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When the truck is moving, the main difficulty of course is the speed difference between the truck's ramp and the road. The {{Mythbusters}}, once again, have [[TruthInTelevision shown that this is possible]], even demonstrating the trope with a car and a truck.

* The original ''TheItalianJob'' is probably the TropeMaker. In the film, three Mini Coopers make their getaway by driving up into the back of a converted bus.

* In the Literature/JamesBond novel ''Role of Honour'' by John Gardner, Bond is abducted when SPECTRE forces his car into the back of a truck by dropping the back door and stopping suddenly, causing Bond to drive up into the truck before he has a chance to react.

* ''ChittyChittyBangBang'': Lord Scrumptious is captured by being tricked, ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''-style, into driving up into the back of a truck.

** In n ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', a "[[WeaponsUnderstudies Jeep]]" evades pursuers by driving onto the lowered rear door of a taxiing [[WeaponsUnderstudies C-130]].
* ChittyChittyBangBang: Lord Scrumptious is captured by being tricked, ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''-style, into driving up into the back of a truck.

* There is at least one mission in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto San Andreas'' in which you have to do this.

* In Disney/Pixar's ''{{Cars}}'', this is where Lightning [=McQueen=] ''lives''.

Common to spy shows. Marginally related to PunkInTheTrunk (in the sense of stowing away in another vehicle).

* In ''Film/TheTransporter'', the titular driver drives off a bridge onto a moving car carrier, landing on a conveniently empty spot, then knocks off the car behind him and backs off the truck.

* ''Literally'' done in ''TheBluesBrothers'': A police squad car jumps off the side of a freeway, smashing into the side of a passing truck. (They're [[EpicFail doing it wrong]]!)

When the truck is moving, the main difficulty of course is the speed difference between the truck's ramp and the road.

* There is at least one mission in ''GrandTheftAuto San Andreas'' in which you have to do this.

** In n ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', a jeep evades pursuers by driving onto the extended rear hatch of a taxiing C-130.

[[quoteright:350:[[KnightRider http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Knight_Rider_7491.jpg]]]]The spy car needs to evade his pursuers, and/or make a pit stop while on the run. What to do?

Why, drive up into the back of a conveniently waiting semi, of course! Then you can sneak past your pursuers, RightUnderTheirNoses! Often the truck trailer will contain a complete auto shop. Sometimes a bus, airplane or other large vehicle will be used instead.

* ChittyChittyBangBang: Lord Scrumptious is captured by being tricked, ''LooneyTunes''-style, into driving up into the back of a truck.

** Played with by ''Series/TeamKnightRider'' and ''Knight Rider'' version 2 (2008), where it's a C-130 cargo plane instead.

* There is at least one mission in ''GrandTheftAuto San Andreas'' in which you have to do this.

* In ''UsefulNotes/GoodbyePorkPie'', Gerry, John and Shirl escape the Wellington railway yards by driving the Mini into a boxcar being shunted towards the Interislander ferry.

* In ''GoodbyePorkPie'', Gerry, John and Shirl escape the Wellington railway yards by driving the Mini into a boxcar being shunted towards the Interislander ferry.

* ''KnightRider'' is the TropeCodifier.
** Played with by Team Knight Rider and Knight Rider version 2 (2008), where it's a C-130 cargo plane instead.
* ''{{Mythbusters}}'' did it once, to see if it was really doable or just Hollywood magic. (It is really doable.)

* In ''SmokeyAndTheBandit II'', a speeder calls for help to a trucker hauling a empty car carrier when being pursued by a state cop. The trucker agrees. With some fancy driving the speeder loses the cop by driving aboard the car carrier... or so he thinks. The speeder unexpectedly gets a tap on his window, and the cop is there asking him for his license and registration. (Its implied that the cop has driven aboard the car carrier also.) The speeder gets out of the ticket because the truck hasn't stopped, and they all cross a state line, so the cop is now out of his jurisdiction.

* The Argo Jeep and a cargo shuttlecraft play this role in ''StarTrekNemesis''. Picard even drives the Argo ''over a ledge'' in order to park it in the shuttle.

* ''NeverSayNeverAgain''. While James Bond is riding a motorcycle the enemy {{Mooks}} force him to ride up a ramp into a truck so he can be captured. However, as the ramp is rising up to trap him he guns it and jumps the motorcycle over the ramp and out of the truck.
** In n ''TheLivingDaylights'', a jeep evades pursuers by driving onto the extended rear hatch of a taxiing C-130.

* ''{{Mythbusters}}'' did it once, to see if it was really doable or just Hollywood magic.

* One of the stunt challenges on FearFactor required the participants to drive a car up the ramp of a moving truck as the last part of the challenge. Inside the truck was a ramp that would flip the car and send it flying out the side of the truck for a spectacular movie-style ending.

* ''Sort of'' done in ''TheBluesBrothers'': A police squad car jumps off the side of a freeway, smashing into the side of a passing truck. (They're [[EpicFail doing it wrong]]!)

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Knight_Rider_7491.jpg]]The spy car needs to evade his pursuers, and/or make a pit stop while on the run. What to do?

** Implied to have happened in ''CannonballRun'' (which is to say, we don't actually '''see''' it happening). JJ and Victor's car (dressed up like an ambulance) is stopped in line at a roadblock which is set up specifically to catch and arrest Cannonballers. While waiting in line JJ spots a semi with an empty flatbed. Cut to a shot of the semi & flatbed with some [[ObviousObjectCouldBeAnything large, ambulance-shaped object]] under a tarp. They sneak by the roadblock under there.