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17	[[quoteright:350:[[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0bcb700fc64aa5d937b8c5f2db9aa245.png]]]]
18	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Let's roll.]]'']]
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20	->''"You're looking at 2,000 horsepower of nitro-boosted war machine."''
21	-->-- '''Furiosa''' to Max, about the War Rig (seen at right), ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''
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23	When TestosteronePoisoning hits the road.
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25	A SisterTrope to CoolCar, this is the kind where even four wheels isn't enough, you need the diesel fumes and huge smoking pipes and plenty of axles and... well, you have the big rig truck that tends to be a mainstay in action movies and the like. And driving in one of these things is quite ideal for HardTruckin.
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27	Don't confuse with {{Truck}}.
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29	!!Examples:
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33	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
34	* Anime/{{Daimos}} in his Tranzer form.
35	* The Mammoth Car from ''Anime/SpeedRacer'', essentially a train on the road. Bonus points for [[spoiler: being made of solid gold.]]
36	* In ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Jim Cook has the Fusion Monster Fossil Machine Skullconvoy, which is a Badass Rig ''made of stone''. (ItMakesSenseInContext, really it does.)
37	* ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'' has a few of these. Scourge is a tanker trailer truck. Optimus Prime, though usually a trailer truck himself, is now a large fire truck whose rear section becomes his battle armor. Mega-Octane, a huge artillery flatbed, is basically a redecoed Onslaught. And Ultra Magnus is a car carrier truck just like the original G1 Ultra Magnus.
38	* In one episode of ''Anime/NewDominionTankPolice'' the titular Tank Police have to deal with a Dai Nippon Giken truck carrying a hazardous compound which is hurtling towards a populated city.
39	* Lupin and Co. are chased by a massive one in ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo''. It manages to crush several police cars on its rampage and barely manages to turn a sharp corner. Lupin's Mini is easily able to drive underneath it!
40	* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'':
41	** The unscrupulous ArmsDealer and IntrepidMerchant Katsuragi trades out of a hulking armed and armored wilderness truck with a heavy machinegun mount at the top he fires, to make the high risk journeys between cities separated by DeathWorld wilderness.
42	** As part of a FictionalHoliday called The Great Distribution, the government of the setting provides free transport between cities in convoys of these for economic reasons, since it’s often impossible otherwise. Akira gets assigned on an EscortMission for one. The rigs have strong DeflectorShields as well as a huge WaveMotionGun to help with large monsters.
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46	* ComicBook/SpiderMan once fought a trucker who fancied himself a crime fighter named Razorback (who was rather incompetent and had a pretty dumb-looking cowl that looked like a boar's head; the story was written back when CB radios were becoming a fad for motorists other than truckers). Having said that, the modified rig he drove - which he named "The Big Pig" -- was kind of cool; he could even drive it using a remote control.
47	* The U.S. 1 rig from the shortlived Creator/MarvelComics title ''U.S. 1''. Its cameo appearance many years later was pretty cool if only because of the fact that the thing had obtained the capacity to [[SpaceTrucker operate in deep space]].
48	* In 1991, there was a single-issue comic from Timothy Truman called ''Dragon Chiang''. ''Dragon Chiang'' was a spin-off set in the ''Scout'' post-apocalyptic world. Dragon Chiang was a Communist Chinese trucker who drove an 18-wheeled, nuclear-powered rig that was more like a train - to trade with denizens of the China/Soviet/USA economic bloc.
49	* Creator/ImageComics had Joe Casey's SuperSoldier {{Antihero}} ''Butcher Baker: The Righteous Maker'' drive a rig that was capable of being remotely driven and had an adamantium-vibranium alloy grille for ramming through things.
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53	* Mack from ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' is a rare benign version. The only thing fearful about him is when he nods off to sleep ''while in motion''.
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56	[[folder:Film -- Live Action]]
57	* The eponymous ''Film/{{Battletruck}}'' (from the New Zealand sci-fi film [[MarketBasedTitle also called]] ''Warlords Of The 21st Century'').
58	* Billy from ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopII'' steals a truck in pursuit of a suspect.
59	* Jack Burton's truck in ''Film/BigTroubleInLittleChina''.
60	* In ''Film/ColdPursuit'', Nels uses his heavy-duty snowplow as weapon during his RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Buttoned up inside it, he is able to cut a swathe through two heavily armed gangs who are shooting and him and each other.
61	* ComicBook/TheJoker's [[PuttheLaughterinSlaughter semitruck]] from ''Film/TheDarkKnight''.
62	* The [=LandMasters=] from ''Film/DamnationAlley''.
63	* ''Death Race'':
64	** The [[WeaponizedCar Dreadnought]] from ''Film/DeathRace'' is a massively armored truck with multiple turrets and flamethrowers on top, weaponized wheel spikes, and other nasty surprises. As soon as it's introduced in the second race, every racer except for Jensen and Joe are rapidly killed in gruesome deaths.
65	** The third movie has the hilariously huge trucks driven by Joker and Nero, which, respectively, have a tank turret and an anti-air cannon for weapons.
66	* The truck from ''Film/{{Duel}}'' is a humongous (compared to the Plymouth Valiant it's chasing) 1955 "Needlenose" Peterbilt 281, CoveredInGunge, [[CreepySouvenir with license plates hanging from its front grill]].
67	* The climax of ''Film/TheExterminator 2'' has John Eastland turning the garbage dump truck of his civilian job into a rolling pillbox loaded with [[SentryGun remote-controlled machine guns]] to [[MoreDakka riddle the gang he's been fighting full of lead]].
68	* The big rig ''Dead Reckoning'' from ''Film/LandOfTheDead'' is a custom built mobile Forward Operating Base with more than enough armor to repel zombies, slots for machine gun turrets, missile launchers, and enough horsepower and raw gross tonnage to flatten any poor zombie that gets in front of the thing..
69	* ''Film/MadMax'' film series:
70	** The tanker truck Max and the tribesmen use in the climatic chase scene in ''Film/TheRoadWarrior''.
71	** The War Rigs from ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad''. The one used by our heroes has two massive supercharged V8s up front, the back half of a vintage sedan stuck on the back of the cab for passengers and two defensive nests made from other cars on top of the tanker trailer. The Gas Town rig has an entire 70s Mercedes limo as its cab, and a ''functioning mini-refinery'' on the back to allow it to refuel other cars on the road. Several other equally huge and equally ''awesome'' vehicles are present but either not technically big trucks (The Gigahorse is more a monster truck, the Doof Wagon's truck portion is much smaller) or quite prominent enough to count (the car carrier occasionally panned across but never seen doing anything significant).
72	* ''Film/MaximumOverdrive'', [[{{Pun}} king]] among them being the big black toy company rig that had a hood modified with the face of the Green Goblin. [[HarsherInHindsight Weren't these from before Stephen King's car accident, though?]]
73	* ''Film/{{Road Train}}'' has a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin two-trailer road train]] which runs the kids off the road, renders them insane and encourages them to kill each other, [[HomicideMachines and has a mechanism in the lead trailer to shred bodies and render them down into gore, which it appears to use as a fuel with lubricant]].
74	* Doctor Robotnik's [[CardCarryingVillain self-described "Evil Lair"]] in ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'': an enormous, matte-black truck and trailer that contains own highly-sophisticated laboratory, launching and recharging points for his numerous Badnik drones, and even its own self-contained hangar for his hoverjet.
75	* ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}''
76	** The finale for ''Film/TheTerminator'' has the Terminator chasing down the protagonists (on foot) in an 18 wheeler oil tank truck. Reese utilizes a well-timed grenade to blow up the truck, causing the Terminator to burn and reveal his terrifying [[SkeleBot9000 metal endoskeleton]].
77	** ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' has the T-1000 commandeering a large towing semi, chasing John Connor off the road and into a canal, with only a direct collision against solid concrete stopping it. Later on in the film, the T-1000 acquires a tank truck containing liquid nitrogen, which eventually leads into a huge crash and the now iconic T-1000 freezing[=/=]melting scene.
78	* In the 1986 film ''Film/ThunderRun'', Korean War veteran and former trucker Charlie is hired to transport a load of plutonium to a military base with a militia all set to intercept the cargo; so he builds the "Thunder", a modified 1975 Kenworth W-900A carrying anti-personnel mines and flamethrowers and also very heavily armored, with the tires alone withstanding direct hits from missiles launched by the militia's technicals. The rig also does a RampJump over a train at one point.
79	* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries''
80	** In the first three films, Optimus Prime has a Peterbilt 379 vehicle mode. Unlike most of his animated appearances, his vehicle mode is a conventional truck (with the engine ahead of the driver), and doesn't have a trailer for most movies. In ''[[Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction Age of Extinction]]'', because he's on the run from his former human allies he has adopted a rusted old Marmon 97 cab-over design more reminiscent of his classic look. When he decides to stop hiding and [[LetsGetDangerous get dangerous]] he scans a Western Star 4900 Phantom Custom and applies his red-on-blue HotPaintJob to it.
81	** For ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', Megatron adopts a new alternate mode in order to hide in the African savannah that certainly fits this trope. A heavily modified Mack tanker truck littered with spikes and chains, it would fit right in on the set of ''Mad Max''.
82	** In ''Age of Extinction'', the KSI corporation is attempting to replace Optimus with a superior man-made drone called Galvatron. About the only aspect of Optimus that KSI successfully copies for Galvatron is his alt mode, a sleek gray cab-over semi that contrasts nicely with the boxy, rusted-out cab-over that Optimus starts the movie disguised as. [[spoiler:And it probably only happened because [[BackFromTheDead Megatron]] was willing to let them copy that much]].
83	* In the ''Film/JoyRide'' film series, the villain has a big scary Peterbilt 379 rig which he almost never leaves.
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87	* ''Literature/{{Demon Road}}: American Monsters'' has Amber and Milo running from a Peterbilt, also a demonic symbiote like the Charger. Demoriel, the Whispering Demon, makes deals with those who have conveyances, such as cars in the modern age; Milo is wanted by Demoriel because he welched on his [[DealWithTheDevil deal]], and the Peterbilt's driver is another one of his. He even picks up a young girl they met earlier and breaks her mind, trying to use her to kill Amber.
88	* In ''Literature/ThePushcartWar'', three truck companies are the villains. The biggest and baddest of their truck models are the Mighty Mammoth, Ten-Ton Tiger and Leaping Lema.
89	* Near the end of ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebook ''Literature/FreewayFighter'', your protagonist has to give up his [[WeaponizedCar combat supercar]] to an allied refinery, but in return he gets a tanker truck with a machine gun turret mounted on it and enough gasoline to supply a city's entire line of farming machines.
90	* In ''Rain of Doom'' Literature/AbleTeam have to infiltrate Syria in the middle of a civil war. They use a semi-truck and trailer that their contact has been using to regularly smuggle contraband into Damascus, but modified with steel plate armor, solid inner core tires and concealed firing slits.
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93	[[folder:Live Action TV]]
94	* ''Series/BJAndTheBear''. B.J. (Billie Joe) [=McKay=] drove a big rig truck. His sidekick was a chimpanzee named "Bear".
95	* ''Black Knight'' is a Korean miniseries shown on Creator/{{Netflix}}, armed deliverymen working for the government and the Cheongmyeong Logistics chaebol are given high tech specialized Cheongmyeong cargo trucks for their deliveries. Besides being well-armoured and having an extensive air filtration system to protect against bandits and the polluted wasteland air, the trucks also have cutting-edge navigation and communications systems to help the deliverymen accomplish their missions.
96	* A late '80s action series called ''The Highwayman'' involved high-tech frontier lawmen for a secret government organization traveling the roads in big black rigs. The lead character's cab even turned into a helicopter.
97	* The original ''Series/KnightRider'' had one for a mobile base-cum-garage. Also, in a couple of episodes, KITT's EvilCounterpart Goliath.
98	* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' took a truck cab and made a giant steel wedge to go over the front of it after Busting the "[[CarFu trucks can throw traffic out of the way]]" myth. This wedge saw later use in the final episode, where Adam plowed through a bunch of the show's props arranged in "Memory Lane".
99	* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' / ''Franchise/PowerRangers''
100	** Some of the Disney-owned ''Power Rangers'' seasons give the Rangers trucks. ''[[Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm Ninja Storm]]'' made the most use of their Mobile Command Center, while [[Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder Dino Thunder]] brought out a suspiciously similar rig for their final assault on the villain base. [[Series/PowerRangersSPD SPD]] went with a new design for the SWAT Command Truck.
101	** Rig-styled ''mecha'' would show up about half the time in vehicle-teamed seasons, even in the ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' precursors:
102	*** ''Series/KousokuSentaiTurboranger'' had a tractor cab for their Black Ranger.
103	*** ''Series/HikariSentaiMaskman'' and ''Series/ChoushinseiFlashman'' had tractor trailer rigs forming standalone mecha on their own.
104	*** Victrailer from ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'' and Artillatron from ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', which carried the VRV Machines/Rescuezords.
105	*** ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger''/''Series/PowerRangersSPD'', ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''/''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', and ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters''/''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' all had trailer trucks in their respective teams' assortment of mecha. The ''Go-Busters''/''Beast Morphers'' one could even transform into a gorilla.
106	*** ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' and ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' have a flatbed trailer truck that's part [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile alligator]].
107	*** And some seasons, like ''Series/KagakuSentaiDynaman'', ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' and ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger''/''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', would have their vehicles combine into a tractor trailer form, a low-power high-speed alternative to their megazord configuration when getting there is the priority.
108	** Other types of big trucks show up a lot too:
109	*** For some reason, ''Super Sentai'' has a thing for dump trucks. There's one in ''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive'', ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'', ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger'', ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' and ''Series/ShurikenSentaiNinninger''. All but the first carry over into ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'', ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', and ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel'' respectively. Also in ''Series/KikaiSentaiZenkaiger'', where a dump truck is selected to be the mecha that represents vehicle Sentai as a whole.
110	*** ''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger''/''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', ''Series/KyukyuSentaiGoGoV''/''Series/PowerRangersLightspeedRescue'', ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger''/''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' and ''Series/MashinSentaiKiramager'' all include a fire truck Zord with weaponized firefighting equipment.
111	*** Less frequently seen truck mecha/Zords include everything from tankers and armored hazmat trucks (''[=GoGoV=]''/''Lightspeed Rescue'') to cement mixers and mobile cranes (''Boukenger''/''Operation Overdrive''). And, yes, all of them are awesome.
112	* The ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E13RouteSixSixSix Route 666]]" has a possessed truck.
113	* ''Series/{{Thunderstone}}'' has “The Beast”, a huge truck dug up by the Protectors and used to do their heavy lifting. It was cool enough to live on long after the Protectors were gone, being used by the Nomads in the second season as a storeroom/Sundance’s bedroom/brig.
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117	* "Ramp Warrior," the original version of ''Pinball/TruckStop,'' featured a flame-belching longnose tractor ramming its way past various barricades.
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120	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
121	* ''TabletopGame/CarWars'': It's quite possible to create one of these. One of the game's factions, the Brotherhood of Truckers, drives ''nothing'' but these... and you ''really'' don't want to piss them off enough to have them gang up on you.
122	* ''TabletopGames/{{Gaslands}}'' has these in the form of the War Rigs, which can really be just about anything you want, though normally based on a semi-trailer; after the release of one expansion for first ed, you could happily build it in the shape of a pirate ship, due to a new pirate-themed sponsor. Also monster trucks.
123	* The [[https://scryfall.com/card/snc/109/hoard-hauler Hoard Hauler]] from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' is quintessentially this: it's huge, powerful, shiny, and [[Fiction500 filled to the brim with priceless contraband]].
124	* ''TabletopGame/NuclearRenaissance'' has these by definition, due to the massive, chunky nature of every vehicle, making them largely into small trucks, carries over into the massive truck minis; even more so the no-longer-produced Truckapillar, a colossus with four of the manufacturer's biggest track units (also no longer in production).
125	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Ork wartrukks. Each one is unique to its maker, has guns everywhere they can be strapped on (when not using less conventional but entirely Orky weaponry like a wrecking ball the size of its engine), is loaded down with external platforms for fitting extra boyz, bristles with exhaust vents, is lavishly decorated with clan totems, grinning skull symbols and the like, and of course, [[TheRedOnesGoFaster go faster if painted red]]. This goes for the typical Ork trukk -- the warbosses' and meks' personal rides are invariably even more elaborate and baroque. This trope if often deliberately invoked, as Orks make a point of building their trukks for maximum noise, fearsomeness and smoke production, entirely because they like the look.
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129	* Tyco released a range of slot trucks. Not racing or otherwise trucks, like monsters or technicals, but Heavy Combination class semi-trailers with a load of some commodity in their trailers. You know, like you'd see on the highway. OK but not something you think of usually racing, or playing with on a race track. It was the need to make such a thing interesting that led to the US-1 comics mentioned above, which are surprisingly fun to read, [[SoBadItsGood stupid as they are]].
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133	* ''VideoGame/AmericanTruck'' (one of Creator/TelenetJapan's earliest games). Driving an 18-wheeler makes it easy to run other cars off the road.
134	* Ostensibly the premise behind the game ''VideoGame/BigRigsOverTheRoadRacing''.
135	* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWarII: Retribution'' has a bossfight against an ork monstrosity of a battlewagon, a combination troop transport truck/road roller/tank that's so tough it can't even be brought down by normal weapons but needs to be dodged so it rams into ExplosiveBarrels. In the ork campaign, they actually fix it up and loot it for themselves. Oh, and this avatar of destruction and noise is named "Daisy".
136	* Also the premise of Creator/{{Sega}} arcades ''VideoGame/EighteenWheelerAmericanProTrucker'' and ''VideoGame/KingOfRoute66''.
137	* ''VideoGame/EuroTruckSimulator'' features a realistic take on driving these. Real-life cab-over models from Volvo, Renault, and other manufacturers are available, as well as several BlandNameProduct trucks. {{Game Mod}}s can add bigger and more badass trucks, such as American-style 18-wheelers. These American trucks are the focus of the obviously titled ''Videogame/AmericanTruckSimulator''.
138	* In ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'', Mayor Zao of Shang Mu transports his ENTIRE ARMY in one of these things. It's essentially a train, an absolutely massive truck pulling probably upwards of twenty cars all packed to the brim with troops.
139	* The VehicularCombat trucks from ''VideoGame/GearGrinder''.
140	* ''VideoGame/GhostInTheShell'' have the level in the city where your Fuchikoma pursues a ten-wheeler in an intense chase scene. Your target comes with a back-mounted laser cannon and machine-guns built in it's bumpers, for good measure, and can ram you off the streets during the chase.
141	* In a similar vein to the ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' example above, ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' has the "Phantom Wedge". Basically an in-game Phantom tractor with the same wedge installed to fling other cars aside. The Gunrunning update also includes a heavily-armored and triple-turreted Mobile Operations Center which also serves as an upgrade shop for the update's weaponized vehicles.
142	* ''VideoGame/HardTruckApocalypse'': This lesser known PC {{Vehicular Combat}}/{{Role Playing Game}} (known as ''[[MarketBasedTitle Ex Machina]]'' in Russia) and it's expansion. You start off with a rather plain truck with a machine gun but as you go along you can buy new trucks and upgrades. Heavily modified trucks tend to end up as pint-sized ''[[MilitaryMashupMachine land battleships]]''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQlrg50EptY&feature=related Like this one]].
143	** ''{{VideoGame/Crossout}}'', the game's sequel, even allows players to build their own.
144	* ''Videogame/PlanetSide'' and the sequel have the ''Sunderer'' APC. The original Sunderer is absolutely huge, being almost two stories tall, with half a dozen manned turrets (two anti-tank, two anti-air, and two close-defense) and the ability to carry around two [[PoweredArmor MAX suits]]. A patch later added a cattle-catcher to the front. The sequel's is slightly smaller than the original, and takes a hit to adaptability (it only carries two turrets, though they are much more dangerous on their own) in exchange for merging in the first game's Advanced Mobile Station functionality (being able to [[BaseOnWheels deploy to activate a mobile spawnpoint]]), breach forcefield gates, and [[CarFu crush smaller vehicles by ramming them]]. The new Sunderer doesn't look ''too'' truck-y by default, but players can [[RevenueEnhancingDevices buy developer and player-designed cosmetics]] such as smoke stacks, custom wheels, cattle catchers, and alternate front and rear ends.
145	* ''VideoGame/{{Snowrunner}}'' is all ''about'' driving these. Compared to the Truck Simulator series (which tend to be more focused on highway trucking), ''Snowrunner'' and its ilk are all about the muddy, messy off-road hauling. Aside from a range of smaller 4x4 'scout' vehicles, the vast majority of the player-drivable vehicles in the game are 6x6, 8x8, or 10x10 hauler types.
146	* The GUN Truck from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. [[AdvancingWallOfDoom It's big enough to fill a whole street]], [[ImpossiblyGracefulGiant agile enough to make sharp turns at said size]], and [[LightningBruiser fast enough to keep up with]] ''[[SuperSpeed Sonic]]''. In ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', it has rockets for added mobility (including driving along walls), it's constantly [[MookMaker dispensing GUN robot troops]], and it has three [[ChainsawGood gigantic buzzsaws]] that it tries to puree you with.
147	* ''VideoGame/TerminatorDarkFateDefiance'': The specialty of [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits Movement]] armies are up-armoured and armed big rigs. Fairly capable combat vehicles on their own with the right upgrades, but their main purpose is being tractors for armoured transport trailers packing even heavier firepower like miniguns, autocannons and even heavy plasma cannons. They can also tow heavy artillery platforms. The Founders have military-grade [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Expanded_Mobility_Tactical_Truck HEMTTs]] for this kind of work.
148	* ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'':
149	** Darkside, in its many iterations throughout the series, is a jet-black semi truck. In the first game, it has a weak special attack (a tiny laser beam) to make up for its heavy armor, but the third game (where it's a boss vehicle that's only unlockable with cheat codes) gives it a devastating combination of a freeze missile and a flamethrower, and in ''Black'', ''Small Brawl'', and the 2012 reboot, its special attack is [[LightningBruiser a burst of speed to ram enemies with]].
150	** The 2012 reboot gave us Juggernaut. With the game's momentum-based collision damage, driving fast and then braking and whipping the trailer would swing it hard enough to obliterate the smaller vehicles. In co-op multiplayer, the trailer can also be opened to let an ally drive into it and take control of an anti-aircraft gun mounted to the roof. The sides also open up to reveal two rows of large, round, spiked explosives, which are launched forward as its special weapon.
151	* Convoy from ''VideoGame/Vigilante8'' drives a large yellow Mack truck. The sequel gives him the ability to attach a trailer to the back of it, and (like the other vehicles) [[HubcapHovercraft turn the wheels into jet engines]] or skis.
152	* In ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'', [[spoiler: the FinalBoss has Kirby use Mouthful Mode on a big rig to slam the BigBad and prevent it from performing a ColonyDrop using Planet Popstar.]]
153	* ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}'' added working vehicles in chapter 2, which naturally included these. They've the slowest land vehicles out there, but their horsepower means you could scale steeper slopes and run through multiple walls with them until your speed is sufficiently reduced. Then chapter 3 lets you add cowcatchers to them, making them nearly unstoppable.
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157	* Lewis steals Rooster's rig and uses his ghostly powers to transform the breakfast foods transport into a dekotora inspired ghost possessed vengeance-mobile to chase down Arthur and Vivi in ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated''.
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161	* The roads into [[http://ravensblight.com/index.html Ravensblight]] are haunted by two rigs; the [[http://ravensblight.com/PhantomSemi.html Phantom Semi]] runs people off the road, honks and disappears, less like a villain than a child playing who thinks he's not hurting anyone but is too immature to see that that isn't true, and an [[http://ravensblight.com/GhostTruck.html old truck]] which looks suspiciously like the one from ''Film/{{Duel}}'', but is driven by a helpful person named Chester Floyd, whose face cannot be seen. When you mention who gave you a lift at the gas station he drops you at, you suddenly expect the clerk to say "worst accident I ever did..." but, no, it's [[SubvertedTrope "Chester, Yeah he was just in here. Came in for some Cheesy Yums."]] Double subverted when you mention your apprehension and he responds "Dead? Oh, yeah, he's dead all right, worst accident I ever did see... Still, he comes in here every so often for some Cheesy Yums. He loves those things. Don't see how he eats 'em, though; not havin' a head and all..."
162	* Parodied in a ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' episode on ''Big Rigs: Over The Road Racing'', which features a commercial where spokesman Rex Viper Rigs treats the aforementioned game and its big rigs as testosterone incarnate.
163	-->'''Rex:''' ''[[NoIndoorVoice BIIIIIIIIIGG MOTHER]]'''''''[[NoIndoorVoice FUCKIN']]''''' ''[[NoIndoorVoice RIIIIIIIIIIGS!]]''
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167	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' -- Hank is going to transport a single piece of furniture long distance for his mother, and rents a full-size semi rig for the job. As he justifies his choice to his awestruck friends, Bill sighs "You don't have to explain to ''us'', Hank!"
168	* Rhino, Outlaw, Goliath and Bulldog from ''WesternAnimation/{{MASK}}''.
169	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
170	** Optimus Prime, plain and simple. Tractor trailers would become a mainstay after that, and Optimus would appear as other kinds of vehicles ([[WesternAnimation/BeastWars and animals!]]), but [[TropeCodifier there's a very good reason he's most associated with a truck.]]
171	** The Decepticons had an equivalent in [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Generation 1]] who also turned into a rig, Motormaster, the leader of the Stunticons and the core component of the Decepticon gestalt, Menasor. He was ''incredibly'' tough, but in one episode he dared try to face Optimus Prime in a head-on-head collision; it was a CurbStompBattle with the villain on the curb.
172	** There was also Ultra Magnus, who was somewhat bigger than Optimus because he incorporated his trailer (a car carrier) into his robot mode (the Japanese toy he was based on was a SuperMode version of the one Optimus was based on).
173	** Though his alt-mode (nicknamed by fans as the space winnebago) is often depicted as a car with an attached trailer, Rodimus Prime's original G1 toy was a futuristic semi with trailer. While the G1 cartoon often depicted his robot mode formed from both cab and trailer, the Headmasters anime depicted a transformation matching his G1 toy.
174	** Finally, there was Octane, a Decepticon triple-changer who could transform into either a fuel truck or a fuel aircraft.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has an in-universe unintentional example in "Operation: P.I.A.N.O.," in which a truck taking up the entire width of the highway is barreling down the road, knocking off any other vehicles it overtakes. The driver is a jolly old man who treats this destruction on the road as just another day at work and, until toward the end of the episode, [[CaptainOblivious doesn't even realize]] the Kids Next Door operatives are trying to stop him from completing his delivery of pianos. His truck is just that fast, well-armored, and maneuverable.
176	* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' has an episode [[AffectionateParody affectionately parodying]] ''Film/MadMax'' in which the series villain [[BigBad Megabyte]] gets transformed into a massive semi complete with his face on the front.
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180	* "Road trains", essentially one truck pulling up to eight trailers at once - though usually just two, maybe up to four, and they're strictly regulated in the areas they can be operated in and often require extensive training and licensing before a driver is permitted to operate a road train. They're mostly used in the Australian outback, though double-trailers are permitted in some locations in the United States, Europe, and Mexico.
181	** Due to its thriving forest industry and low traffic density Finland has the longest road trains in the EU, being up to 34,5 metres long.
182	* Off-road trucks designed for heavy hauling in the post-UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo years, made to become artillery tractors or tank tractors if a major war happened again. All were very similar in basic layout, built around a very large and slow-turning Diesel or gasoline engine, all wheel drive, large tires with strong grip and weight distribution made for towing. While they did see military use, their fame comes from civilian jobs, towing extra-large loads over rough ground and carrying oil drilling machinery in the wilderness:
183	** [[RedsWithRockets Soviet]] [[http://www.motorstown.com/images/kraz-214-05.jpg KrAZ-214]]/[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/KrAZ_255.JPG 255]] series and [[http://images.forum-auto.com/mesimages/47198/maz535-6.jpg MAZ-535]]/[[http://engineact.com/pics/f3/e4/MAZ-543_4b037.jpg 543]]
184	*** As the years wore on, the oil prices rose, and the [=KrAZ'=] fuel-guzzling gasoline engine became a liability, so in TheEighties it was replaced in Russia by the diesel [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ural-4320 Ural-4320]], still in production. This huge 6×6 is still a mainstay of the offroad heavy trucking in Russia and environments,[[note]]and the 4320's of Mexican Army were even reportedly loaned for the 2005 Katrina relief effort due to their superior agility on the still muddy N'awlins streets[[/note]] even though its replacement (the Vityaz-2) is finally getting released.
185	** Czechoslovak [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Lkw-tatra-813.jpg Tatra 813]] series.
186	** German [[http://www.olafs-fotoseite.de/ML002-Kaelble-KDV12Z-Zugm-Boelling-dkgelb-Ch-rot-1963.jpg Kaelble KDV]] series.
187	** French [[http://www.fondationberliet.org/ressources-documentaires/berliet-gbo15p-algerie-sahara/ Berliet GBO 15]] series and the absolutely gigantic [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliet_T100 Berliet]][[http://www.fierdetreroutier.com/zoom/a_dossiers/2012/T_100/003_T100rouge.jpg T]] [[http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7189/6909977893_a8e32248db_z.jpg 100]].
188	** British [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornycroft_Antar Thornycroft Antar]].
189	** Most any [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_truck gun truck]], but the Deuce-and-a-half with the "[[LudicrousGibs meat chopper]]" gets special mention.
190	** Their bigger, more modern relatives also using 8x8 or 10x10 wheel configurations also deserve a mention, such as the Oshkosh [=HEMTT=], MAZ-7310, Sisu [=E13TP=], and others. They follow the same basic design precepts as the other examples here, but scale them up to to make ''Bigger'' Badass Rigs.
191	* The ultimate movers, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haul_truck haul trucks]], which are basically self-propelled hoppers designed to efficiently move hundreds of tons of dirt/ore/coal/etc. in the open-pit mines that are still too small to lay a railway in. It's hard to be more badass than a dump truck the size of a large house, carrying 200 tons of coal under the power of two locomotive engines. These [[MightyGlacier aren't about to post any speed records, though]].
192	* In Alaska, rural interstate snowplows are based on big Peterbilt and Mack trucks, with the (obvious) addition of snow-clearing equipment and an EnemyDetectingRadar; the drivers have a heads-up-display which shows a radar display to detect where the truck is on the road for driving in zero-visibility conditions, and will it shake either side of the driver's chair if they start to veer off of the road.
193	* While gun artillery has moved on to [[TanksButNoTanks tank-like]] armored vehicles, rocket and missile artillery is still very clearly truck-like. Take, for example, the [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/MLRS_05.jpg M270 MLRS]], which looks for all the world like an weaponized, tracked dump truck.
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