The premiere of a new series that puts viewers in the passenger seat, riding shotgun with drivers who have the most dangerous jobs in the world. This episode features transporting towers and turbine fan blades from Texas and Washington state to a wind farm in South Dakota.
The US Army's HET trucks transport the heaviest equipment and vehicles through a war zone, on long hauls where IEDs, EFPs mines, rocket fire and sniper bullets are a constant threat, and a breakdown can mean certain death.
Heavy-duty log truckers battle the elements, driving extremely heavy log loads through steep, winding roads, on the sides of the Northern Rocky Mountain range.
Emergency Services teams in two of America's most dangerous cities, New Orleans, and Camden, New Jersey face everyday crises while still recovering from the aftermath of natural (Katrina) and man made (urban decay) disasters.
A team of adventurers trek across inhospitable deserts from Arches National Park in Utah to the dried out lake bed of the Sevier Lake, once the floor of a prehistoric inland sea that later became the Great Salt Lake.