We are talking about the South Pole Traverse (also called the McMurdo-South Pole highway). It is approximately 870 miles (1,400 kilometers) long and links the coastal station of Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station to the United States’ McMurdo Station. Though there are several other ice roads there as well.
2. Ice Road Trucking Jobs in Canada
This is where most people think of when they think about ice road trucking jobs.
As a matter of fact some of the world’s first true ice roads were built there. This was in the 1930’s to haul loads from the mines.
Often the loads were too heavy for the airplanes of the day and the ground was just too mushy to create permanent winter roads. So some engineers designed a way to carve roads across the ice and the rest is ice road history.
3. Ice Road Trucking Jobs in People’s Republic of China
Most people might think about China when looking into ice road trucking jobs. But a good part of the country is pretty far north, bordering Russia. So they built ways to link the two in order to maintain the transports of good and service between the two.
