Highway Thru Hell: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Highway Thru Hell focuses on a team of drivers who work for Jamie Davis, along with several other heavy recovery operations fighting to keep the roads open in some of the most dangerous working conditions ever seen on TV. The Coquihalla and nearby highways through BC's Cascade Mountains have some of the most difficult and fast changing road conditions anywhere. When it's snowing hard up top on the summit of ‘The Coq', 1200 metres below its pounding rain in The Fraser Valley. Add to that, Canada's busiest trucking route to the West Coast, Highway 1 (Trans Canada Hwy), and you have the ‘Bermuda Triangle' of trucking. Police and highway maintenance crews depend on Highway Thru Hell's heavy rescue operators to respond at a moment's notice in the worst conditions. In between the winter storms, the teams ‘off road' skills are put to the test. The rugged terrain near Hope, British Columbia dishes out some of the most unique and challenging recovery jobs over steep cliffs, down deep ravines and even in bodies of water. Highway Thru Hell is ultimately a series about man versus Mother Nature and the toughest men in the towing business being pushed to their breaking point. The stakes are high - lives, the economy and thousands of jobs depend on the highways staying open, and the last line of defense is Heavy Rescue.

Series details

• Title: Highway Thru Hell
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Action
• Premiere date: 2012-09-04
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: USA Network
• Network country: Canada
• Typical episode runtime: 56 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.6/10
• TVMaze ID: 3185

Cast and credited roles

• Dave Pettitt — Narrator

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2012-09-04; final listed air date 2012-12-25; episode order: 10.
• Season 2: premiered 2013-09-03; final listed air date 2013-11-19; episode order: 13.
• Season 3: premiered 2014-09-02; final listed air date 2014-11-25; episode order: 13.
• Season 4: premiered 2015-09-08; final listed air date 2015-12-01; episode order: 13.
• Season 5: premiered 2016-09-13; final listed air date 2016-12-06; episode order: 14.
• Season 6: premiered 2017-09-05; final listed air date 2017-12-05; episode order: 14.
• Season 7: premiered 2018-09-04; final listed air date 2018-12-25; episode order: 17.
• Season 8: premiered 2019-10-07; final listed air date 2020-01-27; episode order: 17.
• Season 9: premiered 2020-09-14; final listed air date 2021-01-18; episode order: 18.
• Season 10: premiered 2021-09-06; final listed air date 2022-01-10; episode order: 18.
• Season 11: premiered 2022-09-26; final listed air date 2023-01-09; episode order: 18.
• Season 12: premiered 2023-08-21; final listed air date 2024-01-29; episode order: 18.
• Season 13: premiered 2025-01-14; final listed air date 2025-04-01; episode order: 12.
• Season 14: premiered 2026-01-20; final listed air date 2026-04-07.

Source and licence

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