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In truck-driving country, such specialized words and terms as truck rodeo, dog house, twin screw, Georgia overdrive, saddle tanks, jake brake, binder and others borrowed from the lingo of truckers are commonly utilized. [10] CB vocabulary – which is different from truck driver lingo [11] – is used by both truckers and the general public ...
In some versions, the song begins with a CB radio call saying "How about ya, Alabama, Roll On", which was recorded from an actual CB call placed to Alabama's bus in the late 70s. In the song's second verse, the man's wife receives a late-night phone call from an unnamed source, informing her that the highway patrol had found a semitrailer truck ...
However, when he arrives at the boy's home ("Jackson Street, 229"), numerous truck drivers — who also have been listening to Teddy Bear's call — are lined up at the boy's home, giving him rides in their trucks. The boy thoroughly enjoys his experience. At the end of the day, the truckers take up a collection for Teddy Bear's mother.
Movin' On stars Claude Akins as old-time independent "big-rig" truck driver Sonny Pruitt, and Frank Converse as his college-educated co-driver Will Chandler. The theme song, "Movin' On", was written and performed by Merle Haggard, and was a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in July 1975.
Songs about truck driving or the truck industry. Pages in category "Songs about truck driving" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Roll Truck Roll: 7 Capitol The Man Behind the Badge: 34 1967 Truck Drivin' Fool — A Bakersfield Dozen — 1972 I'm a Truck and other songs of the road. 4 Very Real Red Simpson — 1973 Trucker's Christmas — 20 Great Truck Hits — 1995 The Best of Red Simpson — King 2005 The Bard Of Bakersfield — [7] 2016 Soda Pops and Saturdays — [8]
Hot Licks, Cold Steel & Truckers' Favorites is the second album by American rock band Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen. The album is an ode to truckers and songs about trucking, mixing classics of the genre like "Truck Drivin' Man" and "Looking at the World Through a Windshield" with the band's originals. It was released in 1972.
"Movin' On" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers.It was released in May 1975 as the third single and partial title track from the album Keep Movin' On.