Ice Road Truckers

There is a series currently airing on the History Channel on Sundays at 10PM, that is well worth the watching. As you can tell from the banner, it is called Ice Road Truckers, and it follows big rig drivers as they drive the winter road to deliver critical equipment and supplies to the diamond mines in extreme northern Canada. The Ice Road could not have a more appropriate name, as much of it is made up only of that, you see, the trucks are traveling on frozen lakes. The areas of solid ground in between the lakes, aren't all that much better, featuring slick inclines and tricky curves. The Ice Road is only open for two months out of every year, and driving it is a very risky proposition. While every safeguard that can be taken is, truckers, road maintenance, and rescue workers still die as ice gives way under tons of truck and equipment, not to mention more traditional accidents as road conditions on the solid patches are about the worst you could imagine on a hard top road (when one is available at all). So why would anyone do this? Money. A serious trucker can make $50,000 or more running loads up the Ice Road in the two months a year that it is open. What I have written here is nothing more than a very basic overview of what this series is about, to really get a feel for it, you have to watch it, trust me, there is nothing else like it. I guess you could call it a reality show that actually deals in reality, albeit a reality most of us couldn't even imagine.