dwightlewis-18956 These guys and girls shouldnt be driving. Maybe its the shiw that calls the shots but if they worked for me they would be done.. tire chains work.. not just one single on but all eight tires and a steer chain as well.. half therir problems happen without proper traction.. and trying to put them on after the fact is lazy. I have driven alot in the oil field with all kinds of loads in all kinds of places and this is the most lazy stupid dangerous people i have seen driving.. just cant belive how over dramatic and undafe..

jdonalds-5 We didn't know about Ice Road Truckers until we saw an advertisement for it on an episode of Top Shot we were watching. That peaked my interest so I looked it up.It seems like anything done in Alaska (Ice Road Truckers, Alaska State Troopers, Flying Wild Alaska) attracts me. Alaska is quite beautiful, but so cold I would never want to live there.I am binge watching Ice Road Truckers and enjoying it. However I have it running in a 6" x 4" window on my computer while I edit photos. It's the kind of program that doesn't require more than about 20% of my attention. This is one program that benefits from The History Channel's over-the-top dramatization process. But at the end of each episode I do a little review just for laughs.To tell the truth very little of substance occurs across an entire season. Every episode is pumped up with many, "what could happen" commentaries, and scary graphics. However almost nothing ever really happens. The list of "exciting" things might contain things like these:The tires of the tractor slip going up hills. - Truckers have to stop to put chains on their trucks to make it up slippery steep hills when they are towing a heavy load. - Truckers get very tired while driving sometimes. - Trucks aren't always 100% reliable and things sometimes break. - Some truckers have negative things to say about other truckers. - Occasionally a truck goes off the road and gets stuck in the snow, requiring a tow from another truck to get out. - Trucks drive across lakes, the ocean, or down long stretches of rivers while they hear the ice crack. None ever fall through the ice. - Trucks going in opposite directions pass each other closely and honk at each other. - Some drivers are better at their jobs than others. Some are even let go because they are trouble makers or can't really drive well enough in the Alaska or Canada conditions. - As the truckers are paid for each load they deliver they want to deliver as many as they can. - Sometimes trucks hit bumps in the road. - Snow can nearly obscure the road ahead. - Occasionally a tire goes flat. - Sometimes a load becomes loose on the trailer. - Some of the loads the trucks carry are extremely heavy and/or large.So you see it's pretty much run of the mill trucking but in very cold, snowy, slippery, hilly, and scary conditions. But rarely does anything of any real significance happen.In no way am I suggesting driving on those roads is easy or anything less than dangerous. But it just seems to me that hundreds of thousands of miles are driven by truckers there with relative little to have created eight seasons of episodes.Still I will continue to binge watch until I burn through them and move on to something else.Update: I'm watching Season 7 now. I can't wait for this season to end and I can move on from this irritating competition between Polar Industries and VP Express. I can do without all the personal drama.What I wish Discovery would do is expand the format in some areas and cut out all of the grumbling. I'd like to know more about the trucks and loads. I'm binge watching through several seasons and not once have the producers of the show shown us through a truck once. How about each gauge and what they mean? There are obviously gauges we don't have in our cars. How do you shift with so many gears? I presume it has overdrive. Can you use overdrive in any gear? These are things any 18 wheel driver would know but I've never driven anything more complicated or larger than a U-Haul. Show us through the sleeping quarters. Do they have places to hang clothes? Drawers? Come on folks. Who owns the trucks? How much does the insurance cost for these trucks that can get lost breaking through ice or being run off the road and left for a year? How much does a driver make per load? Who pays to fix broken trucks? How much is the fuel and how much is used per trip?You've shown us hundreds of videos showing trucks driving on snowy roads and over ice. Enough already.How about some perspective on the shippers and those who receive the loads? It just seems like there are other things to show than what they've shown for multiple seasons.I can't believe Ice Road Truckers goes on for eight seasons when so many other shows are better and cut short after a season or two.

jenn-marshall Just an FYI this is filmed in Canada so when they say -32 or being terrible at -42 it would be in Celsius and it does get a lot colder then that they're further north than I am and it gets to be almost -60 with out the wind. Which is pretty cold. This show is guilty of doing the same thing every reality TV show does, it amps up the danger aspect of the job when there is really all that much. Im from northern Canada and its really not a huge deal to be driving on frozen water. It happens all the time. its not a terrible show but like others have said it could easily been covered in a 2 hour special. They just keep using the same tired bits. History should know better but I think they're trying to up their rating by having shows that can attract the same crowd as deadliest catch.

Panamint You couldn't get more real than the world of trucks and truckers. Especially in the case of these Ice Road guys, where the danger is real. The unpredictability of the equipment, the ice, and the weather combine with the cutthroat truth of how real business is conducted to provide plenty of drama.Ordinary trucking might be a little dull for reality TV, but you will find the Ice Road to be a far more interesting show than you expect when you first tune in to watch.It is hard to judge the overall effect that "Ice Road" might have on the Reality TV universe, because I am not sure how enjoyable it can be to everyone in the audience. I wonder what the breakdown is of the audience demographics actually tuning in? This is one of the better Reality shows because it doesn't appear to be overly contrived or fake. At least the action is not fake, but you never know about the editing.