Ugly Trucking Rental Truck (Larger Than Life)

The Ugly Trucking Rental Truck is a yellow transport truck from the 1996 Bill Murray film, Larger Than Life. It was driven by Jack Corcoran (Murray) and used for transporting Vera the elephant to California. 
== Description ==
The Ugly Trucking Rental Truck is a yellow International 9670 cabover rig
with silver front tires, white dually wheels, an exhaust stake with a flapper, one horn, and includes an animal transport trailer. The truck was designed
to be a rental and be used for a truck driver transporting big animals.
The trailer itself is big enough for any animal such as horses and elephants.
It has the logo, "Ugly (affordable) Trucking on its cab and trailer. The inside is
a bit dirty probably from years of not getting cleaned.
== Appearance ==
The Truck first appears in the Ugly Trucking yard where Jack Corcoran and Vera the elephant are making their way to California to Mo the zookeeper or Terry the circus director. Jack explains to the yard master he needs a truck to travel to California. With no license, the yardmaster wouldn't allow Jack to rent a truck. Jack, now infuriated yells with plead and takes a big collection of candy for Vera to eat. The three head outside to look for a nice rental truck. None of the trucks appease Jack until he spots a yellow International 9670 cabover truck with an animal transport trailer. The yardmaster said the rig's got a loose seat. Jack doesn't mind the lose seat and takes the truck. After getting in the rig, Jack tries to figure out how to start it up due to the fact that he has no experience operating a big rig. He eventually starts the truck up and presses the trailer air supply button instead of the parking brake. The shifter was hard for Jack to operate because it was a manual shifter and not automatic. After tackling with it, Jack sounds the horn and leaves the truck yard. The yardmaster shakes his head as the truck pulls away. Entering the road, Jack's distraction on the shifter shifts the truck and it smashes into interstate highway sign. 
On the highway, Jack calmly enjoys driving the truck but then runs into trouble going up hill. The truck slows as Jack tackles the shifter to put it in first gear. A chevy pickup passes by and yells at Jack to put it in drive. A white Freightliner FLA 104 tanker truck comes up along side the yellow rig and the driver tells Jack to put it in the granny hole which is the first gear. Jack thanks the driver and putting it in first gear, the rental truck revs faster and the driver of the tanker finds Jack almost invisible. The driver tells Jack there's a seat adjuster under the seat but don't touch the magic button. Jack thanks the driver again but asks him what's the magic button. The Freightliner tanker already left and Jack feels underneath the seat. 
As Jack looks up, the Rental Truck begins speeding up as it goes downhill. Jack is pushed onto the steering wheel as the truck revs its mighty diesel engine as it speeds up. Jack hangs on for dear life as Vera enjoys the candy. As the Rental Truck speeds downhill fast, Jack tries to find the seat adjuster and feels a black button. Jack pushes it and the cab of the truck begins to lift up. Jack gets surprised as the cab slowly lifts up revealing its diesel engine. Candy starts falling and Jack freaks out even more. As the cab stops lifting up, Jack starts babbling in a childish like manner as the truck continues to drive with its cab in the air. Jack felt sorry for everything he done and blows the horn for help. With no one hearing his honk for help, Jack continues his childish babbling as he speeds by two sedans and continues downhill with the truck still in its cabover position. Having enough, Jack pushes the shifter to park and the transport trailer's wheels break as the truck slows. Jack yells out, "Nice Rental!" and the yellow rental truck comes to complete stop. After stopping, Jack eats one of the fallen candy and made him feel better after the ordeal. At the trucks top, the Rental Truck was okay on the outside but its transmission was busted. The tow truck driver told Jack the Rental Truck is staying for a couple of weeks until its fixed and both Jack and Vera search for a new rig that will go to California.
== Trivia ==
- The rental truck scene was probably the most funniest Bill Murray had been portrayed in.
- The rental truck's transmission was busted from Jack's aggressive tackle on the shifter.
- Its possible that the reason for the white rims on the truck is that it was a secondary vehicle being used for the stunt during filming.
- Driving a cabover truck with it's cab in the air would be considered dangerous in reality. With the cab facing down on the road, the driver can't see anything else which could lead to an accident.
== Gallery ==
International 9670 on indiana pike 8-83.jpg|Yellow International Rig almost similar to the one in the movie truck but with another axle.
I529295.jpg|Startup sequence.
Zyellowtruck1.jpg|Jack drives the Rental Truck out of the truck yard.
File:Zyellowtruck2.jpg|Rental Truck with white front rims
Zyellowtruck3.jpg|The Rental Truck's crazy cabover as Jack begins his childish babbling.
File:Ugly Trucking International Harvester CO-9670.png
Category:Tragic
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Category:Live Action Heroes