***SPOILERS*** The back then, before he messed himself up big time, sturdy & handsome Jan Michael Vincent in one of his most memorable roles as trucker Carrol Jo Hummer as he hums across the screen in his shinny $34,000.00, that's about $175,000.00 in 2016 dollars, rig the "Blue Mule" that he's deep in hock to the bank. That in him trying to make a living trucking produce like apples oranges onions & avocados across state lines. Only to find out that the trucking company-The Red River-that he's employed by is run by a bunch of crooked businessmen that are fronting for the mob! Instead of trucking fruit and vegetables for American families tables Jo finds out he's in fact shipping illegal contraband-Like un taxed cigarettes booze as well as pin ball and slot machines that supplies the mob's cash flow in the state of Arizona.
By not going alone with the program Jo puts himself as well as wife Jerri, Kay Lenz, lives in danger of getting whacked by mob enforcer and president of the Red River Trucking Company Buck "Big Bucks" Wessle, played by 65 I.Q Jones, hoods working for him as truck drivers as well as enforcers. At first blackballing Jo from getting work in paying off the bank loan for his rig he starts to organizes the truckers to demand equal pay for equal work-honest work-that really puts him on "Big Bucks" sh*l or cow manure list. That with "Big Buck" getting the word from his boss corrupt businessman and mob controlled hack Josh Cutler, Don Porter, to put the squeeze on the rebellious young man and get him into line or in the hospital with a pair of broken legs if not worse. This besides getting worked over a number of times and having his rig damaged Jo is later framed for his friend Duane Haller's, Slim Pickens, murder who was crushed to death by one of "Big Buck's" drivers in a hit and run homicides. The frame-up against Jo was so phony and ridicules that a grand jury threw it out before they had their first coffee brake.
****SPOILERS**** It's when Cutler promised Jo that he'll cease and desist any more trouble for him and Jerri he back stabbed him by having one of his goons break into Jo's home under the cover of night and set it on fires as well as cause Jerri, who's pregnant, to lose the couple's soon to be born baby by whacking her with a lead pipe across her abdomen. Noew all fired up and ready for action Jo and his rig go on a tare as he heads straight for Cutler's headquarters the "Glass House" in an effort to spoil his birthday party that he's throwing there. Ducking a barrage of bullets by Cutler's security guards Jo smashes through the gates and smashes the "Glass House" sign and even worst of all disrupts a party that Cutler is throwing for his crooked business partners! Shot up but still alive and breathing Jo in the end united the truckers to form a union and not be screwed around by the likes of Cutler as his lackey "Big Bucks" as well as the mob that their in cahoots or in bed with!
By not going alone with the program Jo puts himself as well as wife Jerri, Kay Lenz, lives in danger of getting whacked by mob enforcer and president of the Red River Trucking Company Buck "Big Bucks" Wessle, played by 65 I.Q Jones, hoods working for him as truck drivers as well as enforcers. At first blackballing Jo from getting work in paying off the bank loan for his rig he starts to organizes the truckers to demand equal pay for equal work-honest work-that really puts him on "Big Bucks" sh*l or cow manure list. That with "Big Buck" getting the word from his boss corrupt businessman and mob controlled hack Josh Cutler, Don Porter, to put the squeeze on the rebellious young man and get him into line or in the hospital with a pair of broken legs if not worse. This besides getting worked over a number of times and having his rig damaged Jo is later framed for his friend Duane Haller's, Slim Pickens, murder who was crushed to death by one of "Big Buck's" drivers in a hit and run homicides. The frame-up against Jo was so phony and ridicules that a grand jury threw it out before they had their first coffee brake.
****SPOILERS**** It's when Cutler promised Jo that he'll cease and desist any more trouble for him and Jerri he back stabbed him by having one of his goons break into Jo's home under the cover of night and set it on fires as well as cause Jerri, who's pregnant, to lose the couple's soon to be born baby by whacking her with a lead pipe across her abdomen. Noew all fired up and ready for action Jo and his rig go on a tare as he heads straight for Cutler's headquarters the "Glass House" in an effort to spoil his birthday party that he's throwing there. Ducking a barrage of bullets by Cutler's security guards Jo smashes through the gates and smashes the "Glass House" sign and even worst of all disrupts a party that Cutler is throwing for his crooked business partners! Shot up but still alive and breathing Jo in the end united the truckers to form a union and not be screwed around by the likes of Cutler as his lackey "Big Bucks" as well as the mob that their in cahoots or in bed with!