It's a whole lot of schlocky fun.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

Yeah, I don't think it was ever part of the movie, even as a deleted scene. But when I've watched this on TV, they cut out the shot of the roller smashing the kid, blood or not. They showed blood, but kept the guts to a minimum. When the trucks kill people, they don't run over them and flatten the corpses, squishing bodily organs out of their skin bags.
In the story, there was a character whom the narrator referred to as 'the Kid,' who was run over by the bulldozer. As I recall, the line went "The Kid's remains looked like a crumpled beach towel."
Thirty years later, you would almost certainly see the young ballplayer's brains squirting out the top of his head like toothpaste from a tube. They showed exactly that in the movie 'Fury,' when the tank runs over a German soldier.

• You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything.

"While shooting the scene where the steamroller rampages across the baseball diamond, Stephen King requested that the SFX department place a bag of fake blood near the dummy of a young player who would be run over by it. The desired effect would be that a smear of blood would appear on the steamroller and be re-smeared on the grass over and over, like a printing press. While filming the scene, however, the bag of blood exploded too soon and sprayed everywhere, making it appear as if the boy's head had also exploded. King was thrilled with the results, but censors demanded the shot be cut"
Damn I would have loved to seen that!

I don't think they filmed the scene with his head actually exploding (correct me, anybody who knows better); they show the kid on his back as the roller is crushing him from the feet up, and you see it run all the way over his head. There's no burst of blood and brains visible.
Did they shoot a more graphic version of the scene?

• You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything.

What!? It shows the kids head exploding?! I can't find it anywhere I had no idea they included it in a DVD release?

I don't know about a director's cut, but that scene is on the DVD version that I bought a few months ago.

• You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything.

Although it does slightly bum me out Stephen King hated this so badly! If only he knew a select few of us really love this gem Also, I would LOVE to have seen the cut scene of the steamroller over that kids head. Too bad there will never be a directors cut.

Agreed with OP.
Maximum Overdrive is a classic 80s movie

It is a gem. Scary, fun, imaginative and witty.

In total agreement, Lindsey2002. If I cut through her scenes, I'd miss the rusty bastard short-nose International Harvester wrecker's scenes, and those are great. But, as I enter into my old age, I find myself hating Yeardley's shrill character less and less, and starting to appreciate her in the diverse group of white people in the Dixie Boy truck stop (including, obviously, the ONE surviving black character, the original driver of the Happy Toiz 'Green Goblin' monster semi).
"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."

I seriously must watch this at least once a month.. It's a good one to have in the background while doing housework or on the computer (God I love the AC/DC soundtrack). I only mute it when Yeardley Smith is screaming her head off.

Ah, you gotta love hokey pokey balony sci fi movies. They're the best kind!
"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."

I hate hokey pokey phony balony sci fi movies.. But always liked this one and watching it now.

I don't read the script, script reads me

This movie had everything:
Great soundtrack
Emilio fkn Estevez
Machine guns
Bazookas
Old badass diesel trucks
Hot 80s women
Stephen King
A kid getting run over by a steam roller
And cheesy classic dialogue
"You sure make love likea a hero"

I love the movie, but it does have its flaws. There are a few distracting screw-ups and some bullsh*t moments that make it difficult for even me to maintain suspension of disbelief.
Mainly, I think it suffers from the same problems as other King films that were based on short stories. The movies that were based on full-length books (Christine, Pet Sematary, The Shining) tend to be a lot better, in my opinion.
"You may have come on no bicycle, but that does not say that you know everything."

I agree!