Dispatch Me Home
A Summary
Logline: “When Sam “The Man” Morris, a gentleman truck driver with forty years behind the wheel, decides it’s time to leave the good dispatches for younger drivers, he steers his truck homeward a final time on a wonderful odyssey across America that recalls a bygone era from the perspective of the last of a dying breed.”
Dispatch Me Home is a narrative of the North American truck driver embodied in the figure of Sam “The Man” Morris, an independent truck driver making his way across the US one last time. His truck, Chloe, is his closest companion. Sam has decided to hang up his keys and put Chloe up on blocks at his sister’s place in Washington State because it’s time, he figures, “to leave the good dispatches for younger drivers.” Sam is from the old school and believes strongly in hard work and fair play. He wouldn’t hesitate to assist a broken down motorist or help change a flat tire - courtesies that have been lost in the modern world of just-in-time freight and computer-controlled dispatches. In short, Sam is a man who embodies all the best qualities of the trucking profession. He is someone we can all relate to, someone who’s made a decision in life and done it his way, setting the bar for other truck drivers whether he knows it or not. On his final journey homeward, Sam encounters old friends and drivers, reminisces with them, and even gives advice to a young driver still wet behind the ears. Dispatch Me Home will transport the audience on a wonderful journey across the United States with a great American trucker, Sam “The Man,” as he recalls a better time in America when friendships meant everything and a firm handshake closed the deal.