This article explores the thematic significance of vehicles in contemporary New Brunswick literature to show how the processes of identity formation are influenced by vehicles. Since trucks and cars enable their users to inhabit certain ways of being, this symbiotic relationship communicates aspects of class, gender, mobility, ability, education, and income. Employing affect theory and such critics as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, and Jane Bennett, this article discusses how the novel I Am a Truck and the short stories “Freight” and “A Field Our Own” explore the influence of vehicles on identity formation.