King of the Road: True Tales from a Legendary Ice Road Trucker

By Alex Debogorski

Inside one of the world's most dangerous jobs with the star of History's top-rated reality show, Ice Road Truckers

The highest-rated reality show ever to hit the History channel, Ice Road Truckers follows the heart-pounding adventures of the tough-as-nails truckers who risk peril every day to deliver goods and supplies in Alaska and across Canada's frozen north. Alex shares tales of his adventures-and misadventures-in the north, and explain, in his own entertaining voice, how he got to where he is today-working class hero, bona-fide celebrity, and the improbable star of a smash-hit television show. Alex is a natural storyteller who knows how to spin tales about his colorful life growing up in the backwoods. Whether he's recounting tales about his hair-raising confrontations with bears, calculating the strength of newly formed ice, divulging the secrets of providing security in a bar room full of combative, drunken miners, or saving the life of another trucker, he keeps you wanting more.

• The first inside look at industry legend and fan favorite Alex Debogorski, a devout Christian, father of 11 children, and the world's best known truck driver
• Includes thrilling adventures and behind-the-scenes insights that you won't find on the show
• Features sidebars that explain the facts about ice roads, from how they're made to when and why they splinter and break

King of the Road gives fans of Ice Road Truckers a deep look inside the life and times of the show's biggest rising star.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
• Release date: Sep 29, 2010
• ISBN: 9780470928813

Reviews for King of the Road

[thekinuk · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This is a fun book to read and I can imagine him telling these stories over the radio on a long night. He's pretty honest, far from perfect and very charming. Im a big Alex fan :)

[bilja_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The biography of an ordinary man, not at all ordinary. Alex starts dealing with life's challenges very early, as his mother dies when he is 12 and leaving his father alone to ntake care of their farm and four kids. Due to this early start, Alex spends his youth on the rough side, starting his huge family (11 children) very young. This, together with his love for mechanics, leads him to his today's job as icy road truck driver.An icy road is not an ordinary road which is slippery because of bad wheather (what was I thinking?). As a matter of fact an icy road is a road built mainly on a lake or other icy surfaces to cross it with heavy duty trucks, thus allowing the delivery of big loads to places otherwise not reachable but by plane.Funny, interesting, delightful. If you love the north you cannot miss this one