White Line Fever (film)
White Line Fever is a 1975 Canadian-American action crime neo-noir film directed by Jonathan Kaplan and starring Jan-Michael Vincent.Jerri spends her time waiting for his return, which is the subject of the film's theme song "Drifting and Dreaming" by Valerie Carter.He and Jerri visit a local used truck sales lot where he purchases a repossessed 1974 Ford WT9000 cabover rig with a 350 NTC Cummins turbo diesel engine.CJ gets angry and forces his rig to be unloaded, vowing never to haul illegal cargo, but not after having an altercation with Clem, the ringleader of the corrupt goons working the docks.Later in the day, Carrol Jo is pulled over on a lonely highway and discovers that Deputy "Bob", the local sheriff is in on the crooked dealing as well.He slowly discovers that Red River is actually owned by a large corporation based in Phoenix called the “Glass House”, a diversified energy and transportation company.Over the course of several months, CJ tries to organize the other drivers at Red River and around Tucson to stand up to the Glass House and refuse to haul illegal cargo.A few days later, Carrol Jo, Carnell and with all the other Red River Drivers are invited to the Glass House for a meeting with the senior management.Not trusting the Glass House nor their shady business practices, Carrol Jo declines their offers electing to continue operating on his own and encourages the other drivers to do likewise.He manages to run through the security gauntlet, but he knows he won't be able to get the crippled truck all the way to the corporate headquarters, so he aims for the giant sign that stands in front of the building, an enormous two-story glass structure with the letters “GH”.The strike is being held in protest of the corrupt system set up by the Glass House and in honor of one trucker who dared to stand up against them, Carrol Jo Hummer.