Bubba Hendershot

Bubba Hendershot is an antagonist in Stephen King's 1986 film Maximum Overdrive.

Description
Bubba Hendershot is a white man with a big build in his late 50s/early 60s. He wears a white shirt with a red tie, and a plaid coat, which was removed at some point in the film. He speaks in a Southern accent.

Hendershot is the owner of the Dixie Boy truck stop in North Carolina. He's an example of the stereotypical Southern businessman that emphasize wealth.

Played by Pat Hingle.

Appearance
Hendershot is the employer of film protagonist Bill Robinson (which he kept calling "obtuse"). In the scene he first appeared, Hendershot told Bill that he arrived late to his working place (6:58 AM instead of 5:45 AM). He is interrupted by one of his fueling employees, who reported an incident involving a gas squirt to a fuelman's face. Hendershot told the caller to "flush" the fuelman's eyes and leave himself alone due to the conversation with Bill. He listens to Bill's chance to work in the Dixie Boy for 9 hours, but in Hendershot's excitement, Bill declined to work that long. Hendershot then threatens Bill to send him out of work to a state parole officer. He closes the discussion while tasking Bill to send his own time card away.

In the Dixie Boy's kitchen, the cook Wanda is cut by an electric cutter device (controlled automatically). After fellow people saved her, Hendershot appears in the scene, surprised by the incident.

In another scene, Hendershot is ridiculed by the damage in the Dixie Boy's video arcade.

Later on outside, one employee of the Dixie Boy blames Hendershot for worsening their struggle for survival. Hendershot attempts to grab hard an employee, but Bill defended the employee from him. One driver-less truck slammed the survivor Camp Loman to a creek, before all trucks circle the Dixie Boy to trap all humans.

Hendershot calls for refuge inside Dixie Boy, but is unable get a respond. He watches two survivors packing up a dead human, Duncan's body. He redirects the two to the basement, where the body won't distract everyone.

Hendershot destroys two trucks with a bazooka, when they try to harm an incoming set of survivors arriving at the Dixie Boy.

Bill and his girlfriend Brett discovers an arms room in the Dixie Boy basement (also the room where the dead body is stored in). Hendershot arrives, asking for money from the body and told Bill to stay "obtuse". Brett wants to escape the Dixie Boy and told Hendershot that they don't steal anything. Hendershot explains them that Bill was a thief in a Charlotte grocery store. Hendershot tells the two that he'll call someone, and Bill guessed if it would be the police (despite that most other humans are wiped out). Hendershot warns Bill, and Bill responded by equipping a rifle. Hendershot leaves from the argument.

After Bill and Curtis saved the boy Deke from the other side of the highway, Deke asked Bill what happened to Duncan, his father. Hendershot answers by saying that he is killed by a truck, in a rude explanation. Brett defended Deke, although he is told that the death is true. Noticing how it impacts Deke, Brett slaps Hendershot in the face for terrifying him.

On the next day, a bulldozer crashed into the Dixie Boy. Hendershot is again using the bazooka, just to destroy it. He is able to destroy the bazooka, despite of the warnings from the humans for its strength. Hendershot cheers on the destruction of his target, but he, soon, is gunned down by an M60 gun from the M274 Mule, killing him.