Episode
Highway Thru Hell: Blacktop Whiteout
Overview
Team Aggressive navigates their way through the snowy chaos to join Reliable Towing's Dylan on a recovery; Jamie uses his LA Rotator to help truckers stuck in the snow; Highways Maintenance and Al have their hands full guiding drivers up the highway; AJ braves the snowy backcountry by himself to rescue a stuck service truck.
Details
- Series
- Highway Thru Hell
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2023-10-23
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Blacktop Whiteout is Episode 8 in Season 12 of Highway Thru Hell. It aired on 2023-10-23. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 7: Head On
A crash on the Canyon Highway requires the technical skills of Hope Search and Rescue to rescue the driver; Dylan mentors Reliable operator Stephanie on her first heavy job; a new team in the north take on a huge job with the help of a crane truck; Jamie puts his son Junior on the controls of his prized rotator for the first time.
Episode 9: When It Hits Home
Jamie's on high alert as he's the first responder to a pileup while on his way to another crash; Team Quiring works with BC Highway Patrol to clear a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 1; a shocking crash into a residential home.
More episodes from this season
Episode 6: Deliver the Goods
Merv helps Abbotsford Police deal with a wreck on the vital Highway 11 route to the US border; Team Reliable battles a twisted lumber b-train shutting down Highway 7; MSA's Kirpal works with his son Gurk to rescue a semi on the verge of tipping into a ditch; Jamie is impressed by AJ's skills when they rescue a trailer from a landslide.
Episode 10: Wrecker And Goliath
Team MSA debuts their brand new 35-ton up on the Coquihalla to take on their first double heavy job with their own trucks; Aggressive Towing's junior operator Jaydan struggles to pull out a severe jackknife; blistering winds test Jamie with a subzero recovery.
Episode 5: Bold Moves
Reliable's team are challenged by a sideways semi that could lose its load of groceries at any moment; a snowstorm keeps Al busy while BC Highway Patrol arms motorists to brave the Coquihalla; AJ does a solo job for Jamie, battling through deep snow on a back road.
Episode 11: Brothers In Tow
Al and Jamie have a rare reunion while both working the summit of the Coquihalla highway, Reliable Towing's John and Andy must close a vital brake check while recovering a rolled-over semi, Team Aggressive uses an unconventional solution to get a stolen piece of equipment out of the ditch.
Episode 4: Killer's Corner
MSA and Reliable team up for a wreck on the Canyon Highway's notorious Killer's Corner; Jamie uses a rollover as an opportunity to teach crew new skills; Team Quiring meet the challenge of a swamped-in dump truck with a bulldozer; the anniversary of last year's catastrophic floods is cause for reflection.
Episode 12: Rolling Solo
Al heads to a semi in a snowbank but a second rig hits it before he gets there; Jamie puts his LA Rotator to the test on a technical elevated roadway recovery; Kyle wrestles with doing a dump truck rollover without the help of his Uncle Rob.
Episode 3: Billion Dollar Pull
Jamie clears a snowed-in semi at the foot of the Rockies before an avalanche control operation ends; Al fills a crucial role in a billion dollar infrastructure project; Reliable's Ty and Andy wrestle a wreck to keep rush hour moving; Dylan uses the military rotator on an icy backroad recovery.
Episode 13: Home Delivery
Merv leads Team Aggressive to get a lumber b-train out of the ditch; Reliable Towing races to recover a semi down a deep bank off the highway, Don and Mike from Peninsula Towing play a vital role in getting a house to a waiting barge before the tide goes out.
Episode 2: Triple Threat
Jamie joins forces with brother Jason and Aggressive Towing to pull off a triple rotator job on the Canyon Highway, Team Reliable's Ty and Andy contend with trees and tight space to pull out an RV, Jamie gets emotional when one of his favourite trucks goes down in flames.
Episode 14: Pileup Under the Mistle-Tow
As the holiday season approaches, Reliable Towing is faced with their biggest wreck of the season. Jamie enlists Rob's log truck driving experience to pilot a torn-up trailer safely down Highway 1. Merv uses the full might of his rotator to right a flipped crane truck.