re: 1970's Trucker Movies

I love these weird 70s-80s movie niches.

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Yes.

Smokey and the Bandit.

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And CB radios

I was a child of the early 70's. I would get up early to talk on the CB. I'd talk to one guy named T-Sqaure on his way to work. I''m sure he was an engineer heading to his 9-5 and I was just a little shite thinking I was the Bandit.

Not a 1970's trucker movie but a good one nonetheless.

My dad was an over the road truck driver hauling flat bed freight all over this country my entire life. I was born in ‘73 and through out the late 70’s and 80’s went on numerous trips with him. Whenever anyone asks me what life on the road as as a trucker was like, I tell them to watch Convoy. It is about as accurate as it comes as far as the lifestyle, dialogue, demeanor, and mannerisms of the American Truck Driver was during that timeframe. Let me tell you. We no longer have professional truck drivers in this country.

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There was was even a trucker TV series '74-6 called Movin' On w/Claude Akins, theme sung by Merle Haggard

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I remember that show and that song. IIRC there was another called BJ and the Bear, about a trucker driving around the country with a chimp. Sort of a combo of trucker movies and the Clint Eastwood movie "Every Which Way But Loose"

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It was so crazy how many people had big arse whips on the back of Delta 98's and shite. It was like everyone was excited to meet new people anonymously or something. Should have been a clue.

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My dad had a phone in his car in the 70's (we weren't rich, it was for business and the operator had to place the calls for you). But with the phone came a huge antenna sticking up from the trunk. People would pull up beside us and try to get a conversation started by showing us their CB microphone, we'd wave the phone receiver at them to show, "Sorry, we don't have a CB."