The BEST episodes of Highway Thru Hell
Every episode of Highway Thru Hell ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Highway Thru Hell!
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.
#1 - Reunited
Season 9 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/2021
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.
#2 - No Thru Road
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/2022
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.
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#3 - The Bait
Season 9 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/4/2021
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.
#4 - I Can't Take It Anymore!
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/30/2012
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.
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#5 - Heavy Duty
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/29/2016
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.
#6 - The General
Season 7 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/25/2018
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.
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#7 - No Man's Land
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/2017
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.
#8 - Long Way Down
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/6/2016
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.
#9 - Bridge Battle
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/2018
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.
#10 - Pick Up Sticks
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/8/2016
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.
#11 - Man Against Machine
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/2016
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.
#12 - Heavy Recall
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/2018
Jamie, Al, Jason and Ken look back at past recoveries and ahead at the new season.
#13 - Closure Is Not An Option
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/19/2013
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.
#14 - Back for More
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/2021
Al comes to the rescue of an overconfident driver, team Reliable gains a fiery personality, and Gary faces a heavyweight challenge.
#15 - Above and Beyond
Season 7 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/27/2018
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.
#16 - Crossroads
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/2016
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.
#17 - Legend On Scene
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/27/2021
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...
#19 - Road To Ruin
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/13/2018
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.
#21 - No Tears in Towing
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/2012
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.
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#24 - Trapped
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/2017
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.
#25 - Roughing Up the Rookie
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/2012
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.
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