Ice road truckers

[Derrick]

Series premiere was tonight. The trucker version of Deadliest Catch. Have someone at home tape it if you're on the road weekends.

http://www.history.com/minisites/iceroadtruckers/

[greg3564]

Good show. Those guys are nuts! Wouldn't catch me driving across ice. Not on purpose anyways. :shock:

[mapleleaf_1]

One thing I'd like to know is....Why are they only showing men on the show?? I know for a fact there are women doing the same job up there. Maybe one of the shows coming up will be about the women. I sure hope so, wouldn't be fair if they don't.

[Sealord]

If the first show is the best they have, it's not all that compared to the version the Discovery Channel ran. BOL

[AbenInNashville]

I really liked the show, but I do have one question. Have any of you ever put the truck on Cruise Control and go in the sleeper to get a different coffee cup. That is the nuttiest thing I'd ever seen. I plan on watching it every week.

[greg3564]

I really liked the show, but I do have one question. Have any of you ever put the truck on Cruise Control and go in the sleeper to get a different coffee cup. That is the nuttiest thing I'd ever seen. I plan on watching it every week.

Funny that the same driver ended up putting his truck in the ditch and had to be towed out.

[inmate1577]

Just another driving job. Do it wrong...you die.
But still mildly interesting to watch.

[Malaki86]

Just another driving job. Do it wrong...you die.
But still mildly interesting to watch.

Well, I really hate driving on ice, but at least the ice I drive on is on top of either asphalt or concrete and I won't drop through 75 feet of sub-zero water if it breaks.

[CannedSpam]

Those drivers on the "Ice Road" do not go much faster than 20 MPH. The dangers are greatly exaggerated. I think there has been something like only two people die up there in the last twenty years from driving.

[ben45750]

I really liked the show, but I do have one question. Have any of you ever put the truck on Cruise Control and go in the sleeper to get a different coffee cup. That is the nuttiest thing I'd ever seen. I plan on watching it every week.

Yeah! lol. And the one younger guy was giving him crap about staying out of the ditch, and he even said (acting like a super trucker) "he didn't intend to see ANY ditches". And what happens? Puts it in the ditch.

I won't comment about grabbing something I left in the sleeper while driving with the cruise on.