While driving through the Arizona desert| Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald - who goes by the handle "Rubber Duck" - along with his fellow
truckers "Pig Pen" and "Spider Mike"| are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle "Cottonmouth" Wallace using a key tool of the trucker's trade| the citizens' band
(CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long| antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens
Spider Mike| a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife| Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved| including Spider Mike| Pig Pen and "Widow Woman"| go
on the run| figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa| a beautiful photographer who just wanted a
ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves| other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law
enforcement officers ...