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Truckers News Celebrity Series 2011-2012
September 1, 2011
| by: Truckers News Staff
MAYA SIEBER of ‘ICE ROAD TRUCKERS’
Ask Maya Sieber, a 5-foot-4-inch New Jersey resident (handle: ShortStack) why she’s a trucker and she’ll tell you she’s always been fascinated with big rigs. From the time she was a little girl, she could identify the make and model of any car or truck by the headlights.
Sieber worked anonymously until producers of History Channel’s “Ice Road Truckers” found her blog where she wrote stories about trucking. When she got the email that they were considering adding her to the “IRT” crew, she balked at first. “I certainly wasn’t looking for fame. I was looking to be a good trucker,” she says. Although she only had three years trucking experience under her belt and a Kenworth tattoo on her neck, her passion for new challenges won out and she became the newest member of the franchise’s latest season.
Sieber joined Lisa Kelly, Tony Molesky and Dave Redmon for the fifth season of “IRT,” this time on the treacherous Alaskan Dalton Highway, while Hugh Rowland, Alex Debogorski and Rick Yemm drove on Manitoba’s ice roads.
The show finished filming in March and Sieber went back to work for a small, family- owned trucking company in New Jersey. Her life has changed for the better, she says, and she’s as passionate about trucking as she was before she joined the show. Sieber took time to chat with Truckers News.
What’s a nice girl from Jersey doing driving a big rig?
I knew I wanted to drive a big truck since I was 5 years old. It was a childhood dream that I made a reality.
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I’m not a truck driver but I do have the up most respect for what they do. I don’t know what we would do without them. so keep up the great work. and keep truckin hard.
I use to drive big rigs, but enjoy the life of leisure now.But Maya, you are young and will be driving for a long time. You keep up the good work, keep the dark side down and shiny side up.You go girl.
Excellent article. Captures the essence of Maya.
She’s an amazing young woman.
I happen to be a long haul trucker and what I have seen on this season how Rick and Hugh ran those Manitoba and Ontario Ice Roads was pathetic. I heard wind that Big Freight usually runs the Ice Roads in Ontario and Manitoba.. So I contacted Big Freight indirectly and got some news from a trucker buddy that Hugh had to use his own trucks owned by Hugh Rowlens because Big Freight refused to insure Rick and Hugh to drive the Ice Roads in MB and ON because of their reckless nature, especially how Hugh tore a part a trailer owned by Metis Transport and Hugh was fired because he drove those rough winter roads like a rookie.. Sure it makes for good TV but when Rick and Hugh are getting a lot of money doing this TV Show it seems to me they are just doing this show for the cash contracts they signed to appear in the show! So much for reality TV!!!!!!
hola a todos :bueno mi historia comienza cuando era muy pequeño recuerdo que esperaba las vacaciones del colegio para viajar con mi padre. Un chófer de camiones de una alta experiencia debido a sus años de camionero en hielo y nieve en la Cordillera de los Andes Argentina Chile , Bolivia , Peru, Brasil. Yo crecí con la imagen de un profesional tal es asi que me interese mas por ser como el y luche muchísimo y que por cosas de la vida sufrió un accidente las cual yo al llevar varios años viajando a su lado me toco comenzar solo a conducir un camión trailer cuando solo tenia 17 años. Tras una enorme lucha para poder tener mi carnet de conducir y muchísimas pruebas por las ordenanzas de trafico y mi juventud conseguí mi carnet y comencé a conducir mi camion trailers comence a viajar por la majestuosa Cordillera de los Andes desde Argentina a Chile mi primer camión fue un Nissan 220 cv y para mi era como una naves espacial bueno ha si fueron pasando los años y me convertí en un experimentedo chófer de hielo y nieve y todo tipo de caminos es lo mas hermoso que en ese momento me regalo la vida ya han pasado algunos años de mi primer viaje como chófer cordillerano . desde hace mucho tiempo tengo la ilusión de poder recorrer las carreteras de Canada y Alaska admiro mucho a esa gente y al canal por que es bueno que por primera ves en la historia del camión le muestren al mundo que la vida de nosotros los camioneros no es fasil como lo ve la gente ajena a la familia mas grande de este mundo la del camión me siento un profesional por que lo he vivido desde muy pequeño y he tenido la suerte de ser el hijo de un chófer muy bien mirado como profesional en el área del camión y con mucho empeño de mi parte he logrado unirme a esta profesión y ser amigo de toda aquella persona que transita y rodea el mundo del camión bueno podria contarles mucho mas de mi vida de camionero pero no me alcanasria este espacio que nos han regalado bueno les saluda con un respeto un amigo el condor andino -
Maya;
You’re somebody who obviously has a good head on her shoulders. Your very intelligent and do present a positive image to truck driving. That being said, their are a number of morons out there who are a hazard to the motoring public. There have been a number of fatal accidents here in North Carolina where the truck driver was at fault, either using a cell phone on worse yet, texting. This is a job which requires a persons undivided attention as you well know. Keep on the ice road and continue to remain a positive image unlike your co-stars Rick and Hugh. Cowboys, who definitely give the industry a bad name.
I am a Truck driver also i have ran all 48 and have been around trucking all my life my dad was in trucking and had 7 trucks on the road running coast to coast for years i am now hauling cattle and i just want to say thanks for just being you and the person you are, please never change.. now will you keep up the good work and i pray for you everyday so God Bless
I’m a trucker too .From south eastern ky I love IRT show. Would love to see Hugh&Rick come here and to see what trucking is all about.200’000. lbs is nothing to us.