Trucking Driving Job

For those who will never find themselves inside a cab, Ice Road Truckers offers a glimpse into a world they’ll never experience. Even for experienced drivers, the Ice Road holds fascination for showing the extreme of the extreme: drivers transporting cargo across frozen lakes and rivers in the coldest countries on earth.The show started as a book called Denison’s Ice Road by Edith Iglauer, which was turned into a single episode of the Suicide Missions series in 1999. The idea proved so compelling that the History Channel returned to it seven years later when they hired Thom Beers (Deadliest Catch) to turn it into a series. The first season premiered in June of 2007.The early seasons focused on the ideal of the truckermasculine and burly with a rebellious streak and a love of danger. The first season featured six Canadian drivers, from the 47-year-old Hugh Rowland (known as “The Polar Bear”) to the young, 21-year-old T.J. Tilcox who is just starting out on the treacherous roads. The first episode of the series reached 3.4 million viewers, the highest number up to that point in the channel’s history.In the third season, the show featured the female driver Lisa Kelly. The energetic young woman is a former school bus driver and motocross racer. Her inclusion on the show illustrates another little-seen side of the trucker mystiquea brash and attractive woman at the head of a really big truck.The next season will feature trucking outside of North Americaspecifically, in the Himalayas of India. This setting presents new challenges in the form of terrain and vehicle changesthe trucks need to be smaller and less powerful in order to navigate the mountain cliff-sides. The current season premiered last monthnew episodes air every Sunday.