The Triple T Truck Stop was still in business in 2018 in Tucson in Arizona, USA it being about forty years after the making of this movie.
Official publicity for the film stated that the picture was shot entirely on location in and around Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
The picture's unit publicist Prudence Emery described the movie as being like a modern day western but with trucks instead of horses. She added that it was a ''contemporary action-drama in the genre of 'F.I.S.T.' [1978] and 'Convoy' [1978]''.
The truck stop at the beginning of the movie was actually named The Fifth Wheel. It use to be a chain of truck stops in Canada.