Peter Graves (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE) stars as an FDA agent who infiltrates the Los Angeles trucker scene as a student driver named Tom Kayler. His mission: find out who’s furnishing semi drivers with deadly amphetimines that cause one to hallucinate during an overnight run and run his rig over a cliff.

His first day, an old dude freaks out, wounds a man with a baling hook, and dies. I’m no drug expert, but I don’t think speed does what director Newman (THIS ISLAND EARTH) and screenwriter John McGreevey (THE WALTONS) think it does. McGreevey’s tough dialogue is good, though, tossing around slang like “co-pilots” and “riding with Benny,” like a pulp paperback crinkled by too many nights in someone’s back pocket.…

Peter Graves stars as a crusading FDA agent who goes undercover in the trucking industry to investigate the manufacturing and distribution of "uppers", "goofballs, "bennys", and "reds". Although it's not exactly legal to sell the amphetamines, the U.S. government and the trucking industry usually looks the other way in terms of enforcing the law.

Graves arrives in California, where he settles down in a trucker flophouse with other single truckers, including beatnik playboy Chuck Connors, an outspoken smartass of a coworker who steals the show. Graves gets a job driving with Connors on a California to Portland route which slowly eats away at the driver's psyche. In order to maintain a clear head and to make the deliveries on time,…

Peter Graves (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE) stars as an FDA agent who infiltrates the Los Angeles trucker scene as a student driver named Tom Kayler. His mission: find out who’s furnishing semi drivers with deadly amphetimines that cause one to hallucinate during an overnight run and run his rig over a cliff.

His first day, an old dude freaks out, wounds a man with a baling hook, and dies. I’m no drug expert, but I don’t think speed does what director Newman (THIS ISLAND EARTH) and screenwriter John McGreevey (THE WALTONS) think it does. McGreevey’s tough dialogue is good, though, tossing around slang like “co-pilots” and “riding with Benny,” like a pulp paperback crinkled by too many nights in someone’s back pocket.…