This film documents the journey of Tom, a truck driver for Norwalk Truck Lines Inc., on a transport job from Chicago, Illinois to Sandusky, Ohio. Through following his journey, the film highlights the importance of the trucking industry in America and the benefits, and potential challenges, of working as a truck driver. Tom is depicted as a model employee and truck driver who even stops to assist a broken-down car on the side of the road and, in doing so, properly demonstrates how to use the roadside emergency equipment in his truck. The film was produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films in collaboration with Paul R. Hanna from Stanford University and Hal Kopel with James McGinn as the Assistant Producer.

00:09 A Norwalk Truck Lines Inc (once one of the largest independently owned trucking companies in the United States) truck departing a gas station 00:11 Logo of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films 00:18 Movie Title: ‘The Truck Driver’ 00:26 Production Credits 00:39 An 1956 DeSoto driving 00:58 Man exiting DeSoto car and kissing his wife goodbye 1:21 Man speaking and chatting with the Road Dispatcher 1:45 View of a trucking terminal in Chicago with freight being moved around 2:04 Stacked boxes of Coral Liquid Suds 2:05 A box of Philco Star Bright 20/20 Television being picked up 2:08 Sign ‘Pittsburgh’ 2:10 Sign ‘Lansing’ 2:13 Sign ‘Toledo, Ohio’ 2:20 The back of a truck with boxes stacked in it with a sign on the top of the truck for ‘Sandusky’ in Ohio 2:23 A truck with writing ‘Chippewa’ on it 2:28 A 1950s Tractor attaching brake lines to the trailer 2:51 Front trailer supports being rolled up on a1950s White diesel truck 3:33 A man pumping gas into the truck 4:02 Tom checking the red signal flags and red flares and flag stands, a spare headlight kit and a loaded fire extinguisher 5:40 Footage of the state line between Illinois and Indiana 5:50 Toll booth with officer for the Indiana Toll Road 6:15 An International Harvester 185 series truck with the logo ‘Hamilton Papers’ driving past the toll booth 6:52 Footage of the Indiana Toll Road 7:23 Tom pulling into a gas station with Power-X gas and HC gas 7:35 A service man inspecting Tom’s truck engine and inspecting the fluids 8:06 Logo of the truck trailers brand, the White Motor Company reading ‘Super White Power’ 8:10 Service man pounding Tom’s tires to check their air pressure 9:21 Sign for ‘Riverside, population 9200’ 9:35 Light up sign for ‘Day-N-Nite Good Food Bunks’ restaurant 9:38 1950s Jukebox 10:00 Tom greeting a fellow truck driver 10:21 Tom eating a meal and drinking a coffee 10:44 A closeup Tom’s hands on the wheel 10:51 A closeup of Tom’s face 10:55 A car smoking stranded on the side of the road with a man running up the road waving his hat 11:02 The man standing by his car 11:06 Tom using his fire extinguisher to put out the fire in the car 11:34 Tom handling his flares and lighting them 11:50 Tom’s truck parked on the side of the road with it’s emergency lights on 12:36 The truck driving over a bridge as snow falls 13:00 View of a street in Sandusky, Ohio 13:07 The seal being broken 13:17 the doors of the truck opening revealing the tightly packed boxes 13:45 Two men unpacking the boxes from the back of the truck 14:11 1950s Truck pulling up to a storefront 14:17 A truck with the Norbe Lumber Supply logo on it loaded with lumber 14:20 A man unloaded a box of Dandee Old Fashioned Bread 14:24 A concrete mixer truck 14:27 A truck with the Foremost Dairy Products logo on it 14:36 A U.S. Mail Dodge job rated panel truck driving by 15:05 Aerial view of the highway with Tom’s truck driving down it 15:24 End Credits

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