Hey Truckers...

[mjr]

You guys ever listen to any "Trucking" songs?

I know Junior Brown has the song "Semi Crazy", and Dale Watson did a full album called "The Truckin' Sessions" (or something like that), and I think C. W. McCall did several truckin' songs.

Speaking of trucks...how about these guys?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBFd5PKPPys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFavbPEPYWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wESSiFxnLsc

[AnaKhouri]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJEeHND_lQ

I may or may not have a thing for young Kris Kristofferson.

[mjr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJEeHND_lQ

I may or may not have a thing for young Kris Kristofferson.

"Looks like we got us a Convoy..."

[wolfie]

I listen to trucking songs.

[Kittish]

Hell, I bought one CD specifically because it had Convoy on it. It's a fun song.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I like the original C. W. McCall version better, and the sequel.

Convoy and Round The World With Rubber Duck

Here are some classic trucking songs:

Phantom 309

Giddy Up Go

East Bound and Down

Classified

Roll On 18 Wheeler

Six Days On The Road

Give Me 40 Acres

I'm A Truck

Tombstone Every Mile

Wolf Creek Pass

Eighteen Wheels And A Dozen Roses

Freightliner Fever

Girl On The Billboard

Looking at the World Through a Windshield

[Pixelated]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJEeHND_lQ

I may or may not have a thing for young Kris Kristofferson.

OMG, I remember that one! We used to have one of those radios too ... I was tickled to death to get on there and say "Breaker, breaker ..."

[mjr]

There's also Dale Watson's "The Truckin' Sessions" Trilogy...

http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-tr...y-mw0002677619

[Rosco the Iroc]

I still have the K-Tel record.



The Black Dog soundtrack isn't too bad.

[xxscooterxx]

Im surprised that no one mentioned Teddy Bear, or Teddy Bears last ride.

I would link them, but the mere notion that either of those songs may or may not play in my presence causes me to boohoo like a little baby, so no.

[wolfie]

Don't forget "Little Joe". It and "Teddy Bear's Last Ride" are mutually exclusive (LJ has in its backstory Teddy Bear getting an operation that lets him walk again, and he grows up to be a trucker, TBLR has him dying as a child). Since both "Teddy Bear" and "Little Joe" are by Red Sovine, and "Teddy Bear's Last Ride" isn't, I'd consider "Little Joe" to be the canonical sequel to "Teddy Bear".

[mjr]

To piggyback (heh...) off of this thread, I noticed something the other day about flat-bed trailers. They seem to have a slight "arc" to them. I'm guessing there's a reason for it (weight distribution or something), but it seemed odd to me when I noticed it.

[dalesys]

...flat-bed trailers. They seem to have a slight "arc" to them...

So do bridges. Even a slight arch is much stiffer than a dead level structere using the same quantity & strength of material.

[mjr]

So do bridges. Even a slight arch is much stiffer than a dead level structere using the same quantity & strength of material.

Ah, hadn't considered that. Physics at work.

[Ironclad Alibi]

To piggyback (heh...) off of this thread, I noticed something the other day about flat-bed trailers. They seem to have a slight "arc" to them. I'm guessing there's a reason for it (weight distribution or something), but it seemed odd to me when I noticed it.

If you look at the same flat bed when it is loaded, the arch is much reduced or even gone. The frame of the trailer does flex.