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COLUMBIA, SC (WACH)—it was an ad found on Craigslist that read “Season 6 reality show needs truck drivers.  Must have 15 years experience,” that  Ronald “Porkchop” Mangum responded to.  The rest, as they say, is history.  Sort of.

Porkchop sent a message back, and when his phone rang from a toll free number, he just assumed it was a bill collector.  He was wrong.  It was a producer for the History Channel reality show Ice Road Truckers.

After submitting a homemade audition reel, Porkchop founding himself riding around Columbia with a photographer from the show.  He traveled to Alaska to shoot season 6 of the show, and for just over 2, drove tractor trailers over the frozen sea.

“45 below wasn’t even the coldest,” he said in reference to a picture of a “-45” degree day, citing a day that registered 75 below zero.  Porkchop also demonstrated the many layers of clothes that help ensure he doesn’t become a “Pork-sickle.”

You can catch Elgin’s own Porkchop this season on Ice Road Truckers Sunday evenings on the History Channel, and find him on Face book HERE.