Has anyone heard of this documentary style movie - the home page is at [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. and there is a film clip.

I (being the four-wheeling sister of a driver of a chemical tanker) am constantly working on squelching the bad image of the trucking industry in my little corner of the world, and when this movie gets released for purchase I will give it as christmas gifts to all my friends and family that need education. I think it hasn't been released to either DVD or TV, the producers (or whoever) may be trying to raise money to fund it getting released to the mainstream movie theatre (but this is just second hand info).

Here is a copy of stuff from the web site to tempt you to keep your eyes open:

PRODUCTION NOTES:
The entire production crew for BIG RIG was three people: Director-Cameraman Doug Pray, Producer-Driver Brad Blondheim (a.k.a. “Alabama Lightning”), and, Lighting-Sound-and-all-around-help Jim “Knife-In-Teeth” Dziura. It worked like this: we drove our RV around the entire country and stopped at truckstops to find interviews with truckdrivers. We’d approach them and ask if they’d be interested in participating in BIG RIG and we were either immediately turned down, or, invited to climb up into their rig. Doug sat in the passenger seat and operated the camera and conducted interviews. Jim did simple lighting and helped record sound. Making sure the drivers weren’t distracted was a must—the idea was that they did their job and we just talked along the way. The interviews lasted from 30 minutes to 6 hours, depending on how much coffee we’d had and how much the driver wanted to share about his or her life. We also did interviews in truckstop cafe’s, outside the trucks, and, in a few cases, in the trucker’s homes. We were with drivers for about half the time we were in production. The rest of the time, if we couldn’t find an interview, or just wanted to get to the next good truckstop, we shot scenics of interstates, trucks driving by, mountains, city skylines, state capitols, roadkill, and enough gorgeous sunsets to leave at least 30 on the cutting room floor. We slept in the RV at truckstop parking lots and took showers there, too. Our Northeast shoot was in the winter and we drove a mini-van and stayed in cheap hotels.
BIG RIG consisted of three 10-12 day production periods. Our first trip took us from LA to Dallas to Chicago and back through Denver. Trip two was from Florida to New Orleans (just one week before Hurricane Katrina), up to Memphis, Louisville, and Cincinnati, and then crisscrossing throughout Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. Trip 3 was during Christmas and covered every state in New England and the Northeast, including a 3AM visit to Hunts Point Market (the largest food distribution center in the country). Trip 4 was during May and covered the great Northwest, including Montana, Idaho and Utah. All told, we have shots of just about every state line crossing, every major interstate, and most major US cities. We have driven about 21,000 miles, visiting 115 truckstops (we calculate), and done interviews with at least 60 truckdrivers. We shot just about 100 hours of footage.

There is a great article at the washington post web site, there is a link to it on the home page of the movie site I think. The article was written after the showing of the movie at a film festival this summer (the article number is AR2007061302385.html)

I think us extended family member types would all be interested and benetif from this movie. I can't wait for it to be on TV for the general public. Even if it makes just a few more car drivers more considerate and safe when operating around big rigs on the highway it will be worth it!

CarDriver, I made your link live as we don't allow dead links. That is soooo cool though! I have high hopes for that. They are darn sure good! I would like to talk with them to work out some deals with them if anyone knows them. Thanks!

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Wow, thats too cool. It would be nice to have the whole country view this film. Good to see that someone is doing something.

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Would like to see it!

I can't wait to see this film. It looks very well done, and without the typical "Trucker bashing"!!

Awesome! I want a copy of that for sure! To go along with my Duel and Maximum Overdrive DVD's. Love those movies.

Glad to see we're getting a positive light shed on us though. Seems in the movies truckers are always the bad guys or doing something crazy illegal.

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I contacted them from their site...let's see what they say to us!

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When does the movie come out?