Deadhead Miles is a 1973 American road comedy film directed by Vernon Zimmerman from a script by Terrence Malick,[2] and starring Alan Arkin and Paul Benedict.

Cooper abandons Durazno at a gas station and sets out as an independent driver of the yellow Peterbilt.

He picks up a hitchhiker (Paul Benedict) but refuses to also give a ride to the man's accompanying woman and dog.

They are pulled over by a policeman and Cooper lies that he recently returned from the war to get the officer to let him go quickly without checking the contents of the truck.

He fixes the piston seals and tells the hitchhiker to take 10 pounds of pressure out of the tires so that they do not jackknife, then he leaves.

They have to pass a weighbridge where Cooper convinces the police that a drunk hunter is shooting people on the hill.

Based on a significant amount of the filming taking place in Tennessee, the movie received a sneak preview in Nashville on January 28, 1972.

[5] In the summer of 1976, during a period where CB radios and truck driver culture was in fashion, Paramount attempted a rerelease with a new ad campaign.