Warming temperatures are causing overflows all over the ice road, and with water rushing through cracks in the ice, hauling loads just got a lot more dangerous. Jody and Brett take on the challenge of removing the 66-ton derrick from the Langley site. The massive rig will have to be 'two-trucked;' one truck will make the entire journey traveling backwards. Although maintenance crews create a detour around the overflow, Jody and Brett still need the help of a pilot car to navigate their double load along its winding turns. Forced to wait for the pilot car to arrive, the truckers sit with 200,000 pounds of dead weight on weakened ice, with freezing ocean water below. Hugh is hauling one of the only standard-sized loads of the day, so while everyone else is stuck driving at 15 mph, the Polar Bear is running full steam ahead. Unencumbered by speed restrictions, Hugh is trying to use his last few days in the Arctic to secure his reputation as the only Southern driver who has what it takes to make it in the North.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 2 Episode 12 of Ice Road Truckers resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Ice Road Truckers Season 2 Episodes...

• s02e01 - Edge of the Earth
• s02e02 - Mechanical Mayhem
• s02e03 - The Big Blizzard
• s02e04 - Arctic Whiteout
• s02e05 - Lost on the Ice
• s02e06 - Hundred Ton Haul
• s02e07 - Man Down
• s02e08 - A Trucker's Farewell
• s02e09 - A Rookie Fumbles
• s02e10 - Highway Maggots
• s02e11 - Man vs. Ice
• s02e12 - The Big Thaw
• s02e13 - The World Crumbles

Ice Road Truckers Show Summary

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.