# Identify this Movie (truck crossing field!) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317 "2014-06-21T19:22:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/1 "2014-06-21T19:22:20Z")
For some reason this movie scene came into my head today and I was wondering if anyone knew what movie it was from. I saw it when I was a child, so would have been mid to late 1980’s. All I remember is it was a typical action movie, the goodies were driving a truck with no trailer (something tells me it may have been one of those ‘super-vehicles’ ala Airwolf and KITT that were so popular back then). All I can remember is that they were trying to catch the badguys, one of the characters says, “The quickest route between two points is always a straight line!”, and they take said truck off road and across fields to short-cut the baddies. Please tell me this isn’t something I just made up! ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/2 "2014-06-21T19:59:53Z")
I don’t remember that scene, but Duel, Maximum Overdrive, Smokey & Bandit, Breaker Breaker, Big Trouble in Little China, mad Max movies, Road Warrior, coast to Coast, Road Games are some big rig movies around that time. Are you sure it’s a movie and not TV? Because KITT had a truck enemy named Goliath. ---
**Author:** ![PurpleClogs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f04885/32.png) [@PurpleClogs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleClogs)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/3 "2014-06-21T20:16:42Z")
Also, Convoy, Every Which Way But Loose ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/4 "2014-06-21T20:30:47Z")
Romancing the Stone had a truck chase scene that looked like that, but I think the dialogue is all wrong for it to match your op. “THE Jane Wilder?” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/5 "2014-06-21T20:39:40Z")
Joan. Been a while, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/6 "2014-06-21T21:07:00Z")
What was that vampire movie? Near Dark, yeah that’s the name. This could have possibly been from that movie, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen it. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/7 "2014-06-21T21:14:42Z")
> [@PurpleClogs](#): > > I don’t remember that scene, but Duel, Maximum Overdrive, Smokey & Bandit, Breaker Breaker, Big Trouble in Little China, mad Max movies, Road Warrior, coast to Coast, Road Games are some big rig movies around that time. > > Are you sure it’s a movie and not TV? Because KITT had a truck enemy named Goliath. > [@PurpleClogs](#): > > Also, Convoy, Every Which Way But Loose > [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Romancing the Stone had a truck chase scene that looked like that, but I think the dialogue is all wrong for it to match your op. > > “THE Jane Wilder?” I’m 90% sure it was a movie but its been such a long time ago I couldn’t say for sure. I’m also almost certain it wasn’t any of those movies, but thanks for the suggestions. I’m trying to recall details of the scene, I think the truck was white _(not black anyway)_ and it _may_ have been one of the trucks with the flat front. I remember an overhead shot of the truck racing across the fields, smashing through fences and across ditches etc _(even at the time I thought it was fairly silly)_. It was a fun action movie/tv series, not anything dark and serious. ---
**Author:** ![Stephe96](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Stephe96](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stephe96)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/8 "2014-06-21T22:44:15Z")
In Die Hard 3 they drove through Central Park ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/9 "2014-06-22T14:25:06Z")
This series had super trucks. [The Highwayman (TV series) - Wikipedia](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Highwayman_(TV_series)) ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/10 "2014-06-22T15:32:05Z")
That sounds like something out of the original A Team series. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/11 "2014-06-22T15:55:33Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > I’m 90% sure it was a movie but its been such a long time ago I couldn’t say for sure. I’m also almost certain it wasn’t any of those movies, but thanks for the suggestions. > > I’m trying to recall details of the scene, I think the truck was white _(not black anyway)_ and it _may_ have been one of the trucks with the flat front. I remember an overhead shot of the truck racing across the fields, smashing through fences and across ditches etc _(even at the time I thought it was fairly silly)_. It was a fun action movie/tv series, not anything dark and serious. Try reposting at [the forum for the Internet Movie Cars Database](http://forum.imcdb.org/forum_categories.html). ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/12 "2014-06-22T16:04:22Z")
Dang, there’s a webpage for everything… ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/13 "2014-06-22T16:43:06Z")
Do you remember what sort of truck it was? An articulated lorry? A Transit van? A flat-bed? The A Team’s truck was black IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/14 "2014-06-22T16:44:08Z")
And it was a van ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/15 "2014-06-22T17:24:05Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Do you remember what sort of truck it was? An articulated lorry? A Transit van? A flat-bed? > > The A Team’s truck was black IIRC. It was this sort of truck, just the tractor with no trailer (it probably had a trailer earlier in the movie but not during that scene) [http://auto.img.v4.skyrock.net/1428/27811428/pics/3076259677\_1\_3\_r6BDIqsX.jpg](http://auto.img.v4.skyrock.net/1428/27811428/pics/3076259677_1_3_r6BDIqsX.jpg) It’s surprisingly hard to get a decent picture of a flat-fronted truck. edited to add that it was driving over flat open fields, like the American mid-west (I’m not of the American ilk so that may be incorrect) > [@Skywatcher](#): > > Try reposting at [the forum for the Internet Movie Cars Database](http://forum.imcdb.org/forum_categories.html). Wow, as AncientHumanoid says there’s a webpage for everything these days! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/16 "2014-06-22T17:43:33Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > It was this sort of truck, just the tractor with no trailer (it probably had a trailer earlier in the movie but not during that scene) > > [http://auto.img.v4.skyrock.net/1428/27811428/pics/3076259677\_1\_3\_r6BDIqsX.jpg](http://auto.img.v4.skyrock.net/1428/27811428/pics/3076259677_1_3_r6BDIqsX.jpg) Ah… I see the type\* clearly now. No scenes come to mind from my movie/TV watching. \*Cabover is the identifying term. [Smokey and the Bandit style](http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.8585803.2367/flat,550x550,075,f.u1.jpg) pictured here ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/17 "2014-06-23T19:04:15Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Ah… I see the type\* clearly now. No scenes come to mind from my movie/TV watching. > > \*Cabover is the identifying term. > > [Smokey and the Bandit style](http://ih1.redbubble.net/image.8585803.2367/flat,550x550,075,f.u1.jpg) pictured here Ah, thank you! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/18 "2014-06-23T20:22:23Z")
Check _White Line Fever_. They used a white Ford COE. I don’t remember that scene, but I’ve kinda tried to forget that movie. It also had Jan Michael Vincent, for that _Airwolf_ connection. ETA: If the characters weren’t trying to catch the bad guys, but avoid them, it might have been _Hijack_, with David Janssen and Keenan Wynn. 1970s vintage White Freightliner COE, mostly white. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/19 "2014-06-23T20:27:04Z")
Maximum Overdrive? And yeah, [cabovers](https://www.google.com/search?q=cabover+trucks&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=cI2oU4DGEoSkyATQpIKoCA&ved=0CCYQ7Ak&biw=1280&bih=622) are what you’re looking for. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317/20 "2014-06-23T20:59:01Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > ETA: If the characters weren’t trying to catch the bad guys, but avoid them, it might have been _Hijack_, with David Janssen and Keenan Wynn. 1970s vintage White Freightliner COE, mostly white. [Don’t think so, unless you include the trailer.](http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_40296-White-Freightliner-WFT-7564-1974.html) 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-movie-truck-crossing-field/691317.md?page=2)