VIDEO: These Truck Drivers Have Extreme Jobs! They Drive on the Most Dangerous Roads

While it might seem a piece of cake to just drive from one point to another and deliver some things with a truck, it really isn’t as easy as it seems and those people really work hard and risk their lives to get paid.

Not only is it harder to control a vehicle so big, but you also have to drive it carefully on roads that aren’t meant for vehicles that are so large.

According to returnloads.net, in order to understand what these truckers have to power through you have to imagine you’re 13,000 feet up a mountain, on a narrow pass with a sheer drop to your left and a solid rock face to your right.

Thunderstorms could at any minute cause a landslide, washing away the gravel track you’re driving on.

Or that you’re not even driving on a gravel track, but are travelling on an ice road, lonely and isolated, across the arctic tundra.

This is the reality for truck drivers on some of the most dangerous roads in the world.

Here’s a round-up of some of the most arduous journeys truck drivers around the world can face:

Built to service the Trans-Alaska oil pipeline in 1974, the 414-mile long road known as the Dalton Highway ranks among the most extreme in the World for its remoteness, dirt and gravel road surface and icy conditions.

Spanning Livengood in the south to the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay, the highway passes through just three towns – with a combined population of less than 100 people – meaning only three gas stations along the way. From the midpoint in Coldfoot to Deadhorse at the end of the road, this 240-mile stretch is devoid of services of any kind, meaning a lonely, isolated journey.

Made famous by the television programme ‘Ice Road Truckers’ and the BBC’s ‘World’s Most Dangerous Roads’, Dalton Highway poses numerous challenges to truckers.

Blisteringly freezing temperatures – as low as -82 degrees Fahrenheit – poor visibility and mammoth pot holes are faced by the numerous huge trucks that make this trip daily.

If you love lonely, isolated and treacherous roads then this one’s for you.

The Sichuan-Tibet Highway is the longest high-altitude road in China and considered one of the world’s most extreme and deadly highways.

Despite facing some of the toughest driving conditions – from snowy mountain peaks, hair-raising hairpin bends and deep gorges – this is a regular route taken by truck drivers heading to the top of the World.

Stretching from Chengdu of Sichuan province in China to Lhasa in Tibet, the Sichuan-Tibet highway covers some 2,412 kilometers and rises to altitudes of 20,000 feet.

Drivers travel from warm spring conditions to icy, frozen mountain passes, facing altitude sickness, the constant threat of rockfalls and mudslides.

The Chola mountain pass was considered one of the most dangerous sections along this highway, but this year China opened up the world’s highest road tunnel, in an effort to improve safety and the journey time.

According to Tom McGhie of Easy as HGV, “Even with this improvement, the journey still ranks among the most extreme and challenging in the World.