Dangerous Drives

Season

2009

USA

8.2

TV-14

This 13-part series will put us in the passenger seat, riding shot gun with drivers who have the most dangerous jobs in the world, to drivers that risk for sport and lifestyle. From prison transfer agents driving criminals across the country, to the drivers who tackle the most dangerous mountain pass just for kicks, either way we'll be there. Only on SPEED.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Heavy Haulers

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.

S1 • E2

Prisoner Transport

Officers of the US Extradition Service transport dangerous criminals from prisons across the country. Only on SPEED.

S1 • E3

Border Patrol

US agents utilize high powered ATVs to patrol remote desert stretches of the US-Mexico border. Only on SPEED.

S1 • E4

Million Dollar Highway

Ride with a motorcycle club on the treacherous US 550 in Colorado. Only on SPEED.

S1 • E5

Highway Patrol

Officers from two states work overtime on Interstate 15 from Los Angeles to Las Vegas, the deadliest stretch of highway in America.

S1 • E6

Storm Chasers

Veteran storm chasers fan out across the Midwest tracking tornadoes and their paths of destruction. Only on SPEED.

S1 • E7

Executive Protection

Private protection teams are tasked with the quick and safe transportation of dignitaries and VIP clients throughout the world.

S1 • E8

Iraq Convoy

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.

S1 • E9

Australian Road Trains

The heaviest road-legal tractor trailers in the world crisscross the desolate two lane highways connecting the Australian territories.

S1 • E10

Log Haulers

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.

S1 • E11

Urban Rescue

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.

S1 • E12

Extreme Off Roaders

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.