It’s still going.
youtu.be/cnwI2-rABmI
Classic movie (some would say crap 
) very much of it’s time.
I remember going to see it as an impressionable young lad dying to become a trucker…how I’ve changed.
Loved that movie probably what I thought being a truck driver would be about.
I’m sure that they actually used 4 Macks during the movie.
Two were wrecked during the movie and one was supposedly wrecked after the movie doing some kind of stunt show.
The fourth and best condition one was used for promotional work and later was supposedly converted to a dump truck it was later bought by a truck enthusiast and restored and now resides in a museum.
By the sounds of it the truck in the video was one of the wrecked trucks which has been restored.
All of this could be a load of Bologna and I’m taking my usual rubbish.
Duncan
Ah, now there’s a classic.
Loads of continuity errors in this film like in the scene where the duck runs the road block just before he goes off the bridge, the slow motion editing sees the same headlight gets shot out twice.
I thought from memory the original at least in the opening scene was Detroit powered.So went back to check again.Or did the director order the engine sound to be over dubbed.Going by the smoke on the downshifts in sinch with the engine sound that’s deffo an 8V92.
Here it is in action
AndieHyde:
Ah, now there’s a classic.Loads of continuity errors in this film like in the scene where the duck runs the road block just before he goes off the bridge, the slow motion editing sees the same headlight gets shot out twice.
And at 2mins 22 secs
Who gives a toss about that, It’s the film that helped start CB over here, and turn boys towards becoming Truck drivers,. And I thought that was how driving a Truck would be, how disappointed was I…
Didn’t Smokey and the Bandit start the c.b ball rolling as it was released the year before,they wanted the guy directing the bandit film originally for the convoy film but he wasn’t interested.
Just out of interest who prefers which film…
I liked the Bandit film because of Jerry Reed and Jackie Gleason,always makes me laugh if they show it now.
Yorkielad:
Didn’t Smokey and the Bandit start the c.b ball rolling as it was released the year before,they wanted the guy directing the bandit film originally for the convoy film but he wasn’t interested.
Just out of interest who prefers which film…
I liked the Bandit film because of Jerry Reed and Jackie Gleason,always makes me laugh if they show it now.
I preferred Convoy although the storyline degenerated into more and more sillyness as it went on.If it hadn’t have taken the content of the Convoy song as literally it would have been a much better film.
Have to say that both the opening scenes of Convoy and Il Bestione are the absolute definition of what the job is/should be/have been be all about for me and captured/represented to perfection by their respective directors.
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And I thought that was how driving a Truck would be, how disappointed was I…
Driving Council trucks and local building deliveries and 7.5 t multi drop just didn’t cut it for me. 
But luckily night trunking was a bit closer to the dream. 
youtu.be/Rcozed_BJWM
yep I remember it… what a load of crap… 
Really you like this kind of junk its not designed even for transport its should be in a scrap yard as do all of them 1920 ■■■■ and they still run now junk is the word i was looking for
It looks nice enough, but I suspect many drivers would soon change their opinion if they actually tried to drive it. Especially if they only got their license in the last 10 years or so…
WhiteTruckMan:
It looks nice enough, but I suspect many drivers would soon change their opinion if they actually tried to drive it. Especially if they only got their license in the last 10 years or so…
If you want to live in the past yes and many are even doing that now, even in this day and age, proper junk that would not even get past the first base here, it doesn’t even have a scrap value
Bigtruck3:
WhiteTruckMan:
It looks nice enough, but I suspect many drivers would soon change their opinion if they actually tried to drive it. Especially if they only got their license in the last 10 years or so…If you want to live in the past yes and many are even doing that now, even in this day and age, proper junk that would not even get past the first base here, it doesn’t even have a scrap value
Could I drive it? Absolutely. Would I want to use it as a working vehicle? Hell no! Rose tinted spectacles are all well and good as long as someone else does all the actual work. Like steam trains. They look magnificent out on the line pulling a load but few realise the hard graft that goes into them!
Of course nobody would want to drive it full time today, it was made in 1970,.same as you wouldn’t want to drive a Mk2 Atki, or an ERF A series full time today.
I would certainly like a go in it though, I know I could drive it, I’m assuming it would have an 18 speed Fuller, so not much different to the 13 speed Fullers I used to drive.
I would also like a go in a present day US truck just for the hell of it.
I remember seeing those models over here when I first started, West of Scotland Excavations spring to mind.
On the other hand given the choice of driving something full time, either Euro or US, it would be something European with an auto box.
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Saw this a while back pulled in to a truck stop.
Anyone remember BJ and the Bear?
I remember that show, …yeh it was cack.
Best one was ‘Movin On’ Will and Sonny in their Kenworth conventionals.
robroy:
Of course nobody would want to drive it full time today, it was made in 1970,.same as you wouldn’t want to drive a Mk2 Atki, or an ERF A series full time today.
I would certainly like a go in it though, I know I could drive it, I’m assuming it would have an 18 speed Fuller, so not much different to the 13 speed Fullers I used to drive.
I would also like a go in a present day US truck just for the hell of it.
I remember seeing those models over here when I first started, West of Scotland Excavations spring to mind.On the other hand given the choice of driving something full time, either Euro or US, it would be something European with an auto box.
You would get used to it, thing is and note I dont say "problem" as I dont believe it to be a problem…I say experience dictates that you would adapt to it and do it if you had to…But today we are spoilt, ease is the way we are lead to believe and 99.9% believe it and go for it.
My Mack has 3 gear sticks and was built in 1976 and is easy to drive, but that is because my expectations are different, my experience is ease, but my expectations want challenge, I want to be tested, or what is the point in being alive?
Old stuff that is perceived by the majority as being difficult, is to me bread and butter, I want to learn, I want to be taken from my comfort zone, I want the opportunity to mess it up or make it great, the bland option that everyone can do holds nothing for me, may as well be dead if everyone can do it, no value, no challenge and no reward.
robroy:
It’s still going.
youtu.be/cnwI2-rABmIClassic movie (some would say crap
I remember going to see it as an impressionable young lad dying to become a trucker…how I’ve changed.
Me too Rob and I must look at it again soon as I can’t remember too much about It now.
I never understood the song at the time until I did that OTR driving (Over The Road they call it whereas we might say coast to coast) in the U.S. a few years back.
Now I think that song is so well informed and relevant that it must have been written by a trucker rather that a musician and I still listen to it regularly on my Spotify playlist.
You know how clever people always say the book was better than the movie, well this time the movie was far better that reality in my opinion unfortunately.
Crap but pretty wagons, roughs roads mostly, absolute crap per hour pay and it’s a huge and relatively boring country to drive in.
I was so pleased to get back to Euro work having ticked that box.
It’s like ■■■■■■ fantasies, some are best kept as fantasies. 
Now not wanting to spoil the dreams of any young ones that are really keen to experience it, they could try for a Harvest Visa (this is the time of year that the recruitment guys are over here) and get a taste of it without too much investment or commitment.
Tude:
robroy:
Of course nobody would want to drive it full time today, it was made in 1970,.same as you wouldn’t want to drive a Mk2 Atki, or an ERF A series full time today.
I would certainly like a go in it though, I know I could drive it, I’m assuming it would have an 18 speed Fuller, so not much different to the 13 speed Fullers I used to drive.
I would also like a go in a present day US truck just for the hell of it.
I remember seeing those models over here when I first started, West of Scotland Excavations spring to mind.On the other hand given the choice of driving something full time, either Euro or US, it would be something European with an auto box.
You would get used to it, thing is and note I don
t say "problem" as I dont believe it to be a problem…I say experience dictates that you would adapt to it and do it if you had to…But today we are spoilt, ease is the way we are lead to believe and 99.9% believe it and go for it.
My Mack has 3 gear sticks and was built in 1976 and is easy to drive, but that is because my expectations are different, my experience is ease, but my expectations want challenge, I want to be tested, or what is the point in being alive?Old stuff that is perceived by the majority as being difficult, is to me bread and butter, I want to learn, I want to be taken from my comfort zone, I want the opportunity to mess it up or make it great, the bland option that everyone can do holds nothing for me, may as well be dead if everyone can do it, no value, no challenge and no reward.
I’m entirely different to you then mate.
Thing with me nowadays is… ‘Anything for a quiet life’. so sat back, putting into drive, suits me fine despite the dumbing down and lack of required skills anymore aspect of it.
I’ve used most types of crash or constant mesh and synchro gearboxes, bringing trucks back home using them with a knackered clutch using the right amount of revs instead, from David Brown, Eaton Fuller, Spicer, Twin split, to the much easier ZF (although tbh nothing with 3 gear sticks 
)
So nothing to prove with manual boxes anymore, so I don’t want any (more) challenges, and I do admit to losing a lot of interest to be actually arsed in the job anymore if I’m honest. 
I would like to have a go in an old US truck though, it’s the young and keen lad coming back out from me.