The vehicle repossessing agent (Harry Dean Stanton) is often seen using his car phone while driving along highways, secondary routes, and dirt roads in relatively lightly-populated areas of the country in an era (the late 1970s) when there existed only limited VHF mobile radiotelephone service that required a mobile operator's assistance to make the connection--a service which then served more highly populated areas. Therefore, Harry Dean certainly could not have relied on his car phone everywhere he went despite what the movie viewer was lead to believe.
Cell phone service in the United States only began in the mid-1980s and even then it would take decades for it to become widely available to the public nor did the technology have (nor does it still) offer totally reliable coverage throughout the entire continental U.S. Harry Dean's CB radio would have had to suffice as best it could.
Cell phone service in the United States only began in the mid-1980s and even then it would take decades for it to become widely available to the public nor did the technology have (nor does it still) offer totally reliable coverage throughout the entire continental U.S. Harry Dean's CB radio would have had to suffice as best it could.
Since when does a vehicle repossessing agent have the legal authority to use lethal force; in this case carrying a high-powered rifle in his car and, incredibly, firing it at the truck (!) as well as taking it upon himself to engage a third-party who utilized heavy excavating equipment to dangerously block the road on which two women are riding in the tractor-trailer that the repossessing agent is attempting to stop by any means necessary. It is highly doubtful that even a bounty hunter would have acted so recklessly, never mind that the two women were not even wanted for a serious crime.
The actual owner-operator of the Mack truck and trailer was in the hospital and clearly he was the person to whom the repossessing agent should have been approaching in the first place and not chasing down and harassing the owner-operator's wife.
Furthermore, why didn't the repossessing agent simply inform the highway patrol to assist in tracking down the truck? They could have broadcast an APB and set up roadblocks for that purpose.
The actual owner-operator of the Mack truck and trailer was in the hospital and clearly he was the person to whom the repossessing agent should have been approaching in the first place and not chasing down and harassing the owner-operator's wife.
Furthermore, why didn't the repossessing agent simply inform the highway patrol to assist in tracking down the truck? They could have broadcast an APB and set up roadblocks for that purpose.