Jonny P., Joel Nelson and I were in a local bar up on URL this week and got to listen to a bar patron carry on about how crappy he thought it was that one of the local ice road owners wouldn’t let him drive his one ton diesel pulling a mega-shack out several miles on the ice so he could get fishing.
We found as little as 6″ of ice in some spots on URL the following day. 
People with more money than brains will kill themselves if you let them. This guy owes his truck and shack, and possibly his life, to the “bossy” ice road owner that wouldn’t let him pass.