Trucks

Trucks is a 1997 American television horror film set around a remote truck stop in the Nevada desert, near the military installation known as Area 51. Ray, recently widowed, has moved to the area with his son Logan and opened a service station and diner, where he has struck up a friendship with Hope, who runs a nearby motel. Their quiet lives are disrupted when heavy trucks begin operating on their own, with no drivers behind the wheel, and start running down anyone in their path. A handful of survivors barricade themselves inside the diner and try to work out how to fight back against machines.

The film was directed by Chris Thomson from a screenplay by Brian Taggert, with William Wesley and David Bradstreet producing. Timothy Busfield plays Ray and Brenda Bakke plays Hope, alongside Aidan Devine, Jay Brazeau, Brendan Fletcher and Amy Stewart. It runs 99 minutes and was made for television by Trimark Pictures, Credo Entertainment Group and USA Pictures.

Audiences have been largely dismissive of the film, with a rating of 3.9 out of 10 on IMDb from roughly 4,100 votes and 4.6 out of 10 on TMDB from a much smaller sample of 94 votes. A critics' score of 2.4 out of 10, drawn from 88 reviews, places professional assessment below even the audience response, indicating broad agreement that the film falls short of its premise.