2/27/16 Highway Thru Hell Seasons 1 and 2?

    I just finished binge watching Highway Thru Hell and I cannot understand why some men are drawn to that kind of work.  The show focuses around Jamie Davis' tow truck company in Canada.  The large tow trucks are just beautiful pieces of machinery, no doubt.  They specialize in pulling out big rigs out of crashes, and rollovers.  Their primary focus is helping to manage roads, specifically the Coquihalla Highway which goes through the mountains and can go from clear and sunny to blizzard like in a matter of a few miles.
    The show is brought to life by examining the guys that make up the company.  There is James, who is a good solid guy, probably too nice to be a boss, but he does what he does.  Very knowledgeable and patient.  Then there's Adam Gazzola, Jamie's right hand man.  Drives the lead truck and according to him makes 80-90% of the companies money.  There are at least ten other guys, each with his own character and demons they seem to be fighting with.  There was Bruce who was 64 in his first season and one of those crusty old dudes who seemed like would last forever, always smoking and pissed off.  Kevin, who drives the emergency ambulance and seems to think of James as a father figure.
    When it gets bad, they will be out chasing accidents for three or four days with no sleep in brutal blizzard and snow storms.  They pull cars out of sides of mountains, one required a cable that was like 200 feet long.  They don't really discuss their pay much, but one of the drivers in a regular tow truck for cars was expecting to make $40,000 had only made $10,000 through the winter.  Again, I wonder what compels these guys to do this.  They talk about oil fields where they could be driving for more pay. 
    The part that sucked the most was that after the winter and everything calmed down, half the guys were laid off.  It just sounds like a horrible place to work your butt off during the worst part of the year, jumping in and out of a truck, only to be laid off and have to go out and look for work during the nice time of the year.
    At the end of the second season, it looked like Jamie had decided to go test his tow trucks in the oil fields 900 miles away after encountering too much competition on the highways he had grown up towing.  I couldn't stop watching personally, my dad was a truck driver and these men just seem to be cut of the same material, men that don't bitch, just go out and do what needs to be done.