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The cable TV show ‘Ice Road Truckers’ is due back on our screens soon and it will be a chance to get ourselves reaquainted with the disparate characters taking the risks and reaping the rewards hauling equipment and supplies into the diamond mines in Canada’s frozen far north. [video http://albums.phanfare.com/video.js?v=4&u=4957656&a_id=4002646&id=70941960&hash=fd8782fe3c098cc11e90303a24642481&width=428&height=374&wmodetransparent=1nolink] The show’s success is not [...]

The showing of a realistic documentary about truckers hauling mining equipment across the frozen lakes of Canada could be a two edged sword. It does show the truckies themselves in a positive light but behaviour of some of the characters later in the series may reinforce people’s negative stereotypes about drivers in the transport industry.