While driving through the Arizona desert| Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle Rubber Duck - along with his fellow
truckers Pig Pen and Spider Mike | are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle Cottonmouth Wallace using a key tool of the trucker s trade| the citizens band
(CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long| antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens
Spider Mike| a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife| Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved| including Spider Mike| Pig Pen and Widow Woman | go
on the run| figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa| a beautiful photographer who just wanted a
ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves| other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law