This is the story of six truckers who work two months a year delivering supplies and equipment to Canada's diamond mines near the Artic Circle. They set out from Yellowknife, Northern Territories, on a 350-mile road that is frozen for about eight weeks before melting back into lake water. Conditions are extermely dangerous and brutal-the ice can crack, whiteouts make driving impossible, there are days and nights of isolation, temperatures can dip to minus 60 degrees. The payoff for this extreme environment: big money for a short period of work. Top guys get about $35.000 to $40.000 (they get paid about $2,000 a load). This will be the second season of the ultimate reality show aired on the History Channel.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
This is the story of six truckers who work two months a year delivering supplies and equipment to Canada's diamond mines near the Artic Circle. They set out from Yellowknife, Northern Territories, on a 350-mile road that is frozen for about eight weeks before melting back into lake water. Conditions are extermely dangerous and brutal-the ice can crack, whiteouts make driving impossible, there are days and nights of isolation, temperatures can dip to minus 60 degrees. The payoff for this extreme environment: big money for a short period of work. Top guys get about $35.000 to $40.000 (they get paid about $2,000 a load). This will be the second season of the ultimate reality show aired on the History Channel.
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