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‘Baywatch’ truck
company files
contract suit

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Star-Bulletin staff

The movie truck company that leased movie production vehicles to "Baywatch Hawaii" during the show's first season of filming here is suing for breach of contract.

George Cambra Movie Production Trucks Inc. negotiated a lease agreement with the series' transportation coordinator in May 1999 before it began filming.

Concessions in the lease were made in exchange for allowing Cambra's company to be the sole provider of production trucks for the run of the show, according to the lawsuit.

Cambra's company fulfilled its obligation throughout the season and was commended for its service, the suit said. The film's transportation coordinator reassured Cambra's company in September 1999 and throughout the season that the lease would continue through the duration of filming.

The following season, Baywatch did not rehire Cambra's company and informed the company they were not responsible for lease agreements made the previous season.

Automastics Inc., a rival movie production truck company that went bankrupt after its trucks were destroyed in a fire in 1991, sued Cambra's company and another truck company in July 1999.

The suit was filed less than a month after Hawaii Teamsters member Joseph Tavares and Cambra's son, also named George, were convicted in separate trials of conspiring to set the fires to eliminate competition.