Actors, athletes, and mass murderers – it takes all kinds to drive trucks. With brief details of their involvement in the trade and subsequent celebrity, here’s a countdown of the top 10 stars who worked as truck drivers before becoming famous, with varying degrees of success.

# 10 Chris Tarrant:

This radio and television host, best known for hosting the television game show ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’, Did several jobs before finding his place on television. Tarrant’s previous roles include long-distance truck driver, safety officer, and school teacher.

# 9 Chris Eubank:

Chris Eubank stands out as the only member of our list who has started driving trucks. after He became famous. In October 2003, a politically motivated Eubank descended on Whitehall in his personal heavy vehicle to protest the war in Iraq. The former world middleweight boxer champion ended up being arrested for blocking the front doors to Downing Street, driving through Parliament Square honking his horn, knife in his pocket, and getting into a delivery van.

# 8 Rock Hudson:

Hudson was a popular American television and film actor and romantic leading man in the 1950s and 1960s. During World War II, Hudson served as a Navy aircraft mechanic and after the war as a truck driver. His size and good looks led him to the movies.

# 7 Chevy Chase:

Our Number Seven is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and film and television actor. Before his breakthrough as a comedian, Chase worked as a trucker, taxi driver, motorcycle courier, waiter, busboy, construction worker, audio engineer, production manager at a supermarket, salesman at a wine store, and usher at theater.

# 6 Clara long distance:

The only woman on our list and, unfortunately, Clara, a fictional monster driver, was the star of the ’80s children’s cartoon’ Pigeon Street ‘. Some see Larga Distancia Clara as an anonymous feminist icon: her marriage to chef Hugo demonstrated a refreshing shift from gender stereotypes.

# 5 Charles Bronson:

Charles Bronson was an American ‘tough guy’ role actor who made his name starring in several major Hollywood movies, including ‘The Great Escape’ and ‘The Dirty Dozen’. Before becoming famous, Bronson was drafted into the military and assigned to the Air Corps in 1943. He started out as a truck driver and then trained as a pilot, winning awards for good service.

# 4 Richard Pryor:

Pryor was the first African-American comedian to speak frankly to mixed audiences using the language and jokes of the black community. She worked numerous jobs before achieving fame, including truck driving and meat packing.

# 3 Liam Neeson:

Liam Neeson is a movie star best known for his role as Oskar Schindler in the 1993 blockbuster “Schindler’s List.” Irish-born Neeson once worked as a truck driver and forklift operator for Guinness, assistant architect and amateur boxer.

# 2 Sean Connery:

This retired Scottish actor is best known for playing James Bond in seven Bond films. Heartthrob Connery joined the Royal Navy after leaving school, but was discharged for medical reasons. He went on to a succession of jobs, including truck driver, laborer, and lifeguard.

# 1 Elvis Presley:

The American singer, musician, actor, and cultural icon took up truck driving as one of his jobs after graduation. The future ‘King’ was driving a truck for the aptly named ‘Crown Electric Company’. Presley even started wearing her longer hair in a ‘ducktail’ – the truck driver’s style at the time. One musician a young Elvis Presley auditioned for advised him to “just drive a truck, because you’ll never make it as a singer.”

The Mass Killer – Peter Sutcliffe:

Possibly the most evil and unhinged presence in truck driving history, the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ is too nasty to make our top 10. Between 1975 and 1984, this truck driver and former gravedigger killed 13 women in a five-year period. year of reign of terror before being sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison. In his arrest, Sutcliffe claimed that God had told him to go out and kill prostitutes. A sad stain on the good name of truck driving.

Celebrities Who Were Truckers Before They Were Famous – A heady mix of talent, eccentric, obnoxious, and downright brilliant. Who knows what magical creatures sit behind the wheels of our country’s trucks today?