Ice Road Truckers season 1

The mission: To haul critical supplies across 350 miles of frozen lakes to Canada's remote billion-dollar diamond mines.

Six ice road truckers are introduced, and are described as men driving eighteen-wheelers who haul equipment and supplies from Yellowknife, Canada, across a temporary road composed of portages and frozen lakes, to one of three diamond mines northeast of Yellowknife.

Yemm ultimately quit and returned home, feeling his friend was not fulfilling his responsibilities to maintain the trucks.

In one episode, Yemm is seen bouncing up and down, pumping the accelerator pedal up and down, and messing with the steering wheel, all the while facing the camera and saying "yee-haw motha fucker!

"[citation needed] In Season 2, Debogorski had to leave early because of illness (a pulmonary embolism) as seen in episode 8, "A Trucker’s Farewell".

Despite his ordeals, Tilcox gains respect for the job and the people who do it, as well as self-satisfaction for having completed the entire season — a rare feat for a rookie (as mentioned in the finale).

For starters, he loses his battery box and batteries (resulting in two days lost while a replacement box is fabricated on the spot), suffers a flat tire, and then experiences problems with his truck's on-board computer that forces him to abandon a load on the roadside.

They believed the show depicted drivers as cowboys making a mad dash for money and taking excessive risks to do so.

As a result, the owners decided not to participate in future seasons of the show, and a new rule for the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Roads was enacted for the 2008 season, prohibiting commercial, media, video, or rolling film cameras either inside or attached to the outside of vehicles.

Trying to climb a steep hill, he becomes stuck, due to the way the load sits on his truck, but fortunately there is a bulldozer on site to pull him the rest of the way.

Total hauls for the season: Three additional one-hour specials ran in the weeks following "The Final Run".

Clips from season 1 were featured, as well as further commentary from Rowland, Debogorski, and road pioneer John Denison.