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The rolling hitch is very much like the taut line hitch, but holds even better. Rolling Hitch | How to tie the Rolling Hitch and Midshipman's Hitch | Boating Knots

 

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Another Trucker Hitch vote. You can vary the tension, which seems to be the query.

As you can with the taut-line and rolling hitches. The real advantage of the trucker's is that it provides additional mechanical advantage when you really want to cinch something down.

I'm not sure that I agree with you about being able to adjust the trucker's hitch easily.