Liam Neeson takes the ice road
New film showcases one of the world’s most dangerous trucking jobs
0 64 2 minutes read Liam Neeson stars in a new Netflix action-thriller, “The Ice Road.” (Photo: Netflix/Youtube)
Streaming service Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) has released the trailer for its recent $18 million European film purchase, “The Ice Road.” The action-thriller is led by the “Taken” trilogy star, Liam Neeson, and features an all-star crew including Lawrence Fishburne (“ The Matrix”), Holt McCallany (“Mindhunter”), Amber Midthuner (“Legion”) and Matt McCoy (“Jack Ryan”).
Neeson plays the role of Mike, an experienced ice road truck driver who signs up with his right-hand mechanic to join Goldenrod’s (Fishburne) rescue team as they set out to deliver 300 feet of pipe to a collapsed, remote diamond mine to save the trapped miners.
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chronicling drivers’ adventures and mishaps on the frozen roads of Alaska and Canada, ran for 11 seasons, concluding in 2017.
No small part of the shows’ success was Lisa Kelly, who still lives in Wasilla, Alaska, where she keeps a cat, a pig and five horses. One of a very few “IRT” female truckers, she was part of Seasons 3–5 and 7–11. Kelly’s popularity led to opportunities for trucking industry sponsorships, including appearances at major trucking shows.
Overdrive’s June 2013 cover story profiled Kelly, who was returning for the show’s seventh season after taking a year off.Kelly drives the state’s Dalton Highway, a.k.a. the Haul Road, between Fairbanks and the oil fields around Prudhoe Bay on Alaska’s northern shore. She declined to name the fleet she drives for, but in a recent video interview with
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One relic of Coldfoot s history is the tree-trunk pole, visible in the background. After truckers finished months of hammering together scrap wood from pipeline insulation crates to form the main building, in celebration they raised the pole, and engraved their names for future truckers and guests to see, says the Coldfoot website. To this day, the center pole does double duty: as a communications center, crowded with notes for truckers, miners and other folk in the area. Max Heine
This piece, published July 23, 2009, has been updated for Overdrive s 2021 60th anniversary series and speaks to two aspects of trucking history. One is the role truckers played in developing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline coming out of the oil processing complex at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska s northern shore. The other is the more recent Ice Road Truckers TV series, which set some of its seasons on the snow-covered Dalton Highway between Fairbanks and Prudhoe Bay, which runs through Coldfoot
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