Ice road drivers on ‘Today’ show

Mar 27, 2009

Updated Dec 14, 2009

Seems no one can get enough of the truckers who run the ice road to diamond mines in far northern Canada. If you hadn’t gotten enough of the ice road truckers via the History Channel’s TV show, check out the video below, which ran on NBC’s Today program this morning. blogger-post-footer”>Channel 19 is the blog version of the column of the same name featured in Overdrive: The Voice of the American Trucker. Todd Dills (tdills@rrpub.com) is its author.

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