User:James R hart/Lisa Kelly (Ice Road Trucker)

Lisa Kelly is an ‘Ice Road Trucker’ who features on the History channels documentary-style reality television series Ice Road Truckers. Each week the documentary follows several ‘Ice Road Truckers’ as they make their way along the treacherous Dalton Highway from Fairbanks to Deadhorse, frequently towing ‘oversized’ loads. Kelly, often wearing her trademark sunglasses, is notable as the only female trucker featured in the series. Originally from Michigan, she now resides in Wasilla, Alaska.1,2

Early Life
Prior to her appointment as an Ice Road Trucker, Kelly has worked both as a school bus driver and motocross rider.3,4 Indeed, she has been state freestyle motocross champion.4 After these ventures, she decided to settle on a long term-career, and trained as a trucker on account of it 'looking interesting'. She subsequently got a job driving for Carlisle, an Alaskan haulage company.5

Ice Road Trucker
Kelly has been a truck driver for six years, and is in her second season as an Ice Road Trucker.6 She drives a Kenworth W900 tractor-trailer.6 At 28, Kelly is the youngest female driver this season, and aims to become Carlisle's first female heavy hauler.4 Kelly has already establishes herself as a competent driver, having hauled 15 load this season (see table below) which can be considered an achievement for a driver of her experience. She has also proven herself to be accomplished at performing the every-day tasks required of an Ice Road Trucker, such as ‘chaining up’, a task that many more experienced drivers (such as Alex Debogorski - 29 years her senior) still struggle with. In addition, she has learnt to tackle the challenging ‘Roller-coaster’ hill with relative ease.

Performance
This season, in terms of load counts, Kelly is only surpassed by Jack Jessee, a veteran driver with more than 15 years of ice road trucking experience.4