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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.
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 ...
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.
Eventually J.D.'s younger brother (Augenstein), who is starting a trucking career, is deceived by Strode and goes missing. J.D. sets out to find him. The film was a box-office success, grossing $12 million at the box office, but received generally negative reviews from critics.
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.
The strike is being held in protest of the corrupt system set up by the Glass House and in honor of one trucker who dared to stand up against them, Carrol Jo Hummer. CJ's brother-in-law wheels him out of his hospital room to the parking lot, which is filled with semi-trucks and truckers. They all begin to clap. CJ then begins to smile.
The opening scene of the new movie Trucker, about a tough, single female truck driver confronted with motherhood, will grab you. Not because it's a woman having an orgasm, or that the woman is ...
An out-of-control test rocket causes death and destruction and requires the relocation of the rocket development plant. Trucker Mitch Barton (Brian Keith) assembles a team of several other men for a nearly suicidal mission to drive three trucks to move the rocket fuel—hydrazine, nitric acid, and concentrated hydrogen peroxide—safely over a rough mountain road within three days.