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This category is intended for films depicting truck drivers (truckers) as major characters, as a major theme, or as significant dramatic elements. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
While 60-year-old truck driver Elegant John Howard is in a Los Angeles hospital, his truck is repossessed by a finance company.. Deciding that it is time to make one last perfect cross-country run, he escapes from the hospital and steals back his truck.
Another "trucker" had informed them over the CB radio that they are okay to increase their speed. The "trucker" turns out to be Sheriff "Dirty" Lyle Wallace, a long-time nemesis of the Duck, who extorts them for $70 each. The truckers head on to Rafael's Glide-In where the Duck's sometime girlfriend and Lyle's wife, Violet, works as a waitress.
J.D. (Norris), a trucker from California, learns that his old friend was assaulted and paralyzed by Sergeant Strode (Gentry), a policeman in Texas City, California. J.D. discovers that Strode has a history of "trapping" truckers for a corrupt judge named Trimmings (Murdock), who is running various rackets.
Livid, he returns to Red River with a shotgun and threatens Duane Haller. Duane informs him that he is just a pawn in the game and that the person he actually needs to talk to is Duane's boss, Buck Wessler (L.Q. Jones). Buck is a sleazy, lower-level crook who now manages Red River. Buck agrees to let CJ take a load to Dallas, free of any ...
High-Ballin is a 1978 Canadian action comedy film about truckers directed by Peter Carter. The US release was rated PG, with a runtime of 97 minutes. The film primarily depicts a confrontation between a trucker boss and independent truckers. The boss uses a criminal gang to intimidate his rivals, but he is eventually double-crossed by the gang ...
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Big Rig is a 2007 documentary film by Doug Pray about long-haul truck drivers.The film consists of a series of interviews with different drivers, focusing on both their personal life stories and also the life and culture of truck drivers in the United States.