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1911a1-fan
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
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  • 1911a1-fan
    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.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    The show "ICE ROAD TRUCKERS" is pretty good. Its on the history channel.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    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.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    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!
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  • 1911a1-fan
    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
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  • 1911a1-fan
    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.
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  • Oklahoma223
    Those guys are braver than me.
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  • fishkiller41
    And crazier!![:p]than me!!

    Jeff
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  • 1911a1-fan
    i don't think brave is the word i would use, 16"s of ice with a semi?, and my wife of all people asked a very good question the first time we watched it, as they where explaining the 2 month period the ice is there to drive on, and how they have to hurry before the thaw

    she asked: why don't they use a barge the other ten months?
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  • Permanently deleted user
    Where I was born, there was a road built on the ice during the winter for the logging indrustry....Fully loaded with logs running over the lake all winter till spring thaw....
    It was actually used by the locals as a shortcut from one town to another....We never thought anything of it when we crossed...it was just another road to us....I know that sounds very naive maybe but as a teenager or kid you dont think of these things...As a adult, well when you grow up with it and never (no there was never any going thru) any truckers going thru the ice, you kinda take it in stride..
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  • iluvguns
    I watched it the first couple of times it was on. But not now. I cant' stand all the "F" this and "F" that and "GD" you. Then the guy pulling the pistol out and shooting through his window while driving down the road. I've got better things to do with my time than watch a bunch of nutty Canadian truck drivers make fools of themselves
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  • spryor
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    i don't think brave is the word i would use, 16"s of ice with a semi?, and my wife of all people asked a very good question the first time we watched it, as they where explaining the 2 month period the ice is there to drive on, and how they have to hurry before the thaw

    she asked: why don't they use a barge the other ten months?
    Sometimes common sense ain't so common, eh?
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  • JamesRK
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    she asked: why don't they use a barge the other ten months?

    Most stuff that goes to Adak, Alaska goes by barge. Everything you need is always on the next barge. You never see it, but it's always on the next barge.
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  • matwor
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    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


    Hit mute.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    quote:Originally posted by matwor
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    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


    Hit mute.


    won't work, see i usually watch ether discovery, national geographic or the science channel when i go to bed, then as i roll over i listen to it until i fall asleep, can't watch anything else ether, if it is a movie it will keep me awake until it is over, strange habit i know
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  • Blade Slinger
    SEEMS NOT TO MANY GO THROUGH THE ICE,
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  • matwor
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    quote:Originally posted by matwor
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    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


    Hit mute.


    won't work, see i usually watch ether discovery, national geographic or the science channel when i go to bed, then as i roll over i listen to it until i fall asleep, can't watch anything else ether, if it is a movie it will keep me awake until it is over, strange habit i know


    Sorry, I tried to help.[:(]
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  • dakotashooter2
    Don't know what the big deal is. We drive on ice (lakes & rivers) for 3 month of the year in N Dakota and Minnesota to get to our fishing spots. What a bunch of whimps.
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  • Odawgp
    heli choppers would seem to be another cost effective method to get most of that junk up there those sky cranes can pick a hella lot of wieght and fly faster than they can drive.
    its like lost was interesting the first few times now its just another TV show.
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