Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 1 (History Channel)
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Wages of Fear has nothing on Ice Road Truckers. Transporting unstable nitroglycerine is Driving Miss Daisy compared to the sanity and death-defying challenges facing these drivers who face great rewards but even greater dangers. Where these guys are going, there are no roads, except for about two months when the lakes freeze solid enough to allow the transport of literally tons of essential supplies to Canada's remote diamond mines as far as 350 miles away near the Arctic Circle. The goal is to deliver 10,000 loads in 60 days. The truckers call it the "dash for the cash." Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Ice Road Truckers is one of the most harrowing of the "dirty jobs" sub-genre of reality TV. This History Channel series mines a little extra drama by playing up the competition between the drivers to see who can make the most runs. The series' most compelling personality is Hugh, a 21-season veteran known as "the Polar Bear," who suffers what another driver calls "a bad luck year." Hugh is the kind of guy who will blow poisonous methyl hydrate into his own suspect transmission. Among those trucking for him are Alex, the 25-year "marathon man" with 11 kids), 21-year-old TJ, and Drew, a 35-year-old "newbie."But the conditions under which these "titans of the ice" operate is all the drama this series needs. Suffice to say, there are up to 800 drivers when the season begins. By the spring thaw, there are only about 125 remaining. Consider: Truck breakdowns and equipment failures can leave truckers stranded in the middle of nowhere in 40-below temperatures. Blinding snowstorms can reduce visibility to zero. Speeding can cause waves that blow out the ice. A shout-out to the camera crew who faced these dangers with the truckers and captured nerve-wracking footage of the trucks making their treacherous way over heaving, cracking ice, and behemoth 18-wheel rigs plummeting through the broken ice to the lake's bottom.--Donald Liebenson
Movie DVD
Amazon.com:
Wages of Fear has nothing on Ice Road Truckers. Transporting unstable nitroglycerine is Driving Miss Daisy compared to the sanity and death-defying challenges facing these drivers who face great rewards but even greater dangers. Where these guys are going, there are no roads, except for about two months when the lakes freeze solid enough to allow the transport of literally tons of essential supplies to Canada's remote diamond mines as far as 350 miles away near the Arctic Circle. The goal is to deliver 10,000 loads in 60 days. The truckers call it the "dash for the cash." Fasten your seatbelts; it's going to be a bumpy ride.
Ice Road Truckers is one of the most harrowing of the "dirty jobs" sub-genre of reality TV. This History Channel series mines a little extra drama by playing up the competition between the drivers to see who can make the most runs. The series' most compelling personality is Hugh, a 21-season veteran known as "the Polar Bear," who suffers what another driver calls "a bad luck year." Hugh is the kind of guy who will blow poisonous methyl hydrate into his own suspect transmission. Among those trucking for him are Alex, the 25-year "marathon man" with 11 kids), 21-year-old TJ, and Drew, a 35-year-old "newbie."But the conditions under which these "titans of the ice" operate is all the drama this series needs. Suffice to say, there are up to 800 drivers when the season begins. By the spring thaw, there are only about 125 remaining. Consider: Truck breakdowns and equipment failures can leave truckers stranded in the middle of nowhere in 40-below temperatures. Blinding snowstorms can reduce visibility to zero. Speeding can cause waves that blow out the ice. A shout-out to the camera crew who faced these dangers with the truckers and captured nerve-wracking footage of the trucks making their treacherous way over heaving, cracking ice, and behemoth 18-wheel rigs plummeting through the broken ice to the lake's bottom.--Donald Liebenson
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- Great series
Great program. Excellent quality of products. Will be ordering more.
Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 1 (History Channel)
Rating: - Quite interesting, but repetitive
We don't have cable, but I had often heard about this show, so when 'Season One' came out on DVD, I picked it up. It is an interesting show, but after awhile it did become a little repetitive. I know they are trying to make each episode exciting and engaging, but I would have liked perhaps a few episodes where you concentrated on maybe only two of the drivers and went much more in-depth with a specific run, instead of trying to go back and forth between the 4-5 drivers, with a little information ... Read More
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- FILTHY LANGUAGE !!## BLEEP!!BLEEP!!!BLEEP!!!....
The bleeped out language in this DVD is disgusting and completely unnecessary.I can't believe this was accepted and aired on the History Channel.Poor choice on their part, big time!If the language would have been excluded all together, instead of bleeped out, the producers of this series and the History Channel undoubtedly would have been able to attract a greater viewing audience.Thumbs down for this one.I definitely wouldn't show this to my kids!
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Rating: - Ice Road Truckers
Ordered this for my grandson to give his father.He says it is great
Came fast in great shape
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- Overdone
I was very excited about this series when I ordered them. Unfortuntaly the series is not very documentary, but more of a fictional dramatized character. It seems the producers have tried to dramatize something that is just not there. Big, Spectacular, Over-dramatized are all words that fit the series. All the episodes would have made ONE single good two-hour show.
- Great seriesGreat program. Excellent quality of products. Will be ordering more.
Ice Road Truckers - The Complete Season 1 (History Channel)
- Quite interesting, but repetitiveWe don't have cable, but I had often heard about this show, so when 'Season One' came out on DVD, I picked it up. It is an interesting show, but after awhile it did become a little repetitive. I know they are trying to make each episode exciting and engaging, but I would have liked perhaps a few episodes where you concentrated on maybe only two of the drivers and went much more in-depth with a specific run, instead of trying to go back and forth between the 4-5 drivers, with a little information ... Read More
- FILTHY LANGUAGE !!## BLEEP!!BLEEP!!!BLEEP!!!....The bleeped out language in this DVD is disgusting and completely unnecessary.I can't believe this was accepted and aired on the History Channel.Poor choice on their part, big time!If the language would have been excluded all together, instead of bleeped out, the producers of this series and the History Channel undoubtedly would have been able to attract a greater viewing audience.Thumbs down for this one.I definitely wouldn't show this to my kids!
:(
- Ice Road TruckersOrdered this for my grandson to give his father.He says it is great
Came fast in great shape
- OverdoneI was very excited about this series when I ordered them. Unfortuntaly the series is not very documentary, but more of a fictional dramatized character. It seems the producers have tried to dramatize something that is just not there. Big, Spectacular, Over-dramatized are all words that fit the series. All the episodes would have made ONE single good two-hour show.
