Love this film, the truck looks creepy and psycho and has a supernatural whine to it and Weaver portrayed fear very well which made the film very atmospheric.
ahh just one of my favorite movies of my childhood... my Dad grew up in the furniture moving business and family own 30+ trucks at one point... he said in order to learn back in the day (late 50s at least he started driving) they threw you in the truck and you learned on the go! Learned on twin stick Macks I think... anyway this was one of his favorite movies and he always said if he got his Mack going 90+ mph down the grade he wouldn't have to shift gears once you started going up the other side! I remember riding in his Mack Cab-over doing 90+ mph (I think I was 3ish? at the time weird I remember it, but I remember when he opened the door the trees outside were a blur like we were going really fast!) down a hill and he'd open the driver side door while doing this as it never shut properly being an older truck... and he'd open it the whole way and reach out and slam it shut. Mom was with me then and she'd yell at him to stop it or he'd fall out as he didn't wear a seat belt back in those days. I honestly think he did it just to annoy Mom lol! This was back in the day when you could overload your truck and skip weight stations on back roads etc... and he drove other trucks than Macks also... movie now reminds me of him (though he didn't attack people on the road... that I know of lol!), but we used to watch it together! Great video and even better with Motorhead playing in the back ground thanks for the vid! Hats off to all the bold American truck drivers of the old days! P.S. he jack-knifed his trailer driving up in the NE in icy conditions... chains on the tires didn't even help that time... and he survived it! Said he yelled oh shit and grabbed hold of the wheel and got lucky! He had some crazy stories!
saw this movie as a kid... Gave me nightmares seeing older Petes for over a year, Now I drive a Pete... Finally, I could really do without the pissed off irish man throughout it all!
I really liked Dennis Weaver in Duel. Makes it more exciting, when u can't see the driver. And at Chuck's Cafe, looking at the men at the counter, looks like one of them might be the driver of the truck. Very well acted. 🌋 Always loved this movie
@adamswindells1 Becouse, its make a disrespectful jest on the road, and, ITS A SERIAL KILLER, just look the plats (on the front of Peterbilt) from those cars who is destroit before ! EDDIE / MAXCARNAGE
Great. That's in the movie.Its just a neat little story made to go along with the movie and add some character to the truck. All I'm saying is in real life those were the registration plates for the different states it operated out of. Those plates might have even been left over from it being used for actual trucking. That truck was used out of California for a long time before this movie came out. Spielberg chose this truck because he liked the long nose better then a Cab-over style
I HAVE CHRISTINE in my account , and i have BLACK CADILLAC made by me, but , i dont have enought time for those days to put in here, look for CRHISTINE in that account EDDIE MAX CARNAGE
Funny how this movie shifted in my mind. As a kid I was scared to hell, but today, as one more motorist on the road, I'm all like: "Yeah, why did you piss off the trucker with overtaking him and then slowing down?" I hate when that happens.
@eddiemaxcarnage302v8 Back during the 40/50/60/early 70s most states required tractor trailers to have a state issued license plate in order to operate within the borders of that state. AFAIK and as recently as 2006, Arizona is currently the only state that requires a state issued plate for tractor trailers. This was most common in the southwest / western states.
This truck was originally bought in 1955 by Union 76, it worked out of the Los Angeles Terminal for years. It had a 275 Cummins originally. Daniel Jackson bought the tractor in about 1967 or so, putting a 245 HP Cat and a 13 speed in it. It was a fair old truck, but finally got pretty wore out by 1971. I delivered a load of gasoline for Union 76 to Universal Studios in 1971 or 1972. They saw this truck, and enquired about buying it, which they did that day. At 2:38 you see one drive axle. True.
i want to say they are the same truck but the 281 would be a single axial and the 351 a tandem. i read the one in the movie had seen a power train update before the movie.
+Jamison LaValley No powertrain update at all for the movie truck. I drove that truck. It had a 1674 Cat at 245 HP, a 13 speed, and it was a 3 axle tractor that had Page and Page suspension---only one differential. The back axle was just a tag. It was a 1955 model also. Universal bought the truck for 7,000 bucks, and did not change much at all except to make the paint look a bit more sinister.
imagion being stuck with tht peterbuilt i would flipp out and run for my life i meant like run away from tht truck guess wht not goin happen he follows u all around difernt towns and states i belieave but its a cool movie i watched it like over 10 times cuz it was insane
i know why he was chasing him but what was the disrespectful action was it that he pasted the trucker or something i because i know that can be disrespectful
Still its not true. You see many older trucks which have many license plates on them. My dad operated out west and he had to have multiple license plates for the different states. It just shows that the fans who made that up know nothing about trucking
By watching this footage, we can assume that the truck driver is most likely: 1) A white, middle aged male. 2) dressed in blue jeans, brown western boots & a long sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up. 3) Judging by the multiple license plates on the front of the truck, we can assume that he operates in several, different U.S. states. So NO! The truck is not automonous. It is driven by a person... a deranged, human person.
@eddiemaxcarnage302v8 No those are not from the cars it "killed" before. Do you know anything about trucking? Back then out west you had to register the truck in each state you operated in. Dont say talk about stuff you have no clue about.
Well, no $#!t it's not true. Except it wasn't the fans who made it up, it was Spielberg himself who started that one up. You seem very touchy over a very petty matter. How many times have you mentioned the license plates thing isn't true? Funny world we live in where the knowledge (or lack thereof) how trucking operations work can create bruised egos.
