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ICE ROAD TRUCKERS is a story of adventure, perseverance, human ingenuity and most importantly DANGER. Every day the truckers hit the ice roads they are taking their lives into their hands. One miscalculation of the road, bad weather or an unseen road hazard can mean the difference between life and death. If a rig breaks through the ice and sinks into the freezing water, the trucker has less then a minute before they will freeze to death. Ice Road Trucking is not for the faint-hearted.

This season, four familiar faces return from last year - hardy ice road veterans Alex & Hugh and Rick & Drew, who did not make it through last year's ice road. This time the show is based in the remote communities of Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk, over 100 north of the Arctic Circle. Two clients, the Mallik Gas Hydrate Research Project and MGM Energy, rely on the short ice road season as the sole supply for their energy ventures. In about two months, or until the ice roads melt, these clients collaborate with three competitive trucking companies who must work together to move hundreds of heavy and oversized loads over frozen river and ocean water through fatally cold and often dangerous storm conditions.

Unlike last season, this time all the drivers are on an even playing field and Hugh is no longer the boss of Rick & Drew. Our returning drivers will now be working under new management and they will have to prove their mettle on unfamiliar and dangerous ice roads. The truckers will be driving on unknown river and ocean ice roads, which have different hazards, constraints and conditions than the lake ice roads that they are well accustomed to.