Gurty’s an ace mechanic and Iraq War vet with a specific brand of PTSD — he’s timid and can’t communicate, although later he isn’t perturbed after any number of near-death scrapes.
Sometimes, though, the know-how bits are filmed so it’s hard to see what they’re doing — I was curious how truckers right rigs after they’ve tipped over; these pros shrug it off, but we don’t get a good look at how they fix the problem.
Without spoiling anything, the movie only briefly goes down the “Wages of Fear”/”Sorcerer” road of a terrifyingly hazardous haul; it instead takes another action path.
The film nods at a few real-world sociopolitical notions: corporate greed, First Nations protests, negative assumptions likely influenced by race — but nothing stops those big wheels from rolling for long.