CCJ Photo Gallery: A Long, Strange Trip: Trucking in 1978

Jack Roberts (CCJ)

Sep 25, 2014

Trucking was never a greater cultural force than in the 1970s. And 1978 was arguably the pinnacle of that movement. Here are 40 classic images from that Golden Age, cribbed courtesy of CCJ’s sister publication, Overdrive.

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