Truck Drivin' Man
He has been called ' the last American hero '. With his country-style music and even his own radio stations, the long-haul trucker has become the mechanised cowboy of the 80s. But this story of three truckers and their journey from Portland in Oregon to Phoenix, Arizona, is also about the reality as well as the myths. Lead driver, Karl Weber , puts it this way:
' The small independent operator hasn't only got to fight the government bureaucratic machine and the big trucking companies, but also his own union-the Teamsters. And to keep in business, he's just got to keep on truckin'.'
For KARL wfiwr that can mean upwards of 200,000 miles a year.
Producer RICHARD TAYLOR
Series editors ANTHONY ISAACS , PETER JONES