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Here's a quick animation (just for educational purposes) that I put together to show you how I composited over a dozen individual shots into a single, evenly illuminated shot.  The trick was to use the "lighten" (or similar) blending mode.  In your case, the individual shots would not be parts of a larger whole, as they were in this case, but completely separate images, hopefully with black or some dark region around each of the subject(s).  I'll go into it in more detail later.

Also, I should mention that a side benefit of this technique is that I didn't have to do anything special to remove my assistant from the final product.  Because she was always in silhouette, the area of the truck that she blocked in any particular shot was always filled in by the other shots.

Regards,

Tom

PS -  The final frame in this animation is just the result of this 1st step of the process.  This was followed by glint removal, further evening out of the light, the inclusion of about twice as many component images, including more at each end, wrapping around the fronts of both trucks, other shots with the lights aimed upwards, the inclusion of a few shots with the lights on the trucks turned on, plus quite a few final tweaks.  Obviously, the camera was mounted on a really substantial tripod during all of these exposures to prevent any camera movement, whatsoever.