I hadn't seen this show before today (Flag Day 2018), but with the "H" Channel running a wee marathon, I decided to give it look. One of my two maternal uncles named Clarence (her youngest sister decided to marry a guy with the same name as their oldest brother!), having been a longhauler who called me "Kenworth!" after his favorite rig, is 1 of the main reasons I've loved since I was a kid to do like Bugs Bunny once told Humphrey Bogart & "hit the road!" I never did get to ride with Clarence when I was old enough as he had promised, since declining health forced him off the roads before that, but my interest has never waned. Having then looked up "dvd" on this only to find a mini-flood of information all saying this show is FAKE really deflated my tires. I'd forgotten about the old ex-Court TV show Operacion Repo, which was so nicely done that only 2 scenes stuck out as nakedly fake (as well as Lizard Lick Towing, which being set closer to my neck of the US woods was an even bigger letdown). What annoyed me about this caper were their version of what I call "beauty shots" - which might be the giveaway - such as, re: Shipping Wars, views of a rig blowing down the highway taken from the shoulder or of the "hunters" coming into some place or another; how do the camerapeople somehow manage to get to X destination(s) BEFORE them to film their arrival? That it's nothing new - the various house "flip" shows employ this dumb device all the time showing the buyers coming into their freshly bought shacks from the INSIDE - doesn't make it any less aggravating. So until either "H" shows the episodes detailed by the other reviewers or I get the DVD versions, I won't see how bad their thinness is that's had audiences raving - in the wrong way. Then, as if all this wasn't bad enough (plus hintings about Ice Road Truckers, which really will be horrible), comes the sad information, like feisty old dude Roy in Shipping Wars, that last year one of these guys bit the dust untimely. Sigh. Neither of these productions embodied the over-the-road romance espoused by Jerry Garcia & them Grateful Deads in "Truckin' " - 1 of my favorite Deads tunes - or Jack Kerouac 60 years ago, though he wasn't doing no trucking, but their flawed setups aside, they do provide nice See The USA visuals for us Open Road lovers to enjoy, hence my halfway-mark rating. Sure beats the broken-record anemic network claptrap ABC/CBS/NBC vomit out. R.I.P. to Vincent Jones.
