ice road trucking
Driving frozen lakes
Ice road trucking is the practice of hauling freight over frozen lakes and rivers in arctic or subarctic regions during winter months.
The ice must be thick enough to support heavy commercial vehicles—a dangerous window that shortens each year.
The phrase gained wider recognition through reality television: Ice road trucking requires nerves of steel and constant vigilance.
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- frozen lakeWinter-hardened body of water
- black iceInvisible frozen road surface
- haulPull or carry laboriously
- big rigTractor-trailer combination
arctic · convoy · eighteen-wheeler · blizzard · chains · jackknife · white knuckle · diesel · tundra · payload · long haul · skid · whiteout · below zero · rig · cargo · Alaska · remote
- truckingsemi, 18-wheeler, big rig, tractor-trailer, trailer
- Arctic industriesoil drilling, oil extraction, gas extraction, arctic drilling, offshore drilling
- traffic lawstraffic laws, speed limit, speed limits, traffic law, traffic rules
- winter motorsportssnowmobile racing, ice racing