called The Semi, operated by the Foundation for Law & Government (F.L.A.G.) as a mobile support facility for KITT. Also, in two episodes KITT faced off against an armored semi called Goliath. The Transformers, a 1980s cartoon featuring tractor-trailers as the Autobots' leader Optimus Prime (Convoy in Japanese version), their second-in-command Ultra Magnus, and as the Stunticons' leader Motormaster. Optimus Prime returned in the 2007 film. Trick My Truck, a CMT show features trucks getting 'tricked out' (heavily customized). Ice Road Truckers, a History Channel show charts the lives of drivers who haul supplies to remote towns and work sites over frozen lakes that double as roads. 18 Wheels of Justice, featuring Federal Agent Michael Cates (Lucky Vanous) as a crown witness for the mafia who goes undercover, when forced into it, to fight crime. Eddie Stobart: Trucks & Trailers, a UK television show showing the trucking company Eddie Stobart and its drivers. Highway Thru Hell, a Canadian reality TV show that follows the operations of Jamie Davis Motor Trucking, a heavy vehicle rescue and recovery towing company based in Hope, British Columbia. Films Duel, Steven Spielberg's 1971 film, features a Peterbilt 281 tanker truck as the villain White Line Fever, a 1975 Columbia Pictures film, starring Jan-Michael Vincent Smokey and the Bandit, a 1977 film featuring a number of trucks on the side of the bandit Convoy, a 1978 film directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Kris Kristofferson Maximum Overdrive, Stephen King's 1986 film, featured big rigs as its primary homicidal villains Over the Top (1987 film), a 1987 film directed by Menahem Golan, starring Sylvester Stallone Black Dog, a 1998 film directed by Kevin Hooks, starring Patrick Swayze Primemover, a 2008 film directed by David Caesar Joy Ride, a 2001 film directed by John Dahl, starring Paul Walker and Steve Zahn Big Rig, a 2008 documentary film directed by Doug Pray Music "Convoy", a pop song by C. W. McCall, spurred sales of CB radios with an imaginary trucking story. The eighteen-wheeled truck was immortalized in numerous country music songs, such as the Red Sovine titles "Giddyup Go", "Teddy Bear" and "Phantom 309", and Dave Dudley's "Six Days on the Road". The thrash metal band, BigRig, was named after these trucks. Country song "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", made popular in 1987 by singer-songwriter Kathy Mattea. "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" by Alabama tells the story of a trucker