[1] The Truckies was about the pressures of life on the road for transport driver Chris and his wife Carol.
[2] It was executive produced by Oscar Whitbread and was made by several of the team behind the TV show Power Without Glory.
"[6] John Wood later recalled: "I thought it was a tremendously innovative show, but it came aground on the reef of ABC internal politics.
Obviously there were things wrong with it, and I guess by going for truthfulness they stuffed up in a sense, because one of the problems in driving along in a truck and doing different angles and two shots and reverses is that it's totally impossible to match the engine revs at any time.
Unfortunately it caused a lot of havoc, because the guy who took over as head of drama in Sydney had been an ex-sound recordist, and he regarded it as beneath his 'golden standard', so he was very willing to sabotage it.