I love the History channel. Dogfights is especially good, but every once in a while they launch a show that is a dog -- that's what I thought about Ice Road Truckers, but I was wrong.
A little background. The show chronicles the good and bad times of truck drivers driving the ice roads of the North. You see why I thought it wouldn't be all that good.
However, typical of the History channel, they pulled off a good show. Some of the drivers are nice and the viewers really like them; others are friggin assholes.
I felt bad for two drivers in particular -- both of them worked for the same guy who has to be the biggest frigtard on the face of the planet.
Drew was in his first season of driving the ice roads and to say it didn't work out would be a huge understatement. Every single time Drew went near that damn truck, it broke down -- seriously, it broke down time after time.
Anyway, Drew couldn't handle it and went home. The sad part was the guy he worked for, Hugh, blamed everything on him when it was the pitiful truck.
The one good guy that Hugh had quit because his truck had no heat -- in the North, no heat. Hugh is an idiot.
If you haven't seen the show, get it.
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I saw some of the episodes of the ice road truckers. I knew about them from when I was putting together our Diamonds & Diamond grading course. I've been looking for an excuse to get up there to photograph the diamond mines.
Drove me crazy they kept calling the Windspear mine "The De Beers Mine", when two of the mines up there are either owned or partly owned by them. This really put the whole location into context. Miners and oil rig people in Canada's frozen north are some hearty, tough people. Characters, for sure.
You're right about that owner, he should have been shot for the way he treated his drivers. But I suspect his brain was fried years ago with all that hard livin' up there. :-D
Canada's north would be a far cry from Brazil :-)
Do you have to get permission from the companies or the government to go up there?
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