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Shipping Wars

Season 1 2012
TV-PG

  • 2012-01-11T03:00:00Z on A&E
  • 24m
  • 4h (10 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Reality, Documentary
Shipping Wars is a reality TV series on A&E that began airing on January 10, 2012. The show follows six independent carriers who have discovered that fortunes can be made transporting items that traditional carriers either cannot or will not haul. The series also features uShip, the world’s largest online auction house for independent truckers. For Season 1, the featured carriers are Marc Springer, Roy Garber, Jennifer Brennan, Jarrett Joyce, and Suzanne and Scott Bawcom. Starting with Season 2, the Bawcoms are replaced by the team of Christopher Hanna and Robbie Welsh. Season 3 premiered on December 12, 2012 . New shippers Johnny Chavez and the team of Chelsea Grant and Courtney Aguilera appear in Season 4.

10 episodes

Series Premiere

2012-01-11T03:00:00Z

1x01 Pilot

Series Premiere

1x01 Pilot

  • 2012-01-11T03:00:00Z24m

The transporters compete for some unique shipments going cross-country as a 4,000 lbs., 22-foot steel horse and an oversized 7-foot-long Venus Flytrap come up for bid. Roy Garber and Jarrett Joyce are the big winners of the transports, respectively, but there's no time to celebrate when they both realize they may have bitten off more than they can chew.

2012-01-11T03:00:00Z

1x02 Double Down and Bean Town

Roy books a complicated Linotype machine, and things get really complicated when he thinks he breaks it in route-but with his skill and welder, he hopes to set things right.

2012-01-18T03:00:00Z

1x03 Bullship

1x03 Bullship

  • 2012-01-18T03:00:00Z24m

When livestock hits the uShip auction, Jennifer makes her move and wins a haul of two bucking bulls, while Marc gets a fragile experimental aircraft. When this experienced cowgirl picks up the bulls, she finds them meaner than she expected and ends up having to board them every night she's in transit.

2012-01-18T03:00:00Z

1x04 Cash for Tanks

1x04 Cash for Tanks

  • 2012-01-18T03:00:00Z24m

After Marc battles it our with the other transporters, he wins a load of two Military tanks headed across the country and Roy lands a mint condition Model A being shipped from one collector to another. After Marc quickly loads up the tanks, he's got to find his way through a maze of round-a-bouts in a small Pennsylvania town before he even makes it to the highway.

2012-01-25T03:00:00Z

1x05 Pain in the Caboose

1x05 Pain in the Caboose

  • 2012-01-25T03:00:00Z24m

When it comes to the biggest and baddest loads, Marc can't help but throw his hat in the ring. Fighting off Scott and Susie, he lands the job hauling a 1928 train caboose. When he arrives, Marc finds more of a remodel project than a shipment, and has to get to work right away. Pushing the limits, this load could make him a small fortune, or sink his ship before he makes it across the country.

2012-01-25T03:00:00Z

1x06 Camel in Tow

1x06 Camel in Tow

  • 2012-01-25T03:00:00Z24m

Jennifer uses her experience transporting livestock to win a camel shipment from Oklahoma to Vermont. Between getting lost, stopping to keep her cargo fed, and cleaning up the camel spit, Jennifer gets way behind schedule. But when her truck breaks down mid-run, the whole shipment is jeopardized.

2012-02-01T03:00:00Z

1x07 Tavern on the Greenbacks

1x07 Tavern on the Greenbacks

  • 2012-02-01T03:00:00Z24m

Roy heads back in to New York City when he outbids the other transporters for a job moving a catering food truck from the city's famous restaurant, Tavern on the Green. When he arrives and finds the truck in non-operational condition, Roy quickly becomes a mechanic and machine shop worker, but tensions rise when the buyer isn't willing to pay him for his extra work.

2012-02-01T03:00:00Z

1x08 Jennifer's Arch

1x08 Jennifer's Arch

  • 2012-02-01T03:00:00Z24m

Jennifer may have taken her livestock specialty too far when she tops the transporters in an auction to ship a number of small animals. Between the smell, the constant feedings, and the never-ending squeals, it may be the last run Jennifer makes with so many critters. Jarrett outbids Marc in the competition to haul a go-kart in the shape of a miniature semi-tractor trailer.

2012-02-08T03:00:00Z

1x09 Baja or Bust

1x09 Baja or Bust

  • 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z24m

Marc is headed to Mexico when he wins an auction to ship a $100,000 Baja 1000 Trophy Truck. Leaving from Colorado, Marc must protect his precious cargo, and make sure it arrives without delay in time for the start of the famous race. But when he gets lost on the small back roads in Tijuana, Marc must get resourceful or risk putting the race team, and his career, in last place.

Season Finale

2012-02-08T03:00:00Z

1x10 May the Ship Be With You

Season Finale

1x10 May the Ship Be With You

  • 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z24m

Roy lands the shipment of his dreams when he gets to haul some large one-of-a-kind props from his favorite sci-fi movie. But when he is cut-off by another trucker on the highway, he's afraid it may have damaged these priceless movie artifacts. Jennifer outbids fellow rookie, Jarrett, for a shipment of 20 peacocks headed to Arizona.

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