18 Wheels of Justice

An encounter at a truck stop embroils Chance Bowman in a young widow's problems and an altercation with the local police, much to the chagrin of his Department of Justice supervisor Burton Hardesty, who wants Chance and his huge, hi-tech Kenworth T2000 to remain undetected by an imprisoned drug lord.

A minor accident at a stock car racetrack delays Chance Bowman from moving on and introduces him to a talented mechanic with a tainted past.

After a near-miss encounter with Calder's top hit man, Chance decides that rather than keep running, he must stand and fight. To see just what Chance is up against, his associate Cie Baxter joins him in the field for what becomes a showdown, ""High Noon"" style, in the Ohio sun.

Now in the Pacific Northwest, Chance tries to play Good Samaritan to a con man who claims his wife has been kidnapped. But along with a lovely but inexperienced insurance investigator, he finds himself delivering the wife to the real kidnappers, and realizes that no one is who he or she really seems to be.

Chance becomes the reluctant guardian of a 12-year-old tomboy whose parents are using her as a pawn in a bitter divorce contest. At the same time, Chance rediscovers an old friend, a former Academy instructor, whose retirement has left him lonely and bitter.

A ruthless couple hijack Chance's truckload of high-definition televisions and leave him to die in the desert, where in his delirium he has visions of his life before his wife was killed in an explosion meant for him.

The evil Jacob Calder manages to get himself released from prison and takes personal supervision of the hunt for the man who put him there, Chance Bowman. So Burton Hardesty, Chance's Justice Department supervisor, reinstates Chance as a federal marshal.

Chance helps a black preacher and his family when their church is burned.

Chance and Cie Baxter head for Las Vegas to rein in Henry Conners, a protected witness who took off on an unsanctioned vacation, but Cie has a personal interest in locating Henry - they were once lovers and have unfinished business. Meanwhile, Calder is alerted to Chance's location and sends a hit woman after him.

Cecil Loftus, the head of a tough crime family, joins forces with Chance in an attempt to bring down Jacob Calder.