The two teamed up about a year ago after Hoffman learned one of his friends was on the show. So Taliaferro and Hoffman must rely on all their skills and instincts to find the trucks and get them back without getting themselves hurt. Somebody who steals a truck or “misplaces” a load isn’t necessarily going to give it up easily. The hunt itself can lead to potentially dangerous confrontations. “So you’re out there racing the clock and the other teams to find the truck,” Taliaferro said. Often, they contact several in the area, which serves as the premise for the show. Typically, when a truck or load goes missing, the owner or shipping company calls big rig bounty hunters to help locate it. Those kinds of numbers packed into the back of an 18-wheeler makes it a tempting target for thieves. “Some of these trucks are carrying million-dollar loads across the country.” “One of the things I’ve learned is truck driving is dangerous,” Taliaferro said. Finding the load requires getting out on the ground and working the information and contacts. Taliaferro explains a truck and its load can go missing for any number of reasons, including theft or a disgruntled driver taking off with it or just leaving it somewhere. When a truck goes missing, for a number of possible reasons, the truck owner or shipping company reaches out to teams such as Hoffman and Taliaferro to look for it and bring it back. The show features the search for missing 18-wheelers and their loads. Putting it all together, hopefully, leads them to the missing big rig before another team. When it comes to looking for missing rigs, Taliaferro can work his law-enforcement contacts, while Hoffman reaches out to his biker and truck industry connections. “We’re just combining those (backgrounds), and it works great,” Taliaferro said. Hoffman is a hardcore biker and truck driver. Taliaferro is a career law-enforcement officer. Taliaferro and Hoffman are kind of an odd couple when it comes to hunting down the missing rigs. Taliaferro, a Burnet County Sheriff’s Office deputy, and his future father-in-law, Michael Hoffman, are one of several teams starring in the upcoming season of “Big Rig Bounty Hunters” on History Channel. And it’s a job he will do as millions of people watch. to Vincent Jones.BURNET - Keeping his future father-in-law out of trouble is one of Chad Taliaferro’s tasks as the two head out and track down missing or lost 18-wheelers. Sure beats the broken-record anemic network claptrap ABC/CBS/NBC vomit out. Neither of these productions embodied the over-the-road romance espoused by Jerry Garcia & them Grateful Deads in "Truckin' " - 1 of my favorite Deads tunes - or Jack Kerouac 60 years ago, though he wasn't doing no trucking, but their flawed setups aside, they do provide nice See The USA visuals for us Open Road lovers to enjoy, hence my halfway-mark rating. Then, as if all this wasn't bad enough (plus hintings about Ice Road Truckers, which really will be horrible), comes the sad information, like feisty old dude Roy in Shipping Wars, that last year one of these guys bit the dust untimely. So until either "H" shows the episodes detailed by the other reviewers or I get the DVD versions, I won't see how bad their thinness is that's had audiences raving - in the wrong way. What annoyed me about this caper were their version of what I call "beauty shots" - which might be the giveaway - such as, re: Shipping Wars, views of a rig blowing down the highway taken from the shoulder or of the "hunters" coming into some place or another how do the camerapeople somehow manage to get to X destination(s) BEFORE them to film their arrival? That it's nothing new - the various house "flip" shows employ this dumb device all the time showing the buyers coming into their freshly bought shacks from the INSIDE - doesn't make it any less aggravating. I'd forgotten about the old ex-Court TV show Operacion Repo, which was so nicely done that only 2 scenes stuck out as nakedly fake (as well as Lizard Lick Towing, which being set closer to my neck of the US woods was an even bigger letdown). Having then looked up "dvd" on this only to find a mini-flood of information all saying this show is FAKE really deflated my tires. One of my two maternal uncles named Clarence (her youngest sister decided to marry a guy with the same name as their oldest brother!), having been a longhauler who called me "Kenworth!" after his favorite rig, is 1 of the main reasons I've loved since I was a kid to do like Bugs Bunny once told Humphrey Bogart & "hit the road!" I never did get to ride with Clarence when I was old enough as he had promised, since declining health forced him off the roads before that, but my interest has never waned. I hadn't seen this show before today (Flag Day 2018), but with the "H" Channel running a wee marathon, I decided to give it look.
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