Truck Driving Jobs

Derrick · #1 06-18-2007, 05:10 AM

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 · #2 06-18-2007, 05:25 AM

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

mapleleaf_1 · #3 06-18-2007, 06:07 AM

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 · #4 06-18-2007, 06:45 PM

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

AbenInNashville · #5 06-18-2007, 09:22 PM

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 · #6 06-18-2007, 09:23 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

inmate1577 · #7 06-18-2007, 09:34 PM

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

Malaki86 · #8 06-18-2007, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by inmate1577

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 · #9 06-19-2007, 12:01 AM

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 · #10 06-19-2007, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by 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.

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. :lol: