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Channel 19

Close encounters on the Alaskan ‘Haul Road’

Carlile Transportation driver Jim “J.D.” Dobbs sees “a lot of wildlife” on somewhat regular runs on the Dalton Highway in Alaska to and from the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. “Moose, caribou, things of that nature,” he says. “Some are close calls – when you come over a hill on the way to Prudhoe Bay and a large herd […]

June 14, 2010

Overdrive Extra

‘Ice Road Trucker’ comes home to thaw

Carlile Transportation’s George Spears When I rode with Alaskan Haul Road driver George Spears in the summer of 2006, he was planning to retire in the next year or so. However, he kept postponing the day. Then he was asked to stay for production of the third season of the History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers” […]

February 11, 2010

Overdrive Extra

'On those wrecks just like a vulture'

The top three photos on the right are from my 2006 ride along Alaska’s Dalton Highway with the smiling trucker, George Spears. It was published in Truckers News. If you watched the History Channel’s third season of “Ice Road Truckers,” which premiered last Sunday, you might recall Spears, one of the featured drivers. This season’s shows […]

June 5, 2009