Ice road truckers
I recently finished watching a marathon of the latest season of the show.
Something got me wondering. Why would you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars/day for vehicles, fuel, lodging, insurances, and income for personnel when there could be a small fleet of LCAC transports to move cargo during the winter months for the same price?
I mean a vehicle w/an 80 ton load capacity and can move it 300km at 35km/h over a questionable road surface. This would be better, no?
just a thought
Something got me wondering. Why would you spend hundreds of thousands of dollars/day for vehicles, fuel, lodging, insurances, and income for personnel when there could be a small fleet of LCAC transports to move cargo during the winter months for the same price?
I mean a vehicle w/an 80 ton load capacity and can move it 300km at 35km/h over a questionable road surface. This would be better, no?
just a thought
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The show "ICE ROAD TRUCKERS" is pretty good. Its on the history channel. 0 -
Anyone else watch this History Channel program about the winter truck drivers hauling freight up the Dalton Highway from just north of Fairbanks to Purdue Bay?
It's a 500 mile journey on roads covered with ice that encompasses some of the most beautiful scenery in America.0 -
This is going to be a new show on history channel.
I will be watching it! I allways wanted to go drive the ice roads when I was still driveing truck!
I allways thought that would be the ultimate challenge for a truck driver!0 -
On tonight's episode Hugh the Polar Bear was stuck out in the middle of no where. So he said hey I should get my new rifle out. So he reaches in back of the cab and pulls out what he calls his 1953 SKS 15.
He says look, its even got a bayonet and proceeds to unfold it.
He pulls a stripper clip out and loads it in his cab then he proceeds to shoot some oranges and a can of soup his so called survival food.
Some people just should not be allowed to have guns.0 -
i can't watch it anymore, it makes me nervous for one, but the narrator just gets on my nerves, every other word is overly dramatized, if the viewer cannot realize the apparent danger without the use of the narrator and his drama they are not to bright, the show is good all by itself 0 -
All day marathon on the History Channel today, starting at Noon, Central Time. Every episode, and it's going to run all afternoon, ending with the season (series?) finale. I'm definatly watching it. 0 -
i was gonna post on that because i knew you would be interested but you done beat me to it! 0 -
To make the show really exciting they should have the truckers do some King crab fishing along the way. 0 -
I have seen other programs on it and done some reading as well.
Like I said it would be the ultimate challenge for a truck driver to run those roads![:D]0 -
What are our Boarder Protectors, ICE, doing with truckers?
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They should do a show on the history of the burkah. I would watch every episode. 0 -
I saw a one hour special on these maniacs on the History channel. They build roads on frozen lakes in Canada, and reinforce the roads by pumping water onto them. Damn Canucks have got some guts. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
I saw a one hour special on these maniacs on the History channel. They build roads on frozen lakes in Canada, and reinforce the roads by pumping water onto them. Damn Canucks have got some guts.
Them drivers are paid very well to drive them roads too!
But I guess you get paid extra for having guts![;)]0 -
They had to drive a specific speed, around fifteen mph. If they went too fast, it created a wave in the water beneath them, bad news.
They did show one guy who went through, but luckily for him, his truck went about halfway through the ice and got jammed. The trucker was able to climb out onto the ice, and walk away with dry feet. Man, that would be bleak, diving to the bottom of a 150 foot deep frozen Canadian lake in the cab of an eighteen wheeler.
They showed them rescuing that damn truck from the ice, and they succeeded in getting it out. The boys have got some guts.0 -
The only problem is that the Ice Road is the only supply route for much of northern Canada, and each year the number of days that the ice is thick enough to be passable gets shorter. 0 -
it would be fun to do once 0 -
They showed one on the previously mentioned documentary that was hauling fuel oil. Broke through the ice, but thankfully, fuel oil is lighter than water, so the truck and trailer didn't sink all the way to the bottom! Lucky SOB right there! 0 -
Make sure you drive with the doors open. 0
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