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  2. 10 classic trucking movies - AOL

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    Truck Parking Club analyzed numerous film databases to compile a list of 10 classic movies paying homage to the trucking industry. The releases range from the 1930s through the 2020s; however, it ...

  3. Convoy (1978 film) - Wikipedia

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    'Convoy' is a bad joke that backfires on the director. He has neither the guts to play the movie straight as melodrama nor the sense of humor to turn it into a kind of 'Smokey and the Bandit' comedy. The movie is a big, costly, phony exercise in myth-making, machismo, romance-of-the-open-road nonsense and incredible self-indulgence."

  4. High-Ballin' - Wikipedia

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    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

  5. The Franklin Mint - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s and 1980s, Franklin Mint expanded operations to legal tender coins, producing a combination of bullion and non-bullion proof and uncirculated coin sets of both small and large denominations for a number of countries, particularly Panama and various island states. One of its best numismatic sellers was the "Coin Sets of all Nations ...

  6. History of the trucking industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Big Rig (film) - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Maximum Overdrive - Wikipedia

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    At the Dixie Boy, a garbage truck kills Duncan when he departs to search for Deke, and a truck sporting a giant fiberglass Green Goblin mask on its grille slams bible salesman Camp Loman into a ditch. Later, big rig trucks encircle the truck stop. Connie and Curtis outmaneuver a semi-truck, causing it to crash off the side of the road and explode.

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