Episode
Highway Thru Hell: Off Road
Overview
Jamie and his tow brothers discuss some of their toughest backroad adventures on HIGHWAY THRU HELL; Al, Ken, Jason and Mitch swap tales and share advice on some of their most spectacular off-road recoveries.
Details
- Series
- Highway Thru Hell
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 2019-12-30
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Off Road is Episode 13 in Season 8 of Highway Thru Hell. It aired on 2019-12-30. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 12: Double Crossed
Mitch discovers a massive wreck involving two semis; Reliable and Aggressive Towing join forces to recover a pair of entangled 18-wheelers; a tippy trailer abandoned on a soft shoulder tests Jamie; Gord finds himself in deep in a peat bog.
Episode 14: Rock and a Hard Place
Brandon and Cam team up to rescue a lumber truck tangled in a rock face on Highway 3; Al digs out a buried semi on a notorious corner on The Coq; a tractor fire puts James in the hot seat.
More episodes from this season
Episode 11: Lives On the Line
A terrifying crash involving one of their own shocks Team Reliable; Dylan and Merv pair up to lift a heavy load of steel pilings off a highway; Cam races to rescue a fellow tow operator stuck on a blind corner.
Episode 15: Fried Chicken
Near Hope, B.C., a burning truck hauling frozen chicken has Cam and Jamie in a race to move the smoky hazard off the highway; a flipped logging truck near Merritt turns into a tussle for Mitch and James.
Episode 10: Sub Zero
A polar vortex brings extreme cold and brutal working conditions to truck drivers and heavy wrecker operators on The Coq; Colin fights to recover a frozen rig; Cam finds himself in a dilemma with one of Jamies classic wreckers.
Episode 16: The Warrior
A lost load of lumber pulls Jamie and Colin Mclean into a battle on the banks of B.C.s Skagit River; Al takes a chance with "Big Green" to rescue a sinking excavator; James and Rooster wrestle a twisted wreck near Merritt.
Episode 9: Door to Door
James Luke and "Black Sheep" rush to clear a tractor trailer on its side loaded with heavy doors. An 18-wheeler filled with firewood tests Cam and Colin. And Gord and Al must perform a delicate manoeuvre to move a shipping container full of garbage off the Trans Canada Highway.
Episode 17: Fire Mountain
After surviving a near-fatal heart attack, Ken leads the Mission crew on its most daunting recovery in years; lodged in the trees, 200 feet below a mountain road, the damaged dump truck pushes Kens team to the edge of disaster.
Episode 8: Road to Recovery
A tractor trailer clinging to the edge of a mountain has Mitch, Merv and James pulling together to save the load; after years of relying on older equipment, Jamie Davis brings home a surprise for the team.
Episode 7: Heavy Hearts
Merv is dispatched in Aggressive Towings 50-ton rotator to open the road after a collision in Fraser Valley; Jamie takes a classic wrecker on a 2,000-kilometre journey north; news about a key member of the Mission Towing family hits home.
Episode 6: Thin Ice
A cliffside recovery on the banks of Coldwater River puts James and Adam on thin ice; Colin makes a roadside repair in the middle of a winter storm; Al and Gord race to move a house off a busy highway.
Episode 5: Return to Sender
Near Merritt, a parcel delivery truck is torn open, scattering hundreds of packages across The Coq; facing high winds, high speed traffic and the threat of falling rocks, Reliable Towing overcomes numerous obstacles to clear the wreck.