Nice Spanish series about the tribulatitons and trials of being a long haul over the roads independient trucker . The core character was convincingly and well performed by the eminently sympathetic Sancho Gracia, pre-Curro Jiménez. The sets of this Los Camioneros or Truckers were effectively the open roads and all the interesting people and locations connected by it . Adding a sensitive musical score with a catching leit motif.
I believe this show was efficiently produced by TVE and finely directed by Mario Camus that attempted to be very real to the trucker world it tried to depict. I did rather like the series as it did show a slice of life of these workers , the truckers who have really hard-ship jobs. The plot lines were exactly as you expected and the series contain few plot surprises . As the scripts result to be slight , simple , including brief incidents and light intrigues . Stars Sancho Gracia , he was a strong and solid actor with a long career , he was always well, and it was nice to see him get his own show , and thanks to this Los Camioneros , he was subsequently hired to play the successful Curro Jiménez, considered to be the most popular series of the Spanish Television. There is another American made at the same time and in similar style titled "Movin' On" 1974-1976 starred by the truckers Claude Akins and Frank Converse .
The series formed by 13 episodes being starred Sancho García, appearing eventually characters as his mother Maria Luisa Ponte , and his girlfriend Eva León. The episodes dealing with various incidents as our starring meets an old man: William Layton and his granddaughter: Imma De Santy at a snowy lonely place , a pair of dangerous delinquents who kidnap him , a case in Lisbon of diamond smuggling in his truck accompanied by co-driver Álvaro de Luna : future Algarrobo , the fall and rise of a boxer who celebrates his last combat in Bilbao, another episode in which his fiancee goes after him to attempt to marry , an enjoyable episode set in Almeria at time Spaghetti Western in which Sancho Gracia plays a stand-in a famous actor, among others . Well written by screenwriter Pedro Gil Paradela, the series was well directed by the prestigious Mario Camus (Sombras de una batalla , Los farsantes, los dias del pasado, La Colmena, Los pajaros de Baden Baden, Los desastres de la guerra, La Rusa, and many others).
