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Ice Road Truckers
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Genre Reality
Starring
  • Current drivers
  • Alex Debogorski
    (Season 1 – 10)
  • Lisa Kelly
    (Season 3 – 5, 7 – 10)
  • Darrell Ward
    (Season 6 – 10)
  • Art Burke
    (Season 7 – 10)
  • Todd Dewey
    (Season 7 – 10)
  • Steph Custance
    (Season 10)
  • Former drivers
  • Hugh Rowland
    (Season 1 – 8)
  • Rick Yemm
    (Season 1 – 2, season 5 – 6)
  • Jay Westgard
    (Season 1)
  • T.J. Tilcox
    (Season 1)
  • Drew Sherwood
    (Season 1 – 2)
  • Eric Dufresne
    (Season 2)
  • Bear Swensen
    (Season 2)
  • Jack Jessee
    (Season 3 – 4, season 6)
  • George Spears
    (Season 3)
  • Tim Freeman
    (Season 3)
  • Carey Hall
    (Season 3 – 6)
  • Greg Boadwine
    (Season 4)
  • Ray Veilleux
    (Season 4, season 6)
  • Dave Redmon
    (Season 5)
  • Tony Molesky
    (Season 5)
  • Maya Sieber
    (Season 5)
  • Austin Wheeler
    (Season 6)
  • Ronald "Porkchop" Mangum
    (Season 6)
  • Joey Barnes
    (Season 7 – 9)
  • Reno Ward
    (Season 8)
  • Mike Simmons
    (Season 9)
Narrated by Thom Beers
Tom Cotcher (UK)
Theme music composer Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Mark Hudson
Opening theme "Livin' on the Edge" by Aerosmith (Seasons 1 – 4 only)
Country of origin Canada
United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 10
No. of episodes 128 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s) David McKillop
Dolores Gavin
Thom Beers
Philip Segal
Dawn Fitzgerald
Adam Martin
Aron Plucinski
Running time 45 – 48 minutes
Production company(s) Original Productions
Prospero Media (season 8)
Shaw Media (season 8)
Distributor A+E Networks
Release
Original network History
Original release June 17, 2007 (2007-06-17) – October 6, 2016 (2016-10-06)
External links
Website
IRT:Deadliest Roads
Genre Reality
Documentary
Starring
  • Former Drivers
  • Hugh Rowland
    (Season 2)
  • Lisa Kelly
    (Season 1 - 2)
  • Rick Yemm
    (Season 1 - 2)
  • Dave Redmon
    (Season 1 - 2)
  • Augustin Rodriguez
    (Season 2)
  • Tim Zickuhr
    (Season 2)
  • Alex Debogorski
    (Season 1)
  • G.W. Boles
    (Season 2)
Narrated by Thom Beers
Tom Cotcher (UK)
Country of origin Canada
United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 2
No. of episodes 23 (list of episodes)
Production
Producer(s) David McKillop
Dolores Gavin
Thom Beers
Philip Segal
Dawn Fitzgerald
Adam Martin
Aron Plucinski
Location(s) India and South America
Running time 45 – 48 minutes
Production company(s) Original Productions
Distributor A+E Networks
Release
Original network History
Original release October 3, 2010 (2010-10-03) – December 18, 2011 (2011-12-18)
External links
Website

Ice Road Truckers (commercially abbreviated IRT) is a reality television series that premiered on History, on June 17, 2007. It features the activities of drivers who operate trucks on seasonal routes crossing frozen lakes and rivers, in remote Arctic territories in Canada and Alaska. Later series focused on Alaska's improved but still remote Dalton Highway, which is mainly snow-covered solid ground. The newest seasons are based on Manitoba's winter roads.

In 2000, History aired a 46-minute episode titled "Ice Road Truckers" as part of the Suicide Missions (later Dangerous Missions) series. Based on Edith Iglauer's book Denison's Ice Road, the episode details the treacherous job of driving trucks over frozen lakes, also known as ice roads, in Canada's Northwest Territories. After 2000, reruns of the documentary were aired as an episode of the series Modern Marvels instead. Under this banner, the Ice Road Truckers show garnered very good ratings.

In 2006, The History Channel hired Thom Beers, owner of Original Productions and executive producer of Deadliest Catch, to create a series based on the Ice Road book. Shot in high definition (although the season ended before History HD was launched in the US), the show "charts two months in the lives of six extraordinary men who haul vital supplies to diamond mines and other remote locations over frozen lakes that double as roads".

During the finale of the show's first season of 10 episodes, The History Channel aired a promo for season 2 which began airing on June 8, 2008.

Season 1 of Ice Road Truckers was shown on the British national commercial channel Channel Five in February/March 2008. In Australia it aired on Austar and Foxtel in early 2008 and from June 18 it also began being shown on Network Ten. In autumn 2008 season one aired on RTL 7 in the Netherlands.


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