It's time to dismantle the Mallik Research site and are now racing against time to beat the ice road melt. Hugh is put in charge of training a new trucker, Isaac Lenny, who is scheduled for a driving test in just a few days. And it's a bad omen when Issac makes a mistake on his first day. A truck in Rick's convoy has broken down and now the driver must decide whether to risk freezing while walking and abandoning his truck or stay with it. Drew embarks on a box-truck run, which may not be as lucrative but is very important since he will be delivering a corrosion inhibitor to the people of Aklavik, a tiny community on the Mackenzie River.
Season 2 Episode 9 of Ice Road Truckers resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
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.