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A group of big truck drivers / nicknamed Duck and Pig Pen / were extremely dissatisfied with this. They ignored the law and kept driving at the economic speed / and battled wits with a corrupt policeman on the highway. The team of truck drivers grew day by day / and the government used military police to suppress it. In the end / the authorities blew up the lead truck of Duck on the bridge. However / Duck miraculously survived / and was cheered as a hero by the American people. This is the first American film introduced after China's reform and opening up
美国当局为了维护大石油寡头的利益，鼓励资源消费，强制规定卡车司机的时速为55公里小时（最耗油的时速)。一伙绰号分别叫鸭子、猪圈的几个大卡车司机对此极为不满，无视法律保持经济时速行驶，并在公路上与一个贪腐的警察斗智斗法，卡车司机们的队伍日益壮大，政府动用军警进行镇压，最后当局将鸭子的领头车炸毁在桥上，然而鸭子却奇迹般生还，受到美国民众英雄般的欢呼。这是中国改革开放后引进的第一部美国电影