"Trucks" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in the June 1973 issue of Cavalier magazine, and later collected in King's 1978 collection Night Shift. The basic premise of "Trucks" was the basis for the film Maximum Overdrive. An unnamed narrator arrives at an isolated truck stop diner after witnessing trucks deliberately crashing into and destroying passenger vehicles on the interstate. Upon reaching the diner, he finds it occupied by a short order cook, a truck driver who had stopped for a meal, a young couple whose car had been wrecked in the parking lot, and a salesman named Snodgrass. Outside, numerous heavy trucks and other vehicles idle without drivers, their engines operating independently.
Adaptations (1)
Trucks was adapted into a 1986 film.
Maximum Overdrive1986 · film · 98 min · dir. Stephen King · IMDb ↗When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of murderous 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines…Or be killed by them.
