You know who never gets enough credit for what they do? Truck drivers. Without truck drivers, you wouldn’t have any of that crap that you need so badly. You think your iPods get made in the back of the Apple store by little Apple elves? Maybe that happens in Japan but not in this country. Everything you can imagine buying needs a truck driver to get it from the factory to the store. This list includes deodorant (seriously, put some on), blue jeans and truckloads of beer. Right now, some truck is rolling through Louisville with a truck load of dildos that will service all of the women in the Midwest. Our country runs all thanks to our truck drivers.
We’re paying tribute to the men (and women) who really make America go. It’s mostly country, since it’s illegal in many states to drive a truck without country music on the stereo. Look it up. These songs make us want to become truck drivers ourselves. We now give you 18 Songs That Make Truck Driving Cool.
18. Heywood Banks – “18 Wheels on a Big Rig”
Heywood Banks is a comedian you’ve likely never heard of (unless you listen to the Bob and Tom Show in the Midwest). You’re missing out.
17. Bobby Braddock – “Gear Busting Sort of a Feller”
Break those gears, put the pedal to the metal and keep on trucking!
16. Eddie Rabbit – “Driving My Life Away”
Truckers have a different life every day. They go wherever the load calls them.
15. Del Reeves – “Looking at the World Through a Windshield”
Eyes on the road, Del!
14. Weird Al – “Truck Drivin’ Song”
Weird Al has a song about cross-dressing truck drivers. Yeah, Weird Al has a song about everything.
13. The Willis Brothers – “Give Me 40 Acres”
Pulling a U-turn in one of those things takes superhuman powers.
12. Lynyrd Skynyrd – “Truck Driving Man”
Truckers got ladies in every town.
11. Red Simpson – “I’m a Truck”
Great song, but the anthropomorphized talking truck is way too Pixar creepy.
10. Red Sovine – “Truck Driving Son of a Gun”
At least Red can remember all of his ladies’ names. Well, he can remember most of them.
9. Alabama – “Roll on 18 Wheeler”
Man, it can be depressing being a family of a trucker.
8. Glen Campbell – “Truck Driving Man”
Kids, let me tell you about the time I was a truck driver, and when the jukebox used to cost a nickel. Maybe that’s why Glen’s so angry in this mugshot.
7. Merle Haggard – “Moving On”
A trucker driver’s blood is 98 percent lousy truck stop coffee.
6. Dave Dudley – “Rolaids, Doan’s Pills, and Preparation H”
The nation moves on trucks, and trucks move on diesel… and lots and lots of uppers.
5. CW McCall – “Convoy”
If you’ve never seen the movie “Convoy,” you don’t understand why every kid wanted to drive truck and use the handle “Rubber Ducky.” Also, you won’t be able to call yourself Rubber Ducky without getting your ass kicked at the next truck stop.
4. The Grateful Dead – “Truckin”
See? The Grateful Dead weren’t only good to smelly hippies. They were good to the Teamsters, too.
3. Jerry Reed – “East Bound and Down” from “Smokey and the Bandit”
The only movie that can compete with “Convoy” for truck driving is “Smokey and the Bandit.” Jerry Reed played the truck driver and sang the truck driving song. Is there anything truckers can’t do?
2. Dave Dudley – “Six Days on the Road”
Yeah, Dave Dudley has two songs in the top 10. What of it? Just about every song the man ever wrote was about truck driving.
1. Hank Snow – “I’ve Been Everywhere”
Think of the most obscure town in the middle of nowhere, and ask any trucker you see if he’s ever been there. You don’t even have to ask. He’s been there.
These NASCAR drivers have nothing on the nation’s truckers, but this kid is going to grow up to sing songs about truck driving.
This post was written by Steve Gifford, who feels like he just spent six days on the road from Hell.
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