Unironically this, but the first Smokey and the Bandit, ignore the sequels!
Burt Reynolds also made
White Lightning (1973) and
Gator (1976). The prior has a couple of fun car chases, but the latter has a swamp boat chase early on that I'm really fond of. It's also some pretty great acting on Reynolds part, and as a bit of weird trivia Lightning is Laura Dern's first movie; she's like five years old, but her mom is in the movie as a woman with kids, and they figured "Why bother casting more brats?"
Black Dog (1998) is a trucker movie that really missed the boat on that whole craze, but it's got Patrick Swayze and Randy Travis fending off Meatloaf and his goons in a big rig filled with illegal contraband. Meatloaf is kind of a great villain, a fire-and-brimstone preacher type who uses his legitimate shipping company to cover up his arms trafficking. I sort of love this terrible movie, it hits a sweet spot of 90's disposable action for me.
Nearly every Bond movie would fit the bill here, my favorites probably being the car chase in Goldfinger (1964), the motorcycle chase in
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), the boat chase in
The World is Not Enough (1999), and the *tank* chase in
Goldeneye (1997). (The stunt work in Pierce Brosnan's films was amazing!) Oh, and it's off-topic, but the parkour chase in
Casino Royale (2006) is one of the best action scenes in any movie, ever.
Duel (1971) was Spielberg's first movie, made for TV. It's basically "Jaws as a big rig", with a guy on a lonely stretch of road being terrorized the whole movie long by a trucker he cut off and offended in the first few minutes. This one's real straight-forward, and a really good time.
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