Ice Road Truckers Is Back

About a year ago I posted a blog about a show on the History Channel called, "Ice Road Truckers." I enjoyed watching this show all the way through the first season, and ended up wishing that it was longer. Ever since it ended I have been waiting for it to come back for the second season.

The wait is, at long last, over. Some of the same truckers are back for this season, but it's going to be very different this year. So, if you were worried about this being a re-hash of last season, you need not worry. In fact, they are not even driving on the same ice road this year.

Last season they were delivering equipment to Diamond Mines in Northern Canada. In that case the ice road that they were driving on was composed of frozen lakes, with small land bridges in between. This time they are driving over a frozen river and then out onto the Arctic Ocean. So, there are no land bridges this time.

In the last season we learned that stopping on the frozen lakes was a bad idea, because then the truck becomes dead weight on the ice, and the idling of the truck weakens the ice further, and runs the risk of falling through the ice.

This time there are no land bridges, they will be out on the open ocean, with no place to stop when there is a problem. After all the dangers of last year, you wouldn't have thought that they could have stepped things up, and yet, they did.

Now, as I said, last time they were going to they were delivering equipment to the diamond mines, this time they are delivering equipment to the oil companies as they work to gain access to natural gas and do research on new and, hopefully, viable forms of alternative energy.

Two episodes have been on so far this season, but so far I have only been able to watch the first one, as there was a mistake made with the settings on the DVR, but fortunately, unlike broadcast networks, the History Channel is really good about reshowing episodes to give you a chance to catch up if you miss some.

To me, this show, and others like it , are way better than most of what is being offered by broadcast networks. I don't tend to think of this as a reality show since they usually bear no resemblance to reality, and this is actually real. I highly recommend this show, but, watch it or not, I enjoy it.