Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June ...

[Kimballkid]

Since the lyrics say:

Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth pullin’ logs

I’d assume RD was in the Kenworth.

[Gordon_Urquhart]

For a lot of my single-digit years, I thought the line “We just ain’t a-gonna pay no toll … So we crashed the gate, doing 98 … I said ‘Let them truckers roll, 10-4’” was the best lyric ever recorded.

@Just_Asking_Questions

So, the lil ol convoy started out with just “a Kenworth haulin’ logs, a cabover Pete with a reefer on, and a Jimmy haulin’ hogs”. Obviously, the Jimmy is “Pig Pen”, but which is the Duck?

Wikipedia’s entry on the song would have us believe that RD is at the wheel of the Kenworth; I see no reason to dispute that.

@Just_Asking_Questions

The movie gives RD a Mack and a tank trailer. It also gives him a different motivation from the song, so we’ll just ignore that film completely.

We watched the movie about a year ago; I’d forgotten that it was directed by Sam Peckinpah. (It’s not a very good movie, but it’s interesting from a stylistic/historic sense.)

Shoutout to “'Round the World With the Rubber Duck,” the sequel to “Convoy” that recounted how the long-haired friends of Jesus allowed about half of the trucks to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

[MrAtoz]

@JKellyMap

Interesting, thanks! Still, I find the CB and internet message board conceptions of “handle/username” to be more closely related – more than just a nickname, but a way to preserve anonymity when communicating with many people you can’t see, over a distance.

A quote that I usually see attributed to Dave Barry: “The Internet is just CB Radio with more typing.”

[Just_Asking_Questions]

There certainly were a lot of “trucker” films in the 70s, as well as tv series Movin’ On, BJ and the Bear, and at least one episode that I know of (McClouod - Bonnie and McCloud) trying to catch the wave of CBs and trucks. As a teenager who liked to build truck models, I watched them all. As an adult fan of good films, well…I don’t think I’ll go buy any copies for my collection.

Though I must add that Hijack! holds up well.

[Kimballkid]

So, would Duel be a trucker movie or a horror movie?

[Satchmo]

Also a short lived TV series called The Highwayman, starring Sam J. Jones aka Flash Gordon.

[Just_Asking_Questions]

@Kimballkid

So, would Duel be a trucker movie or a horror movie?

I’d put it as horror. It isn’t about the truck. It isn’t about the The truck is more of a “monster”. Since you really don’t see the driver, the truck itself is the monster. While no one thinks the truck is supernatural, de-emphasising the driver moves it closer to classic horror in tone. It’s like Killdozer without the supernatural aspects.

For a similar style, Hot Rods to Hell is about the kids driving the titular vehicles, not the cars themselves, and isn’t horror.

Maximum Overdrive likewise isn’t a trucker movie, I would think, and neither is Transformers.