The drivers are ready for what is forecast to be a cold and busy winter, but the tragic passing of legendary driver Darrell Ward leaves the drivers wondering who can take his place.
Lisa Kelly finds herself in a real jam after jackknifing her truck deep in the back-country; Alex Debogorski gets more than he bargained for when he falls through a patch of thin ice; Todd Dewey comes to the aid of a stranded trucker.
A sudden warm-up threatens to derail the ice road season; Art Burke faces scary and slick roads; Lisa Kelly is forced to ask her former boss for financial help; Alex Debogorski encounters a mystery man walking alone on an isolated winter road.
A blast of arctic air reopens the ice roads; Steph Custance falls victim to severe icing and winds up in a ditch; truckers set out to see if the newly reopened ice crossings are really ready for their big rigs.
Polar Industries must deliver an oversized load hundreds of miles north on the winter roads; owner Mark Koyhaykewych recruits Lisa Kelly, then calls in Reno Ward, the 23-year-old son of the late Darrell Ward; a blizzard adds a new layer of danger.
A small convoy heads out with an oversized load; Lisa Kelly and Reno Ward's skills are tested by the treacherous journey; Art Burke attempts to navigate an ice road over a frozen lake; Alex Debogorski stops to help a stranded trucker.
Reno Ward has a disastrous encounter with a speeding pick-up truck; Lisa Kelly attempts to rescue Reno but is forced to leave him to fend for himself; Art Burke attempts to deliver a Zamboni to save an isolated community's hockey season.
Lisa Kelly and Steph Custance team up for a challenging passage on the icy terrain; Art Burke brings a split load into the north country, hoping this will be his last load of the year; Todd Dewey hauls a double oversized camp shack.
Drivers head out one last time during the spring thaw; Steph Custance slides into trees; Todd Dewey struggles with a load on a twisty trail; Art Burke retrieves a heavy bulldozer; Reno Ward's truck dies on the ice; Lisa Kelly gets an emergency call.
Experts predict one of the shortest and warmest winters on record; as a result, companies risk financial ruin and communities face deprivation unless the drivers can deliver vital supplies before their window of opportunity slams shut.
Art Burke crashes his truck into a snowbank; Alex Debogorski makes his return and faces off with an untested crossing; Mark Kohaykewych tests out new driver Steph Custance; Lisa Kelly faces a monster incline; Darrell Ward runs into rival Todd Dewey.
Lisa Kelly finds herself stranded hundreds of miles from the nearest town; Darrell Ward takes an off-road shortcut; Art Burke encounters a melting ice crossing and a full load; Steph Custance finds out whether she'll become part of the Polar team.
Darrell and Lisa head into Alberta and onto a trail nicknamed The Death Road; Art faces off with the ice crossing where he nearly lost his life last season; Todd takes rookie Steph Custance under his wing as she embarks on her first journey.
Rookie Steph Custance tries to complete the first ice road mission of her career; Alex Debogorski runs into a road block as temperatures soar; Art Burke attempts to deliver to a new community; Darrell Ward braves an unregulated winter road.
On her first solo trip, Steph Custance braves one of the longest ice crossings on the map; Darrell Ward attempts a triple delivery in a single day; an engine fire stops Lisa Kelly in her tracks; Todd Dewey celebrates his birthday stuck on a road.
Todd Dewey must fix his truck or find himself stranded a hundred miles from the nearest town; Alex Debogorski confronts a creek in the middle of the road; Art Burke receives bad news; Lisa Kelly battles an ice crossing unlike any she's seen.
As the end of the season nears, Mark Kohaykewych makes a deal with rivals Darrell Ward and Lisa Kelly to join forces for a four-truck convoy; Alex Debogorski must complete one of the longest trails; Art Burke's truck gives out on the ice.
The truckers in the historic four-truck convoy face fire and a thin crossing; after Art Burke's engine dies, he must travel back to Winnipeg with Alex Debogorski over a trail that destroys his truck.
Reigning champ Polar Industries returns, and is looking to maintain its dominance by any means necessary; trucking rival Darrell Ward poaches an ice road legend out from the grips of Polar Industries.
Art Burke has to cross one of the longest winter roads in the world; Todd Dewey, must dig himself out of mountains of fresh snow or risk a dangerous night in freezing temperatures.
Todd goes on a risky run to deliver the heaviest haul in company history; Art's sent on a high stakes rescue mission; Lisa gets an exclusive contract; Darrell steals a load from Polar.
Polar boss Mark Kohaykewych mixes things up when he brings new soldier Mike Simmons into the winter roads battle; Todd Dewey and rival Darrell Ward both hit a newly opened trail.
Polar's top dog Todd Dewey gets into trouble with a government contract; truck problems have Polar driver Art Burke's season headed for the gutter; ice road rookie Mike Simmons has his first solo delivery.
Darrell Ward and Lisa Kelly work to make good on a power play for their young company but could lose it all when Darrell's truck breaks down; Polar driver Todd Dewey has to backtrack hundreds of miles to recover lost freight.
Art Burke attempts to keep his rig above ground on a melting ice crossing; polar driver Alex Debogorski battles his way up a mud covered mountain.
The two rival companies work together to take on the biggest challenge in Ice Road Truckers history, pulling a cat train across the frozen Hudson Bay, but the untested ice shatters under the weight of the heavy haul.
Lisa and Todd struggle to complete their daring joint venture across the frozen Hudson Bay; Darrell braves the most torn up trail remaining on the winter roads; Art must face the last open ice crossing.
With the biggest storm in centuries only a few days away, the truckers race for loads; Art and Todd set out to prove themselves.
The truckers race to deliver their loads while a massive storm approaches; Lisa and Art face a deadly shutdown; Darrell and Todd's feud threatens to rip team Polar apart.
A storm delivers deadly driving conditions as the truckers struggle to deliver their loads.
Darrell and Todd try to get through record breaking snowfall, while the rest of the team fights to survive; despite frigid temperatures the war between VP Express and Polar reaches a boiling point.
The truckers battle a massive storm.
Hugh has a plan to crush the competition; Todd and Lisa are pressured to up their game.
With temperatures on the rise, conditions on the ice roads result in meltdown. The truckers from Polar and VP Express are pushed to the limit, crossing thin ice on their way to deliver critical loads.
Lisa and Todd take on one of the toughest runs of the season; Darrell steals business from his former boss; Alex's trucking season is threatened by a crash.
Darrell's calls in a surprising reinforcement; but can this new team member hack the treacherous ice roads; Hugh has a brush with near disaster.
Polar drivers Lisa, Art and Todd start on an epic journey up the longest seasonal winter road in the world; VP stays closer to home, traveling dangerous roads in a late attempt to boost their load count.
Lisa has to decide help a competitor push further into the arctic unknown or go back to Polar headquarters with her teammates.
Hugh Rowland returns to the winter roads with a grudge and a goal; Mark Kohaykewych enlists some of Hugh's biggest rivals.
VP Express finally delivers their first loads of the season; Art Burke falls behind the bosses on the way back home; Darrell Ward fails to conquer a mammoth incline; Lisa's broken wrist threatens to shut her down.
Hugh and Vlad agree to keep struggling new hire Art Burke aboard; Todd Dewey puts pressure on Art to perform; Lisa races to get off the winter roads and back into the load count battle; Alex Debogorski retraces his steps.
Hugh plans for VP Express are on the verge of falling apart; Art's season takes another bad turn in the wilds of the winter roads; Lisa is put to the test when a dangerous situation threatens her heaviest haul yet.
Hugh's trailer brakes go out; Todd Dewey gets sent on a solo mission behind Hugh; Art must watch the action from the sidelines with his truck in the shop; Darrell has truck problems that delay his trip; Alex is forced to leave a day late.
Hugh steals a driver from Polar Industries; Alex looks to lock in one of Polar's biggest contracts; Mark shows his faith in Lisa when he sends her on a challenging one-day round-trip mission; Art and Todd must complete the longest haul yet.
Alex races to complete one of Polar's most critical hauls of the season; Lisa's forced to stop in the middle of a frozen lake; Darrell's patience with Polar reaches its limit after he fails to receive a promised load.
Art locks horns with Hugh and Vlad; Darrell confronts Mark Kohaykewych; Alex gets stuck on a pressure ridge; Lisa encounters the most treacherous ice crossing of her career.
Lisa, Alex, Art and Darrel attempt to conquer a remote trail; melting roads lead to trouble when Hugh crashes into the ditch. Plus, Hugh makes Lisa an offer she might not be able to refuse.
Hugh drives a fire truck up the rugged route to Wasagamack; Todd struggles with a light load; Alex crashes grill first into the ditch; Darrell and Lisa hit the road with the widest haul of the season; Art is forced to break a cardinal sin.
Polar and VP take on a late season mission to the remote village of God's Lake with every driver joining the massive race.
Alex heads farther north than ever before on the deadly Dempster; Hugh and Rick face an impossible task on the thin ice of Manitoba's winter roads; Jack Jessee returns to lead a pack of hungry new drivers.
Alex drives on the Arctic Ocean; Hugh and Rick search for missing trailers; Jack tries to mentor a young driver.
Alex tries to deliver a load to a village across an icy river delta, Hugh and Rick fight the melting winter roads to deliver their load to Winnipeg.
The biggest storm of the season hits the haul road; a trailer malfunction leaves Jack Jessee in danger; Darrell tries to push through the blinding whiteout; Porkchop visits the boss to answer for career-ending mistake.
Austin spends the night on the north slope after going into the ditch; Darrell gets up early to keep his lead; Alex races south to get another load; Hugh and Rick take on a load of two massive cement trucks.
Rick makes a deadly discovery about his truck; Alex takes on the challenge of hauling an excavator; Jack Jessee is missing in action; Darrell, Porkchop and Austin hammer down to take the lead in the load count.
A massive wreck prompts Darrell to question his reasons for being in Alaska; Porkchop gets his shot to prove himself with a solo run to a remote Alaskan village; Austin finally joins a heavy haul team; Alex faces the Dempster in reverse.
Austin tries to prove himself in a heavy haul convoy; word of Jack Jessee's return gets Darrell Ward on the road early; Porkchop gets an unexpected load; Hugh drafts a ragtag team of drivers into a convoy across the ice.
Alex Debogorski is trusted with a valuable load; the load-count rivalry gets personal; Austin battles his first solo heavy haul of the season.
Alex faces the biggest blizzard of the season; Darrell Ward raises the stakes in his rivalry with Jack Jessee; Porkchop struggles to climb Atigun Pass; Austin is sent out on a heavy haul special assignment.
Rick crashes into a superintendent of the road; Austin is given the toughest challenge of his Dalton career; Porkchop is sent to help Jack get a job done; Darrell Ward fights to stay warm when his truck dies.
Jack rushes to get out of town due to extreme temperatures on the oil fields; Darrell makes a risky decision on one of the Dalton's steepest inclines.
Alex hauls a dangerous load of deadly compressed gasses; Jack gets derailed by a torturous load; Austin meets a trucker stuck on Atigun Pass; Porkchop meets the boss to answer for his performance on the road.
Jack and Darrell make the final run to the village of Nuiqsut; Ray tries to prove he still has what it takes after a breakdown; Alex gambles with an extra large trailer to haul.
An aggressive move by Darrell leaves Jack in the dust; Austin gets another chance to end his season strong; Alex has to cross the ocean with supplies for the village of Tuktoyaktuk; Hugh and Rick return to Winnipeg to cash out.
Lisa's first run goes south in a hurry; two rookies raise the stakes in the dash for the cash; Hugh Alex and Rick Yemm leave Alaska behind to take on some of the most remote and deadliest roads on the planet.
Hugh and Rick roll deeper into the Canadian outback; an overflow may leave Alex stranded; Dave's training run with Tony reaches the boiling point; Lisa goes on a rescue mission; Maya takes her first look at the haul road.
Dave's hot temper may cost him his second and final shot; Maya fights to prove she belongs behind the wheel; Tony visits the scene of the accident that nearly cost him everything; Lisa gets a shot to redeem last year's biggest failure.
Hugh and Rick haul the biggest load ever on the Canadian ice roads; Alex fights a massive oil leak; two Dalton newcomers finally head up the highway; Dave Redmon is finally alone in the truck.
Hugh and Rick deliver the largest load ever trucked on Manitoba's ice roads; Lisa tries to sync up with a new partner; Alex pins up to ten tons of trouble; Dave takes matters into his own hands to make a renegade roadside repair.
Lisa takes on the biggest haul of her career; Maya begins to wonder if she will ever make a solo run; Dave gets a second chance to prove he deserves to be trucking on the Dalton; Hugh, Rick and Alex embark on an epic race.
Rick and Hugh continue their marathon run; Alex comes to the rescue of a local family; Maya gets behind the wheel to take another shot at driving the entire haul road with Dave right behind her; Lisa and Tony continue their heavy-haul convoy.
The season reaches the halfway point; Hugh, Rick and Alex struggle with deliveries to the remote villages of northern Manitoba; the biggest storm of the season descends on the Dalton; Lisa drives her oversize load into the ditch.
Harsh winter weather leaves Lisa stranded in Prudhoe Bay; Dave tests Maya and Tony's patience; Rick's frustration reaches a boiling point and he snaps; Hugh rescue's Rick's truck.
Hugh and Rick face an obstacle that has the ice road blocked; Dave's has fuel tank trouble; Maya and Tony pick up abandoned loads; Lisa's monster load limps into town after losing two wheels.
Hugh and Rick run into Alex and decide to convoy north together; Alex surprises Hugh with a late Christmas present; Lisa and Tony haul record wide loads; Maya gets into trouble on Koyukuk's steep grades.
Dave is at odds again with his bosses; Maya faces freezing brakeline issues; Hugh hauls 30 tons of boulders across Lake Winnipeg; Rick takes the sidelines with truck repairs; Tony and Lisa honor a fallen trucker.
Lisa and Maya help a stranded driver get back on the road; Tony gets a surprise from Carlile; Dave continues his descent into isolation; Hugh and Rick keep up their load count with backhauls; Alex deals with unstable freight.
A polar bear standoff at Prudhoe Bay ties up Carlile's loads at the most crucial time of the season; a veteran trucker's calculated risk puts his life and livelihood in jeopardy; one rookie's sent packing as the other picks up the slack.
Hugh and Rick come across an obstacle that could help Alex take the lead; Maya is dispatched in a convoy with Lisa for her first trip to the village of Nuiqsut; Tony deals with melting ice on the road; Dave boards an airplane destined for Alabama.
The season opens and quickly claims its first victim with a wreck; a trucker breaks through to the isolated town of Bettles; Jack returns to defend his title; Greg want to take him down and has something to prove.
Reigning king Jack Jesse looks to defend his title; Lisa Kelly fights to prove herself in the male dominated profession; Rookie Ray Veilleux comes north to run the road and keep his struggling family afloat.
A phase-three storm hammers Atigun Pass; Alex hits a whiteout coming from Prudhoe; Hugh and Jack hatch a plan to keep the weather from hurting their paychecks; Ray and Lisa make their own plans to keep the loads moving.
Jack rushes to save an Alaskan town with an emergency fuel delivery; Lisa gets her big chance to step up when she's given her first oversize load; Ray takes a night run as a favor for the boss; Alex's trash talk stirs the sleeping Polar Bear.
The pressure on the drivers builds as the temperatures plunge to 55 below; Jack gets into it with a southbound driver; Hugh gets an earful from an American driver; Alex picks up a hitchhiker; Ray takes on Atigun Pass.
Jack is left stranded and helpless by an avalanche; Ray faces Dalton with a premonition of death hanging over his head; Hugh drives on the wrong side of the road over Atigun pass.
Lisa tackles the most dangerous haul of the season, trucking a multi-million dollar, 100 ton load across the entire state of Alaska; Alex races to keep pace in the load count; Greg could be a hero of the road; Ray faces the worst night of his career.
It's chaos on the Dalton when a truck flips off the road and smashes into a tree; Alex is thrust into the turmoil and faces tough questions from state police; a careless mistake may rob Lisa of hard-earned respect; Greg fights for his job.
Jack Jesse must survive the arctic wilderness and cross a frozen river alone to reach the isolated town of Bettles; Lisa Kelly is back in action but the slippery slopes of the Dalton will make her road to redemption a dangerous one.
Dalton rookie Ray Veilleux drives into a trucker's worst nightmare when he's distracted for a second; Lisa roars up the Dalton with an unwieldy bear cage in tow; trouble is heating up for the Polar Bear when he ignores his poorly loaded cargo.
Ray spins out into oncoming big rigs; Jack battles a 200 ton monster haul to Prudhoe; Alex risks a bust by the DOT; Lisa races to raise cash to buy back her horse; Greg drives into mega mechanical problems.
The truckers form a convoy for the first time ever to deliver supplies to Nuiqsut before the road turns back into water.
When a Haul Road legend dies, Ray leads the trucker's son to scatter his ashes; Lisa gets her biggest break yet; Alex discovers Alaskan gold, Jack hauls a highly explosive fuel load; Greg faces the challenge of trucking a mega-reel of pipe.
Alaskan temperatures rise as the deadliest time of the year approaches; the DOT races to stop an overflow that could threaten the Dalton; Jack and Lisa convoy together; Greg and Ray use the buddy system; Hugh gets busted.
The truckers battle to determine this year's King of the Haul Road; tensions between Ray and Greg explode on Atigun; Lisa's possible best season ever is on the line; Jack's hope to repeat as King is in jeopardy; Alex pushes to beat his nemesis.
A new ice road season begins with truckers facing the dangers of moving 6,000 loads of freight from Fairbanks, Alaska, to remote North Slope oil camps 400 miles away within just 12 weeks.
Lisa Kelly faces the hurdles of being female and young, but she wants to prove her worth by making a run in record time; Jack Jesse deals with the perils of hauling a load of 130-foot pipe; rookie Tim Freeman struggles with mechanical problems.
Three weeks into the season Carlile Transportation has only delivered 500 of its 2,000 loads, the clock is ticking and an arctic storm is brewing; Hugh and Alex are joined by safety instructors on their first trip to Prudhoe Bay.
A massive storm brings ice road traffic to a standstill; George Spears, Tim Freeman and Lisa Kelly take shelter at Coldfoot, the only truck stop on the road; Jack Jesse tries to outrun the storm.
Determined not to lose any more time or money, Jack Jesse and Lisa Kelly set out from Fairbanks before plows can clear a freshly fallen foot of snow; the blizzard causes a major collision on an icy hill; two Canadians' first solos.
Lisa tries out for the Heavy Haul division by hauling 80-foot sections of wide-gauge pipe on a 600 mile run; a 500 mile race between Hugh and Alex; Tim's truck breaks down.
Tim and George run into a storm 25 miles from Deadhorse; Lisa is forced to stop in Coldfoot because of the storm; Hugh and his convoy partner have a barbecue in the snow at the top of Atigun Pass.
Everyone pushes to the limit to get freight to Deadhorse before the season ends in three weeks; Lisa rushes to pick up her next load before joining a convoy north with Jack Jesse; Hugh and Alex discover a fellow fierce competitor on the road.
Only two weeks are left for the truckers to make big bucks and deliver all their loads to the oil fields; Hugh Rowland's impatience with trainee driver Phil Kromm nearly causes a disaster; Lisa Kelly braves the Arctic Ocean Ice Road.
The drivers are pushed to their limits when they must shuttle critical supplies to the oil camps of Alaska's North Slope.
The history of ice roads is discussed by John Denison, the man who founded them in Canada's Northwest Territories; how modern technology has changed the way ice roads are built; how trucks are transformed to endure harsh conditions.
As the final 72 hours of the season tick away, George Spears calls it a career; Lisa Kelly makes a harrowing 300-mile run with no brakes; the rivalry between two drivers comes down to the final load; polar bears block the road.
After just two days in the Arctic, the critical demands of the oil exploration sites are testing the limits of the truckers and their machines; mechanical failures threaten to halt operations; Rick has a costly mishap; Drew seeks a job.
Before the first storm of the ice road season strikes, Davey Lennie is called to rescue a stranded trucker; a blizzard makes ice roads impassable and dangerous, shutting down operations; Rick has two accidents in four days.
MGM breaks camp to move everything to a new base, including its 135-foot, $250,000 derrick -- the tallest and most expensive structure in the Arctic; Drew Sherwood's first big rig solo is only to deliver junk food; a storm strikes.
After the storm clears, all the truckers are ready to roll except Rick, who is on the verge of quitting and seeks advice from Hugh; Jerry makes a second attempt at moving the MGM camp with a "two trucking" technique.
After delivering the fragile 135-foot derrick to the MGM exploration site, the truckers must also transport its base, an 80-ton substructure that ranks as the heaviest and most-dangerous load of the season.
Bear and Eric must haul critical equipment to Langley at the same time a polar bear is spotted in the area; Rich is irate about a five-day trip he has been assigned; Alex's health deteriorates and he must be evacuated to a hospital.
Alex receives a grim diagnosis that might mean it's the end of the road for him; Rick threatens to quit if his boss won't let him take time off to see a doctor; the veterans haul the final loads of the rig move.
Scientists are on the verge of breakthrough, but the truckers must race against time to dismantle the Mallik Research site before the ice road melts; Hugh trains new driver Isaac; a truck in Rick's convoy experiences mechanical trouble.
Everyone mobilizes to haul away drilling sites before the ice road melts and they are swallowed up by the Arctic waters; Kurt encounters a convoy of "highway maggots"; a trucker volunteers for a dangerous mission.
The crew breaking down the Langely site races to the finish line as rising temperatures melt the ice road; Hugh's back-heavy load makes it difficult to get traction on the slippery surface; rookie Devon Neff makes his debut run.
Warming temperatures cause cracks and flooding in the ice road, making the truckers' work a lot more dangerous; Jody and Brett take on the challenge of moving a 66-ton derrick; Hugh runs full steam ahead.
Hugh and Eric are neck and neck in their race to claim dominance over the ice road, but time is running out with the ocean waters closing in; the truckers race to remove equipment from the Langley site; an Arctic whiteout threatens operations.
As the pace of the ice road's meltdown quickens, truckers reflect on their first season in the Arctic; some rookies prove to be up to the challenge but others make early exits; highlights and new footage.
Truckers in 18-wheelers carry vital equipment and supplies to miners hundreds of miles away.
Jay hauls a 17-ton water tank to the De Beers diamond mine; the rivalry heats up between Hugh and Rick as they compete for the highest load-count.
Jay Westgard hauls three giant water purifiers to the De Beers Diamond mine.
The truckers make it to the halfway point of the gruelling ice-road season.
Jay Westgard embarks on a trip to the De Beers mine while hauling a 95,000-pound diamond-ore scrubber.
Alex sets out on a new adventure to the Colomac Gold mine.
A backlog of critical supplies must be delivered during an arctic storm.
Alex is part of a last push to get some critical loads up the ice before it is too late.
A speeding truck sideswipes Hugh Rowland on the road; Alex Debogorski pushes the limits to get one more load.
Changes have taken place in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, and the ice roads of the region during the past 75 years.
The truckers look back at their experiences during the last ice road season and explain what they've been doing in the meantime; life in Yellowknife.
The truckers continue to look back on their experiences during the past ice road season and discuss what they are doing now.