Knuckle-busting ingenuity and teeth-grinding determination butt heads with Jefferson County’s slick clay flats, steep sandy ridges and the thick lowland swamps in History Channel’s new truck versus terrain competition series.
“Truck Night In America,” a reality show that filmed at Sunnyside ATV Paradise north of Wrens last summer, pits 50 personally customized off-road vehicle owners against each other, five at a time over 10 episodes, on what its creators are calling the toughest truck obstacle course ever built. The series premiered last week and airs Thursdays at 10 p.m.
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In each episode, five drivers compete in three challenges designed to test their vehicle’s speed, strength and handling. Between the challenges, they get help from the show’s four expert coaches as they re-engineer their vehicles for the next round. Two finalists then enter the 3-mile course called “The Green Hell,” which challenges them to sail over jumps, scale a mountain of crushed cars and brave a snake-infested swamp. Only one vehicle can take home the $10,000 prize and title of Night Truck Champion.
Executive producer Patrick Costello explained that at its core, the show celebrates the men and women across the U.S. who love “wrenching on their trucks and driving them hard.”
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The team of expert coaches consists of desert racing champion and truck builder “Pistol” Pete Sohren; extreme sports pioneer and dirt track racer Glen Plake; truck builder and master fabricator Abe Wine; and rock-crawling champion and master fabricator Rob “Bender” Park.
“These four experts offer tough love and their professional perspective on each contender’s strategy and performance as well as set up each competition,” Costello said. “A few minutes into each episode, after one truck has been eliminated from the competition, the four hosts meet the drivers, assess the trucks and then each host picks the driver they want to coach for the remainder of the episode.”
In addition to the Georgia tax credit that allows producers to invest more into the show, Costello said that his team looked at multiple locations used for recreational 4-wheeling. The Jefferson County location stood out.
“It’s strikingly visual,” Costello said. “The aquamarine water, the kaolin clay and the surrounding, lush green forests look great on camera. … The variety of terrain at the specific property also helped us create numerous tests for different vehicle attributes. ”
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A number of local people were involved. Wrens firefighters and paramedics were on set and were called on to put their skills to use. Local law enforcement worked security and other locals helped to build challenges and served as part of the crew.
It took about two months to build the course and challenges and then another month of filming.
“During the site build the crew encountered lots of snakes, most of them poisonous,” Costello said. “Me and three other crew were in a Gator on one of the dirt roads on location, going maybe 10-15 mph. As we passed a cottonmouth in the middle of the road it not only struck at the gator but reared up, we thought the damn thing was trying to jump in the vehicle.”
“Hopefully the first season will be a great success and we’ll be back for a second season but there aren’t concrete plans at this time,” Costello said.
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