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{{quote|''We got music in our solar system!''
''We're space truckin' through the stars!''
|Deep Purple, "Space Truckin'"}}
When [[Recycled in Space|space westerns decide to get literal with the genre name]], these guys tend to show up.
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* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' - The episode "[[Cowboy Bebop/Recap/Session 7 Heavy Metal Queen]]" focuses on hunting a wanted space trucker named Decker. Another features a group of small time [[Space Pirates]] who make a living by robbing other space truckers.
* ''[[Zone of the Enders]]'': ''Deloris, i'' - Main character James Linx runs a cargo ship around the Sol system. He copes with the boredom of weeks long journies with beer and reading.
== [[Film]] ==▼
* ''[[Spaceballs]]'' (a parody of Star Wars) naturally has Lone Star (a parody of Han Solo) driving a Winnebago through space.▼
* ''[[Space Truckers]]''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|You don't say]]. Right down to the spaceship looking like a Mack truck.▼
* The crew in ''[[Alien]]''. ▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* While less of a trucker and more of a taxi driver, [[DC Comics]] has [[Space Cabbie]], who has been shown transporting and imparting wisdom to everyone from [[Adam Strange]] to Ultra, the Multi-Alien.
* The mostly-forgotten (for good reason) Marvel hero Razorback had the mutant power to drive any vehicle seemingly by instinct. He happily moves up from semis to FTL spacecraft.
* The 2010 ''[[Infinity Gauntlet]]'' mini-series includes the character U.S. Ace, whose [[Space X|Space
▲== [[Film]] ==
▲* ''[[Spaceballs]]'' (a parody of Star Wars) naturally has Lone Star (a parody of Han Solo) driving a Winnebago through space.
▲* ''[[Space Truckers]]''. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|You don't say]]. Right down to the spaceship looking like a Mack truck.
▲* The crew in ''[[Alien]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
<!-- * One of the iterations of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had a sidekick who was basically this.
** Don't suppose you remember which one? It's not ringing a bell here. -->
* The Eureka Maru in ''[[Andromeda]]''.
* The ''[[Star Trek: The
* The ''[[Lexx]]'' episode "Love Grows".
* ''[[Firefly]]'': The crew of ''Serenity'' have this as a major part of their job. Of course, they also do burglaries and mercenary work.
== Music ==▼
* "Asteroid Named Rest Stop", a
* Obviously, "Space Truckin'" by [[Deep Purple]].▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The aptly named board game ''[[Galaxy Trucker]]''.
* Free Traders in ''[[Traveller]]'', though there the preferred analogy is of "tramp" (non-scheduled) [[Space Is an Ocean|ocean freighters]] than of truckers. In some ways Traveller is a subversion. Even a free trader costs enough for any one who owns it to be accounted as rich even if not as rich as an interstellar grandee.
== Webcomics ==
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* The Planet Jackers from ''[[Invader Zim]]'' are quite reminiscent of long haul truckers.
* One episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' has a space trucker convoy. Their role in the story was basically just to throw cat calls at Leela.
▲== Music ==
▲* "Asteroid Named Rest Stop", a song by Julia Ecklar and Leslie Fish. The lyrics can be found [http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/asteroid-rest-stop.html here]
▲* Obviously, "Space Truckin'" by [[Deep Purple]].
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