Season 1: On The Road

Season 1: On The Road (14)

• Ice Road Truckers: Ice Cracking
  Ice Road Truckers: Ice Cracking

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  It's normal for ice to bend and crack to a certain extent, but serious accidents can occur when dangerous gaps known as pressure ridges form.

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• Ice Road Truckers: Repairing an Ice Road
  Ice Road Truckers: Repairing an Ice Road

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  All roads need repairs from time to time, but just how do you repair one made of ice?

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• Ice Road Truckers: Ice Divers
  Ice Road Truckers: Ice Divers

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  Meet the ice divers who recover sunken trucks and drivers that have fallen through the ice. The survival rate of the drivers is slim, so it can be a very scary job.

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• Ice Road Truckers: Driver's Safety Meeting
  Ice Road Truckers: Driver's Safety Meeting

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  Instructor Doug McCallum gives the crew the five driving rules and safety advice for driving on the Ice Road.

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• Ice Road Truckers: Breakdowns
  Ice Road Truckers: Breakdowns

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  Negative temperatures make breakdowns inevitable and can lead to loss in pay for the truckers. But money isn't their biggest problem: Idling trucks on the ice roads can lead to deadly results.

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• Ice Road Truckers: Staying Awake on the Ice Road
  Ice Road Truckers: Staying Awake on the Ice Road

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  How do you stay awake while driving 14 hours at a time on the ice road? See how the guys try almost anything to stay awake and alert.

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• Ice Road Truckers: A Day at Dispatch
  Ice Road Truckers: A Day at Dispatch

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  In a 24 hour period, as many as 250 trucks travel the ice road north to Canada's diamond mines. The Nuna Logistics dispatch center in Yellowknife manages the road.

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• Ice Road Truckers: Truckers on the History of the Ice Roads
  Ice Road Truckers: Truckers on the History of the Ice Roads

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  The cast and crew discuss the history that they are making. Although ice road trucking started around fifty years ago, these truckers are pushing the limits and working with the infamous diamond mines of North America.

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• Ice Road Truckers: Recap of a Truck Rollover
  Ice Road Truckers: Recap of a Truck Rollover

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  A truck driver learns the hard way how hard driving in the arctic can be.

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• Ice Road Truckers: The Truckers' Take on Danger
  Ice Road Truckers: The Truckers' Take on Danger

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  The cast and crew discuss the underlying fear of the job: that you could go under and through the ice. If a trucker breaks down, the outside temperature is so cold that even his tools could be frozen and unusable.

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• Ice Road Truckers: Ice Road Song
  Ice Road Truckers: Ice Road Song

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  The 'Ice Road Song' is performed in this video from Ice Road Truckers.

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• Ice Road Truckers: What is Ice Road Trucking?
  Ice Road Truckers: What is Ice Road Trucking?

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  The cast and crew of the show discuss how ice road trucking is extreme trucking; you're driving on ice which is slippery and dangerous and then you're also delivering loads to infamous diamond mines.

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• Ice Road Truckers: Tech of the Ice Road
  Ice Road Truckers: Tech of the Ice Road

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  For nine months out of the year, the Canadian wilderness is impassable, nothing but giant lakes and wilderness. But during the winter, the water transforms into a super highway made of ice.

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• Ice Road Truckers: Shooting at Sixty Degrees Below Zero
  Ice Road Truckers: Shooting at Sixty Degrees Below Zero

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  Shooting in freezing temperatures can be a major challenge. Find out how advances in HD technology have taken filming at the edge of the Arctic to new levels.

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