Ice Road Truckers

[devilsfan]

Any other white trash addicted to this series on the History Channel? This one should be right up your alley, CP. You'd like the characters.

It focuses on a group of big rig drivers in northern Canada...for a few months each year, the lakes freeze over enough (about 3' thick) to create a road for heavy transport to the diamond mines. There are guys up there hauling up to 100K lbs on the ice - you can hear the ice cracking as they drive over it, and trucks have fallen through. They can only drive 20 MPH or the weight/motion of the truck causes a huge wave under the ice which will eventually bust through. Pretty cool. The guys earn a lot for it - a year's worth of pay in a few months.

Anyways, 9 PM Central time on Sunday nights. Someone (Drew or TJ) supposedly dies next week.

Stacy

Cool.

[Adam in CO]

Hooked.

[MarineHawk]

Originally Posted by Adam in CO

Hooked.

Ditto, along with my 3-yr old. He drives his trike around the house, saying "I'm off for a couple of days. Gotta hit the ice road."

[CO Hummer]

Originally Posted by devilsfan

The guys earn a lot for it - a year's worth of pay in a few months.

Reminds me of when Adam refinanced my mortgage.

[h2co-pilot]

Ooh! That sounds crazy perrrrrfect. I bet they are good characers.

It looks like it comes on at 10 here.

[Adam in CO]

Originally Posted by CO Hummer

Reminds me of when Adam refinanced my mortgage.

Jeez. I should have charged you full price. At least then you'd have something legit to bish about.

[CO Hummer]

Originally Posted by Adam in CO

Jeez. I should have charged you full price. At least then you'd have something legit to bish about.

Haha!




Don't even think about it.

[KenP]

Love it.

[NEOCON1]

how about the one run with the diamond scrubber , they paid the kid $3K for just that run

[Adam in CO]

Originally Posted by KenP

Love it.

From Hillbilly mouths to God's ears.

[ROX]

Saw a little piece of it a while back. I didn't know they made it into a series.

[KenP]

Originally Posted by Adam in CO

From Hillbilly mouths to God's ears.

I thought the one where the kid got to drive the new Volvo was pretty good... Especially when he hit that p/u.

[wpage]

Nice career. Or Fishing crab in the Aleutian islands

[NEOCON1]

Originally Posted by KenP

I thought the one where the kid got to drive the new Volvo was pretty good... Especially when he hit that p/u.

yea his old truck sucked

[KenP]

Originally Posted by NEOCON1

yea his old truck sucked

Yeah it did. What'd he say? It was full of garbage, it stunck and the heater didn't work, or something like that?

Imagine that, 40* BELOW zero and your heater doesn't work!!! Holy crap!!!!

[NEOCON1]

how about that other guy that is starting to get frost bite on his feet .

that was pretty smart when he ran that flexable hose into the cab for some warmth on the last episode . he was all happy after that

[MarineHawk]

Originally Posted by NEOCON1

how about that other guy that is starting to get frost bite on his feet .

that was pretty smart when he ran that flexable hose into the cab for some warmth on the last episode . he was all happy after that

That's one thing I don't get about these guys. Maybe they don't have any money, but why not have stuff like this?:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/pod/standard-pod-wrapped.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/pod-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat470076-cat20574&rid=&indexId=cat20574&navAction=push&mast erpathid=&navCount=2&parentType=index&parentId=cat 20574&id=0006141

and this?:

http://www.llbean.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?page=arctic-expedition-parka&categoryId=47287&storeId=1&catalogId=1&langI d=-1&parentCategory=500648&cat4=6347&shop_method=pp&f eat=500648-tn

and this?:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/product/standard-item.jsp?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/item-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat470076-cat602067&id=0005054920154a&navCount=5&podId=00050 54920154&parentId=cat602067&masterpathid=&navActio n=push&catalogCode=XH&rid=&parentType=index&indexI d=cat602067&hasJS=true

[devilsfan]

It's always Hugh's trucks that are messed up. The guy acts like he's the shizzle but he runs crappy equipment.

I like Alex. Jay too - he runs the big stuff.

Stacy

[Adam in CO]

Originally Posted by devilsfan

It's always Hugh's trucks that are messed up. The guy acts like he's the shizzle but he runs crappy equipment.

I like Alex. Jay too - he runs the big stuff.

Stacy

Alex is my fav, too. Him and his 11 kids. Whoa.