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I've been fond of They Drive By Night ever since college where my roommate in the dorms had an LP compilation of classic dialogue bits from Warner Bros. movies of the '30s and '40. It had the truck stop banter between the various truckers and waitress Ann Sheridan. I wanted to see that scene and it took several years and the VHS era before I could manage it. As I've noted before, TDBN is two different types of movies riveted together. The first is a Warner Bros. hardscrabble slice of life. The second is early noir. I keep forgetting about the happy ending however.
I don't think this is the scene you're talking about because there is a later one where Sheridan really exchanges barbs with several of the truckers (haven't found that one yet), but this one has a couple of good lines:
Sheridan has the incredible ability to be one of the boys, but still the woman they want.