Rubber Duck Truck Convoy

The main character in convoy is martin rubber duck penwald who is the driver of the famous truck.

Rubber duck truck convoy. By golly it s clean clear to flag town c mon. Showcasing 20 truck tanker fleet owner anthony fox of rome ga proud owner and caretaker of the piece of history that is one of the original 1970 macks used in the classic convoy trucking. Mysteriously enough it came back on for the remainder of the movie. Mercy sakes alive looks like we got us a convoy.

Convoy was released in 1978 and was directed by the acclaimed director sam peckinpah. However most people don t realize that there were actually four different trucks used throughout the movie although there is one that was used for most of the promotional photos which was the 1977 mack rs 712lst. Lyrics to convoy by c w. For more information please visit our website at www stlouisd.

At the beginning of the song a kenworth pulling logs driven by rubber duck is the front door the leader of three semi trailer trucks tractor and semi trailer when he realizes they have a convoy. This clip is dedecated to all convoy film and mackr truck fans created by 3dartpol based on convoy 1978 rubber duck movie. Rubber duck s truck is generally represented in the film as a 1977 mack rs712lst although several other mack rs700l series trucks were used as a double and as stationary props. Yeah that big 10 4 there pig pen yeah we definitely got the front door good buddy.

Ah breaker one nine this here s the rubber duck. Ah yeah 10 4 pig pen fer shure fer shure. Trucker convoys were created due to the 55 mph speed limit that was enforced on us highways which made the truckers schedules very difficult to keep up. This is video of the surviving rubber duck s truck from the 1977 sam peckinpah movie convoy.

While driving through the arizona desert albuquerque based independent trucker martin penwald who goes by the handle rubber duck along with his fellow truckers pig pen and spider mike are entrapped by unscrupulous sheriff lyle cottonmouth wallace using a key tool of the trucker s trade the citizens band cb radio. Following the rubber duck is an unnamed trucker in a cab over pete with a reefer on a refrigerated trailer hauled by a peterbilt truck.