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Ice Road Truckers season 9 debuts Sunday

The new, ninth season of the long-running series follows a cast of new and familiar faces on far-Manitoba ice roads, debuting this Sunday on the History Channel at 9 p.m. EDT.

July 30, 2015

Brenner tank trailer on the small screen

Brenner brand tank trailers will be featured in an episode of the “How It’s Made” TV series premiering Thursday, April 9, at 9 p.m. Eastern on the cable Science Channel.

April 7, 2015

The “How It’s Made” crew filming at a Brenner manufacturing facility.

Don’t eat me, bro

The connection between rubberneckers and those who will watch the “earth-shattering event” promised Dec. 7 by a certain cable network and a man who plans to feed himself to an anaconda.

November 12, 2014

I wondered what the inside of a grizzly bear looked like, so you know what? I looked it up on the Google. No special suit required.

TV truck-stop comedy in works

“The next big TV hit could well be a comedy set in, of all places, a truck stop in Kansas.” So writes TruckersNews.com editor David Hollis in the story at this link, following news from several Hollywood media outlets that Big Stop is being produced one of the stars of ABC’s Emmy award-winning show Modern Family and is expected to […]

October 10, 2014

‘Tired truckers’ scare continues

Here we go again: Following CNBC “Collision Course” series on truck accidents, 20/20 follows with “Road to Ruin” — more from the public crash/fatigue discussion here.

September 22, 2014

You can watch 20/20’s “Road to Ruin” special via this link.

Edgar, beware

In which Wendy meets Edgar Hansen of the “Deadliest Catch” series: “Sometimes, meeting people you love to watch on television is hard.”

August 31, 2014

Edgar Hansen on phone

CNBC series probes truck crashes

A new “Collision course” mainstream investigative series on truck crashes debuts. Links to where to watch and comment here.

July 30, 2014

Checking in with Alex Debogorski: Ice Road Truckers season 8 premieres this summer

Season 9 of the History Channel’s Ice Road Truckers franchise will debut this summer; Overdrive’s exclusive interview with Alex Debogorski here.

June 13, 2014

I am funnier than ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’

“As I limp around America, I do so with the firm knowledge that I’m funnier than ‘Hot Tub Time Machine.'”

October 25, 2013

Hot Tube Time Machine

Killer truckers indeed

“The FBI should send out a commendation to every non-serial-killer professional driver on the road that says, ‘Congratulations and thank you for not being a serial killer!'”

August 21, 2013

bumper stickers

‘Killer Truckers’ TV special on re-air

On bright spot in the special about the FBI’s Highway Serial Killings Initiative is that it delved farther into on-highway crime — that against truckers, and trucking advocates’ efforts to tamp down human trafficking.

August 17, 2013

This FBI map of murders plotted in the “Highway Serial Killings Initiative” database was shared on Investigation Discovery’s Facebook page concurrent with the premiere of “Killer Truckers” last weekend — as of Friday morning, it had garnered 999 likes, 400-some-odd shares and more than 200 comments, many from truckers objecting to the wholesale tarring and feathering of the industry in the series’ title. Follow this link to weigh in yourself.

Back on the ice: Lisa Kelly’s return to Ice Road Truckers

Lisa Kelly returns to Ice Road Truckers as a new season debuts on the History Channel Sunday, June 9. What does the most recognizable face in trucking have to say about the latest twists?

June 5, 2013

Find more about Esquire’s anointing Kelly the “Sexiest Trucker Alive” as well as more about fellow Carlile Transportation driver Carey Hall and others in this past story from the Channel 19 blog on OverdriveOnline.com.

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