Hell on the Highway

Nice to see a show about the very dangerous and much needed work done by towing and recovery professionals. I'd like them to be a little better trained than what I've see so far. Use of equipment that is not up to snuff is very dangerous to operators and others in the area. Frayed cables, sub-standard lighting, empty fuel tanks are all amateur hour mistakes. Chains breaking because the working load limit has been exceeded shows a lack of proper training, or worse, a disregard for life safety. It's dangerous enough. The attitudes of some owners and operators is disappointing. No one likes a whiny employee, eh bro. Most should consider themselves lucky to be working in this economy. Considering attitudes and lack of professionalism.

How did they find such aweful dull and self righteous people to comment on a show, copper who thinks he would do better but has never been in these situations ever, lil miss says what she sees spoiling the sound on clips. The clips are repeated several times to pad the program too, even someone with the attention spam of a goldfish will have seen the subject matter and sigh seeing it repeated again while these 3 random un-celebs chat rubbish over it.

Get on YouTube and avoid all the terrible time wasting comments. You can find these clips easily and fast forward past all the rubbish. Save yourself an hour you won't get back!

This 'reality' show (with the usual people trying to act-up for the cameras) is a depressing look at both the foolish & innocent motorists stranded due to weather and stupidity, and the tow-truck companies that prey on their predicament with exorbitant rates, yet still operate poorly functioning tow vehicles in many cases.

No doubt, tow truck drivers perform important, dirty and often dangerous work, but none of these businesses or the operators are "unsung heroes."

The show's producers fake such things as passing truck horns (complete with Doppler effect), CHP radio traffic over the scanner, and who knows what else.

I'm hoping the show doesn't last beyond one season.

amateur tow truck operators poor equipment all operators just interested in the money winching loaded semi with one cable while other cable hangs from boom winching cars up embankments using j-hooks just untrained tow operators always talking about a driver that was killed no wonder if he was as untrained as cowboys on show now would be more interesting if operators knew what they were doing these people would last one tow in our company if the boss seen these antics I am sure it is more difficult in the mountains than in Wisconsin all the more reason for at least some training rather than what seems like throw them in truck and let them go

There are a lot of dangerous jobs but being a tow truck driver in the Sierras is one of the riskiest!! I admire these men and women who brave the winter elements to help/assist/rescue our loved ones. I also respect the families of these drivers for it cannot be easy to say goodbye every time their loved one goes on a tow call.. Thank you to these professionals......especially Eddie Farrow for sharing his family with us :) I live along the Hwy 80 corridor in the Sierra Foothills and can see and hear the constant flow of travelers every day and often wonder how many of those people will need the help of a tow truck driver going over Donner Summit. Hwy 80 can be a dangerous stretch of highway where these drivers risk their lives for us. I love Hell on the Highway for putting a spot light on these drivers and bringing the risk to light......