Connecting Fairbanks to the oil fields is the infamous Dalton Highway. Three fourths of the 414 mile long "haul road" is north of the Arctic Circle, and not one inch of the route is for the timid. Here are some of the truck drivers featured on the History Channel show:
• Hugh Rowland – A resident of Canada, the "polar bear" is a veteran of the ice roads in his native country and has been featured in all 4 season of Ice Road Truckers. Rowland lives large, talks loud, has little patience for the wimps who can't keep up with him and less for those who can.
• Jack Jesse – Cool and methodical, Jesse knows the Dalton Highway like back of his hands. Jesse is the most trusted driver on the road, and gets the heaviest, widest and most valuable loads. Jesse is the standard that other truck drivers on the Dalton are measured against.
• Lisa Kelly – One of the few women truck drivers in Alaska, Lisa feeds off of the challenge of driving with the best truck drivers on the nastiest road in Alaska. Trucking is a profession where respect is earned, and not given, and Lisa Kelly craves this respect more than the money that this truck driving job pays.
• Alex Debogorski – Living in Yellowknife, NWT, Alex has spent most of his trucking life driving on roads that barely qualify as roads. Alex has more kids than some trucks have gears, and he has been on all 4 seasons of Ice Road Truckers, just like Rowland.
Ice Road Truckers driving their heavily loaded vehicles across frozen lakes to deliver much-needed supplies to remote Canada and other parts of the world
Saturday, May 7, 2011
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