The WORST episodes of Highway Thru Hell
Every episode of Highway Thru Hell ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 Liftoff
Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/22/2021
Al recruits reinforcements to get truckers moving; Dylan faces a heavy breakdown on a remote job; Merv pilots a warplane through a city while Brian and Greg grapple with a mysterious load.
#2 - Beer O'Clock
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/17/2013
Producer and Host Mark Miller joins the crew of Jamie Davis Heavy Rescue for "Beer O'Clock" for a pre-game build up to the season finale. Jamie, Adam, Scott, Ken, Bruce, Kevin and the rest of the guys share beers and trade stories about season 2 on the Coq. Find out which wrecks made it to the Top Five List as they reveal the hairiest behind-the-scenes moments from the most challenging, gnarliest, most grueling recoveries of the winter. Discover some of the surprising impacts being on TV has had on them - and on the Coq. No subject is off the table as the crew turns the focus on each other and share their personal struggles. How did "Comeback Kid" Scott rate on his return to heavy rescue after a decade out of the game? Were his frustrations with the vintage Five Star General legit? What happened with Ken's big ambition to kick Jamie's car towing business into high gear? Why did 65-year-old Bruce have such a tough time handing over the keys to his Holmes wrecker and switching to a lighter truck? How did rookie Gord do on his first winter on the Coq? And what's the deal with Chris? Never towed a car? No license to drive a heavy wrecker? As we build up to the premiere of the final episode, the crew looks at their own future. Is the competition and rotation driving Jamie off the Coq? Will the guys be back to keep the highway open next winter? Stay tuned.
#3 - Double Down
Season 10 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/29/2021
A double-rotator recovery has the Aggressive team on the edge; a crash near the border tests Kirpal and his sons; Dylan takes Reliable's offroad warrior out for its first blacktop battle; Rooster is on the front lines of recovery and fatherhood
#4 - Suck it Up, Princess
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/22/2013
A semi hits a barrier so hard that it tears off the trailer's rear axle, blocking the Coq's most important exit. Scott tells Jamie he's fed up with the vintage truck he's been driving, and a mysterious new driver shows up in the yard to start work.
#5 - Top Dog, Lone Wolf?
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/2014
For the first time all season Howie and Adam end up on the same BC wreck and the old Coq vet doesn’t like how the new guy is running the show. In Alberta, the crew faces one of its biggest challenges yet when they attempt a recovery with two big wreckers on a very narrow industrial road.
#6 - Snowmageddon
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/2014
A record snowfall brings B.C.'s vital Coquihalla Highway to a standstill and sends shockwaves across the region. Howie leads a team on a dangerous recovery that sparks an unexpected emotional reaction. In Alberta, Adam and Colin have to get a toxic chemical wreck safely back on the road.
#7 - War Zone
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/2015
Colin faces the biggest recovery of his career. Al Quiring faces bad snowstorms on the Coquihala. John faces off against a mangled tractor.
#8 - Immovable Objects
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/2015
A simple job turns urgent which forces Jamie back out on the road; An overturned truck is trapped under it's load of steel.
#9 - After the Crash
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/25/2012
Join series producer and host of the one-hour special, Mark Miller, as he takes viewers to the legendary "Barn" in Hope, BC, to join Jamie Davis and his crew for a season wrap-up "Beer O'clock". Here, no topic is off limits as Jamie, Adam, Kevin, Bruce, and Samy trade stories from this season of working on the mountain.
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#10 - Ripper Hill
Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/31/2022
James Luke and the Reliable team contend with two detoured wrecks on the same punishing corner of a narrow route; MSA's Kirpal and sons must stretch a long line to reach a machine stuck on a farm.
#11 - Still Got It
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/8/2013
A local competitor challenges Jamie's status on the Hill. A trailer full of cat food bursts into flames - and Scott and Gord have to battle for two days to get the burning heap off the Smasher. Bruce gets into a fight that lands him in the hospital.
#12 - Welcome to Winter
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/2013
Jamie Davis, eager for the winter season to begin, has one thing on his mind - amp up his manpower and his equipment, so he's ready for anything that happens on the mountain. He has brought back a big crew - Adam Gazzola, Narayan Samy, Kevin Ritchie, Rob Mitchell, Bruce Hardy, Ken Monkhouse, the new guy Gord Lundin, and Davis' stepson Brandon Kodallas. Everyone has big, but not always realistic, expectations for the winter ahead. On the first job of the season, Davis' team struggles to find their groove unloading and recovering an expensive B-Train full of lumber for an important client. That night on the Coquihalla, Gazzola is first on site to a grocery truck fully engulfed in flames. With no fire department to help, Gazzola tries out an old fire truck Davis bought for cheap. Ritchie jumps to the task, but the truck is slow to start, and Davis' crew is left to struggle to put out the fire and get the truck off the highway. Later, Davis begins to doubt the optimistic gamble he's made this season and questions if he's brought on too much manpower and possibly the wrong machines.
#13 - Family Business
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/16/2012
In the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, on the Coquihalla Highway, a small job turns into a major headache and a father's dreams of his stepson joining the family business backfires as Brandon Kodallas' aspirations of being a gym instructor and his disdain to drive a manual transmission vehicles does not sit well with anybody else, while teaching Ken about rigging, something the Richmond-based city towie doesn't do. When Ken and Samy were on their fourth attempt to recover an empty SUV that plunged off the cliff and into a river 1000 feet below, a simple job turned into a lost cause for the company. Brandon walked off on the job after the operation took a lot longer than expected, but next morning, he learns the basics of car recovery and towing, but by the fifth attempt at recovering the car, Jamie gave up calling on Brandon and asked Gord to help. After the job was finally done, Brandon invited Jamie and his wife to his gym and showed him his interpretation of the meaning of 'dedication'.
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#14 - Arming for Battle
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/25/2014
In the season finale, Jamie finds himself in harm's way on a very difficult technical recovery. Later he makes a bold gamble impacting both his BC and Alberta operations. Adam faces a tough choice about his future in Heavy Rescue.
#15 - Fly or Fall
Season 10 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/3/2022
Team Reliable is in foggy chaos; Ken turns an off-road recovery into a joyride; Greg takes charge on his biggest recovery without the boss; Gord hustles to open the Coq's steepest stretch.
#16 - Jailhouse Wreck
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/2020
On his first job in a heavy wrecker since his heart attack, Ken Duperon faces a load of pipe outside a prison; a familiar face switches teams and leads Reliable Towing on a major recovery.
#17 - Ice Storm
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/2015
A downpour of freezing rain covers Hope and the Coq, crippling Jamie's operation. Meanwhile, Ken heads to a job and re-lives the worst day of his life.
#18 - You Can't Argue with Gravity
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/2015
Quiring Towing has to rescue a loaded semi teetering on the edge of a 300-foot drop. Meanwhile, Colin faces a white knuckle drive on a remote Alberta back road while Jamie tests out a new driver
#19 - 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.
#20 - Fork in the Road
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/2015
Jamie takes control of the rotator for the first time in months, and turns to his competition for advice about a major decision that will determine the future of heavy rescue.
#21 - Nervous Wreck
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/2015
Al and Gord gamble on a job which pushes both wreckers to the limits. In Alberta, Jamie's crew battles a whiteout. Back in B.C., a wrecker is called in to help solve an underwater mystery.
#22 - One Man, One Truck
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/30/2014
IN B.C., a truck full of wine is sliced in half... Less than 24 hours after Jamie ships the Rotator to Alberta. Howie must tackle this monster recovery all on his own. And a cascade of wrecks on two different highways mean both Al Quiring and Adam Gazzola must face their own night from hell.
#23 - Prove Yourself
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/2014
The Alberta crew faces a complex recovery with a million dollar truck while Jamie struggles with an unstable wreck. Colin is forced to go it alone after a freak snowstorm leaves the highway littered with crashed vehicles.
#24 - It's Stormy Everywhere
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/18/2012
Jamie's having second thoughts about bringing his son Brandon onboard when the teenager spends his paycheck on ear piercings. Then his right hand man Kevin shows up to a wreck without the gear he needs to control traffic. When Jamie confronts him, Kevin storms off the job. Jamie's one bright spot is his brand new truck, the Rotator. But even that lets him down when he's called out to save a trailer stuck in a ditch, and only ends up destroying it after Kevin discovered it was weighed down by boxes of cadmium. Next night, little Jamie Jr. joins in as an observer for a seemingly 'easy job', only for Junior to fall asleep in the truck, while Jamie, Kevin and Brandon witnessed two more accidents in deteriorating weather and road conditions, turning it into a multi-car pileup, and Jamie ended up unnecessarily destroying the snow plow.
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#25 - Be Afraid
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/2014
A close call on the highway shows Brandon that fear is his best friend when it comes to staying alive. Jamie’s called to help save a woman trapped in an overturned truck submerged in an icy river. In Alberta, tempers flare in the extreme cold as the new crew is put to the test.