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For fans of Ice Road Truckers --- new series
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Looks good. Advertised during the show's 4th season and due next week I think, "Ice Road Truckers --- Most dangerous roads". The clip I saw had them driving around a really narrow winding mountain road. Looking forward to this on History.
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Just shows though, how bad driving in India is !
Anything to do with his short fuse I wonder?
Or the way he cuts corners to get the job done quicker, and his competiveness with Alex might have made him to much of a loose cannon and a potential risk.
It's wouldn't go down to well if one of the truckers themselves were to die.
Truck fallen over the edge, wrecked. Conversation goes:
"He's still in there!"
"He's still in the truck?"
"He's dead."
May of course turn out to be just them supposing the guy is dead, and he survives....
It's a good job Alex didn't make to that part of the road, otherwise he would have had a heart attack with his history of heart trouble.
You can see why Hugh wasn't asked as he would have hit those trying to overtake Rick off the road and probably killed himself in the process.
Perhaps though they should ask Rick to run the Dalton on the next series of IRT other than that crybaby Greg Boadwine.
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Ice-Road-Truckers-Deadliest-Roads-Season-1/14849
Here's a book of interest.
http://www.amazon.com/King-Road-Tales-Legendary-Trucker/dp/0470643684/%20%20%20ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1290473407&sr=8-1#_
By the way was there no episode this Thursday (30th Dec)? Next one seems to be 6th Jan.
Here's the book on the amazon uk site, including audio book and even a kindle version.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=King+of+the+Road%3A+True+Tales+from+a+Legendary+Ice+Road+Trucker&Go.x=10&Go.y=10&Go=Go
The spin off IRT dangerous roads is set in India, Ice road truckers season 4 is set in Alaska now although they started in Canada back in season 1.
http://www.history.co.uk/shows/ice-road-truckers/archive/season-4/about.html
http://www.history.co.uk/shows/ice-road-truckers/about.html
When it's studied closely there in a 45 min episode there is very little footage of anything dangerous, it's all in the editing and the audio.
With only one camera in the cab, it's impossible to film ( at one and the same time) , Lisa's wheel's slipping, Lisa's rig getting close to the 100 foot drop, an overhead shot of Lisa's rig and a undershot of Lisa's rig. All we have is Lisa's reaction to the incident, all the rest of the footage is random, stock footage, slickly edited, of OTHER rigs.
Has anyone seen an actual accident on this show, or just the aftermath ?
I like the idea of IRT, but It's done on the cheap.
Whilst I take your point ...
(but you have to bear in mind that TV is "fake" by its very nature - every time you see people "meet" and then, for example, go indoors, you invariably see a reverse shot from inside the house. They clearly filmed things twice and cut them together.)
With IRT - World's Most Dangerous Roads ...
Didn't we see an overhead shot (from a cab-mounted "webcam") of Alex ripping the door off a parked car (which, in his defence, threw its door open without looking as he was already driving past). And we (almost) saw him colliding with the car that came out of a junction expecting him to stop.
There was also a minor landslide (well, rockfall) a couple of weeks ago that got everyone running for cover.
And we've seen a few instances of lorries with one rear tyre completely off the road.
There's unusually more than just "one camera in the cab". There's at least two mini-cams on the windscreen and a cameraman sitting in the back. There is also a "chase" 4x4 which contains another camera (and production crew).
But, on balance, yes ... you are pretty unlikely to see a full-on cinema-style car-crash or the like. You just can't film every angle of three trucks 24/7 for two months.
What I find a bit "fake" is the pretence that Lisa is "alone" - whether on the Ice Road or in India. Last week we saw her close to being mobbed before Rick and Dave came to her rescue. I'm sorry, but I'm pretty sure that there was another member of the IRT crew in the cab doing the filming - and the 4x4 wouldn't have been far away. There's no way the organisation would have left her in serious peril with an angry mob :eek:
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