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So maybe I was a little harsh in the summary, It does have some entertaining aspects. But after so many seasons the only thing really keeping it going is the drama and adding new characters. Which i'm not saying is a bad thing, the show is about the people driving these trucks through lovely weather and of course, ice crossings. If your looking for documentary type show just about ice road trucking though, this really isn't it. That could be made into a 2 hour documentary. Or just watch the 1st season and ya get the picture. If your into the people and the drama though, then keep on watching. There was a separate season where a few of the characters from the show like Lisa Kelly and Darrel Ward, went to South America driving truck on some of the worst roads in the world. I found that to be much more entertaining, and I believe far more dangerous as well. Driving a old piece of a crap truck on a 1 lane road with a mountain on one side and a vertical cliff on the other is somethin else entirely.

What bothers me is EVERY single time a truck goes across the ice they play "life threatening" ice cracking/popping sounds and then as the truck nears the other side they play this climactic siren music as if to scare you into not knowing if the truck is going to fall through or make it across. It becomes SOOO annoying!! In the dead of winter the chance of a truck falling through is very very slim. What they don't show is the tons of other trucks that are going across the ice. At the end of the season is when it becomes much more dangerous. If they were to save the climactic music and cracking sounds till the actual more dangerous times they're crossing the ice, it would make it so much more impactful! Not to mention the narrator over-hyping things as well. When it gets slick, the trucks drifting their trailers/cargo around corners is pretty cool i must say.

So all-in-all if ya like the drama of the show and the characters, keep on watchin, otherwise just watch the documentary or the 1st season. I do really recommend the season that was in South America to anyone. The environment, the native people, the culture, the danger, the language barrier played such a huge roll. I wont spoil anything, but I can see why there was only 1 season of that.

The show is OK, but that narrator??!! Is he trying to imitate John Wayne or Howard Cosell? He has a halting, style so slow I could make a ham sandwich between words. He narrates many A&E shows, but for some reason his delivery is slower on I.R.T. He's also using a weird kind of accent he doesn't use on the other shows he narrates. The Characters are colorful enough, but I can't take the narration for very long. Apart from the narration, it's better than anything else during the summer rerun season on Sunday night. All in all, I think I'd rather spend a week on a crab boat and make twice as much as these guys without the expense of a big rig.

Channel 5's new television series, "Ice road truckers" was suitably intriguing at first sight. Further into the series we are introduced to more and more characters and we see their personalities unravel before our eyes.

We learn about aspects of their job such as the huge machines they use to carry out their bidding, and what kind of a life they lead while trawling the Ice Road. All the truckers we see are working for the head honcho "Hugh Roland" a big, hairy, macho man nick named "the polar bear" by his employees.

Soon enough, the true personality of the drivers is revealed; from the very likable southern Californian "T.J." to the rather arrogant Rick Yemm. That brings me to another point, the swearing. Unfortunately the drivers tend to swear every other sentence which leads to a series of very annoying beeps.

The introduction for every episode has so far been repeated from the pilot episode, which has lots of cheesy introductions like Alex's line where he says "It's called the dash for the cash" which makes for some cringe worthy viewing. Apart from these small hang ups (and all the other stuff I have no doubt forgotten) Ice road truckers makes for a likable documentary and some easy Friday night viewing.

Basically, it's show of where the premise of possible disaster is the entertainment while also filled with fake scinarios (scripted hostility between main characters).

Short and sweet and to the point. Is anyone aware or understand that this show is a Reality Show? So what makes a Reality Show? Google has your answer if you need help in finding what a Reality Show is all about Google it This show was awesome and for anyone who loves to drive them big rigs Watch Ice Road Truckers. In my opinion the music blended right in with the suspense of driving on Ice and making it across to the other side safely. They did an awesome job with the drama on the show. Didn't this make you watch what happens next? I mean really that's what Reality Shows are made for and people criticize too much on the Characters personalities These characters on the show are definitely not the people in real life off camera. Does anyone follow what I'm saying?

I am from Norway and don't think the temperature is so extreme , if i calculate it right -32F is just at water freezing, and they show it as terrible at -42. Also i think the trucks are so different than we are using, many things looks like its been around since the early 80's. Who in his right mind uses steel-wire to load and unload the trailer on the rig. That's my opinion,you're technique and solutions are strange for me. And to use alcohol on air tanks was a system we used 20-30 years ago, now its just air drying system, so many different ways to the job. So I think its a good series but some of the characters are a little over the top for me,they are a little full of themselves :)

I have been suspicious of this being staged for a long time. Now I know for sure after seeing Todd getting his rig stuck on a tight turn. Even a novice knows you do not make a sharp right turn from the very right hand side of the road. It looks to me it was done on purpose to give the show something that a trucker might do to try to get out of trouble. A trucker would never put a rig in that position to start with, even with the least amount of experience. Good By IRC.

In addition to so many other programs oriented towards certain adventurous professions, this one at least has charisma and better pictures. The job is also interesting, but could be processed in a more informative way. Nevertheless, the show is fun, especially in the sense of a little pastime and dreaming of the cold northern regions of the world.

Unfortunately another victim of what started out interesting is now overly repetitive,padded out for time,overplayed & just too contrived.Fake tension & poor acting have taken over from a few interesting situations & some rather ninkompoopish people being thrust into jobs they shouldn't be anywhere near.Then there's the big talking hugh finally showing his true self the biggest backstabber ever,then a grovelling pos promising the world to those he's shafted for ages,not to mention the unsafe practices just a big mouth backstabbing buffoon a pathetic excuse of a big baby

Used to be interesting despite the overall repetitive nature of it harping on the dangers seemed neverending to pad it out.Had seen it for a while but just started watching again and it really has rapidly declined into a soapie,hugh & vlad are just totally loathsome backstabbing babies.Even Darryls become quite irritating the whole thing is now too repetitive & scripted

Ice Road Truckers is not perfect. The Series was great for the first five. But jumped the shark near the end with the battle of the Truck companies.

I had always been baffled about why this shot-in-Canada show, which I'd heard was such a big deal in the US and overseas, never aired on any of the Canadian networks. Then I got around to picking up a season one DVD set on eBay and the mystery was quickly solved. If you've ever done any serious winter driving on any of our worst stretches of highway (e.g., Calgary to Revelstoke at night with road conditions rated "poor") you've already experienced white-knuckle driving that's at least as scary as anything you'll see on this show. For the average Canuck, this series is about as exciting as watching people drive to the supermarket (in fact in most cities that's more likely to be a lethal proposition than is a trip up the Ice Road.) One thing I did appreciate, however, is that -- notwithstanding the stereotypical ice-and-snow motif that forms the obvious foundation of the program -- the producers give Canada a very fair, balanced, and generally positive portrayal. This is one of those rare occasions when we come off more as a modern economic powerhouse that just happens to have some very cold bits, rather than a nation of backwards, mostly frozen eh-sayers living in a 19th-century wasteland denominated primarily by beaver pelts, maple syrup and lumberjacks.

I like the bits where they drive the trucks across a frozen lake

There is absolutely no existing reason known to man to watch this. Why History Channel keeps airing this is beyond me. Typically it revolves around some trucker who drives his vehicle while saying "I'm so scared" in countless verbal variations. Maybe this is very interesting to some, but I really don't get it. Equal shows like Deadliest Catch at least have some pay-off when you get to see the catch. But here? Nothing. It's basically promoted as a show about going down dramatically through the ice. But they never do. So if you really want to see trucks disappearing through a hole in the arctic ice, this is not it. Then it's the music. Fact: dull moments don't become exiting just because you put horror/action-movie music on them. I get that it's inexpensive to produce programs like this. But that's all there is to it, really. And that it's boring. To the point that people with average brain capacity get offended. Please excuse my bad English, I'm angry and Swedish.

This show delivers for me. The pure harshness of the frigid North pitted against the blessed functionality of the cab heater is the most delicious tension that beats out the others. The other contrived frictions and dillemas of the gig, including the dreaded cracking lake ice, are a distant competitor to the miracle of cruising comfortably in a climate resembling a distant planet. But said dilemmas do provide for some interesting conversations up in that silent void. And the time I got to spend hearing Alex and Lisa explain themselves and their occupations to me is a time I felt at the feet of wonderous and beautiful adventurers.

After watching several episodes I thought that this show was over-hyped -- where every moment is made out to be a life-or-death situation. After seeing the same graphic of a tractor & trailer falling through the ice -- shown 3 or 4 times per episode -- it gets to be a bit hard to believe. And the narrator, Thom Beers, is obviously trying to sell us on a danger that is probably a lot less significant than the TV producers want us to believe.

Then, I found out that a coworker had spent almost 20 years driving on the ice road! After hearing her descriptions of what it was really like -- well, I won't be watching this over-hyped piece of crap any more!

Not a bad show wonderful landscape the most disappointing part of the show is until I watched it I honestly never realized how big of whiners Truck drivers are, the cry and complain about everything. And every show is always the worse road in the province. They also make it seem that trucks are falling through the ice everyday when in reality the ice is tested on some lakes every day other per lakes every three days. If the ice is determined to not be safe it's closed. Understand things happen but not as often as they like to make it seem.