Ice Road Trucking

That shows dumb... I feel bad for the poor drivers in the show cause they really try hard to make them look retarded but theres no way they are that dumb... they must set up cameras and say "drive into this ditch"or something. Seeing them bang their heads off the roof of their truck trying to run up a icy washboard hill going 60kmh... if the camera was off they would just put on a set, crawl up in 3rd or 4 and not destroy their trucks lol...

 

Anyone with half a brain knows most of the guys they follow are morons. The last few seasons on Manitoba's bush roads has been a complete joke. Nobody worth their salt would beat the piss out of a truck like that. I hope History Channel is buying those companies new trucks each season for the way those guys abuse them.

 

wait a minute.. after watching now I want to pull my rig out of ditch with a couple of straps tied to a tree.

 

I was watching where Lisa is lost and she looks at here trip sheet and it says polar on it I backed it up and paused and it was easy to read.

I always wondered how Lisa and Darrell could start a company in Canada and then drive another company's truck lee river and then haul polar freight if it was not totally scripted.

 

Polar probably brokers freight to them. Does anyone really think a couple of American outsiders are going to backdoor customers of a niche Canadian company like Polar has been servicing for years? At the end of the season they all came together singing kumbayah on the crawler project loads across that lake. If they just showed trucking without any hype it would be boring.

 

Only Canadian residents can haul a load from Canada to Canada.

 

That's true if you are hauling for an american carrier. To haul canadian freight in canada you would need to be working for a canadian company with at least a canadian work visa.

Of course we don't have these restrictions in the US. SMDH

 

Yes you do. Foreign drivers cannot haul domestic loads in the U.S.

 

It's not the driver, it's the company.

 

Incorrect. Read up on cabotage.

GUIDELINES FOR COMPLIANCE OF COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLES (CMV) AND CMV DRIVERS ENGAGED IN CROSS-BORDER TRAFFIC

Truck drivers may only transport cargo traveling in the stream of international commerce within the meaning of U.S. immigration law. The intent of the transportation operator provision of NAFTA is to allow the free movement of goods across the border, an activity that is international in scope, but not to facilitate access to the domestic labor market. Set forth below are examples of the distinction between domestic and international movements.

Permissible movements for the driver:

• Drivers may deliver a shipment from Canada/Mexico to one or more U.S. locations.
• Drivers may then pick up a return shipment from one or more U.S. locations for delivery to Canada/Mexico (generally must be pre-arranged).
• Drivers may deliver a shipment from Canada/Mexico to a U.S. location, deadhead with the same trailer to another U.S. location, and live load that trailer for delivery to Canada/Mexico.
• Drivers may deliver a shipment from Canada/Mexico to a U.S. location, deadhead with the same trailer to another location, drop the empty trailer and pick up a second loaded trailer for delivery to Canada/Mexico.
• Drivers may deliver a shipment from Canada to a U.S. location, pick up the empty trailer and deadhead that trailer to another U.S. location where the trailer is live loaded for delivery to Canada/Mexico.
• Drivers may also drop a loaded trailer from Canada/Mexico at one location in the U.S., and drive an empty tractor to another location to pick up a loaded trailer for transport to Canada/Mexico.
• Relay drivers may drive entirely domestic segments of an international delivery if the driver the delivery meets two conditions: 1) the driver must be employed by the same company as the delivery; and 2) the domestic portion of the trip is a necessary incident to the international nature of the trip. Relaying is permitted in order for drivers to comply
with Federal regulations regarding the number of consecutive hours an individual is permitted to drive. They need not enter with the vehicle, but must enter within a reasonable period.
• Drivers may perform activities that are “necessary incidents” of international commerce, such as loading and unloading international cargo.
In each situation above, each trailer must be used only in delivering goods either to or from the United States.

Movements not permitted for the driver:

• Drivers may not pick up a shipment at one U.S. location and deliver that shipment to another U.S. location.
• Drivers may not reposition an empty trailer between two points in the United States when the driver did not either enter with or depart with that trailer.
• Drivers may not “top up” an international shipment with U.S. domestic shipments.
• Drivers may not solicit shipments for domestic deliveries while in the United States.

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/policy/dhs-cross-border-trucking-guidelines.pdf​