Ice Roads

Ice Road - Around The World - Sweden
... In the northern part of Sweden are many ice roads ... Ice roads are usually put in when ice thickness exceeds 20 cm (7.9 in) ... The limitations for ice road traffic normally include A speed limit of 30 km/h (19 mph) ...

John Denison (engineer) - Biography
... associated with Byers Transport Limited, with whom he engineered a network of winter ice roads throughout the Northwest Territories to service various mines (including Port Radium ... the first to attempt truck freighting on winter roads into Yellowknife (that honour goes to Al Hamilton of Grimshaw Trucking in the mid 1950s), he perfected the art of constructing ice roads and built ... His major interest was hauling around large buildings on ice roads between mining camps ...

Ice Road
... Ice roads (ice crossings, ice bridges) are frozen, human-made structures on the surface of bays, rivers, lakes, or seas in the far north ... They link dry land, frozen waterways, portages and winter roads, and are usually remade each winter ... Ice roads allow temporary transport to areas with no permanent road access ...

Ice Road Truckers - Season 3
... Synopsis Season 3 of Ice Road Truckers covers the Dalton Highway, which connects Fairbanks, Alaska, Coldfoot, Alaska, and Deadhorse, Alaska near Prudhoe ... The tagline for the season is "In the Dark Heart of Alaska, there's a road where hell has frozen over" ... four of America's bravest truckers to tackle the tundra's deadliest ice passage ...

Ice Road Truckers - Season 1
... The mining companies that owned the road where the first season was filmed felt that the show portrayed the road in a negative fashion ... A new rule for the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Roads was enacted for the 2008 season, prohibiting commercial, media, video or rolling film cameras either inside or attached to ... The challenge to transport 10,000 loads in 60 days—before the road disappears ...