History Main / SpaceTrucker

* On the 3DO game ''Loadstar: The Legend Of Tully Bodine'', you play the titular space trucker as he runs through the maglev trenches of the Moon ferrying an illegal cargo that must be taken to Mars. The game itself is a RailShooter with FullMotionVideo.

* ''LightNovel/DirtyPair'': The last episode of the classic OVA series, "No Need to Listen to the Bad Guys, We are Space Truckers!", has the Lovely Angels go undercover as rookie space truckers to investigate the attacks being made on independent truckers by agents of a MegaCorp.

* Neelix was this in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' before joining up with the Voyager. He was initially portrayed as a much savvier spacer before going through {{Flanderization}} to become PluckyComicRelief.
* The ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "The Outrageous Okona" had the Loveable Rogue variation in Okona. He is also an {{Expy}} for Han Solo, so this is to be expected.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story ''Warriors' Gate'' features a UsedFuture space freighter with a blue-collar crew who are more interested in getting their bonuses than doing their job. [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Said job being slavers.]]

* Free Traders in ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'', though there the preferred analogy is of "tramp" (non-scheduled) [[SpaceIsAnOcean ocean freighters]] than of truckers; even a free trader costs enough for any one who owns one free and clear to be counted as pretty wealthy.[[note]]Most [=PCs=] start out with a multi-megacredit 40-year mortgage on their ship that they need to make payments on.[[\note]]

* Free Traders in ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'', though there the preferred analogy is of "tramp" (non-scheduled) [[SpaceIsAnOcean ocean freighters]] than of truckers; even a free trader costs enough for any one who owns one free and clear to be counted as pretty wealthy.[[note]]Most [=PCs=] start out with a multi-megacredit 40-year mortgage on their ship that they need to make payments on.

->''"We got music in our solar system!''
->''We're space truckin' through the stars!"''
-->-- '''Music/DeepPurple''', [[Music/MachineHeadAlbum "Space Truckin"]]

Often a subtrope of IntrepidMerchant and HardTruckin.

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* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': The episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKwN1YIafo "Heavy Metal Queen"]] focuses on hunting a wanted space trucker named Decker. Another episode features a group of small time SpacePirates who make a living by robbing other space truckers.

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* ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck's'' ShowWithinAShow (movie within a comic?) "Rebel Cry" was based around a space trucker with a bone to pick with the [[TheEmpire Evil Empire]].

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* ''Anime/SpaceDandy'': In one AlternateUniverse, Dandy is a DarkSkinnedBlond WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo {{Expy}} and the ''Aloha Oe'' is his truck. QT and Meow are there too, the former being a green CyberCyclops and the latter being a {{fanservice}}-laden CatGirl with LarynxDissonance.

In movie and TV show history, the introduction of blue collar workers to mainstream science fiction in the 1970s with ''{{Film/Dark Star}}'' and ''{{Film/Alien}}'' was a big change, as up until then characters tended to be highly educated astronauts, engineers, and physicists. Finally, audience members who work with their hands could see themselves reflected in sci fi.

In movie and TV show history, the introduction of blue collar workers to mainstream science fiction in the 1970s with ''{{Film/DarkStar}}'' and ''{{Film/Alien}}'' was a big change, as up until then characters tended to be highly educated astronauts, engineers, and physicists.

In movie and TV show history, the introduction of blue collar workers to mainstream science fiction in the 1970s with '''Film/DarkStar'' and ''Film/Alien'' was a big change, as up until then characters tended to be highly educated astronauts, engineers, and physicists.

In movie and TV show history, the introduction of blue collar workers to maonstream science fiction in the 1970s with '''Film/DarkStar'' and ''Film/Alien'' was a big change, as up until then characters tended to be highly educated astronauts, engineers, and physicists.

Their ships are most likely UsedFuture pieces of rusted, salvaged junk, just barely held together -- bonus points if they're blocky, and bear a surprising resemblance to modern Mack trucks or other 18-wheelers.

They are usually depicted as, well, [[DeepSouth southern-fried]], blue collar semi truckers that ''happen'' to fly cargo spaceships instead. Usually easygoing, unflappable, and have a backwoods wisdom developed during the time spent alone on long hauls between solar systems. Occasionally they're [[VenturousSmuggler smugglers]] with contraband BlackMarket goods, but usually aren't [[DrugsAreBad drug mules]]. If they have cargo that FellOffTheBackOfATruck, they may have to elude space police and spaceport CityGuards.

They are usually depicted as, well, southern-fried, blue collar semi truckers that ''happen'' to fly cargo spaceships instead. Usually easygoing, unflappable, and have a backwoods wisdom developed during the time spent alone on long hauls between solar systems. Occasionally they're [[VenturousSmuggler smugglers]] with contraband BlackMarket goods, but usually aren't [[DrugsAreBad drug mules]]. If they have cargo that FellOffTheBackOfATruck, they may have to elude space police and spaceport CityGuards.

Overlaps occasionally with the BoisterousBruiser, GentleGiant, WarriorPoet or other ersatz cowboy-style archetypes.

They are usually depicted as, well, southern-fried, blue collar semi truckers that ''happen'' to fly cargo spaceships instead. Usually easygoing, unflappable, and have a backwoods wisdom developed during the time spent alone on long hauls between solar systems. Occasionally they're [[VenturousSmuggler smugglers]] with contraband BlackMarket goods, but usually aren't [[DrugsAreBad drug mules]]. If they have cargo that FellOffTheBackOfATruck, they may have to elude space police and CityGuards.

From time to time, between hauls they'll stop at a local tavern and challenge various folks to a little arm-wrestling, drinking contests and then [[BaraBrawl drunken brawls]] in WretchedHive spaceports. Tend to talk in a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Southern or slight Texan drawl]].

They are usually depicted as, well, southern-fried semi truckers that happen to fly cargo spaceships instead. Usually easygoing, unflappable, and have a backwoods wisdom developed during the time spent alone on long hauls between solar systems. Occasionally they're smugglers, but usually aren't drug mules. From time to time, between hauls they'll stop at a local tavern and challenge various folks to a little arm-wrestling, drinking contests and then drunken brawls. Tend to talk in a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents Southern or slight Texan drawl]].

Their ships are most likely UsedFuture pieces of junk, just barely held together -- bonus points if they're blocky, and bear a surprising resemblance to modern Mack trucks or other 18-wheelers.

* The roleplaying game ''Bulldogs!'' has the player characters as delivery messengers in the vein of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''--with the "expendable employees" BlackComedy turned UpToEleven.

* The 2010 ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'' mini-series includes the character U.S. Ace, whose [[SpaceX Space]] 18-Wheeler (it looks like a semi-truck with rocket boosters) is the fastest ship in the galaxy, and therefore the chosen ship for Comicbook/TheAvengers to use to get to the center of the universe. (U.S. Ace is a non-trademarked version of U.S. 1, a character Marvel created in the '80s for a licensed comic to promote a toy truck line. In the '80s comics his truck was "merely" tricked out a la Franchise/JamesBond.)

* ''VideoGame/Iconoclasts'' might have the most triumphant variant of this in video game history; a birdlike space trucker is [[spoiler: the FinalBoss. AND a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere, too! His full name is Lucas Birbasaurus Rex, [[WordOfGod apparently]], and he's driving the Starworm that the people worship as a god. He's played as a kind of MirrorMatch of [[TheHero Robin]], using a [[WrenchWhack wrench]] just like she does.]]

* The ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'' adventure path "Fly Free or Die" starts with the player characters operating a light freighter for [[MegaCorp EJCorp]], before going independent in a rather [[GrandTheftPrototype dramatic]] fashion.

* You can buy freighters and capital ships in''VideoGame/NoMansSky'' and make money from trade routes between different systems, buying low in systems that produce X and selling high in systems that consume X.

Often a subtrope of IntrepidMerchant.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{321Penguins}}'' has a song about a race between two space truckers.