I’ve seen this movie renamed in other markets as Convoy II, the highly-creative Truck Drivers and the simplistic Trucker. Other foreign market titles make it sound far more violent and serious than what it is.
The cop is just a background character and there is no dog. It would’ve been neat if that naked cowgirl statuette could’ve been part of the movie, like a trucker’s Maltese Falcon.
Trucking is not the same for ‘Iron Duke’ Boykin (Jerry Reed), not only is he older and has a family to take care of, there’s been a string of truck-and-trailer hijackings hitting close to home. He himself, his son Tanker (Christopher Langevin) and old friend Rane (Peter Fonda) was hit, only getting away because he scuttled the load on top of the bandits and had friend Pickup (Helen Shaver) on the CB to help them get away. Iron Duke was able to recover his damaged truck because the bandits couldn’t drive it on empty diesel tanks.
Rane, a retired stuntman who was just visiting, may no longer be into trucking like he used to be long ago, but he wasn’t going to let Duke quit being an independent driver. With a need for a load and the thought that the hijackings are inside jobs, Duke uses his mortgage to pay $6,000 for a load of liquor in hopes for a $10,000 profit, thus helping him get closer to pay off his farm and avoid doing what everyone else is: join King Carroll.
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