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The excitement over the already popular show, Ice Road Truckers has risen drastically in the past few weeks, due to the new addition to the cast, 28 year old Lisa Kelly.   If you’re not already familiar with the show, it’s a reality based show following the dangerous travels of the “Ice Road Truckers” who drive their massive trucks down icy roads, and sometimes over frozen lakes in treacherous conditions to bring supplies to people 250 miles North of the Arctic Circle.  Kelly is the first female driver to appear on the show,  and most likely the first female ice road trucker, but that doesn’t bother her one bit. “I think I’ve earned where I’m at. They don’t just judge me by the cover, and I can get the job done,” she says. “I don’t need to fit the stereotype. I don’t have to be a potty mouth, chew tobacco and be 300 pounds to drive a truck.”

With 6 years of experience driving big rigs, she’s paid her dues, “I had to work twice as hard,” she said. “I had to pull my weight and everybody else’s and get the job done as fast, or faster.”  But the hard work doesn’t bother at all, and she enjoys the job thoroughly,  “I like the freedom of getting out and not having a boss directly there.”  And she’s found ways to have fun with it as well, “I’ve had tourists stop and take a picture. I pulled over to tighten some belts on my flatbed and I had an audience. I could feel their eyes. It’s fun. I know they’re watching and I just put on a show.”  When she’s not hauling up in the arctic circle, she runs a truck out of her hometown of Wasilla (also home to Sarah Palin).

Ice Road Truckers: The Complete Season Three

• ISBN13: 0733961155334
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Just when you thought trucking couldn t get more dangerous…the new season of ICE ROAD TRUCKERS brings you to the most treacherous landscape on earth: northern Alaska.

In Prudhoe Bay (250 miles north of the Arctic Circle), a network of ice roads in the tundra crisscross river systems and open ocean to connect America s booming North Slope oil fields to dry land. Every winter truckers have less than three months to shuttle critical supplies over the ice. The only problem is that there s just one way to get to this remote location: 400 miles of ice-covered, mountainous terrain known as the Dalton Highway. The Dalton is the lifeline to Alaska s oil industry. It s also the most dangerous road in North America and has claimed the lives of more than 400 people since it was built just 30 years ago. The next chapter in the hit HISTORYTM series returns this season with veteran drivers Hugh Rowland and Alex Debogorski, new drivers including the show s first female trucker and more heart-stopping adrenaline than ever before.

Volume 1: Deadliest Ice Road / Rookie Run / Canadian Invasion / Blinding Whiteout

Volume 2: Accident Alley / Arctic Ice / Wicked Weather

Volume 3: Killer Pass / Turn and Burn / Ocean Run

Volume 4: Busted Parts & Breakdowns / Race for the Finish / Arctic ThawChain up! Season 3 of this gripping History Channel series gets plenty of traction from its setting, the more than 400-mile “gauntlet of terror” known as the Dalton Highway. Said to be the most dangerous road in North America, the Dalton has reportedly claimed a life for each of its miles. “If the curves don’t get you,” the narrator intones in a dramatic John Wayne-like drawl, “the avalanches will.” The drivers, a right-stuff bunch (“They don’t pay us this much because it’s easy,” one proclaims), have 12 weeks to deliver more than 6,000 loads to the Prudhoe Bay oil fields before the ice roads thaw. Along with familiar grizzled ice road veterans Hugh and George from the show’s first two seasons, season 3 shifts gears with its first female driver, the attractive Lisa Kelly, a motocross champion determined to prove herself as a heavy hauler in this male-dominated profession. The competition between the drivers to see who can make the most runs really takes a back seat to the potential calamities that await beyond every curve and over every steep incline. “Pick the wrong gear, you wash out,” the narrator cautions, “hit the brakes too hard, you end up in a ditch.” The road, it is said, never lets up, and neither does Ice Road Truckers. Photos of horrific crashes and computer-generated re-creations of serious accidents amp up the drama, but (spoiler alert), beyond tense moments driving through blinding storms or experiencing equipment malfunctions, the drivers emerge from this punishing season unscathed. Ice Road Truckers will especially appeal to truck enthusiasts who may have grown up with the Road Construction Ahead and There Goes a Truck videos. These drivers do some serious hauling (45,000 pounds is considered a light load) and it is fascinating, for example, to watch how 16-ton pipes are loaded and secured onto a flatbed. A feature film inspired by the series is reportedly in the works, but there’s nothing like the real thing. –Donald Liebenson

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