Big Rig Bounty Hunters (2013– ) User Reviews

Jerry Garcia's Worst Nightmare

[kensirhan-86198 · 5/10 · 14 June 2018]

I hadn't seen this show before today (Flag Day 2018), but with the "H" Channel running a wee marathon, I decided to give it look. One of my two maternal uncles named Clarence (her youngest sister decided to marry a guy with the same name as their oldest brother!), having been a longhauler who called me "Kenworth!" after his favorite rig, is 1 of the main reasons I've loved since I was a kid to do like Bugs Bunny once told Humphrey Bogart & "hit the road!" I never did get to ride with Clarence when I was old enough as he had promised, since declining health forced him off the roads before that, but my interest has never waned. Having then looked up "dvd" on this only to find a mini-flood of information all saying this show is FAKE really deflated my tires. I'd forgotten about the old ex-Court TV show Operacion Repo, which was so nicely done that only 2 scenes stuck out as nakedly fake (as well as Lizard Lick Towing, which being set closer to my neck of the US woods was an even bigger letdown). What annoyed me about this caper were their version of what I call "beauty shots" - which might be the giveaway - such as, re: Shipping Wars, views of a rig blowing down the highway taken from the shoulder or of the "hunters" coming into some place or another; how do the camerapeople somehow manage to get to X destination(s) BEFORE them to film their arrival? That it's nothing new - the various house "flip" shows employ this dumb device all the time showing the buyers coming into their freshly bought shacks from the INSIDE - doesn't make it any less aggravating. So until either "H" shows the episodes detailed by the other reviewers or I get the DVD versions, I won't see how bad their thinness is that's had audiences raving - in the wrong way. Then, as if all this wasn't bad enough (plus hintings about Ice Road Truckers, which really will be horrible), comes the sad information, like feisty old dude Roy in Shipping Wars, that last year one of these guys bit the dust untimely. Sigh. Neither of these productions embodied the over-the-road romance espoused by Jerry Garcia & them Grateful Deads in "Truckin' " - 1 of my favorite Deads tunes - or Jack Kerouac 60 years ago, though he wasn't doing no trucking, but their flawed setups aside, they do provide nice See The USA visuals for us Open Road lovers to enjoy, hence my halfway-mark rating. Sure beats the broken-record anemic network claptrap ABC/CBS/NBC vomit out. R.I.P. to Vincent Jones.

worst History show

[pharris00 · 1/10 · 7 September 2014]

Agree with above. This is the most contrived, unbelievable, staged show I've ever seen. And on a network that calls itself "The History Channel?" The scenes are so obviously set-up, no person in his right mind would think otherwise. Are the producers just "having fun" with the viewers?

Two 70-year-old hipster bikers with no teeth and long hair "rescue" an abandoned big rig???! Give me a break!

A pick-up hauling a trailer of six steers to a rodeo, "breaks down" conveniently right over railroad tracks, and the driver never notifies the railroad - despite the presence of a RR phone prominently displayed right next to the tracks???

Two guys sent to "rescue" a stolen monster truck hidden in woods... they find the location... the irate owner, already a thief/felon, comes after them with a bat, claiming trespassing... afraid, they get back into their truck and leave. Why didn't they just say, "Whatya going' to do? call the police?" That seemed the sensible solution.

History Channel should be ashamed of itself. Worst thing they've ever done!

Unbelievably bad.

[hubertalain · 1/10 · 16 June 2014]

Completely fake situations, bad scenario, bad actors. Who on this planet believe this is actually true ? And who can find this entertaining in the least ? Answer: nobody in their right mind.

Reality TV has sunk to a new low with this. I sincerely hope it will at least contribute to its demise once and for all, because there's certainly nothing real about this, except its poor taste.

It's so bad, that I have trouble finding enough stuff to write about it so that my review meets the 10 lines requirements for publishing. I really don't understand TV stations spending high dollars buying the rights to air this crap. Not to mention how the producers actually convinced investors to finance the production ? I'd be curious to see actual TV ratings after only 2 or 3 episodes ? Probably close to nil. Although people will watch anything, however bad it is, it's true... Sob.