What Is Ice Road Truck Driving?
Ice Road Truck Driving is not same as driving a semi truck on a highway! It is driving a semi truck over frozen rivers and lakes hauling goods from one side to other. WOW! How COOL is that? These badass truckers are the action heroes of the trucking business.
Source: www.transportation.gov
An ice road is a road that runs on a naturally frozen water surface. These ice roads are allowing transportation of goods to areas where there is no permanent existence of real roads. Ice roads are located in:
- Northern Canada
- Alaska’s Bush
- Northern Michigan
- Northern Wisconsin
- Northern Scandinavia
- Estonia
- Northeast China and
- Russia
It all began with John Denison, a Canadian engineer that in the 1950’s designed a network of ice roads in Northwest Territories to service the mines. In 1962 Denison took the most significant job for the ice road trucking.
The job required transportation of generators through ice roads to Hay River. Denison accepted the challenge. Going to the mine site, hauling the generators 450 miles south to Hay River was accomplished.
