Hello! Thanks for visiting the "BIG RIG" website.

Is it just coincidence that our film is coming out right when fuel prices have gone through the roof and into the stratosphere? It wasn't planned that way, but it's incredible to hear the drivers in "BIG RIG" (who were interviewed more than a year ago) going ballistic over $2.50 a gallon and wondering how they were going to make ends meet. Today it's pushing $5, and sadly, many of them aren't making ends meet at all, including a few of the folks seen in "BIG RIG" who've had to park their trucks or look for more economically viable work. Our movie wasn't made with the specific intention of fighting high fuel prices, but we do hope it has an impact by humanizing those most affected: the independent truck drivers of America.

If you'd like to see "BIG RIG" there's five different ways:

You can order a DVD, by clicking here.

You can purchase a DVD at any of the following stores and truckstops throughout the country: Walmart, Best Buy, Meijer, Petro Truck Stops, TA Travel Centers, Barnes & Noble, Borders Books and Music, Hastings Books and Music, and Virgin, among others. Or online at Amazon.com.

You can watch it as "On Demand" video in certain areas (check your local cable listings), and truck drivers can watch "BIG RIG" on IDLEAIRE at participating truckstops.

You can order the film from Netflix, Hollywood Video, or Blockbuster Online.

And if you're practically anywhere in the U.S. this summer, you may be near a free screening of the film as the 2008 SUMMER BIG RIG TRUCKSTOP TOUR travels to some 20 different towns. The tour is sponsored by Sirius Satellite Radio (home of "Road Dog Trucking Radio" and the amazing Meredith Ochs and Chris T. who host "Freewheelin'"), and also IdleAire Technologies. Click here for screening locations.

WHERE WE’VE BEEN: “BIG RIG” enjoyed its world premiere last year at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. The event was attended by most of the drivers in the film (shown in the photos above). It has also played at the Seattle Intl. Film Festival, and a bunch of packed screenings at the Silverdocs Film Festival near DC, where it won the AFM Market Award. We also had great screenings at AFI FEST, Los Angeles, where Buck 65 played on the rooftop of the ArcLight Cinema, and we won another award at the Gasparilla Film Festival in Tampa as a part of AFI Project 20/20.

In April, “BIG RIG” played to a packed house at MATS (The Mid-American Truck Show) in Louisville, Kentucky, thanks to Sirius Satellite Radio, IdleAire and Screen Media Films who sponsored the special screening. Director Doug Pray and Producer Brad Blondheim were there, along with truck drivers Jessie Blaine, and Loretta and Jim Anderson. Meredith Ochs and Chris T. also featured Doug and Brad on their live satellite broadcasts of “Freewheelin’” from the North Hall of the truck show.

Thanks for dropping by… If we could pour you a cup of hot coffee over the internet, or even a gallon of fresh diesel, we would.

(Pictured above: SXSW world premiere audience, driver Jessie Blaine, and, speaking to the crowd, Uncle Pete, of Uncle Pete's Truckstop in Lebanon, Tennessee, and to his right, Bear, Doris Lee, Billy Baareman, and Claude Eric Walker, Sr.)