YourHub.com Presents: The Top 11 Truck/Trucker Movies We Could Think Of, In No Particular Order

Multiple studies have shown that any red-blooded American loves a good movie in which the lead character (or a supporting character) drives a semi truck for the majority of a movie, or just part of the movie, or a movie in which a semi truck is featured, or a movie in which a semi truck turns into a robot to battle evil, or a movie in which a semi truck actually comes to life and tries to kill people. At YourHub.com, we pride ourselves on our trucker movie expertise.

Without further ado:

Convoy
YourHub.com Community Journalist Brendan Harrington's favorite movie. Aside from that, not much else is known, besides the fact that Kris Kristofferson appears shirtless on the movie poster.

Big Trouble in Little China
Jack Burton, played by Kurt Russell, drives a semi for the first couple minutes and the last couple minutes of this one. In between, he has to save the world from Lo Pan, the underworld sorcerer, in Chinatown.

Duel
The film that got Steven Spielberg noticed. Ninety minutes of Dennis Weaver getting chased by an evil truck and its unseen driver. And this was in 1971, before people had heard of "road rage."

Smokey and the Bandit
The classic semi truck movie.

Smokey and the Bandit II
Well, why not?

Maximum Overdrive
Machines, including semi trucks, come alive and try to kill people. Emilio Estevez. Enough said.

Black Dog
Patrick Swayze's characterserved two years in prison for vehicular manslaughter after seeing the "black dog," and has a hard time finding work, until he gets a shady gig driving a truckload of automatic weapons. Starring Randy Travis, Patrick Swayze and Meat Loaf, which should speak to just about everyone on some level, even if it's not a level they're proud of being spoken to, on, I guess.

Over the Top
From IMDB.com: "Lincoln Hawk ( Stallone) is a struggling trucker who's trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his ex-wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their first meeting, his son doesn't think too highly of him until he enters the nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas."

Transformers
Optimus Prime is a semi truck.

Breakdown
Kurt Russell's character and his wife are moving across the country. Their new car breaks down and a trucker stops and offers to give Kurt's wife a ride to the nearest diner to call for help. When she's gone too long, he goes to investigate and finds out she's been kidnapped. Kurt Russell has a certain chemistry on screen with semi trucks.

Joy Ride
I think Paul Walker is such a bad actor that he can ruin any movie he appears in, but, then again, he's never in very good movies. From IMDB.com: "Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer."

What's your favorite? Did we miss one? Your comments are invited below.