After constant wild weather it seems the winter roads want revenge. A big bump in the road takes out Art Burke's radiator and causes a coolant crisis. Todd Dewey put his rig in a deep snow bank while taking on a tight turn and Steph Custance's foray onto a wet ice crossing becomes a true regret. Meanwhile, Alex Debogorski is hauling a construction shack that may be too heavy for the ice, so the veteran trucker uses a steel sled to drag the huge haul across a frozen lake.
At the top of the world, in the coldest parts of North America, there is a whole trucking industry that most people had never heard of. Some communities and industries can only be reached for a few months each year, when rivers or seas freeze over. Ice Road Truckers features the activities of drivers who operate trucks on seasonal routes crossing frozen lakes and rivers in remote arctic territories in Canada and Alaska.
Seasons 1 and 2 are based in Canada's Northwest Territories, first the diamond mines around Yellowknife and then the Mackenzie River ice road from Inuvik. Seasons 3 and 4 move to the USA and focus on Alaska's improved but still remote Dalton Highway, supplying the oilfields in Prudhoe Bay. Seasons 5 and 6 split coverage between Alaska and the winter roads Winnipeg, in Canada's Manitoba, while Alex heads farther north than ever before on the deadly Dempster.
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