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A truck is driving cross country to Los Angeles. While one of the drivers rests in the back, the other drives. However, a nut who is in a hurry passes them and soon causes a very serious accident. The two truckers help, but instead of thanking them, the Arizona police accuse the driver of causing the accident and they are in a real rush to judgment. So, the other driver sends out a call to all his fellow truckers...telling them to look for a sedan with a broken headlight. Do they have a prayer of catching the terrible driver or is the poor trucker going to take the fall?

The best thing about this one is that the story is unique. The acting and story are also pretty good and it's worth your time...provided you find it on YouTube.

A taut story, very cleverly made and acted, with no necessary criminal element. You stay tuned to this story, already explained above, because anyone in the audience can feel empathy for the truck driver, put himself in his shoes. Bill Campbell shines in this though supporting character, a very strange one, he had the perfect face for this part. And a very unusual topic, but that reminded me a little a French film : UN TEMOIN DANS LA VILLE. A film about cab drivers getting for helping one of their colleagues; here it is question of truck drivers instead of cab ones. Campbell's character was only used as a distraction.

If ever there was a sleeper, this Goodyear Theater segment is marvelous. It's a completely offbeat story, full of subtle twists and for me, completely unpredictable. Watching it 64 years after broadcast with no fanfare at all was a real treat!

William Campbell stars but doesn't enter the show until the halfway mark. The set-up is carefully executed, with frequent time updates as we watch a pair of truckers making a long-distance run.

The driver of the two, familiar B-movie face Frank Gerstle, is grabbed the police after an accident caused by a mystery driver of a car with one headlight out. That car caused another car and the truck to swerve off the road, the car crashing and its driver, a woman seriously injured. The relief driver was in back and didn't see what happened and the cops don't believe Gerstle's story.

What follows is the relief driver trying his best, phoning other truckers to be on the lookout for the missing car that caused the problem, and replacement driver Campbell unsympathetic to the situation, just wanting to complete the run. Without spectacular action or gimmicks, the resolution of the story is utterly satisfying.

Kudos to Canadian writer Fred Edge, who has written about truckers but has very few credits on his resume.