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 - 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.
#2 - Where's My Rotator
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/2012
A double-trailer load of lumber had flipped and spilled across a quarter mile of highway. Even with three heavy rescue trucks, Jamie's crew doesn't have enough equipment to do the job right. Adam is angry about the lack of equipment and the poor condition of his truck. Last year, Jamie ordered a state of the art heavy rescue truck called a Rotator. But the busy winter season is here and the custom-built wrecker still hasn't been delivered. Just days before Christmas, Jamie heads to the factory in Tennessee to bring it home himself with his new recruit, Hugo. While they are gone, Adam has his hands full with the B team when a semi filled with expensive wine goes off a cliff.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - 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.
#6 - Wind Storm
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/2016
Gale-force winds sends a semi airborne and wreaks havoc on Jamie's operation in Hope; Al and Gord try to recover a massive mining truck.
#7 - 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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Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/2016
Rookie prairie tow operator Jonny Tipton faces his toughest recovery; Gord clashes with stubborn drivers on the Coq and reveals a lifelong personal battle.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - Casualties of War
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/2015
A snowplow is pulled from the river; Colin takes on a new role; a Heavy Rescue legend leaves the group.
#12 - 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.
#13 - Hell of a Ride
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/2017
A truck driver survives a crash on The Coq during a snowstorm; hampered by heavy snow, rocks and extreme cold, Colin and Kelly finish the tough recovery and meet a tight deadline.
#14 - Gate Crasher
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/2017
A troublesome winch line forces Jamie and cousin Paris to find a quick fix; Jordie faces a twisted wreck that crashed through an airport fence; Al tries to save a logging truck from a rising river.
#15 - Unfinished Business
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/2017
Jamie helps Colin recover a massive wreck near the Rock Cut; Brandon confronts his fears on the big job; Al Quiring tackles an overturned truck loaded with lava rock.
#16 - Cliff Hangar
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/2017
Winter strikes hard and fast as Jamie Davis and his heavy rescue crew face tough new challenges in Hope, BC; a former operator returns but a spectacular wreck pushes him to the edge on his first mountain recovery.
#17 - All Nighter
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/22/2016
A spectacular crash between two tractor-trailers has Jordie's crew working through the night; Scott is forced to get inventive to finish a job; Al and Gord try to get a handle on a 30- tonne cement drum.
#18 - Wreck. Recover. Repeat.
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/2015
Al Quiring races to open the Transcanada before the morning rush; a semi carrying a load of pharmaceuticals plunges down a bank; in Alberta, the burdens of running the shop solo takes a toll on Colin.
#20 - Saved on Preacher's Corner
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/2015
Jamie’s new B.C. crew struggles with a mangled trailer on a blind corner; when Colin slips up on a big recovery in Alberta, Jamie’s brother must take over the job, even though he’s a rookie on the rotator; Brandon steps up to a new role.
#21 - Red Hot Wrecks
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/14/2014
In Alberta and B.C., pipe trucks have rolled over and crews in both places race to open vital highways. Things for Al Quiring turn red hot when a trailer jammed with thousands of bottles of hot sauce is ripped open. Jamie and Brandon take a well-deserved break from clearing wrecks on the highway to compete in a car race on a frozen lake.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Cut in Half
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/12/2013
Adam and Jamie are forced to use some fancy rigging to try to save a wreck on Highway 1 that threatens to spill its load all over the road. When a new competitor rolls onto the mountain and cuts the work in half Jamie is forced to realize he can't afford to keep his world class fleet of trucks on the Coq.
#24 - Yin & Yang
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/23/2012
Why is one guy always happy, while another is always pissed off? Kevin considers yard man/swamper Samy, a 40-year-old immigrant from Fiji, to be his assistant. When Kevin buys a video camera to film wrecks, his new hobby starts to get in the way of his current job. A head-on collision between two semis has the entire crew battling to clear the charred wreckage and get the road open. While Kevin captures the action on tape, Samy does most of the heavy lifting and dismantling of the burnt wreck, earning him a large bottle of scotch and Jamie's praise, even when he removed the barrel that could have been used to contain an oil leak, which heaped pressure to do a 2-hour salvage operation in just 20-minutes just to open the highway. That night, Samy, who sleeps in Jamie's office during the week, reveals that his hard work is all for his beloved wife and three kids. Meanwhile, Kevin, reviewing his footage at home, reveals that his video hobby started with his father, who worked in TV. When Kevin announced as a teen that he wanted to be a truck driver, his dad cut him off and hasn't seen him in over 20 years. He considers Jamie to be his adopted father. The next day, a harrowing drive up the Coq in dangerous avalanche conditions leaves both Kevin and Samy questioning why they do this for a living. Samy returns to Vancouver to visit his family while Kevin raises safety issues with Jamie. Since Kevin's truck was a converted fire truck, it has no protection from collisions.
#25 - 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.