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Ice Road Truckers (commercially abbreviated IRT) is a reality television series that aired on History Channel from 2007 to 2017. It featured the activities of drivers who operated trucks on ice roads crossing frozen lakes and rivers, in remote territories in Canada and the U.S. state of Alaska.
Rick Yemm: One of Rowland's employees. This brash, tattooed trucker, also from Kelowna, was in his second year as an ice road trucker during Season 1. In 2006, Yemm was one of the first truckers onto the ice road after it opened when, according to him, the sound of cracking ice was loudest.
Debogorski, Rowland, and Yemm continue driving in Canada for this season, moving cargo along the Dempster Highway (Debogorski) and Manitoba's winter roads (Rowland and Yemm). Jessee (seasons 3 and 4) returns to drive the Dalton along with three newcomers, and Hall appears in one episode to help move a modular building up from Fairbanks.
Norman Yemm (1933–2015), Australian actor, athlete and footballer, played Norm Baker in the television drama The Sullivans; Richard Yemm, British inventor of the Pelamis Wave Energy Converter and CTO of Pelamis Wave Power; Rick Yemm, Season 1 driver on American TV series Ice Road Truckers; Steve Yemm, British politician
She also took part in the History Channel's Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads [10] [2] in later 2010, along with Rick Yemm, Dave Redmon and Alex Debogorski, [11] trucking in the Himalayas in India during the first season, being the only one to conquer the journey through the Himalaya's mountain range.
Rick and other truckers drive back to pick up Hugh's load and swap trailers so he can take a usable one back to Winnipeg. Once Rick has the cargo, he makes a late-night run to bring it in. Finding an overturned passenger vehicle in a ditch, Alex gives its two occupants a ride and has to put up with their constant arguing as he finishes his run.
Ice Road Truckers Alex Debogorski, Rick Yemm, and Lisa Kelly make a living driving the deadly ice roads of North America, but they've never seen anything like this. To prove they're the best drivers in the world, the truckers head to India to take on the extreme mountain roads of the Himalayas.
As the ice road from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk is completed, drivers converge on Inuvik for the start of the year's transport season. Debogorski, Rowland, Yemm, and Sherwood find themselves lumped in with the other "highway maggots" – the local drivers' term for rookies on this road – and must adapt to new rules and conditions.