If you met Lisa Kelly out on the street (and you didn’t know who she was), you’d probably have a hard time believing what she does for a living. As an attractive and obviously intelligent young woman she doesn’t fit into the stereotypical image of a truck driver that most people have in their minds. But that’s a good thing! Truck driving, although still a male-dominated industry, is a profession suited to both men and women, and we can thank the show Ice Road Truckers for helping revamp their image. The cast of this show however go behind just ordinary truck driving. Their area of expertise is much more dangerous as they specialise in hauling massive loads over snow covered roads and sometimes even frozen lakes, risking their lives to deliver
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If you’ve ever wanted to know more about this IRT star now is the time – here are 15 things we bet you didn’t know about this ice road trucking beauty:
15 IRT Cast Members Are Among The Lowest Paid Reality TV Stars
Thom Beers is the man responsible for bringing us shows like Deadliest Catch, Storage Wars, Ax Men, and of course – Ice Road Truckers. His shows often feature blue-collar workers and the formula hasn’t seem to fail him yet. After a hard day’s work it seems people want nothing more than to sit down and…watch someone else work. But Beers believes that in order to keep the stars of the show like Lisa relatable for the viewers they can’t be paid too much and on average the stars of IRT are among the lowest paid reality stars in the business. Beers controls what they earn by locking them into multiyear contracts; that way even if the show is successful he doesn’t need to pay them more. But there’s no need to worry about Lisa Kelly – she’s still rocking a net worth of about $500 …show more content…
Often you’ll end up trying a number of different jobs before you find something that fits and that can take years. Lisa Kelly had a few jobs before she decided to try her hand in the world of trucking and she said she chose this difficult job because it “looked interesting”. But becoming a trucker and becoming a respected trucker are two different things and Lisa had to work her butt off to get to where she is today. As a woman she’s proud of this achievement and rightly so. "I had to work twice as hard,” she said. “I had to pull my weight and everybody else's and get the job done as fast, or
If you’ve ever wanted to know more about this IRT star now is the time – here are 15 things we bet you didn’t know about this ice road trucking beauty:
15 IRT Cast Members Are Among The Lowest Paid Reality TV Stars
Thom Beers is the man responsible for bringing us shows like Deadliest Catch, Storage Wars, Ax Men, and of course – Ice Road Truckers. His shows often feature blue-collar workers and the formula hasn’t seem to fail him yet. After a hard day’s work it seems people want nothing more than to sit down and…watch someone else work. But Beers believes that in order to keep the stars of the show like Lisa relatable for the viewers they can’t be paid too much and on average the stars of IRT are among the lowest paid reality stars in the business. Beers controls what they earn by locking them into multiyear contracts; that way even if the show is successful he doesn’t need to pay them more. But there’s no need to worry about Lisa Kelly – she’s still rocking a net worth of about $500 …show more content…
Often you’ll end up trying a number of different jobs before you find something that fits and that can take years. Lisa Kelly had a few jobs before she decided to try her hand in the world of trucking and she said she chose this difficult job because it “looked interesting”. But becoming a trucker and becoming a respected trucker are two different things and Lisa had to work her butt off to get to where she is today. As a woman she’s proud of this achievement and rightly so. "I had to work twice as hard,” she said. “I had to pull my weight and everybody else's and get the job done as fast, or