! Whoa! Holy crap.
Damn.
I'm definitely gonna stick to my side though just in case, you know? With the pipe dolly swinging out of control, Lisa pulls over to try to bring the I think what we are trying to do is loosen the straps on the back.
I was just gonna try to, like, jackknife into it a little bit.
I'm trying to point the truck in the same direction the dolly's pointing and then tightening it, 'cause the way I had it, it's gonna be exactly where it was.
Lisa's plan is to loosen the straps on the pipe, then realign the dolly.
I'll give it a shot.
But the load doesn't budge.
Probably just making it more crooked than ever.
This is not working.
'Cause that right there is exactly how I don't want it.
Nothing makes sense.
I don't get it.
It's not doing anything No matter how I move this thing.
I just--I really don't know.
But I don't know what else to do about it.
We haven't pushed anybody off the road yet, so we're doing good.
With the load still not aligned Lisa decides to roll the dice and keep driving.
All right, we'll give it a shot.
And Lisa needs all the good luck she can get.
Come here.
Come here.
Come on.
Here you go, buddy.
I got another piece for you.
Been saving that for him.
Well, no, okay, now come here.
Come here and get this piece now.
Come on.
Get this piece too.
There you go.
All right, see you later, bro.
There you go.
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo.
Have your bread.
Let's go, pal.
I gave him my old bread.
I've been saving that bread for him.
All right, let's try this.
I don't even know if it did it or not.
Might have to do it again.
the Coldfoot truck stop Yeah, we're gonna get this backhaul delivered to Fairbanks and, uh, looks like everybody had to bobtail down here today.
Yeah, that's Tony and Maya sitting over there.
Yeah, that's pretty funny that, uh, I was the first one up there and got a load and, you know, they had to bobtail back.
Yesterday Dave broke a basic rule of the road Ditching his convoy partners halfway through the run.
We're just gonna worry about ourselves today, get the hell out of here, get our butts down to Fairbanks, get another load and get moving again, try to put a dent in this load count.
I'm not gonna wave at 'em.
Just gonna drive on by.
Brrr.
Truck drivers are supposed to sticktogether.
They're supposed to work together.
They're supposed to respect each other.
There was a total lack of respect when he was following me.
I'm not gonna do anymore with this Dave guy.
I'm not gonna do it.
Dave may have claimed the only backhaul, but Tony and Maya have hustled up a job of their own.
They got some long pipe to pick up and I know there's a load of reels sitting there too.
What do you think about grabbing those and going back north? Yeah, sounds good.
I'm ready to go.
While Tony and Maya roll north Dave's backhaul has already hit a snag.
Damn it! The truck is just real sluggish on the hills.
It just don't want to pull.
And I've got a boost gauge that, uh, tells me how much turbo pressure I'm putting out and it's just not putting out nothing or it's spooling up so slow.
I mean, that thing should come up quick and it's not coming up at all.
When Dave hits the turbo boost, the engine doesn't respond.
Next pull-out, I'm gonna stop, check fuel and make sure I got fuel in the tanks and-- I checked it this morning, but that was a couple hours ago, so we're gonna stop and look at some things and make sure-- see, it's just dead right there.
Absolutely [Bleep.]
dead.
Like, we're out of fuel again.
[Bleep.]
damn it! That's it.
We just died.
Aw, this piece of [Bleep.]
has died again.
See, this [Bleep.]
tank is full.
We absolutely can't be sitting here.
It's a [Bleep.]
hunk of [Bleep.]
truck.
So [Bleep.]
sick of this thing.
This fuel tank is dry again! Dave'e's truck is only pulling from the driver's side fuel tank.
He's still got a full tank on the other side, but the truck's acting like it's out of gas.
When it won't draw from both tanks, it draws from the closest tank.
And it drew that son of a [bleep.]
dry.
It won't take anything out of this one.
And with his former convoy partners headed the other direction, Dave is on his own.
[Bleep.]
hunk of [Bleep.]
.
Will not pull from my driver-side tank for some reason.
I'm on an uphill this time and I can't bump it to get it going, so I have to rely on the batteries to start it.
And hopefully I can get this piece of [Bleep.]
started in a couple of minutes.
Back on the slick Canadian ice Woo-hoo! Hugh and Rick are struggling to keep their rigs on the road and their 25-ton fuel tanks on their trailers.
It's pretty [Bleep.]
rough and it's slippery.
Every drip I get a little stiffer and a little stiffer and a little stiffer.
Yeah, ten-four.
Unfortunately, I can't go into the shop and get patched up like this truck can.
It'd be good if a guy could.
I could use a new neck right now.
She's been, uh, kicking out on me all day here, so I know she's slicker than snot on a chicken's lip.
That's for sure.
They're making great time.
But just around the next corner Hey, you guys northbound here? Ten-four.
Yeah, we got a truck, uh, jackknifed on the hill over here--a tanker.
An 8500 galon tanker has spun out Blocking traffic in both directions.
They'll have to get a grader in, which could take who knows how long.
Who knows where the grader is up here? We could be sitting here for an awful long time.
Could be three hours.
Could be This is bush driving.
This is what happens.
Okay, just come up and have a look and see what you can do.
With the spunout tanker between him and his paycheck, the polar bear takes matters into his own hands.
Is this you? She's slick.
And I could probably pull you straight.
Straighten me out, then I could back down the hill.
Yeah.
Just walk up.
That might be the best.
Well, I'm gonna pull it backwards.
I think it'll make it.
Take the trailer brakes off and leave the truck brakes on.
I just see the back of Hugh's trailer.
I don't know if he pulled him down or not.
[Bleep.]
cool.
Yeah, he got him.
Hey, you betcha.
No problem.
Looks like we, uh, let the road open anyway.
Get after her.
All people come around these corners and they panic and they hit the brakes and that's the worst thing you do.
Hugh and Rick are back on the road But they're not out of the woods yet.
And just wait after this corner here.
Uh-oh.
You [Bleep.]
.
[Horn honks.]
Deep in the Canadian wilderness [Horn honks.]
Uh-oh.
[Bleep.]
Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho! Holy [Bleep.]
.
That guy [Bleep.]
near took me right out.
If I wouldn't have headed for the snowbank, he'd have [bleep.]
-- He was completely jackknifed coming around that corner.
[Bleep.]
me.
He passed my tank.
He was about 3 inches away from my [Bleep.]
tank.
By the time we got straightened out there, he was jackknifed coming around the corner and I was-- I was making a straight run for it, so I just took the snowbank.
I saved it.
If he'd have hit the brakes, he'd have took my tank out.
These roads are, uh, some of the toughest, uh, winter roads in north America here.
They're--they're rough and they're tough.
I'll tell you, they're hardened iron and, yeah, there's an act to driving 'em.
And it's only gonna get worse.
Back on the Dalton Lisa Kelly's 100-foot load of pipe has been nothing but trouble.
I've been trying to fix it, but I had it.
I think I'm gonna try to get it in Coldfoot.
Thanks for noticing.
I imagine it would be hard on tires.
It's trying to go this way and I'm dragging it this way.
You can come around this corner here.
I'm slowin' down for you.
This thing dog-legged so I'm gonna just move over for you.
Constant smack talk from the southbounders is wearing on Lisa's nerves.
I know.
Finally, a passing trucker offers a suggestion.
They are adjustable.
How--how do you do that? Loosen your back straps up and jockey the dolly around a little bit.
Do it on a flat ground.
Okay, maybe I'll give it a shot.
Thank you.
Okay.
Yeah, it's just getting worse and worse and worse.
It's like, "what if all the pipe falls off?" Then I'm [Bleep.]
.
I don't know how it could be getting worse.
Lisa gets into Coldfoot to take another crack at straightening out her load.
Look at it.
It's right here.
That's how far off it is.
It's because you can see how these tires are going this way.
Now it's, like, off from each other.
Stumped, Lisa turns to her fellow drivers.
Did you say that you felt like helping me? 'Cause all I'm doing is just running the portables over.
I'll check it out, man.
Pretty please? He's gonna try to pull my dolly straight for me 'cause I'm having a problem with it.
You can probably just pull forward until you think it's straight.
Okay, I'll give that a try.
I'll just set my brakes.
Okay.
Pull ahead some more just a little bit, then he'll tighten 'em up and then you can let up.
Thank you for your help.
Those portables were not working.
I'll try backing off and see if it moves on me again.
Okay.
Looks pretty straight to me, Lisa.
You know, it does right now.
In the parking lot, it looks straight.
Yeah, it looks good right now.
It's gonna be hard to tell unless--until I'm going down the road.
Uh, but I'm just hoping I don't have to keep doing this.
Northbound long pipe out of Coldfoot.
She'll be able to go down the road straight now with anybody yelling at her.
It's gonna be nice.
Maybe people won't make fun of me anymore.
All right, it looks straight now.
It's just I don't want to have to do it again.
Shaking all over Alex is heading back to Winnipeg after another successful run.
Stay on there, please.
Better watch out.
The wheels will fall off.
Like Hugh and Rick, he's also doing battle with the slick Canadian roads.
This feels damp.
Like, it's warm--getting warm-- and, uh-- so when you drive over, it starts releasing water and immediately get very slippery, eh.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Holy mackerel.
Did I hit him? You okay? Deep in the Canadian bush Alex is on a collision course with a parked car.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Holy mackerel.
Did I hit him? On the slippery winter roads, Alex's trailer skidded out of control You okay? Holy [Bleep.]
.
Holy [Bleep.]
.
And his camera crew took the hit.
You okay? I've been hit.
I thought the trailer got you.
Oh, it got me good.
I thought you were toast, dude.
There's a fire? Just the exhaust.
Just the exhaust? Yeah.
Dude, we got lucky.
Look at my side mirror.
Look at the interior with all the glass.
I got sideswiped by a [Bleep.]
trailer at about [Bleep.]
60.
- How are you? - I'm all right.
Are you okay everywhere else? Yeah, yeah, I'm all right.
Holy [Bleep.]
.
Okay, let's go catch up.
All right.
Ahh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I can't believe that I did that.
Hugh and Rick are closing in on St.
Theresa.
They're hoping to turn and burn back to Winnipeg in time to snag another valuable fuel load but the last ten miles into town Are over a giant frozen lake.
What's this lake again, Hugh? Semmen lake.
Semmen lake.
She's definitely starting to warm up out there.
Just like a baby's ass out here.
Can't even steer.
We're driving on Ice right here, but the snowbanks and beyond hasn't been flooded or built up to take truck traffic.
So I go right through the corner and end up off the road, there's a good chance you're gonna go through.
And I pulled a guy off the hill there who spun out with a tanker.
Pulled him straight.
Got him out of there and we still made it up here.
People were saying it was taking 16 hours.
We've been hammered down.
We still made it up here-- In about 12 hours, we made it.
We're laughing.
For the grateful citizens of St.
Theresa, a crucial lifeline is restored.
This is for the community.
It's gas and fuel oil.
We don't have to go across on the other island just to get-- just to get gas.
And for Hugh and Rick The fuel tankers are money in the bank.
Now we're just heading back into town and get a load up and get another one and then we got an identical load to go right back to the same place, which will be good.
Hopefully we'll be back tomorrow and go again.
So that's what I call dashing for the cash.
Makes the season all worthwhile.
Back in Alaska No, nobody buying it.
Tony and Maya have arrived at the abandoned loads.
Little bit of oil on there.
It's really cold.
Instead of using grease, we use a little bit of oil on these.
All right, here we come.
Feels good to get some exercise after a few days.
Well, these reels are all nice - And chained tight.
- Rock and roll.
That went really well.
We all got in there, got hooked up really quickly.
Just hightailed it out of there.
We're on our way.
It's a really busy time right now, you know? No time to just, um, slow down at all, you know? Just got to keep stuff moving.
As Tony and Maya head back to Prudhoe to cash in on their bonus loads [Bleep.]
you too, you [Bleep.]
.
Dave Redmon's backhaul is still stalled out.
Hopefully I got it.
The air worked out of it.
Now I got to get this thing screwed back down so we can get the hell out of here.
The truck is only pulling fuel from one of the tanks.
So Dave spent the last hour manually pumping fuel to the working tank.
This truck is wearing on my last [Bleep.]
nerve.
So tired of this truck.
I shouldn't have to keep, you know, doing this [Bleep.]
.
I mean, this is just getting borderline ridiculous now.
Pathetic.
After a frustrating backhaul Dave finally reaches the Carlile headquarters in Fairbanks.
Well, I made it back to Fairbanks with my brand-new trailer and my backhaul.
So let's go ahead and get this dropped.
I'll turn in my paperwork.
Yeah, I'ma go drop my truck off at the shop and see if I can get some things fixed on it.
Maybe keep working tomorrow.
I'll just have to see, you know? It's just always something with this thing.
South of Prudhoe Bay This is definitely one of those anything-can-happen nights.
Lisa's 100-foot load of long pipe is giving her all she can handle.
It's gonna be a long night.
We're not gonna be getting there till really late.
Yeah, go ahead.
You need to find a spot to pull over rapidly, safely.
Why? You are missing two rear duals.
I am? of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska You need to find a spot to pull over rapidly, safely.
Why? You are missing two rear duals.
I am? Yes, ma'am.
Left-hand side, your rear set of duals is completely missing, tires, rims, and all.
- How did that happen? - I have no idea.
I'm just sitting here looking at a mostly bare hub.
Okay.
Let's check this out.
How in the-- well, we were coming up on you here and I just noticed something wasn't right.
Every freaking bolt-- Luckily, fellow trucker Carl Reynolds spotted the missing tires before the entire axle collapsed.
Got a way to tie this thing? I'm gonn-- you got to wait a second.
I don't know how you get it up.
You're gonna have to put a strap from here-- a strap or a chain? Or chain.
Well, we're gonna take and Jack this axle up.
And this is broke.
So that at least the other side will ride level And not create a situation where it'll burn the bearings up on the other side and leave us without a rear axle whatsoever.
Man.
You don't think that it's 'cause it was crooked all day that it wore it off.
Driving 400 miles with a crooked trailer finally caught up with her.
I imagine it would be hard on tires.
But for now, all Lisa can do is try to lockdown the axle and hope for the best.
Ooh.
Yeah, it makes me nervous when they do that too.
Little sketchy, huh? All right, Lisa, here.
Ready? I think that's pretty-- pretty stinking close.
Get this more jacked up if you can.
She won't be able to go too fast, but we'll still be able to make it and make it safely.
All right, everybody look out.
You watch yourself too.
As good as it's gon' get.
It's sitting--it's still sitting kind of low, but Jeez.
Well, I guess This will get you in.
You hang out behind me and-- we're gon' stay behind you.
It's just so weird, 'cause there was, like, absolutely no warning that it was coming.
No sounds or anything? It's just gone.
No sounds, no weird movements, no duals.
That's really weird.
You would have thought that you'd have felt them tires coming off.
And you would have seen it wiggling around or something.
Yeah, you'd have thought.
Nothing.
Come on, let's get on down the road.
All right, yeah, let's get out of here.
All righty.
Trying to get on--be on the radio.
This is southbound.
It's disastrous.
I was hoping the rest of the trip could go good.
How do you just, like, lose tires with no warning? Thank you, guys.
Have a good trip.
Okay, I'm gonna go.
IT's the first time tires have fallen offEver! Lisa, if I hadn't come up on you, I wouldn't have noticed too.
Well, I'm glad you did, because I don't know what I would have done if I lost all the other ones too.
Holy crap.
Would not have been fun, that's for sure.
I'm just gonna try not to rally over bumps then.
I hear you there.
No problem with that.
It's like, "follow Lisa.
Stay tuned to see what happens next.
" With 15 tons of pipe hanging on by a thread, Lisa crawls to the finish line.
I am gonna deliver this load.
We're getting to Prudhoe.
Means we're finally making it after all that's happened today.
I'm gonna be so glad to get this pipe off of this truck.
I'm gonna park and everything's gonna go Two seconds after I stop.
There's your pipe.
Figure it out.
I'm leaving.
We made it Barely.
We made it.
What a pain-in-the-butt load.
I'm taking a picture.
Tell you one thing.
I'm tired and ready for bed.
That's how this load makes me feel.
I'm good.
Good night.
Good riddance.
The long pipe delivery puts Lisa at 12 loads for the season, while Dave has raced to the top of the board with 13 loads.
The next morning, Dave arrives at dispatch still steaming about his broken truck.
What's going on, Dave? Not much.
Got more issues-- More [Bleep.]
with the truck? [Bleep.]
it's everything.
But Dave's rig isn't what's troubling the Carlile brass.
The only thing that I'm wondering is what's going on, 'cause you were supposed to-- no, I didn't think we were supposed to follow anybody.
I thought we were free.
So is that what's-- you must not have gotten that message, did you? - No.
- Okay.
Two days ago, Dave left with a convoy and he was expected to stay with them.
That was Lane's orders.
I've been in communication on and off with Lane all day, and Lane's gonna have you wait until he gets back on Thursday to roll.
Okay.
I mean, you can check in with me tomorrow and see what's going on.
But otherwise, we'll wait for Lane to get back, and-- All right.
- All right, sounds good.
- All right, Thursday.
- All right, talk to you later.
- Yeah.
Dave's hard-charging style may have him in the load count lead, but it's also put him in hot water with the boys in the office.
Yeah, you know, I spent my weeks following people and going through all the training [Bleep.]
that they have here.
You know what? I'm tired of following people.
While Dave stews Barbecue time.
Hope you brought an appetite.
Oh, that is so awesome.
I only eat truck-stop food when I absolutely have to.
Otherwise, I'm cooking.
Yeah, I've never had moose before, so.
Yeah? It's not a popsicle.
Not bad for a dead moose.
That's really, really good.
I love it.
Let me see your gloves.
It's a little frozen, but-- never ate finger food with gloves before.
While one rookie celebrates a job well done, the other's worried he may not have a job at all.
And I guess I'm off for the day tomorrow, because I got in trouble.
So, uh, I'm on the list.
So I'll have to [Bleep.]
out that fire out come Thursday.
I may not be going back at all.
May get fired.
Next, on Ice Road Truckers She's so far behind, you thinks she's ahead.
An old rivalry heats up the Canadian ice roads.
No more Mr.
nice guy.
Oh, Hugh and Rick are gonna have to be rabbits now to catch up.
Lisa ups the ante This is our biggest one ever.
We're all over the road.
Every car is an obstacle.
And Dave's comeback These big trucks hope they don't snatch your mirror off when they go by.
May be over Holy [Bleep.]
! Before it begins.
Hugh and Rick are out of control Watch out! Oh, no! Dave is on the edge So [Bleep.]
sick of this thing.
May get fired.
And hauling a It, like, keeps moving around on me.
Whoa.
Lisa faces disaster.
4A.
M.
Winnipeg, Canada.
Morning! How's it going, buddy? Good.
How are you? Right on.
Good.
Thanks for coming up so early here.
Hugh rowland and Rick Yemm load up a set of fuel tanks bound for the remote outpost of St.
Theresa.
Turn and burn.
We got 19 we got to deliver.
So you guys get up there as fast as you can.
We're trying to get more diesel tanks to the communities so they can store up.
The more diesel fuel they can save up during the ice roads, the better situation they are come December, November when they're waiting for the roads to open up.
The daring duo just finished an exhausting run That pushed Rick over the edge.
Hey, you mother[Bleep.]
, you ever [Bleep.]
slam my-- [bleep.]
hit my truck like that again, I'll [Bleep.]
kill ya! Don't be [Bleep.]
taking it out on my [Bleep.]
truck! Bring it down.
I'll [Bleep.]
Smash your [Bleep.]
Face.
Bring it on.
Bring it on.
But hauling these fuel tanks means big money, and Rick's gotten a second wind.
It's been a bit of a struggle, this one, this whole season with, uh--of doing it and stuff, and I've actually been doing really well.
Like, I'm making a lot of money here.
Loads are really starting to come in quick now, so we're just gonna have to pick it up.
And, uh, when I go home and I'm completely beat, I'll know I did everything I could.
If I go home and I still got energy, I didn't work hard enough.
- Hugh, you're good? - You betcha.
We're getting on the way here.
She's pretty slick out there, but we got a few hills there.
We got underwear hill we're gonna have to deal with today there.
There's a whole bunch of fresh underwear on underwear hill.
Yep.
- Even some panties.
- Ooh, some panties.
They're heading into a section of hairpin turns That Rick is all too familiar with.
That's--that's my corner.
That's where I rubbed the siding off a shack there.
What the [Bleep.]
hell? Ricky, Ricky, Ricky.
This is it--the technical part of the rally course.
Like you gotta be right on your toes all the time.
Spinnin' out.
Holy [Bleep.]
.
I couldn't stop here if I wanted to.
Pretty slick out there right now.
The sun's up and it's a beautiful day, so.
Gonna test our skills going around these corners.
Well, with all the truck traffic, it polishes these roads up pretty good.
Come on! Turn! Turn! Turn! She's greasy in the corners.
We got a couple of good kick-outs with the old tractor there.
You could meet a guy in a corner and you're sliding and he's sliding and it's not like you'd hit the brakes and stop.
You're gonna hit each other, so.
It's, uh-- two big trucks hitting each other is, uh, never a good thing.
Lots of carnage when that happens.
Watch out! Oh, no! Uh-oh.
While Hugh and Rick brave the slick roads of Canada, in Fairbanks, Alaska, Lisa Kelly reports for a challenge of her own.
Well, I hope you got your supplies replenished, 'cause we got plenty of trucking to do.
Oh, yeah.
I'm ready to go trucking.
Today, you have a load of long pipe.
Okay.
Have fun with it.
Oh, I'll be fine.
I'll just go slow and easy.
They don't call it long pipe for nothing.
These massive pipes that connect the oil fields to the Alaskan pipeline are one of the longest loads to hit the haul road.
This is our long pipe right here.
I think it's about 90 feet.
80-90 feet.
I'm 100 feet total bumper-to-bumper.
The challenges of hauling this long pipe is that it's so long.
It doesn't take corners very well.
This pipe sits on this dolly.
It's a pipe dolly and there's no trailer.
So the pipe basically is my trailer.
19 and Carlile.
Okay, that works.
Lisa will rely on pilot car driver Christine Dennis to help get her All right, I'm gonna get my log book in shape and then be ready to roll at 8:00, so.
All right.
All right.
My fisheye mirrors today.
Just started getting used to how this thing works.
It'll be a little bit easier.
All right, you got traffic coming by on your right.
The time is not as bad as I thought it was gonna be.
It's all about the pilot car.
Ten-four.
24 mile.
I'm about ready to go around this 35-mile-an-hour corner.
Ten-four.
It's all clear for you.
I'm going through this next 35 and I'll let you know if it's clear.
I've always wanted to haul a pipe on a pipe dolly.
So it's kind of one of those dreams-come-true thing.
So it always feels good to check stuff off the checklist.
But just a few miles into the trip Lisa's pipe dolly is swinging out into the other lane.
Does it look like I'm driving sideways? Yeah, just a little bit.
Yeah, this thing tracks so bad to the driver's side.
So, like, when I'm, like, in the middle here, my trailer's in the other lane.
Yep, ten-four.
It, like, keeps moving around on me.
I'm gonna need the whole-- the whole road.
I can't be meeting anyone, like, in these With the pipe dolly crossing the center line on every turn Lisa's worried that her extra-long load could smash into an oncoming truck.
If a corner ain't wide enough and I meet someone in a corner, my, uh, back of the trailer's gonna hit 'em.
Shoot! Whoa! Fairbanks, Alaska Shoot! Whoa! Holy crap.
Damn.
I'm definitely gonna stick to my side though just in case, you know? With the pipe dolly swinging out of control, Lisa pulls over to try to bring the I think what we are trying to do is loosen the straps on the back.
I was just gonna try to, like, jackknife into it a little bit.
I'm trying to point the truck in the same direction the dolly's pointing and then tightening it, 'cause the way I had it, it's gonna be exactly where it was.
Lisa's plan is to loosen the straps on the pipe, then realign the dolly.
I'll give it a shot.
But the load doesn't budge.
Probably just making it more crooked than ever.
This is not working.
'Cause that right there is exactly how I don't want it.
Nothing makes sense.
I don't get it.
It's not doing anything No matter how I move this thing.
I just--I really don't know.
But I don't know what else to do about it.
We haven't pushed anybody off the road yet, so we're doing good.
With the load still not aligned Lisa decides to roll the dice and keep driving.
All right, we'll give it a shot.
And Lisa needs all the good luck she can get.
Come here.
Come here.
Come on.
Here you go, buddy.
I got another piece for you.
Been saving that for him.
Well, no, okay, now come here.
Come here and get this piece now.
Come on.
Get this piece too.
There you go.
All right, see you later, bro.
There you go.
Shoo-shoo, shoo-shoo.
Have your bread.
Let's go, pal.
I gave him my old bread.
I've been saving that bread for him.
All right, let's try this.
I don't even know if it did it or not.
Might have to do it again.
the Coldfoot truck stop Yeah, we're gonna get this backhaul delivered to Fairbanks and, uh, looks like everybody had to bobtail down here today.
Yeah, that's Tony and Maya sitting over there.
Yeah, that's pretty funny that, uh, I was the first one up there and got a load and, you know, they had to bobtail back.
Yesterday Dave broke a basic rule of the road Ditching his convoy partners halfway through the run.
We're just gonna worry about ourselves today, get the hell out of here, get our butts down to Fairbanks, get another load and get moving again, try to put a dent in this load count.
I'm not gonna wave at 'em.
Just gonna drive on by.
Brrr.
Truck drivers are supposed to sticktogether.
They're supposed to work together.
They're supposed to respect each other.
There was a total lack of respect when he was following me.
I'm not gonna do anymore with this Dave guy.
I'm not gonna do it.
Dave may have claimed the only backhaul, but Tony and Maya have hustled up a job of their own.
They got some long pipe to pick up and I know there's a load of reels sitting there too.
What do you think about grabbing those and going back north? Yeah, sounds good.
I'm ready to go.
While Tony and Maya roll north Dave's backhaul has already hit a snag.
Damn it! The truck is just real sluggish on the hills.
It just don't want to pull.
And I've got a boost gauge that, uh, tells me how much turbo pressure I'm putting out and it's just not putting out nothing or it's spooling up so slow.
I mean, that thing should come up quick and it's not coming up at all.
When Dave hits the turbo boost, the engine doesn't respond.
Next pull-out, I'm gonna stop, check fuel and make sure I got fuel in the tanks and-- I checked it this morning, but that was a couple hours ago, so we're gonna stop and look at some things and make sure-- see, it's just dead right there.
Absolutely [Bleep.]
dead.
Like, we're out of fuel again.
[Bleep.]
damn it! That's it.
We just died.
Aw, this piece of [Bleep.]
has died again.
See, this [Bleep.]
tank is full.
We absolutely can't be sitting here.
It's a [Bleep.]
hunk of [Bleep.]
truck.
So [Bleep.]
sick of this thing.
This fuel tank is dry again! Dave'e's truck is only pulling from the driver's side fuel tank.
He's still got a full tank on the other side, but the truck's acting like it's out of gas.
When it won't draw from both tanks, it draws from the closest tank.
And it drew that son of a [bleep.]
dry.
It won't take anything out of this one.
And with his former convoy partners headed the other direction, Dave is on his own.
[Bleep.]
hunk of [Bleep.]
.
Will not pull from my driver-side tank for some reason.
I'm on an uphill this time and I can't bump it to get it going, so I have to rely on the batteries to start it.
And hopefully I can get this piece of [Bleep.]
started in a couple of minutes.
Back on the slick Canadian ice Woo-hoo! Hugh and Rick are struggling to keep their rigs on the road and their 25-ton fuel tanks on their trailers.
It's pretty [Bleep.]
rough and it's slippery.
Every drip I get a little stiffer and a little stiffer and a little stiffer.
Yeah, ten-four.
Unfortunately, I can't go into the shop and get patched up like this truck can.
It'd be good if a guy could.
I could use a new neck right now.
She's been, uh, kicking out on me all day here, so I know she's slicker than snot on a chicken's lip.
That's for sure.
They're making great time.
But just around the next corner Hey, you guys northbound here? Ten-four.
Yeah, we got a truck, uh, jackknifed on the hill over here--a tanker.
An 8500 galon tanker has spun out Blocking traffic in both directions.
They'll have to get a grader in, which could take who knows how long.
Who knows where the grader is up here? We could be sitting here for an awful long time.
Could be three hours.
Could be This is bush driving.
This is what happens.
Okay, just come up and have a look and see what you can do.
With the spunout tanker between him and his paycheck, the polar bear takes matters into his own hands.
Is this you? She's slick.
And I could probably pull you straight.
Straighten me out, then I could back down the hill.
Yeah.
Just walk up.
That might be the best.
Well, I'm gonna pull it backwards.
I think it'll make it.
Take the trailer brakes off and leave the truck brakes on.
I just see the back of Hugh's trailer.
I don't know if he pulled him down or not.
[Bleep.]
cool.
Yeah, he got him.
Hey, you betcha.
No problem.
Looks like we, uh, let the road open anyway.
Get after her.
All people come around these corners and they panic and they hit the brakes and that's the worst thing you do.
Hugh and Rick are back on the road But they're not out of the woods yet.
And just wait after this corner here.
Uh-oh.
You [Bleep.]
.
[Horn honks.]
Deep in the Canadian wilderness [Horn honks.]
Uh-oh.
[Bleep.]
Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho! Holy [Bleep.]
.
That guy [Bleep.]
near took me right out.
If I wouldn't have headed for the snowbank, he'd have [bleep.]
-- He was completely jackknifed coming around that corner.
[Bleep.]
me.
He passed my tank.
He was about 3 inches away from my [Bleep.]
tank.
By the time we got straightened out there, he was jackknifed coming around the corner and I was-- I was making a straight run for it, so I just took the snowbank.
I saved it.
If he'd have hit the brakes, he'd have took my tank out.
These roads are, uh, some of the toughest, uh, winter roads in north America here.
They're--they're rough and they're tough.
I'll tell you, they're hardened iron and, yeah, there's an act to driving 'em.
And it's only gonna get worse.
Back on the Dalton Lisa Kelly's 100-foot load of pipe has been nothing but trouble.
I've been trying to fix it, but I had it.
I think I'm gonna try to get it in Coldfoot.
Thanks for noticing.
I imagine it would be hard on tires.
It's trying to go this way and I'm dragging it this way.
You can come around this corner here.
I'm slowin' down for you.
This thing dog-legged so I'm gonna just move over for you.
Constant smack talk from the southbounders is wearing on Lisa's nerves.
I know.
Finally, a passing trucker offers a suggestion.
They are adjustable.
How--how do you do that? Loosen your back straps up and jockey the dolly around a little bit.
Do it on a flat ground.
Okay, maybe I'll give it a shot.
Thank you.
Okay.
Yeah, it's just getting worse and worse and worse.
It's like, "what if all the pipe falls off?" Then I'm [Bleep.]
.
I don't know how it could be getting worse.
Lisa gets into Coldfoot to take another crack at straightening out her load.
Look at it.
It's right here.
That's how far off it is.
It's because you can see how these tires are going this way.
Now it's, like, off from each other.
Stumped, Lisa turns to her fellow drivers.
Did you say that you felt like helping me? 'Cause all I'm doing is just running the portables over.
I'll check it out, man.
Pretty please? He's gonna try to pull my dolly straight for me 'cause I'm having a problem with it.
You can probably just pull forward until you think it's straight.
Okay, I'll give that a try.
I'll just set my brakes.
Okay.
Pull ahead some more just a little bit, then he'll tighten 'em up and then you can let up.
Thank you for your help.
Those portables were not working.
I'll try backing off and see if it moves on me again.
Okay.
Looks pretty straight to me, Lisa.
You know, it does right now.
In the parking lot, it looks straight.
Yeah, it looks good right now.
It's gonna be hard to tell unless--until I'm going down the road.
Uh, but I'm just hoping I don't have to keep doing this.
Northbound long pipe out of Coldfoot.
She'll be able to go down the road straight now with anybody yelling at her.
It's gonna be nice.
Maybe people won't make fun of me anymore.
All right, it looks straight now.
It's just I don't want to have to do it again.
Shaking all over Alex is heading back to Winnipeg after another successful run.
Stay on there, please.
Better watch out.
The wheels will fall off.
Like Hugh and Rick, he's also doing battle with the slick Canadian roads.
This feels damp.
Like, it's warm--getting warm-- and, uh-- so when you drive over, it starts releasing water and immediately get very slippery, eh.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Holy mackerel.
Did I hit him? You okay? Deep in the Canadian bush Alex is on a collision course with a parked car.
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Holy mackerel.
Did I hit him? On the slippery winter roads, Alex's trailer skidded out of control You okay? Holy [Bleep.]
.
Holy [Bleep.]
.
And his camera crew took the hit.
You okay? I've been hit.
I thought the trailer got you.
Oh, it got me good.
I thought you were toast, dude.
There's a fire? Just the exhaust.
Just the exhaust? Yeah.
Dude, we got lucky.
Look at my side mirror.
Look at the interior with all the glass.
I got sideswiped by a [Bleep.]
trailer at about [Bleep.]
60.
- How are you? - I'm all right.
Are you okay everywhere else? Yeah, yeah, I'm all right.
Holy [Bleep.]
.
Okay, let's go catch up.
All right.
Ahh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I can't believe that I did that.
Hugh and Rick are closing in on St.
Theresa.
They're hoping to turn and burn back to Winnipeg in time to snag another valuable fuel load but the last ten miles into town Are over a giant frozen lake.
What's this lake again, Hugh? Semmen lake.
Semmen lake.
She's definitely starting to warm up out there.
Just like a baby's ass out here.
Can't even steer.
We're driving on Ice right here, but the snowbanks and beyond hasn't been flooded or built up to take truck traffic.
So I go right through the corner and end up off the road, there's a good chance you're gonna go through.
And I pulled a guy off the hill there who spun out with a tanker.
Pulled him straight.
Got him out of there and we still made it up here.
People were saying it was taking 16 hours.
We've been hammered down.
We still made it up here-- In about 12 hours, we made it.
We're laughing.
For the grateful citizens of St.
Theresa, a crucial lifeline is restored.
This is for the community.
It's gas and fuel oil.
We don't have to go across on the other island just to get-- just to get gas.
And for Hugh and Rick The fuel tankers are money in the bank.
Now we're just heading back into town and get a load up and get another one and then we got an identical load to go right back to the same place, which will be good.
Hopefully we'll be back tomorrow and go again.
So that's what I call dashing for the cash.
Makes the season all worthwhile.
Back in Alaska No, nobody buying it.
Tony and Maya have arrived at the abandoned loads.
Little bit of oil on there.
It's really cold.
Instead of using grease, we use a little bit of oil on these.
All right, here we come.
Feels good to get some exercise after a few days.
Well, these reels are all nice - And chained tight.
- Rock and roll.
That went really well.
We all got in there, got hooked up really quickly.
Just hightailed it out of there.
We're on our way.
It's a really busy time right now, you know? No time to just, um, slow down at all, you know? Just got to keep stuff moving.
As Tony and Maya head back to Prudhoe to cash in on their bonus loads [Bleep.]
you too, you [Bleep.]
.
Dave Redmon's backhaul is still stalled out.
Hopefully I got it.
The air worked out of it.
Now I got to get this thing screwed back down so we can get the hell out of here.
The truck is only pulling fuel from one of the tanks.
So Dave spent the last hour manually pumping fuel to the working tank.
This truck is wearing on my last [Bleep.]
nerve.
So tired of this truck.
I shouldn't have to keep, you know, doing this [Bleep.]
.
I mean, this is just getting borderline ridiculous now.
Pathetic.
After a frustrating backhaul Dave finally reaches the Carlile headquarters in Fairbanks.
Well, I made it back to Fairbanks with my brand-new trailer and my backhaul.
So let's go ahead and get this dropped.
I'll turn in my paperwork.
Yeah, I'ma go drop my truck off at the shop and see if I can get some things fixed on it.
Maybe keep working tomorrow.
I'll just have to see, you know? It's just always something with this thing.
South of Prudhoe Bay This is definitely one of those anything-can-happen nights.
Lisa's 100-foot load of long pipe is giving her all she can handle.
It's gonna be a long night.
We're not gonna be getting there till really late.
Yeah, go ahead.
You need to find a spot to pull over rapidly, safely.
Why? You are missing two rear duals.
I am? of Prudhoe Bay, Alaska You need to find a spot to pull over rapidly, safely.
Why? You are missing two rear duals.
I am? Yes, ma'am.
Left-hand side, your rear set of duals is completely missing, tires, rims, and all.
- How did that happen? - I have no idea.
I'm just sitting here looking at a mostly bare hub.
Okay.
Let's check this out.
How in the-- well, we were coming up on you here and I just noticed something wasn't right.
Every freaking bolt-- Luckily, fellow trucker Carl Reynolds spotted the missing tires before the entire axle collapsed.
Got a way to tie this thing? I'm gonn-- you got to wait a second.
I don't know how you get it up.
You're gonna have to put a strap from here-- a strap or a chain? Or chain.
Well, we're gonna take and Jack this axle up.
And this is broke.
So that at least the other side will ride level And not create a situation where it'll burn the bearings up on the other side and leave us without a rear axle whatsoever.
Man.
You don't think that it's 'cause it was crooked all day that it wore it off.
Driving 400 miles with a crooked trailer finally caught up with her.
I imagine it would be hard on tires.
But for now, all Lisa can do is try to lockdown the axle and hope for the best.
Ooh.
Yeah, it makes me nervous when they do that too.
Little sketchy, huh? All right, Lisa, here.
Ready? I think that's pretty-- pretty stinking close.
Get this more jacked up if you can.
She won't be able to go too fast, but we'll still be able to make it and make it safely.
All right, everybody look out.
You watch yourself too.
As good as it's gon' get.
It's sitting--it's still sitting kind of low, but Jeez.
Well, I guess This will get you in.
You hang out behind me and-- we're gon' stay behind you.
It's just so weird, 'cause there was, like, absolutely no warning that it was coming.
No sounds or anything? It's just gone.
No sounds, no weird movements, no duals.
That's really weird.
You would have thought that you'd have felt them tires coming off.
And you would have seen it wiggling around or something.
Yeah, you'd have thought.
Nothing.
Come on, let's get on down the road.
All right, yeah, let's get out of here.
All righty.
Trying to get on--be on the radio.
This is southbound.
It's disastrous.
I was hoping the rest of the trip could go good.
How do you just, like, lose tires with no warning? Thank you, guys.
Have a good trip.
Okay, I'm gonna go.
IT's the first time tires have fallen offEver! Lisa, if I hadn't come up on you, I wouldn't have noticed too.
Well, I'm glad you did, because I don't know what I would have done if I lost all the other ones too.
Holy crap.
Would not have been fun, that's for sure.
I'm just gonna try not to rally over bumps then.
I hear you there.
No problem with that.
It's like, "follow Lisa.
Stay tuned to see what happens next.
" With 15 tons of pipe hanging on by a thread, Lisa crawls to the finish line.
I am gonna deliver this load.
We're getting to Prudhoe.
Means we're finally making it after all that's happened today.
I'm gonna be so glad to get this pipe off of this truck.
I'm gonna park and everything's gonna go Two seconds after I stop.
There's your pipe.
Figure it out.
I'm leaving.
We made it Barely.
We made it.
What a pain-in-the-butt load.
I'm taking a picture.
Tell you one thing.
I'm tired and ready for bed.
That's how this load makes me feel.
I'm good.
Good night.
Good riddance.
The long pipe delivery puts Lisa at 12 loads for the season, while Dave has raced to the top of the board with 13 loads.
The next morning, Dave arrives at dispatch still steaming about his broken truck.
What's going on, Dave? Not much.
Got more issues-- More [Bleep.]
with the truck? [Bleep.]
it's everything.
But Dave's rig isn't what's troubling the Carlile brass.
The only thing that I'm wondering is what's going on, 'cause you were supposed to-- no, I didn't think we were supposed to follow anybody.
I thought we were free.
So is that what's-- you must not have gotten that message, did you? - No.
- Okay.
Two days ago, Dave left with a convoy and he was expected to stay with them.
That was Lane's orders.
I've been in communication on and off with Lane all day, and Lane's gonna have you wait until he gets back on Thursday to roll.
Okay.
I mean, you can check in with me tomorrow and see what's going on.
But otherwise, we'll wait for Lane to get back, and-- All right.
- All right, sounds good.
- All right, Thursday.
- All right, talk to you later.
- Yeah.
Dave's hard-charging style may have him in the load count lead, but it's also put him in hot water with the boys in the office.
Yeah, you know, I spent my weeks following people and going through all the training [Bleep.]
that they have here.
You know what? I'm tired of following people.
While Dave stews Barbecue time.
Hope you brought an appetite.
Oh, that is so awesome.
I only eat truck-stop food when I absolutely have to.
Otherwise, I'm cooking.
Yeah, I've never had moose before, so.
Yeah? It's not a popsicle.
Not bad for a dead moose.
That's really, really good.
I love it.
Let me see your gloves.
It's a little frozen, but-- never ate finger food with gloves before.
While one rookie celebrates a job well done, the other's worried he may not have a job at all.
And I guess I'm off for the day tomorrow, because I got in trouble.
So, uh, I'm on the list.
So I'll have to [Bleep.]
out that fire out come Thursday.
I may not be going back at all.
May get fired.
Next, on Ice Road Truckers She's so far behind, you thinks she's ahead.
An old rivalry heats up the Canadian ice roads.
No more Mr.
nice guy.
Oh, Hugh and Rick are gonna have to be rabbits now to catch up.
Lisa ups the ante This is our biggest one ever.
We're all over the road.
Every car is an obstacle.
And Dave's comeback These big trucks hope they don't snatch your mirror off when they go by.
May be over Holy [Bleep.]
! Before it begins.