Ice road truckers?
2007-11-04 15:53:58 · 9 answers · asked by Judy Anne 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
http://www.history.com/minisites/iceroadtruckers
2007-11-04 16:03:21 · answer #1 · answered by tronary 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ice road truckers are a bravest and in somecases the crasiest people around. They are the drivers who traverse the frozen lakes and rivers in Canada and Alaska prob even in Siberia. There is a certification to even drive on those roads. A regular trucker Joe like myself wouldn't be able to drive those roads. There is a technique of entering and exiting the ice so as to not create a wave underneath the ice that would break the ice at other edge. They have to know CPR and other first aid. Their trucks aren't the ones you see on the hwy either. THey have added fuel and heaters. Like the one poster said there was a feature about them on TLC
2007-11-04 16:05:50 · answer #2 · answered by milk-trucker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Typical truck drivers who drive on roads made of Ice, usually in the winter months of the colder regions, not standard ice on the highway, but a lake or pond that has frozen over and the ice is thick enough for them to drive the rigs across. Helps to get supplies to remote areas.
2007-11-04 15:59:30 · answer #3 · answered by snowboard3r_utah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Men and women who love extreme's, living on the edge. They drive Semi's on 18+ inches of ice, to carry goods to diamond mines, in the most remote area's in NW Canada. So to answer your question, they drive on man made Ice Roads across large expanses of frozen lakes.
2007-11-05 01:30:41 · answer #4 · answered by Iam!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They drive on roads of ice up in Canada, I believe. There is a whole show about them on TLC, The Learning Channel.
2007-11-04 15:58:57 · answer #5 · answered by kiddkosmic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who drive trucks on this road in alaska that is nothing but ice over water.The ice is thin in some spots and thick in some spots,and is very dangerous and slippery.Watch it on the discovery channel I think.
2007-11-04 16:00:05 · answer #6 · answered by sgrmama2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ice road truckers is just SO cool i watched every one this year and i would not do anything that they did because you could die
2016-04-02 05:28:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
TRUCK DRIVERS THAT DRIVE ON 18 TO 36 INCHES OF ICE IN CANADA AND MAKE ABOUT $20,0000 TO $60,000 FOR ABOUT 2 MONTHS OF WORK.
2007-11-05 00:08:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guys that run supplies (oil, gas, etc) over frozen lakes in big rigs to other guys that are mining or doing other things. History channel had a show, they'll re-run it again i'm sure. it's pretty neat.
2007-11-04 16:00:16 · answer #9 · answered by Will B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋