Lunar is a small Nevada town kept alive by its military base (near Area 51), and urban folklore featuring aliens.

Distraught, Hope calls local Ray, having found Phil's corpse lying nearby, lacerated.

A report reveals that a large black cloud is a leak from a chemical factory accident near the military base.

In a toy store, an RC Tonka dump truck breaks a window and eventually kills a postal worker.

As the group is split up between the cabins and the diner, Ray's teenage son Logan and Abby are trapped with tourists Brad and June.

Ray gets Logan and Abby out of the drainpipe, but cannot rescue the redneck, who is chased by the trucks and is forced to flee into the nearest building, where he proceeds to get drunk on beer left there.

The trucks knock out the diner's water supply and electric generator; they spared Ray believing that, as the gas station owner, he is the only human who can refuel them.

TV Guide rated Trucks 2/4 stars and wrote, "The film is all premise and no plot, a problem made worse by the clumsy addition of extraneous gory sequences.

"[4] Rob Dean of Daily Grindhouse commended the film's various actors, but gave an unfavourable review overall, stating, "Trucks doesn’t realize that it is a movie couched in real fears but would be better explored through a lot of vehicular action and exaggerated gruesomeness and insanity.

The constant attempt to ground the story in a “logical” explanation - mostly delivered by a TV set that shouldn’t work but does, and only gets the exposition channel - undercuts the fact that this could just be a goofy thing with some menace that people would overanalyze on the Internet 20 years later."