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Power to the Truck Drivers!

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My favorite German musical group is "Truck Stop," and I do know a thing or two about songs that truckers play. My list of items, which I hope are featured in the Trucking Music Hall of Fame (hope Tony reads this), would (in alphabetical order) include:

Convoy (but not Convoy goes to Europe)

Eastbound and Down (from Smokey and the Bandit)

Forty Days on the Road

Forty Thousand lbs. of bananas (which is based on a true incident in Scranton)

Giddyup Go

Gimme Forty Acres (and I'll turn this rig around)

I've been everywhere (by Johnny Cash)

Phantom 309 (We'd call that the Best trucking song of all time)

Teddybear and Teddybear with German lyrics version

White line fever

Wolf Creek Pass.

And the bonus track of John Wayne's "Pledge of Allegiance"?

Teamster strikes are powerful medicine. Steven Brill (Ibid page 380) wrote: "His (Einar Mohn) problem with Nixon, according to Gibbons and another (union) vice-president who was there, was that the White House's proposed legislation to prevent strikes in the transportation industry would, he thought, severely threaten the union." In a footnote (Ibid page 381), Brill drolly notes: "The Nixon bill was suddenly withdrawn, much to the embarrassment of the Republicans in Congress who had sponsored it for the President and were not informed beforehand of the sudden policy reversal."

Now our disk jockey will play a Truck Stop album. We gotta go check out the rumor that Che Guevarra was put in the witness protection program and was seen recently in Cairo." Have a "you wanna screw that knob back on there, Earl" type week.


 

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