In a telephone conversation, one character says, "Go get Joe Dante". Director Joe Dante is an old friend of the film's director, Jonathan Kaplan, and, like Kaplan, is one of the legion of directors given his start by producer Roger Corman.
The name of Dick Miller's character was ''R. 'Birdie' Corman'' which was a tribute to producer Roger Corman who had been a mentor to the movie's director Jonathan Kaplan.
In January 1976, the Columbia Pictures studio distributed this film theatrically on a double bill with Bite the Bullet (1975) starring Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen.
According to an article in the 1st September 1975 edition of 'Newsweek' magazine, the scene where the truck crashes through the corrupt trucking company's logo cost at the time US $130,000 to stage and shoot. This would equate to about US $630,000 in 2018.
Homer Hanna, who is billed as playing a truck salesman, is actually Red Sovine.