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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.
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Movin' On stars Claude Akins as old-time independent "big-rig" truck driver Sonny Pruitt, and Frank Converse as his college-educated co-driver Will Chandler. The theme song, "Movin' On", was written and performed by Merle Haggard, and was a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in July 1975.
Along with his imprisonment, he also lost his Commercial driver's license. Following his release, he attempts to return to a normal life while working as a truck mechanic for a repair shop in New Jersey, unable to drive himself. His manager, Frank Cutler, offers him a job driving toilets from Atlanta to New Jersey for $10,000. Realizing that ...
The sport started in the United States at the Atlanta Motor Speedway on June 17, 1979 and was the opening scene in the movie Smokey and the Bandit II. Maximum race speed is restricted to 160 km/h (100 mph) for safety reasons, and a minimum weight limit is 5500 kg. Races start from a rolling start, and commonly races last from 8 to 12 laps.
A growing subculture of adventure travelers are taking epic off-road trips in extremely wild rides. We sent an actual vagabond into their midst.
Starting in 1910, the development of a number of technologies gave rise to the modern trucking industry. With the advent of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine, improvements in transmissions, the move away from chain drives to gear drives, and the development of the tractor/semi-trailer combination, shipping by truck gained in popularity. [1]
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 inti