Rubber Duck Truck Convoy

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.

Rubber duck truck convoy.

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. Mysteriously enough it came back on for the remainder of the movie. After rubber duck and pig pen s trucks crash through jail the grill guard on rubber duck s truck is missing. This clip is dedecated to all convoy film and mackr truck fans created by 3dartpol based on convoy 1978 rubber duck movie.

By golly it s clean clear to flag town c mon. 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. Ah yeah 10 4 pig pen fer shure fer shure. 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.

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. Ah breaker one nine this here s the rubber duck. 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. This is video of the surviving rubber duck s truck from the 1977 sam peckinpah movie convoy.

It was quickly heralded as a cult classic among truckers and propelled the acting career of kris kristofferson martin rubber duck penwald the star of the film. The main character in convoy is martin rubber duck penwald who is the driver of the famous truck. Yeah that big 10 4 there pig pen yeah we definitely got the front door good buddy. 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.

Lyrics to convoy by c w. Convoy was released in 1978 and was directed by the acclaimed director sam peckinpah.