In Tandem (Movin' On Pilot)

In Tandem was a made-for-TV movie that aired on May 8, 1974. It serves as the pilot for the TV show Movin' On that aired later that year on September 12. I know the quality isn't perfect but as far as I know it hasn't been officially re-released (or remastered for that matter) like the TV show has.

[@michaelsorrentino9279]

"Moving On" was a big influence in my driving from tandem dumps to 18 wheels!! and pulling a reefer box. Never regretted it and still rolling at a young 70.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Just lucky.

[@genewileyopa]

Love these old trucking movies. Thanks for sharing

[@joeapplebaum3763]

Such a great time capsule. I saw this when it was first shown in 1974 on NBC. My 12 year old truck crazy mind went nuts!

[@deanchapman1824]

Yep, same age in '74 when I saw it!!

[@Rob-pz5lf]

I was 13 at the time and had the same response. I’m not sure how many times I’ve seen this since then, but I never grow tired of watching it. I’m still hoping they come out with a remastered version.

[@scudfarcus4343]

Same here. I was 14 and happened to catch it by accident, and my mind was blown. 1974 was the same year the article on trucking was published in the February edition of National Geographic magazine. I got my first job driving a semi in '82, and with time out to get a law degree and spend a few years practicing, I've been back driving semi full time for the last twelve years at 62 years old.

[@Adhyashakti123]

I was born after release. Missed it!Watching now 😂

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

I was 7 and loved it

[@erikpridemore3174]

"In Tandem" the made-for-TV pilot movie for "Movin' On" is not available on DVD, except for the complete series 2 seasons on DVD as it was a good series. And we remember the title tune by Merle Haggard and the Strangers when he sang "Movin' On" as a hit tune, and when the title sequence airs on "Movin' On" and the syndicated reruns years later. RIP Claude Akins and Merle Haggard.

[@Sam-lk6eo]

I was 11 years old back in the 70's, when this series 1st aired in Auckland NZ. There was a small Fleet of beautiful Kenworths and a cool looking Black Mack Truck based in my area. Loved it when the drivers would honk their horns as they drove by, ( If you got their attention and pretended to blow the horn). Awesome Trucks and Show ! ❤

[@MisterMikeTexas]

It sucks that "Movin On" didn't make it through two seasons. It was a good series. RIP, Claude Akins!

[@johnshei3155]

he was a great actor.

[@dillianwillamor5906]

He was down to earth too. Signed every autograph and loved his fans

[@michaelmorgan7893]

Yes. I'm thinking that BJ and the Bear was the second attempt to revive it as a new series. "Rebranded and repackaged" with new actors.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

@@michaelmorgan7893 Except Akins returned and was cast as crooked Sheriff Lobo. And they spun his character off into a separate show.

[@dewaynem559]

I liked the show but I was driving truck back then and it was so inaccurate I used to laugh ,one minute the truck would have a cummins the next a Detroit they kept switching trucks finally the series the used the same truck and they goofed around too much I was running 4k miles a week was go go all the time 7 days a week

[@JonnyHolms]

Hard to believe that it was 48 years ago. Time flies in a blink of an eye 👁

[@davidleonard8369]

I remember watching it when I was ten years old in 1974.

[@stevefredrickson5179]

Jubitz truck stop, old building still the same at least it was back in 2000. Portland Oregon

[@telcobilly]

I parked at Jubitz all the time. My driver friend's mom lived in Vancouver so she would pick us both up, we had the whole basement and a pickup to run around in. It's a shame how that whole area has gone downhill now..

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Thank you for posting this pilot film here. Ive been wanting to see this for a long time. For some reason its much harder to find than the series

[@kevinmiller1867]

I loved this show. Even in reruns. Thank You for putting them up for others to see

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Likewise.

[@Suddenlyits1960]

I love this series.i wish it lasted longer. Claude Akins was great in everything he ever did.

[@michellepost3098]

This was a good show when new. I never missed an ep. Always liked Claude Akins. He guested on alot of shows, mainly western shows and crime dramas of the 1970s.Merle Haggard had a hit song of the theme song of this show.

[@rf396]

This is so good to find. Ive been looking for this on DVD with no luck for a friend of mine. His life is very difficult and this was his favorite show when we were young. To be able to send this to him will help make him smile a bit. TY for putting this up.

[@JHargis68]

Both seasons are available on DVD from Amazon, but they do not include this pilot movie.

[@rf396]

@@JHargis68 Exactly which is why I was so happy to find it HERE. Seasons 1&2 are no problem but I really wanted to get this to my friend. He has a very sad and lonely life and I know this would make him smile

[@sterlingstreamliner]

Thank you TacoTacoma96 for posting the 1974 "In Tandem" ("Movin On") pilot. Like many of us, for many years now I've wanted to buy a DVD of "In Tandem" as a digitally re-mastered video scanned from the original film negative elements. And I will still buy a DVD if it is ever officially released. I own the Season 1 + 2 "Movin' On" DVDs, which are fine. I have no memory of watching "In Tandem" in 1974. I've watched every episode of MO several times. Now that I've seen "In Tandem" (almost 50 years after it was made) you can appreciate the producers were struggling with the material. It is crude, and often lacking in focus / direction. Reminds me of watching the feature films "Convoy" and "White Line Fever". The filmmakers really never figured out what it is they were trying to say. I could add "Smokey & The Bandit" to that list as well. But the difference is there is no attempt at a message in "Smokey". No implied or suggested underlying cause in "Smokey", whereas there is in "Convoy", "White Line Fever", "In Tandem", and "Movin' On" series.

[@joeschmo5021]

@@d.a.w.975 Also 1972 "Hijack" with David Jansen and Keenan Wynn is decent.

[@joeschmo5021]

@@d.a.w.975 Hey thanks for the reply. It's still on KZbin.

[@clydeferguson519]

The first time this aired on NBC, I was watching Killdozer on ABC ! This was the second movie I taped with my first VCR in 83.

[@richardkaltenbach3961]

JEEZ, I Didn't Know There Was SUCH A THING As A Season 1 And 2 Movin' On DVD Box Set!

[@richardkaltenbach3961]

@@d.a.w.975 And Then There's STEEL COWBOY In 1978 With James Brolin. (Mr. Barbra Streisand!)

[@apolloniaaskew9487]

Movin On was filmed in different places around the country. Claude Akins and Frank Converse both earned their Special Chaeuffer's Licenses ( precursor to today's CDL). The TV series Kenworth was different from the pilot with the VIT( Very Important Trucker) interior and a larger sleeper with trailers provided by Freuhauf Corp. That graphics on the rig is a Kenworth option.

[@pedalingthru2719]

All you had to do to get a chauffeurs license back then was go to the dmv and pay the $8.00 to get one. You could have one from several states at one time. Just had to make sure you gave the state trooper the correct one.

[@fargeeks]

Chauffeurs? I heard you needed that if you wanted to drive buses And apparently back then the truckers got what they call: a Class 1 license

[@deborahchesser7375]

@@pedalingthru2719I had mine and I should have grandfathered it and kept it. Back then nobody wanted to drive a big truck unless they had to I guess.

[@buckeyefangirl1976]

I don't remember this but sure ❤️❤️❤️ the show and Claude and Frank.❤️❤️ Thanks for sharing this.

[@matthewmckenna4509]

Thanks for sharing, been looking for this for years.

[@Jdigger4130]

Men like Will n Sonny make it move!! Big wheels a rollin!!! Thx fer postin!! Never knew this existed

[@donaldjones382]

Try Whit Line fever and Convoy

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

And let’s not forget that Sonny’s a 1ST Cousin to Sheriff Elroy P. Lobo of Orly County. Amateur Genealogy 101.

[@jeffreybennett8893]

Wow, the sound of those old Detroit''s.

[@a.leemorrisjr.9255]

Back then you could tell a truck's engine by the exhaust note. Each 1 was different, unique. Could always recognize that Detroit "snarl." Series 60 units had a spooky, ghostlike "moan" (harmonic vibration) in the stacks that could be scary@nite if not used to it. Cats had a whistle & a "bark" to them while Cummins had raspy, flat "drone" sound. Reckon with electronic controls they're all pretty close now.

[@ge-20express75]

Back in the days when trucker movies filmed in SoCal looked like they were filmed in Texas.

[@stihl041avchainsaw7]

Thx for uploading TacoTacoma96 I saw this on YT 9 years ago i downloaded the parts & uploaded it. it got 72,000 views. Then Paramount took the rights for the movie :( it got deleted.

[@joe-tr6wl]

I bought the movin on model when i was a kid man did l love that show.funny now after driving for 37 yrs how it nothing like the show fighting drinking and driving 100.00 dollars a tire wow

[@JHargis68]

Loved this show when it originally aired (I was 6 years old in '74). Just got season one on DVD but it doesn't include the pilot, so, here I am....

[@vernfrederick5025]

Movin on was the best show ever made I loved it

[@LARSAKER-tr1mw]

A GREAT. SHOW. WITH. GREAT. MEN

[@paulramsey8187]

It was good to see Ventura County coast and Malibu canyon before it was ruined.

[@davidgainey3448]

In the 1st season of Movin' On, the KW had a VT 903 with a 13 speed. In season 2 was an NTC 350 with a 10 speed.

[@jakeford7688]

It had a 9 0 nothing damn

[@semperfi978]

Wish it got remastered and and same for the show it really a great and movie about trucking and there adventures along the way

[@paulsheehan5010]

I used to watch this show, on WBZ-TV ch. 4 in Boston.

[@emceeslo]

Thank you thank you thank you for posting!!!!

[@Bobby21Bobby21Bobby]

Why aren't there any trucker shows or movies for these times we're in right now? Are there? Back in the day, there were so many.

[@franksmith5603]

Because unless you’re a heavy hauler, bull hauler, or hopper bottom, truckers today seldom go anywhere interesting, 95% of the dangerous grades have been straightened or flattened, modern trucks with spring brakes take away the dangers of no air, and with smartphones, good signal and gps you’re never truly stranded or alone, plus the highway system has gotten so much wider and smoother that most drivers will drive a half hour the wrong direction to get to a big road. The danger and uncertainty of the open road is gone, now the only way to instill drama is with character problems. Black Dog is a great movie but the only danger there is the goons. And with every driver having cellphones now there is no way to have a plausible highway bumper car experience. Even Black Dog struggled with that, having the feds call off any interference to allow for those highway romps. Liam Neeson has an ice road trucker movie out with Morpheus and the only real drama isn’t so much the ice road as it is nefarious characters.

[@Bobby21Bobby21Bobby]

@@franksmith5603 I just saw that Ice Trucker movie with Liam Neesom, and yeah it was bad ass. But yeah, it wasn't on a level with Convoy or anything like that.

[@jerrykinnin7941]

The bumper truck trick works but only with the old heavy bumpers and a truck fast enough to get in front these new plastic trucks cant do that the only thing steel on a new KW is the frame everything else is plastic. Those were 40ft vans with a sliding tandem set around 35 ft or so. maybe 210 wheelbase truck 60 ft long bumper to bumper. Now our trailers are 53 ft with a 240 wb and a 4 ft setback front axle. 75 ft long overall. Teamsters and independents. The feud continues.

[@TheRoadhammer379]

Modern day trucker show: Main character wears flip flops, barely speaks English, wearing pajama pants, dumps piss bottles out, blocks fuel island and is a morbidly obese slob. There is your modern day steering wheel holder movie.

[@TheRoadhammer379]

@@jerrykinnin7941 Teamsters aren't even OTR anymore, they're all local guys, Pepsi, Coca Cola etc. The rivalry is the absolute hatred of steering wheel holding company sheep by the last of us who really love this profession.

[@judi6078]

Gotta love Frank when he gets into giggle range.

[@buckeyefangirl1976]

Loved Frank all the time. Still do.

[@charlesgilbert5682]

The rental truck had two stacks in some scenes, just one in most. British Hammer Horror screenwriter Jimmy Sangster penned about ten episodes of Movin' On.

[@harrymitchell5402]

Watched every episode when I was a kid. Never watched the pilot.

[@donaldjones382]

Until know i never knew there was a pilot. Watching season one of series currently and lucked into this wanting full version of song to listen to.

[@MaclearieFarms]

The greatest looking truck ever made the Kenworth W900A

[@dannyjones3840]

Back before all these damn flip flop wearing foreigners and bums for into trucking. It's a lifestyle, not just a job.

[@daves6195]

No joke used to have real people with intelligent minds; the truckers I know could run a profitable business, calculate profit, and loss, and oh yeah fix anything build anything and seemed to know how everything works. All while tucking in their shirts, pull their boots on, and being professional. 27 hrs a day, 8 days a week. It is a shame what this dumpster fire has burned into. God bless the last of the real ones. take care, be safe

[@seamusburke9101]

​@@daves6195 great comment Dave.

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

38:47 "I learnt a long time ago, people respect you if you got somethin' in your hands, that may be a gun, it may be money, deck of cards, somethin'! You got nothin' in your hands, you're nothin'!" _~Sonny Pruitt_

[@southerncross3638]

Rule # 1, never abandon a truck. It's worse than getting fired.

[@MisterMikeTexas]

Unless someone like Sonny Pruitt offers you a co-driver gig. 😊

[@vendingdudes]

@@MisterMikeTexas ok, you drive to Pasadena, imma take a nap. LOL just met five minutes ago

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Even if it’s on the verge of falling apart altogether.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Especially if the load is empty propane tanks for gas fired barbecue grills going to Strickland Propane in Arlen, Texas.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Very interesting.

[@mow4ncry]

I loved that show what a camaraderie those two had and the one-liners were the best part of it I think

[@paulzammataro7185]

Yeah, let's chug beer before driving over a mountain on an old mule path....

[@OldassBoomer]

😂

[@kimberlywiederhold627]

I once had a conversation with a truck driver. He made a good living and he earned every cent. Of course the government got a good share. It is a hard life.

[@dewaynem559]

I remember watching this show at a truckstop in New Mexico,

[@Juan.C.Diaz.W610]

Wonderfullllllllllllllllllllll☺☺thanksss,hug from Argentina.

[@gustavogaray536]

Una serie que me trae hermosos recuerdos de infancia

[@gailsack2635]

I love the trucker/diner music. What kind of country music is it or band? Really sets the 70s vibe.

[@michaelbumgardner771]

'70s country music is great! 😊

[@p.t7495]

Never saw the pilot to this tv series, but was fan of movin on 4 sure , 70s had all the best tv show’s great stuff when I was a kid growing up . Tv had only been around in NZ since 1960 when this pilot came out .

[@TheRoadhammer379]

2 and a half days from Omaha to Chicago, lmfao. Coast to coast must have taken a month, 😂

[@vendingdudes]

Gotta love the hyperbole of trucker talk at the cafe!

[@andyharman3022]

Yeah, I got a laugh out of that one. It's about 520 miles by my recollection. One day. Easy.

[@danmetcalf7184]

They were having trouble getting fuel.

[@ryanpoulin5144]

I like this video. I am a huge classic big rig fan! I know the year of Sonny's green KW W900 A, but what is the year of Will's K100? Im just curious as a classic truck enthusiast. Let me know if and when you do and can. Please and Thank You.

[@theodoreskaff1209]

Kw went to flush mounted door handles in 1973 model year. Also from 1963 to 1970 in addition to the Kw emblem, KENWORTH was spelled out across the grille. My guess is that Kw is a 1971 or 1972 k100

[@ryanpoulin5144]

@@theodoreskaff1209 Thank You for the information. So it is a 71 or 72. Cool! Thanks again.😀

[@Vankeith-u6x]

Back in the day, truckers had a hard job to do, still to THIS day.

[@Vankeith-u6x]

Before B.J. McKay, there was... SONNY PRUITT!

[@mikewilkinson4588]

Right On.......

[@chrisharris4796]

Must of been 2 different trucks in moving on. This one single stack short sleeper

[@satanicpanic1313]

Used to watch this show as a young boy with my my Uncle being born in 74 I loved that 74 Kenworth, any time off school I would take trips all over the USA from Hamilton Ontario and absolutely loved and cherish those memories! Laredo Texas as a teenager still cruisin with him in the 90s going to Boys Town! Hookers Cocaine and dollar drinks! Wooo hooo! Love ya Uncle Jeff

[@3373-g8z]

7:20 that address is Contempo Floor Coverings. I guess her house is long gone.

[@mow4ncry]

But as a railroad guy I also love that ending scene with the SP power pulling the Amtrak train

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Same thing goes for my oldest son who’s into both trains and semi trucks alike.

[@mow4ncry]

I'm crew on SP 2472 and I own some military trucks, and volunteer at a military museum

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

The kind of tires on the older military trucks as well as the 6X6, if installed on a truck like Sonny Pruitt’s or even the cabover of B.J. (Billie Joe) McKay would certainly prove interesting.

[@NLJosh83]

I'm getting all mixed up watching this. Frank Converse is playing a character named "Will". He played the part of Andrew Scott in 'The Rowdyman' alongside Gordon Pinsent, who played a character named "Will". I keep thinking "hey, he's not Will, that's Andrew lol

[@holytrucker2153]

good episode

[@cbman4767]

I wish they would remake "Movin' On". They remake so much crap form the 70s and 80s that a good TV show like Movin' On could be a good remake so long as they don't base it out of California but make it across the USA. Mind you they would have to find a power house actor like Claude Akins and that would be hard to do with the crap actors Hollywood has to offer today.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

How about if maybe it was an animated series like, “KING OF THE HILL”?

[@deborahchesser7375]

350 and a 13 speed oh yeh, take me back

[@BigTim2023]

No pre trip inspection

[@timadams6801]

mmmmm...i seen that and than i drove over the road as an 0/0,,,,38 years what fun it was

[@CycolacFan]

For a TV movie this wasn’t bad at all, good characters and a decent amount of action. Owes a bit to Wages of Fear but that’s no bad thing.

[@brandon5330]

😂,things have changed for shore

[@itiswrittenministry4131]

Forgot to do his pre trip. Check ur brakes

[@electrolytics]

I'm quitting and leaving the truck at truckstop outside of town. Send my check to this address. tell 'em to stick it. Oh sure we'll get that paycheck out right away.

[@judi6078]

Oh, the driver of the Class C RV. In 1974, a WOMAN!

[@laurieevans9311]

Women can also drive the big trucks!

[@judi6078]

I know. I did.

[@festersmith8352]

So this is where the rumor began, truck drivers have a girl friend in every state.

[@alphaomega8373]

@22:27 same complaints, just upon different people. Need new material.

[@Каракурт-о2ъ]

🙂👍👏👏🤝

[@JohnSmith-lw2bm]

Like drivers don’t know how to down shift.

[@Saucy-ws6jc]

1:25 he could have kept going

[@paulzammataro7185]

How about telling the dispatcher about the brakes?

[@jakeford7688]

Or better yet take your 9/16 the and adjust them

[@oilfieldtrucker3225]

9/16 you must be an old timer lol

[@jakeford7688]

@@oilfieldtrucker3225 well my kw is an 85 and so my trailer at least there not wedge style

[@haroldreip8536]

I had the pleasure of working on one of the Kenworth trucks used in the show ( I don't know how many they had ) at Ray Call Detroit Diesel shop in South Charleston, West Virginia. I lived just across the Kanawha River in Dunbar at the time. Called my wife and she got a bunch of kids together and brought them over to see the truck. They, including my daughter, got pictures with the truck. It wasn't being driven by " Will " and " Sonny ", just a member of the staff at the show. I was just working there for a couple months till I got back on the road. I retired in 2002 with 36 years as an over-the-road trucker. Loved it so much that I seriously tell people that I never worked a day in my life. Almost 80 years old now, but just for the heck of it, I still have my CDL with tanker, hazmat, doubles and triples endorsements.

[@billbazen1287]

Any way I could contact you? I'm associated with the creator of Movin'On.

[@loganjohnson3589]

My favorite movie and show .45 years on the road for me. oversize and heavy long haul .4.5 mill and 65 retired .there is a truck stop close by that was a film location for an episode of movin on and I still have my enhanced license and full endorsements .+ twic card .and 65 years young. I used to tell people I was a payed professional tourist .

[@bredwhite6786]

Yea right

[@672macknasby7]

I would assume that the rig and the production crew were in West Virginia, filming the episode at the Beckley Exhibition Mine.

[@B-and-O-Operator-Fairmont]

I remember one night in late 1975 or early 1976 I had already gone to bed on a school night. About 11:30, Mom woke me up and told me the "pilot for that Movin' On show was on the late movie' and gave me permission to get up and watch it. Movin' On was already off the air. Thanks, Mom! Obviously, I never forgot that.

[@brendantehuia4576]

Your mom is cool

[@bigdaddydaddy3203]

Awesome story

[@marcuscrane6955]

I was in the first episode lol as kid

[@hoost3056]

I watched Movin On as a kid along with other trucking shows and movies. I miss the heyday of trucking.

[@oldschoolmuscle4436]

Great acting. Great storylines. Real people at real locations. One of my all time favorite TV shows. Never missed an episode. ❤️

[@daves6195]

What gets me is the quality of acting, these people have character and charm on screen. Something you couldn't find if you wanted too these days, awesome flick wish there were more! Also I was born in the 80's yet for some reason I miss these times 50 60 70's like I lived them, man how I wish America was as iconic and nostalgic as it used to be🥲

[@Adhyashakti123]

It's same feeling for us mid 70s 80s born. Anywhere in the world.

[@telcobilly]

Even more so for those of us born in the 50s and 60s. I was a highschooler when this movie came out. Smokey and the Bandit was what made me want to get into trucking. At age 50 I got my CDL and trucked for a dozen years before retiring at 62 and moving to the Philippines at 63..

[@djgrumpygeezer1194]

Watching this show helped inspire me to enroll in truck driving school and leave a desk job I hated. 15 years trucking were some of the best of my life. Thanks Will and Sonny!

[@kelvintorrence5994]

I love moving on, I never seen this 12, great epoide , and that Kenworth w900 has a small sleeper bunk, the next 1 had the v.i.t. package and a 60 in sleeper truck

[@robertstrong918]

Loved this show so much Rip Claude Akins You were the best.

[@Piggypongtheavgeek]

I went to a parade this summer and someone had a replica of Sonny Pruitts truck Couldn’t believe it.

[@keithhicks1403]

In 1974 is when trucking meant something it don't mean a whole lot now just people trying to be rich not thinking about the real meaning of trucking back in the 60s and 70s

[@TheRoadhammer379]

God forbid some of us actually love the profession AND making money. My 3 trucks are set to gross 1.3 million dollars, after taxes and expenses I'll net around 720k...yeah I should just give it away because you're either a "real trucker" or getting rich, 😂. Absolutely ignorant comment by you. 25 yrs OTR flatbed, 3rd generation, trust me, I know what a real gear jammer is and it ain't a brokedick company sheep in a 63mph truck, making 35 cents per mile, 😂.

[@paulzammataro7185]

Delivery of goods from point A to point B, and getting paid to do it. How does that differ between decades?

[@dejablue6821]

Resently found Movin On on line and watched both seasons. Thrilled to find In Tandem and see the pilot and how they teamed up. Thanks!!!

[@dejablue6821]

PS now I know why there's a dog in some photos I've seen 🐕

[@wtk6069]

@@dejablue6821 Now I wish they'd kept the dog! He added something to the series.

[@woxyroxme]

The “no gas” sign at 29:00 was a common sight in those days the young kids today don’t know what a real energy crisis is like

[@jpmortician]

Great find. Too bad quality isn't better. Thank you for posting.

[@natureboy1313]

Another good trucker movie is "Hijacked" with David Jansen and Keenan Wynn. And it is on KZbin

[@fargeeks]

Is it that movie where the guy is hired to transport goods and there's villians trying to kill him for the load he was hauling?

[@natureboy1313]

@@fargeeks yes

[@Suddenlyits1960]

Now can someone post the tv movie pilot for "Then Came Bronson"?

[@coburnlowman]

I have a C60 Chevrolet like the one in the opening scene. That thing has made me hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years. It has a flatbed dump bed on it. A 292 inline six banger under the hood. When scrap steel was bringing such a high price it was nothing to bring in $1,000 - $5,000 every day of the week for months and months across the bed of that old girl. Kept breaking Newprocess 4speeds out of it tho despite being as easy as possible on her.

[@dand3975]

Phil, Those same new process 465 transmissions we're used in 1/2 3/4. & 1 ton pickups. My old man drove a C50 box truck and grandfather had a C60 tow truck. Both of those trucks had the NP 465 transmission and 2speed rear axle( vacuum operated) never had transmission brakage, both trucks had engines replaced before 50,000 mi. If your truck did not have a 2 speed rear axle that might contributed to the transmission failure you had.

[@fargeeks]

Damn you made more money than a bus driver does in today's generation in America

[@dabigkahunacatfish2992]

After watching the first 13 minutes l realized how much l DON'T miss trucking. Yep, after 47 years l decided I'd had about as much fun as l can stand.

[@fargeeks]

What

[@takaakseli63]

look this little boy 1975 in finland and i be come trucker. This was best.

[@outintheboondocks1466]

Damn that movie and TV show. 43 years later and I'm still movin on, only it ain't like the movies! What a great movie though. I used say, "I can't believe they pay me to do this"! Now, they don't pay me nearly enough to do this! Oh well, it's better than jail where I was headed! Hammer down clowns... And I hope you find Jesus along the way.

[@Smittyschannel]

42 cents a gallon for diesel- boy those were the days

[@frederickwise5238]

Friends with a neighbor who was a long haul trucker. He and his wife lived for this show. An episode was filmed in the country around our home town. All four of us visited the motel where Akins, Converse and many crew were staying but couldnt get autographs. Part of the episode blocked off a section of highway where several coworkers lived and they were PO'd greatly when they couldnt get home from work and supper. LOL, Great fun was had by all tho. It was a Great show, shame it didnt last.

[@mikeclark4416]

Brilliant ! , Didnt know they made a pilot , I loved this series .Loved the Theme .It made me a truck driver -43 years now . Yep But only driving Volvo Trucks here in the UK .

[@g41thomas]

Trucking had its own style and class those days. Now days trucking is nonsense boring and truck drivers are not the same breeds

[@TheRoadhammer379]

No brakes, but the trolley brake worked,, then says he's sorry for no brakes...then proceeds to drive away. Must be a SWIFT reject. One hand on the horn lanyard, one on the wheel...who's pulling the trolley brake? Absolutely Hollywood rubbish.

[@andyharman3022]

Swifty Swift. Shame on the mess.

[@kathiec1333]

Liked both characters and both actors, but Frank Converse was my favorite.

[@TonyrogerWilliams-tq8yn]

I've been watching all these trucking shows, and like I said coming from a truck and family, I'm driving myself, I see something in these movies that you just do not see any more do you know what it is, maybe old truck drivers catch it right off.... They're all cabovers, the same trucks I cut my teeth on, find me myself a light cabovers when I ran up North Boston New York Philadelphia, and so on, for the loading docks we're old and made from much shorter trailers, it was a lot easier to maneuver the trailers with cabovers instead of hoods. And although they use cabovers in Europe, you don't see cabover trucks and over The road trucking anymore they are a thing of the past.

[@LindaCooper-i3f]

Sonny Pruitt: “I got these empty tanks through for you, Strickland.” Buck Strickland: “OK, Pruitt. Here’s your pay, and Chandler’s, too. That’s an even $1,000.00 each for getting those tanks past Thatherton Fuels.”

[@Vankeith-u6x]

Claude Atkins's character as Sonny Pruitt is splendidly done, even in the TV series.

[@sheldonhchambliss1385]

Great posting