The winter season is already off to a hellish start when a major blizzard slams the Coquihalla Highway. Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue's "A" team, Adam and Kevin, spends a busy morning clearing spun out semis off the road when word comes that a multi vehicle pile-up has closed down both northbound lanes. While Adam scrambles to get the highway open, Jamie tries to free a semi from a steep, icy off-ramp. Jamie's eldest son, Brandon's first night on the job ended when he discovered a driver fatality crushed by the wheels.
A double-trailer load of lumber had flipped and spilled across a quarter mile of highway. Even with three heavy rescue trucks, Jamie's crew doesn't have enough equipment to do the job right. Adam is angry about the lack of equipment and the poor condition of his truck. Last year, Jamie ordered a state of the art heavy rescue truck called a Rotator. But the busy winter season is here and the custom-built wrecker still hasn't been delivered. Just days before Christmas, Jamie heads to the factory in Tennessee to bring it home himself with his new recruit, Hugo. While they are gone, Adam has his hands full with the B team when a semi filled with expensive wine goes off a cliff.
Jamie's having second thoughts about bringing his son Brandon onboard when the teenager spends his paycheck on ear piercings. Then his right hand man Kevin shows up to a wreck without the gear he needs to control traffic. When Jamie confronts him, Kevin storms off the job. Jamie's one bright spot is his brand new truck, the Rotator. But even that lets him down when he's called out to save a trailer stuck in a ditch, and only ends up destroying it after Kevin discovered it was weighed down by boxes of cadmium. Next night, little Jamie Jr. joins in as an observer for a seemingly 'easy job', only for Junior to fall asleep in the truck, while Jamie, Kevin and Brandon witnessed two more accidents in deteriorating weather and road conditions, turning it into a multi-car pileup, and Jamie ended up unnecessarily destroying the snow plow.
To keep up with a busy season, Jamie hires on a new guy, greenhorn driver Rob. When Rob turns out to be a slow learner - and then goes AWOL during a major blizzard - Jamie's patience is pushed to the breaking point. Out of boredom, a prank on Rob ended on a sour note when news of a reefer truck with frozen foods crashes over a bank that ended up killing the driver, Jamie is forced to bring in a pick-up crew just to do the recovery while Rob guards the trailer. However, with the cables for flipping the truck snapping, Jamie could get eletrocuted under the live electrical cables. Before firing Rob, he decides to give him one last chance when a call comes in for a repo job.
Jamie isn't the only tow guy on the Coq. Lone wolf Al Quiring is a tough as nails wrecker and Jamie's main rival, and despite living on the edge of Vancouver, is willing to travel long distances to poach work from Jamie's crew. Their dads did battle a generation ago, now Jamie and Al are fighting it out for the title -"King of the Coq". When the Rotator lands in the shop during an especially busy week by a cheap gasket leakage, Al uses it as a chance to scoop a job off Jamie. Things get more complicated when one of Jamie's new drivers, from the city, learns a close buddy has nearly died in a towing accident during a snowstorm. Ken Monkhouse, who is Vancouver-based, and far more experienced compared to Rob, is working only on commission, and having to hunt for work himself frustrates him, but has to put everything into perspective when he heads to the hospital and comes face to face with the reality of the career he has chosen, and a buddy who has lost his leg, while desperately trying to save the other leg, and was full conscious and aware through the ordeal when it was filmed on the news. To make matters worse, Adam and Hugo must team up with Al and his new driver, Gord, to free up traffic after a multi-truck accident blocked the Coq, as well as racing against each other to get the better cut of the earnings.
Heavy snowfall has created avalanche conditions on the Coq. Plow crews are barely able to keep up. When traffic starts backing up in high-risk avalanche zones, highway authorities decide to close the road in both directions. A team of avalanche techs flies up the mountain in helicopters to drop concussion bombs and release the build-up, but bad weather hampers their first attempt. With the Coq closed overnight, trucks are using the back roads to get through. Jamie's team is called out to recover a semi that went over the cliff on rural Highway 3. The next day is a battle on all fronts to get the Coq open - with helicopter teams dropping more bombs, highway crews faced with two feet of accumulation, and Jamie's team forced to call in a second rotator, who happened to be Jamie's brother, Jason.
In the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, on the Coquihalla Highway, a small job turns into a major headache and a father's dreams of his stepson joining the family business backfires as Brandon Kodallas' aspirations of being a gym instructor and his disdain to drive a manual transmission vehicles does not sit well with anybody else, while teaching Ken about rigging, something the Richmond-based city towie doesn't do. When Ken and Samy were on their fourth attempt to recover an empty SUV that plunged off the cliff and into a river 1000 feet below, a simple job turned into a lost cause for the company. Brandon walked off on the job after the operation took a lot longer than expected, but next morning, he learns the basics of car recovery and towing, but by the fifth attempt at recovering the car, Jamie gave up calling on Brandon and asked Gord to help. After the job was finally done, Brandon invited Jamie and his wife to his gym and showed him his interpretation of the meaning of 'dedication'.
Why is one guy always happy, while another is always pissed off? Kevin considers yard man/swamper Samy, a 40-year-old immigrant from Fiji, to be his assistant. When Kevin buys a video camera to film wrecks, his new hobby starts to get in the way of his current job. A head-on collision between two semis has the entire crew battling to clear the charred wreckage and get the road open. While Kevin captures the action on tape, Samy does most of the heavy lifting and dismantling of the burnt wreck, earning him a large bottle of scotch and Jamie's praise, even when he removed the barrel that could have been used to contain an oil leak, which heaped pressure to do a 2-hour salvage operation in just 20-minutes just to open the highway. That night, Samy, who sleeps in Jamie's office during the week, reveals that his hard work is all for his beloved wife and three kids. Meanwhile, Kevin, reviewing his footage at home, reveals that his video hobby started with his father, who worked in TV. When Kevin announced as a teen that he wanted to be a truck driver, his dad cut him off and hasn't seen him in over 20 years. He considers Jamie to be his adopted father. The next day, a harrowing drive up the Coq in dangerous avalanche conditions leaves both Kevin and Samy questioning why they do this for a living. Samy returns to Vancouver to visit his family while Kevin raises safety issues with Jamie. Since Kevin's truck was a converted fire truck, it has no protection from collisions.
With spring coming, Jamie is facing a backlog of bills and heavy pressure to cut costs by laying off some of his staff, with Kevin and Samy laid off. When a semi full of mail goes off a cliff, Adam and the weary crew are sent out to unload and recover it. But a long season has everyone's tempers on edge. When a winter-worn cable snaps, narrowly missing Adams head, Jamie's most senior driver threatens to go on strike. In the end of the winter season, Jamie has to be on call to deal with the wrecks alone.
Join series producer and host of the one-hour special, Mark Miller, as he takes viewers to the legendary "Barn" in Hope, BC, to join Jamie Davis and his crew for a season wrap-up "Beer O'clock". Here, no topic is off limits as Jamie, Adam, Kevin, Bruce, and Samy trade stories from this season of working on the mountain.
Jamie Davis, eager for the winter season to begin, has one thing on his mind - amp up his manpower and his equipment, so he's ready for anything that happens on the mountain. He has brought back a big crew - Adam Gazzola, Narayan Samy, Kevin Ritchie, Rob Mitchell, Bruce Hardy, Ken Monkhouse, the new guy Gord Lundin, and Davis' stepson Brandon Kodallas. Everyone has big, but not always realistic, expectations for the winter ahead. On the first job of the season, Davis' team struggles to find their groove unloading and recovering an expensive B-Train full of lumber for an important client. That night on the Coquihalla, Gazzola is first on site to a grocery truck fully engulfed in flames. With no fire department to help, Gazzola tries out an old fire truck Davis bought for cheap. Ritchie jumps to the task, but the truck is slow to start, and Davis' crew is left to struggle to put out the fire and get the truck off the highway. Later, Davis begins to doubt the optimistic gamble he's made this season and questions if he's brought on too much manpower and possibly the wrong machines.
The closures of two major highways cause drivers to voice their frustration leaving Gazzola in a sour mood over all the grief he receives. Ken Monkhouse arrives at a job to find that the competition has gotten the jump on him. Responding to a woodchip wreck, Davis, Gazzola and Ritchie disagree on how to recover the wreck, leaving Davis to do his own swamping. Later, when a heavy SeaCan tips over, Davis and his rotator are pushed to their limit. Monkhouse, realizing he needs help in the car towing division, invites Kodallas for a lesson in a new truck, but Kodallas has words with his stepfather and walks off in a huff. Monkhouse then turns to the new guy - quiet, tattooed Lundin - testing him out on a tough tow lesson.
Jamie brings back veteran driver Scott by promising him a new state of the art heavy wrecker. But the new truck is months behind schedule, so Scott has to settle for a worn-out vintage truck. A grueling schedule pushes Adam to his breaking point and he goes AWOL, while Jamie is forced to abandon his Rotator on a backcountry road that is too dangerous to drive.
Tension between Jamie and Adam boil over as they struggle to flip a B-train on a narrow icy road. Adam comes close to quitting, but then backs off when Jamie makes him a promise. A two-car collision closes the snow shed and puts Ken's towing know-how to the test. A truckload of Christmas mail nearly goes off a cliff.
A trailer filled with costly pharmaceuticals gets imbedded in a block of ice. A truckload of frozen chickens crashes into a tangle of trees. 65-year-old Bruce begins to show signs that he may be over the hill. Rob's promotion to lead flagger is short-lived when police revoke his license for speeding.
A local competitor challenges Jamie's status on the Hill. A trailer full of cat food bursts into flames - and Scott and Gord have to battle for two days to get the burning heap off the Smasher. Bruce gets into a fight that lands him in the hospital.
The biggest storm of the season is about to hit the Coq with a fury, just as Jamie discovers that his license has expired. His day gets even worse when someone smashes the Rotator. When Jamie then gets a call for a dream job it turns into the most challenging recovery of the season.
A semi hits a barrier so hard that it tears off the trailer's rear axle, blocking the Coq's most important exit. Scott tells Jamie he's fed up with the vintage truck he's been driving, and a mysterious new driver shows up in the yard to start work.
Heavy rescue has to recover a severely damaged trailer loaded with millions of plastic beads. Spring rains are causing rock slides on Highway 1. When a B-train loaded with lumber drives off a cliff in order to avoid a boulder, Jamie's called in to recover the wreck before it falls down onto an active railroad line.
Jamie and crew wrestle to recover a trailer loaded with apples off a dangerous bridge. A multi-vehicle wreck turns deadly for a Good Samaritan. Scott returns after two weeks of forced vacation, hoping to finally get his new heavy rescue truck.
Adam and Jamie are forced to use some fancy rigging to try to save a wreck on Highway 1 that threatens to spill its load all over the road. When a new competitor rolls onto the mountain and cuts the work in half Jamie is forced to realize he can't afford to keep his world class fleet of trucks on the Coq.
Producer and Host Mark Miller joins the crew of Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue for "Beer O'Clock" for a pre-game build up to the season finale. Jamie, Adam, Scott, Ken, Bruce, Kevin and the rest of the guys share beers and trade stories about season 2 on the Coq. Find out which wrecks made it to the Top Five List as they reveal the hairiest behind-the-scenes moments from the most challenging, gnarliest, most grueling recoveries of the winter. Discover some of the surprising impacts being on TV has had on them - and on the Coq. No subject is off the table as the crew turns the focus on each other and share their personal struggles. How did "Comeback Kid" Scott rate on his return to heavy rescue after a decade out of the game? Were his frustrations with the vintage Five Star General legit? What happened with Ken's big ambition to kick Jamie's car towing business into high gear? Why did 65-year-old Bruce have such a tough time handing over the keys to his Holmes wrecker and switching to a lighter truck? How did rookie Gord do on his first winter on the Coq? And what's the deal with Chris? Never towed a car? No license to drive a heavy wrecker? As we build up to the premiere of the final episode, the crew looks at their own future. Is the competition and rotation driving Jamie off the Coq? Will the guys be back to keep the highway open next winter? Stay tuned.
A new competitor on the Coq has cut Jamie's business in half, and the one job he lands in weeks ends up being a complex recovery that no one seems willing to pay for. Heavy rescue faces a life and death decision - shut down or leave the Coq for the oil rush boomtown of Fort McMurray and some steady cash. Determined that "closure is not an option" for Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue, the crew packs up and heads north in search of the new highway thru hell.
A new winter season starts with Jamie Davis heavy rescue split in two… Adam has taken half the fleet north to Alberta’s rich and dangerous oil fields while Jamie stays back to fight and keep the Coq open all by himself.
Jamie realizes he can’t do it all alone in Hope and hires a new driver. But the newest addition ends up needing rescuing himself after he crashes Bruce’s legendary blue truck. Jamie’s stepson Brandon is forced to prove himself after his plans to join the Alberta team are put on hold. And rookie operator, Colin, learns just how tough his new boss Adam can be… when a seemingly simple job goes sideways.
A close call on the highway shows Brandon that fear is his best friend when it comes to staying alive. Jamie’s called to help save a woman trapped in an overturned truck submerged in an icy river. In Alberta, tempers flare in the extreme cold as the new crew is put to the test.
A sudden winter storm slams B.C. – but Jamie is powerless to help. Two of Heavy Rescue’s crew face a life-or-death situation on a remote logging road. In Alberta, Adam calls for reinforcements when he just can’t budge a truck that’s flipped over a bank -- forcing Jamie to make a tough decision about moving his flagship Rotator out of B.C.
IN B.C., a truck full of wine is sliced in half... Less than 24 hours after Jamie ships the Rotator to Alberta. Howie must tackle this monster recovery all on his own. And a cascade of wrecks on two different highways mean both Al Quiring and Adam Gazzola must face their own night from hell.
Howie faces a seemingly impossible challenge after a massive wreck spills lumber across a busy highway. With his heavy wrecker in for repairs, Howie must use a few small trucks to try and tackle a very, very big job. In northern Alberta, the Rotator faces its first real test as the crew works to prove they can handle the heavy industrial wrecks and extreme weather.
In Alberta and B.C., pipe trucks have rolled over and crews in both places race to open vital highways. Things for Al Quiring turn red hot when a trailer jammed with thousands of bottles of hot sauce is ripped open. Jamie and Brandon take a well-deserved break from clearing wrecks on the highway to compete in a car race on a frozen lake.
A massive build up of snow on the Coq means avalanches are imminent if something isn’t done fast. In Alberta, Adam and Brandon face off in a clash that will change the course of the winter season.
A record snowfall brings B.C.'s vital Coquihalla Highway to a standstill and sends shockwaves across the region. Howie leads a team on a dangerous recovery that sparks an unexpected emotional reaction. In Alberta, Adam and Colin have to get a toxic chemical wreck safely back on the road.
The Alberta crew faces a complex recovery with a million dollar truck while Jamie struggles with an unstable wreck. Colin is forced to go it alone after a freak snowstorm leaves the highway littered with crashed vehicles.
For the first time all season Howie and Adam end up on the same BC wreck and the old Coq vet doesn’t like how the new guy is running the show. In Alberta, the crew faces one of its biggest challenges yet when they attempt a recovery with two big wreckers on a very narrow industrial road.
In BC, new-hires Phil and Wayne face big problems when they get their chance to run big wreckers. Al runs into trouble on a steep and twisting logging road. In Alberta, Jamie and Adam race to open two highways when both roads to Fort McMurray shut down.
In the season finale, Jamie finds himself in harm's way on a very difficult technical recovery. Later he makes a bold gamble impacting both his BC and Alberta operations. Adam faces a tough choice about his future in Heavy Rescue.
A snowplow is pulled from the river; Colin takes on a new role; a Heavy Rescue legend leaves the group.
Jamie’s new B.C. crew struggles with a mangled trailer on a blind corner; when Colin slips up on a big recovery in Alberta, Jamie’s brother must take over the job, even though he’s a rookie on the rotator; Brandon steps up to a new role.
Colin faces the biggest recovery of his career. Al Quiring faces bad snowstorms on the Coquihala. John faces off against a mangled tractor.
A semi plows off a bridge. John must prove himself and get holiday traffic moving on a multi part recovery.
Al Quiring races to open the Transcanada before the morning rush; a semi carrying a load of pharmaceuticals plunges down a bank; in Alberta, the burdens of running the shop solo takes a toll on Colin.
A downpour of freezing rain covers Hope and the Coq, crippling Jamie's operation. Meanwhile, Ken heads to a job and re-lives the worst day of his life.
Quiring Towing has to rescue a loaded semi teetering on the edge of a 300-foot drop. Meanwhile, Colin faces a white knuckle drive on a remote Alberta back road while Jamie tests out a new driver
When recovery crews team up for a massive wreck, a close call leads Brandon to reconsider his future in the business; attempts to straighten out a jackknifed truck get twisted.
The Davis and Quiring families team up for a rare joint recovery; a big rig is left teetering in a seemingly impossible position.
A simple job turns urgent which forces Jamie back out on the road; An overturned truck is trapped under it's load of steel.
Al and Gord gamble on a job which pushes both wreckers to the limits. In Alberta, Jamie's crew battles a whiteout. Back in B.C., a wrecker is called in to help solve an underwater mystery.
As Jamie reaches a difficult crossroads, he looks back over four seasons, revisiting his most challenging wrecks. Also, a look behind the cameras and faces from past and present explain what drives them to this dangerous world.
Jamie takes control of the rotator for the first time in months, and turns to his competition for advice about a major decision that will determine the future of heavy rescue.
Jamie battles a truck fire on the Coq and reveals big changes to his operation.
Mission Towing races to an urgent call on a logging road; Jamie deploys his "air bag" recovery system to flip a tractor trailer.
Jamie's team deals with a jackknifed semi-trailer on the edge of a bridge; Mission Towing races to finish a recovery and open the road.
Gale-force winds sends a semi airborne and wreaks havoc on Jamie's operation in Hope; Al and Gord try to recover a massive mining truck.
On the busiest travel day of the year, Al works to clear a burning tractor trailer off the Coq; Colin is sent to rescue a delivery truck loaded with Christmas presents in Alberta.
Rookie prairie tow operator Jonny Tipton faces his toughest recovery; Gord clashes with stubborn drivers on the Coq and reveals a lifelong personal battle.
Al Quiring is pulled into a muddy war to rescue a pair of 40 ton excavators buried in a bog; Jamie and Scott are called to a mysterious wreck in The Canyon.
Tough times in Alberta force Colin to weigh his future; the Mission towing crew races to clear a wreck that's shut down the rail line outside Hope, BC.
Jamie calls in his brothers Jason's rotator to tackle a recovery in the Canyon; the Mission towing team juggles a lost load of telephone poles; emergency responders race to a crash on the Coq involving one of Jamie's crew.
The Quiring family work together to lift a semi back on it's wheels; an original member of Jamie's towing family starts to feel the physical and mental toll of heavy rescue.
A spectacular crash between two tractor-trailers has Jordie's crew working through the night; Scott is forced to get inventive to finish a job; Al and Gord try to get a handle on a 30- tonne cement drum.
Jamie's rookie driver is dispatched to rescue a convoy of oversized loads on The Coq; Scott battles to keep a lumber truck from tipping; Mission Towing tries to fish a 40-thousand pound relic out of a river.
Al Quiring attempts to pull up a logging truck that plunged 700 feet off a cliff; Jamie and Scott team up on a heavy roll over in Fraser Canyon.
Winter strikes hard and fast as Jamie Davis and his heavy rescue crew face tough new challenges in Hope, BC; a former operator returns but a spectacular wreck pushes him to the edge on his first mountain recovery.
Jamie helps Colin recover a massive wreck near the Rock Cut; Brandon confronts his fears on the big job; Al Quiring tackles an overturned truck loaded with lava rock.
A troublesome winch line forces Jamie and cousin Paris to find a quick fix; Jordie faces a twisted wreck that crashed through an airport fence; Al tries to save a logging truck from a rising river.
A crash in the Fraser Canyon has Colin and crew working below an unstable rock slope; Jamie charts a new course for his business, setting out on a 20,000-kilometre journey; a heavy rescue legend helps Dylan on an ice recovery.
A winter storm unleashes chaos on all highways around Hope, B.C., forcing Jamie's team into an all-night battle; Jason and Merv tangle with a fully loaded tractor-trailer in a snowy ditch; a heavy rescue birthday boy finally gets his present.
Jamie's newest classic wrecker, The Python, is put to the test on a tractor-trailer embedded in a row of trees; Ken and Dylan are called up an icy mountain road to recover a flipped logging truck.
A truck driver survives a crash on The Coq during a snowstorm; hampered by heavy snow, rocks and extreme cold, Colin and Kelly finish the tough recovery and meet a tight deadline.
An oversized load tests Jamie and his rebuilt wrecker HR-126; a gravel hauler ricochets off a rock wall leaving a twisted mess for Kelly and John; swamper Gord Lundin gets a chance to operate his own tow truck.
Jamie and his fleet of heavy wreckers are paralyzed in his own yard by a massive snowfall; a tow-up in deep powder turns into big trouble for Colin; Al and Gord rescue a teetering semi during the morning rush on Hwy 1.
Jamie's 13-year-old son gets a lesson in wreck recovery after a semi crashes down a 150-foot embankment; rock slides north of Hope trigger road closures and an explosive clean-up; Dylan puts on his hip waders to fish a truck out of a lake.
Jamie takes The Python off road for the first time; Jamie's brother Kelly battles high winds and a power pole to save a semi loaded with pipes; Gord Boyd picks up a new heavy wrecker for Quiring Towing.
A missing truck driver trapped inside a wreck for two days draws Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue and first responders into one of the most difficult and emotional recoveries in years.
One of the worst winter storms in years forces officials to shut down The Coq; working through blinding snow, freezing rain and even an avalanche threat, heavy rescue crews help truckers and drivers out of the closure zone.
Jamie Davis travels across North America to explore the roots of heavy rescue, from the first tow truck, to the latest modern machines; his classic restoration, the Mighty Mo, finally comes to life.
Jamie, Al, Jason and Ken look back at past recoveries and ahead at the new season.
Jamie's restored classic wrecker faces its first test; Colin, Merv and Jason attempt a heavy rescue; Al battles with an excavator buried in a rockslide.
Dylan is faced with a puzzle of twisted metal when two big rigs collide; Jamie rescues a propane truck with his Python wrecker; Al is dispatched to a collision on the Coq.
Jamie and Colin work to recover a buried semi on the Trans Atlantic Canada Highway after a massive mudslide.
Al and Gord are called in to winch a 65-ton steel bridge across the Coquihalla River; Jamie takes a bad fall while operating'Mighty Mo; a new recruit is put to the test on an epic backroad recovery.
Colin takes the controls of Mighty Mo during a whiteout storm; Dylan encounters a semi on the edge of a cliff; Jamie and Paris attempt to bring an old dozer back to life.
Al and Gord search for a lost logging truck on a snowy back road; Jamie attempts a maneuver with Mighty Mo; Colin faces his fear while working on a semi.
Jamie heads north in B.C. to rescue a tractor trailer that tipped on its side.
Jamie faces his toughest wreck in years, so he calls in a familiar face and a 50-ton rotator; Al attempts to free a 70-ton excavator from a mud hole.
A tour bus spins out of control, launching Al Quiring into action; Jamie gets to test a heavy-duty weapon bolted to the front of Mighty Mo; a new team on The Coq takes on a trailer with live pigs.
Merv's called up The Coq to help Reliable Towing untangle three major wrecks less than a kilometre apart; Dylan races to recover a car dangling on a bridge; Colin rolls up on a heavy rescue head scratcher.
After being rescued by Al Quiring, the driver of a hazardous load runs into serious trouble at the base of The Coq; a simple tow turns into a night of heavy rescue for Colin; Jamie experiences chest pains in the middle of a job.
Cary is thrust into a dire situation; the crew faces a tricky recovery for a truck hauling new cars; Jamie heads north to the Yukon to retrieve a wreck.
Cam gets a chance to run Mighty Mo; the team races to clear a scattered load of lumber.
Jamie attempts to recover a trapped tractor trailer; the crew heads up a remote mountain; tow companies come together for a good cause.
A 40-ton boulder crashes onto B.C.'s Fraser Canyon Highway and launches Al Quiring into the crush zone; Jamie, Brandon, and Paris climb a deactivated logging road to retrieve a lost wreck.
An overturned load of heavy pipe becomes an all-out battle for Reliable Towing; Jamie considers buying another vintage wrecker; Mission Towing's Ken Duperon hustles to save a vehicle on the verge of sliding off a snowy mountain road.
On B.C.'s Coquihalla Highway, an early snowfall catches truckers off guard and puts Jamie Davis face to face with a heavy fuel tanker; sparks fly when James Luke and The Black Sheep try to rescue a semi in deep snow.
Jamie tests the limits of his classic wrecker against a rock crusher in a gravel pit; Mitch and James scramble to save a truck and camper on an icy cliff; Colin finally gets a crack at Mighty Mo's push bumper.
When a dump truck and trailer crash into dense bush, Al Quiring and Sons become heavy rescue lumberjacks; with the help of Gord Boyd, Team Green overcame environmental obstacles and a twisted wreck trapped in the trees.
In Hope, BC - Jamie, Colin and Cam battle heavy rains to recover a rolled semi blocking the highway through town. With traffic to The Coq cut off, and a trailer full of cooking oil starting to rip, Jamie's crew must roll the dice to get the road open. In the Fraser Canyon, a wreck on the edge of a creek has Mission Towing's Dylan Greenwood in a race to save a pricey perishable load.
Near Merritt, a parcel delivery truck is torn open, scattering hundreds of packages across The Coq; Reliable Towing overcomes numerous obstacles to clear the wreck.
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.11
Merv is dispatched in Aggressive Towing's 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.
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.
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.
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 Jamie's classic wreckers.
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.
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.
Jamie and his tow brothers discuss some of their toughest backroad adventures; Al, Ken, Jason and Mitch swap tales and share advice on some of their most spectacular off-road recoveries.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The seasons first snowstorm paralyzes the Coquihalla Summit, launching Al Quiring and Gord Boyd into battle; Jamie Davis and a new operator from Ireland tackle a torn-up semi on a dangerous corner.
A rolled logging truck launches Jamie Davis and his heavy wreckers to a remote crash site in the BC interior; Reliable Towing's James Luke scrambles to disconnect a flaming tractor from its trailer and is assisted by a surprising new hire.
On his first job in a heavy wrecker since his heart attack, Ken Duperon faces a load of pipe outside a prison; a familiar face switches teams and leads Reliable Towing on a major recovery.
A raging truck fire tests Dylan and Team Reliable; a valuable surprise in the ashes; Jamie's rookie operator and veteran mechanic pair up to rescue a broken down semi.
An extreme arctic blast descends on Hope, BC delivering brutal cold and a bone-chilling battle for Jamie and his brother Jason; Al’s son Cary is unexpectedly called in to cover for his father on the Coq Summit for the first time.
A tanker crash in BC's Fraser Canyon lands rookie operator Greg Mulligan in the middle of an epic recovery; faced with 47-thousand litres of diesel and a mass of twisted metal, Greg's luck turns when Merv and Aggressive Towing's 50-ton rotator arrive.
Gord Boyd races to clear a jackknifed semi as snow plows battle to keep The Coq moving; a loaded 18-wheeler on the edge of a cliff tests Reliable Towing's Cam and Chace; a lost trucker needs help backing down a dark road.
A recovery on The Coq turns into a roadside emergency for Team Reliable; Jamie and new operator Greg Mulligan get more than they bargained for when a semi plows into a snowbank.
High winds in BC's Fraser Valley flip a trailer on a bridge and blow away Ken and the Mission crew; Reliable Towing's James Luke and Mitch Karr battle 70-kph wind gusts to recover a wreck loaded with lumber.
Two transport trucks make contact, ripping open their trailers and shutting down the main highway outside Golden BC; the crash launches Jamie Davis and his classic wrecker The General from his new winter base.
Torrential rain and a raging river threatens Jamie's operation in Hope, BC; Al Quiring goes fishing for logs to save a community from flooding; a jackknifed semi hauling bottles of water tests Rick and Brandon.
Jamie gets a painful reminder of the hazards of being hands on while working on Mighty Mo; two simultaneous wrecks on the same stretch of The Coq double the pressure on Team Reliable.
A back road job drifts towards disaster when James Luke's 30-ton wrecker Black Sheep starts sliding backwards; a tree through a trucker's windshield launches Brian up The Coq; Jamie's tow buddy Big John tackles a head-on crash near Revelstoke, BC.
Black smoke billowing above the Fraser Valley sends fire crews and Ken Duperon racing to the Mission Towing yard; a cracked trailer in deep snow becomes a delicate recovery for Rick and Brandon.
Jamie Davis and the cast look back at some of their biggest battles with Mother Nature; Al, Merv, Colin, James and Ken Duperon discuss how each extreme weather condition has impacted recoveries; plus, a tribute to one of Jamie’s original crewmembers.
Cam narrowly escapes a deadly crash when his 50-ton wrecker is struck from behind; Jamie and Greg climb into the backcountry to rescue an articulating rock truck clinging to a mountain slope.
Jamie attempts to lure back former lead operator Colin McLean by ordering his dream truck; Team Reliable tackles a smashed semi with a super-sized load of French fries; A blown tire launches a dump truck into the ditch and two teams into action.
Just in time for one of Jamie's most challenging recoveries this season, a familiar face shows up at the yard and is recruited to help save a loaded car carrier; Al and Gord travel north to an epic job near a gold mining town.
Gord is tested by the snowfall, and the Reliable crew's military rotator faces double trouble where no roads go.
Al comes to the rescue of an overconfident driver, team Reliable gains a fiery personality, and Gary faces a heavyweight challenge.
A logging truck tangled down a steep bank brings the entire Mission Towing roster out to battle. A surprise storm launches James Luke into unusual territory. Team Green takes on a dozer sunk into a peat bog; a legendary tow family faces a crossroads.
Jamie and Brandon respond to a semi sucked into a muddy ditch; a familiar face eyes a legendary tow company; Reliable's 50-ton wrecker...
The biggest storm of winter yet sees an accident involving highway crew; Scott Bird takes on his first mountain storm in years with a greenhorn riding shotgun.
A crash brings Greg and Brian out for action; Team Aggressive wrangles a teetering truck; MSA takes on a major recovery affecting the busiest stretch of highway in B.C.
Jamie and his team battle a B-train that's taken a deep dive on punishing terrain; Al takes on a spun-out trucker to keep an army of plows moving; Al's son Cary steps up in a quarter-million-dollar house move.
Greg responds to a crash after black ice forms on the Coq; heavy winter rains launch MSA into an epic fight with a big machine in a mudpit; an accident hits close to home for Brandon; Scott mentors the next generation on a defiant wreck.
Gord is called on to rescue an unpredictable trucker; Big John and Rick Wood face the wreck of a lifetime; a stolen pickup dumped far up a snowy logging road reunites Dylan with his former boss and pushes Reliable's military rotator to its limits.
Scott is dealt polar opposites in a surprise storm; Big John takes on a tractor buried in big timber; Merv gets a mangled holiday surprise; James Luke takes the next generation on a tow; an old friend brings a special gift for Jamie.
Dylan and Brandon attempt to recover a tippy sem. James Luke and Cary battle to save a unique machine, as MSA Towing navigates unusual conditions. Jamie's classic iron is pushed to its limits with a wreck that doesn't add up.
Al recruits reinforcements to get truckers moving; Dylan faces a heavy breakdown on a remote job; Merv pilots a warplane through a city while Brian and Greg grapple with a mysterious load.
A double-rotator recovery has the Aggressive team on the edge; a crash near the border tests Kirpal and his sons; Dylan takes Reliable's offroad warrior out for its first blacktop battle; Rooster is on the front lines of recovery and fatherhood
Jamie and Greg fight an uphill battle against a flipped excavator; Big John is challenged by a defiant semi; Dylan and Scott test their teamwork on a technical recovery.
The men of Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue fight to keep open some of the most economically important, most traveled and most inhospitable trucking routes in North America.
Team Reliable is in foggy chaos; Ken turns an off-road recovery into a joyride; Greg takes charge on his biggest recovery without the boss; Gord hustles to open the Coq's steepest stretch.
Jamie and his brother team up for the most stunning wreck of the season; Al hauls a unique piece of equipment on a treacherous backroad; Brandon and highway crews face a difficult night on the Coq; Jamie adds a wrecker like no other to his fleet.
Heavy rescue legends look back on their wildest recoveries on a special episode of Highway Thru Hell.
Jamie's new operator hits a Coquihalla mudslide, while highway crews are in a life or death race to evacuate motorists and save vital infrastructure; Team Reliable braves floodwaters to rescue stranded residents; Jamie's hometown is cut off by wiped-out roads.
With all surrounding highways closed after unprecedented flooding, drivers and residents are trapped in Hope as a raging creek threatens Jamie’s shop and family home; Dylan tries to rescue residents trapped in a home surrounded on all sides by a river gone wild.
Jamie's brother Jason fears for his home after being evacuated by air; Reliable clears vehicles in a slide zone to help reopen the first highway out of Hope; the Coquihalla rebuild begins in a race against winter.
James Luke and over 20 tow trucks must recover 200 cars in a mudslide zone in mere hours; a second atmospheric river threatens the Fraser Valley, as the military is brought in to help engineer solutions.
Cary Quiring is tasked with keeping crucial goods flowing; a wreck that brings three heavies out tests Jamie's new LA Rotator; Aggressive Towing tackles a sideways transport
James Luke and the Reliable team contend with two detoured wrecks on the same punishing corner of a narrow route; MSA's Kirpal and sons must stretch a long line to reach a machine stuck on a farm.
Al and Merv team up for a snowy tug of war; with the Canyon Highway closed, Jamie battles a fuel tanker to keep trains moving; a blockage on the only route through the Cascade Mountains forces MSA into a bold move.(60min)
Bone-chilling temperatures challenge the teams to pull off recoveries in punishing conditions; Dylan pushes Reliable's military rotator in a new way; media gets a sneak peek at an extraordinary repair effort on Coquihalla, closed after floods.
Aggressive Towing copes with a slick situation in the Valley while Reliable's new Highway 3 base battles a snowstorm; Jamie, Al and Kurtis hit the Coquihalla on an emotional day.
A flash freeze launches Team Green into action; Dylan heads a two-wrecker recovery of a toppled lumber truck; Jason tackles a two-piece gravel wreck; a snowy recovery deals Jamie an unexpected snag; Reliable’s Ty and Chris search for a wreck deep in the Fraser River.
Aggressive Towing mobilizes both rotators to help MSA on back-to-back recoveries; two young Reliable Mission up-and-comers are hours from civilization when a backroad recovery goes into night; Greg is helped by Jamie on a jackknife in winter.
Jamie and the next generation take on an airbag wreck similar to a challenging one from the past; Dylan must rely on roadside ingenuity.
Jamie and his LA Rotator attack a b-train alone; Cary Quiring is under pressure to contain a hazardous problem and clear the highway; MSA discovers a repeat customer in a tough quagmire.
A fiery multivehicle crash is attacked by Dylan and new recruit Steph; Aggressive Towing takes on a two-rotator suburban showdown under live power lines; Jamie throws the next generation into the fire in the remote backcountry.
Jamie and Rick tackle a massive double recovery; heavy fog tests Reliable's newest hire; Big John trains a familiar face to operate a heavy on an unusual jackknife; John and his daughter take on a wreck with a twist.
Aggressive's Jason and Merv team up with MSA's Kirpal and Sons for a triple wrecker recovery; Ty, Andy and a heavy recovery hopeful take on a mudslide wreck; Dylan, Rooster and Andy get pushed to their limits by a heavy transport frozen in.
Jamie helps the victim of a crash; Dylan and team Reliable return for another swing at a heavy transport frozen in; Merv helps out Reliable's Ty for the final battle in a mudslide; Big John has a high-stakes unload and a semi stuck in the forest. Jamie shows his daughter the ropes on a backroad tow.
Aggressive and Quiring unite forces to take on a snowy recovery that threatens to fall apart; Reliable's Ty and Andy fight swamped-in heavy equipment; Jamie and his crew take on a gigantic haul; Kurtis Brown looks back on a season like no other.
Jamie is on high alert with a wildfire threatening his own backyard in Hope; Team Aggressive must navigate tinder dry conditions on a back road bush recovery; Reliable Towing wrangles an overturned cattle hauler under smoke-filled skies; Jamie rescues a special semi.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A winter storm bears down on the Coquihalla as Team Reliable takes on a twisted trailer; Abbotsford Police and CVSE run a joint operation to clamp down on trucker safety violations; Jamie rescues a pickup that has gone off the highway and into a busy railway.
At the foot of the Rockies, a jacknifed semi put the pressure on AJ as he runs a heavy for the first time; Jamie brings his LA Rotator out to help a local tow company recover a loaded tractor-trailer, Ty and Andy take on a waterlogged excavator sinking into a wildlife habitat.
Jamie lives out his worst nightmare when he's part of a massive crash that takes out his LA Rotator; Al helps a relative haul a superload up the hill; AJ and James Junior must rely on their know-how to pull a brand-new pickup out of the mud.
AJ is excited to do his first tow-up on the Coquihalla but he's forced to make it work with only a medium-duty wrecker, Jamie feels the loss of his heavies this season as he does a snowy recovery on the summit; Team MSA takes on a tippy dump truck on Fraser Valley farm.
Jamie realizes he's been given the wrong information; Team Reliable wrestles with a cable barrier on Highway 1; Aggressive Towing battles with a heavy B-train down a deep ditch in the Fraser Valley.
Jamie’s return to the nightmare of a wreck in the mountains turns into an epic family effort. Merv schools Jaydan on a back road job.
Team MSA takes on their most challenging recovery ever when a tanker is sucked down a hill by a mudslide.
Bob from Reliable Towing wrestles with a burning semi on the side of the Coquihalla; Jamie hauls a snowcat for a snowmobile club in the Rockies; Team MSA brings Gursharan's brother-in-law Kulji to his first recovery job on the busy Fraser Highway.
Team Reliable's Laine trains two junior operators while clearing a flipped semi; Al wrestles a broken trailer with a fragile load off the busy Highway 1; Jamie climbs into the mountains to rescue European tourists and their imported motorhome.
