Good Trucking Movies

first one is 'Hell drivers',60's film about firm of tippers that 'runs hard' stanley baker and patrick magoohan,brilliant film,the other one is a documentry film,'destination doha',about a 'legendary' firm in uk,Astran,the firm that pioneered overland freight from the uk to the middle east,this followd three drivers through communist east europe onto saudi arabia and doha from the 70's.

 

Coast to Coast (1980) with Robert Blake and a beautiful Diane Cannon.

 

I just watched High-ballin' with Jerry Reed. It was pretty awesome.

 

Maximum Overdrive

 

how about the great smokey road block. Its got the truck hitch hiker, cat house, the working girls which becomes mobile when they move the cat house. A mobile cat house. Did I mention girls.

 

That would be high-ballin with Jerry Reed, available instantly on netflix.

The above mentioned "Great smokey roadblock" threw me for a loop. Great cast with a young Robert Englund as a hitchiker who looks down on truckers but comes to change his way, and of course as mentioned the girls! Including a young Susan Sarandon, who also shared a producer credit. I picked it up a few years ago on one of those 3.99 racks at truckstop of movies that didn't get copyrights renewed or whatever.

 

I might get made fun of for this, but it just came out a year or so ago, it called trucker, it's kind of a B movie, but I like it

 

that was not black dog with patrick swayze, I have that movie, I remember the movir=e he's talking about but cant remember the name

 

Black dog had Patrick Swayze in it "Crews" and Randy Travis. Not a bad movie, a little far fetched but I still catch myself ordering it On-Demand every now and then.

 

Highballin has everything great about 70's trucker movies. CB talk, independents getting hassled by big time shipper, truckstop parking lot brawl with tire irons, barroom brawl, truck chase involving pushing flaming cars off a car carrier, running illegal booze to save the farm, Pete COE, JERRY REED!. AND it's on instant streaming on Netflix too? Oh, did I forget to mention motel S-E-X? Haha, the 70's were cool!
Flatbed Annie and Sweetiepie w/ Annie Potts and lots of old trucks is cool too(also on Netflix instant). Wish I could find old Movin On and BJ and the Bear episodes for my boy. Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider always had trucks in them too.