On Thin Ice : Breakdowns, Whiteouts, and Survival on the World's Deadliest Roads

by Rowland, Hugh; Lent, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781401323684
• ISBN10: 1401323685
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-06-08
• Publisher: Hyperion

Summary

The snowdrifts were as high as our trucks. We were boxed in on both sides. There was nothing but blackness beyond the small arc of our lights. The wind harassed us every foot of the way. I bludgeoned and knifed my way through walls of white piled high in front of my bumper. Sometimes I'd slam into a mound so hard that the snow would explode high into the air. The road was deeply rutted and we swung hard back and forth with each jarring drop. The cab creaked and torqued even as the engine strained and roared. As we slowly rumbled and sledgehammered along, I radioed Paul, "Whatever you do, don't stop. Just keep coming no matter what. If you stop, you'll never get going again." Book jacket.

Author Biography

Hugh Rowland is a burly, bearded, hardliving man who blows methyl hydrate into his own brake and fuel lines, and welcomes whiteout storms as breaks from boredom. A trucker with more than thirty years of experience, he runs a successful excavation business in British Columbia and is the leading president of the Ice Road Trucker Foundation. He has been married for nearly thirty years to his childhood sweetheart, Dianne, and has three daughters, Karly, Chandra, and Candace, and two grandchildren.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Snow, Water, and Ice	p. 1
On Top of the World	p. 10
Dogs and Cats	p. 38
Big John	p. 54
A Mile a Day	p. 71
Every Man for Himself	p. 80
Promise and Peril	p. 105
Working for a Polar Bear	p. 121
Dash for the Cash	p. 144
Sunset and Surprise	p. 170
Dances with Wolves	p. 190
Place of Man	p. 200
Epilogue	p. 233
Selected Bibliography	p. 237
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