History Main / DrivingIntoATruck

* ''Series/KnightRider'' is the TropeCodifier.

* ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' did it once, to see if it was really doable or just Hollywood magic. (It is really doable in either direction.)

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' Tim once chased and caught some thieves whose elaborate getaway included driving their car into the back of a truck during a brief moment while they were out of sight.

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Where the Jungle Ends", a group of mercenaries steal plutonium from a nuclear waste facility, fleeing in a truck that they drive off into the woods. They then drop the tailgate and roll out several motorbikes, riding off cross-country with the plutonium in lead containers on their backs.

* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. In "Where the Jungle Ends", a group of mercenaries steal plutonium from a nuclear waste facility, fleeing in a truck that they drive off into the woods, drop the tailgate and roll out several motorbikes, riding off cross-country with the plutonium in lead containers on their backs.

** One heist preparation mission has you drive around Las Venturas stealing police motorcycles. You then meet up on the freeway with a ramp truck outfitted to store them and drive up to secure them (why a saner or more discreet method wan't used is kind of beside the point).

* At the end of ''Hoffa'' (1992), union boss Jimmy Hoffa is shot in his car, which is driven into the back of a tractor-trailer (in a moment of DramaticIrony, given Hoffa's efforts to improve the working conditions of truck drivers) which then [[NeverFoundTheBody drives off with the evidence]].

Common to spy shows. When the truck is trying to force you to drive into it (or is driving into you), see MegaMawManeuver. Marginally related to PunkInTheTrunk (in the sense of stowing away in another vehicle).

* ''Film/SonOfAGun'': After losing the police, Chris drives the getaway car into the back of the truck he uses to transport his stock car.

* One of the female main characters in ''The Stabilizer'' is captured by the bad guys when they ram her car into a back of a truck with an another truck.

* ''Literally'' done in ''Film/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. The Series/{{Mythbusters}}, once again, have [[TruthInTelevision shown that this is possible]], even demonstrating the trope with a car and a truck. [[labelnote:SCIENCE!]]This is due to the fact that while there is indeed a big difference to the speeding tires from the transition of passing road to static truck, the car's overall inertia is enough to overcome this and decelerates the tires. In this case, only the speed of the overall mass of the car matters, relative to the truck; the wheel speed is irrelevant.[[/labelnote]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In "The Invasion", the Doctor and Jaime are snatched off the street by two men driving an expensive car. Instead of being taken to the BigBad, they're driven to an airport runway and up the access ramp of a Hercules transport aircraft, where the Doctor meets his old ally Lethbridge-Stewart and the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce.

* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. When Samaritan agents finally locate Sameen Shaw, Root rescues her on a motorbike and they drive into the back of a furniture-moving truck to hide from Samaritan's [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou all-pervasive surveillance]]. Later Detective Fusco pulls over the truck on some pretext in an area not monitored by CCTV cameras, and lets them out.

* At the end of ''Hoffa'' (1992), union boss Jimmy Hoffa is shot in his car, which is then driven into the back of a tractor-trailer (in a moment of DramaticIrony, given Hoffa's efforts to improve the working conditions of truck drivers) which then [[NeverFoundTheBody drives off with the evidence]].

* At the end of ''Hoffa'' (1992), Jimmy Hoffa is shot in his car, which is then driven into the back of a truck (in a moment of DramaticIrony, given Hoffa's efforts to improve the working conditions of truck drivers) and the truck then [[NeverFoundTheBody drives off with the evidence]].

** Inverted in an episode where they're up against a gang of truck hijackers. KITT drives out of the truck instead, in a Trojan horse ploy.