IRT Deadliest Roads: Season 2

Spectacular New Location, Same Dangerous Driving: Giving Fans What They've Come To Expect
We've seen the original Ice Road Trucker franchise travel through the arctic territories of Canada and Alaska since 2007. With the "IRT Deadliest Roads" adaptation, the first season took us to some of the poorest non-icy road conditions in India. To up the stakes for Season Two, veteran stars Hugh, Rick and Lisa take us to picturesque South American for hours of navigation among cliff tops and jungle passages. After so many seasons, in one variation or another, of the IRT brand--I'm not sure it's necessary to explain the concept of the show to someone shopping this DVD, so I won't. What I will say, though, is that the Andes mountain range offers spectacular new challenges as well as incredible visual delights. The environment itself is so different from anything our truckers have faced on screen, so the setting plays just as much a role (if not more) than the incidental drama. The location footage is a major selling point. Other than that, your enjoyment of the show depends on...

IRT is introduced to the Andes!!!
I have followed the Ice Road Truckers series quite carefully and was delighted to buy the second season of Deadliest Roads. Watching this makes your hands feel sweaty and clinging to the side of your armrest as you see the dangers of these roads that the truckers take through the Andes of Bolivia while they deliver critical cargo to poor villages. I must also wonder what kind of money they were offered to take these risks on the mountainous roads because danger is awaiting around every corner and each trucker is unable to even relax from their rigid stances behind the wheel.
The first trips introduce the truckers to hairpin turns on paths barely wide enough to even fit their trucks on, hugging the mountainside and sending rocks tumbling off the edge over drop-offs of at least 2000 feet high into rivers and rocks below. The roads prove too much to two of our veteran truckers--Dave Redmon, who faces severe brake failures in the end while riding with Lisa Kelly, and Rick Yemm, who...

Need More
As a driver who logs 60k or more each year, I am amazed at the insanity of the roads they're on!

I can't get enough of these guys!!!

Need more seasons!

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