page_title: Ice Road Truckers (season 3)
section_title: Episodes
hierarchical_section_title: Ice Road Truckers (season 3) / Season 3 / Episodes
caption_attribution_description: English: Dalton Highway, Alaska
context_page_description: This is a list of Ice Road Truckers Season 3 episodes.
context_section_description: At the top of the world, there's a job only a few would dare. Last season, the dash for the cash was fought on the smooth playing field of Canada's Arctic ice. This season, two old pros join four of America's bravest truckers to tackle the tundra's deadliest ice passage. Just when you thought extreme trucking couldn't get more dangerous, ice road truckers take on Alaska. These are the men who make their living on thin ice.
  — Thom Beers, opening of the show, season 3
  The season premiered on May 31, 2009. The Dalton Highway (Alaska Route 11) serves as the only road link between Alaska's populated areas down south and the oil rigs of the arctic north, to bring supplies nearly 500 mi (800 km) from Fairbanks to the Prudhoe Bay Oil Fields and offshore rigs. However, the combination of avalanches, strong Arctic winds leading to whiteouts, and unforgiving terrain has led to hundreds of accidents in the past years. Two thousand loads must be moved up the road within 12 weeks, before the ice melts on the Arctic Ocean.
  The season finale aired on August 23, 2009.
caption: Truck traffic on the Dalton Highway in 2004.
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