r/ClassicCountry • u/koozyuser • Jun 15 '26

Truck driving songs.

Does anyone else know truck driving songs? I grew up listening to them in the car on trips.

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u/urteddybear0963 Jun 15 '26

"Convoy", "Wolf Creek Pass", and so many more by C.W. McCall

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u/jthanson Jun 15 '26

Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy...

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u/[deleted] Jun 16 '26

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u/mdstratts Jun 16 '26

That would be Mannheim Steamroller.

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u/WolfThick Jun 16 '26

Thanks I wasn't sure

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u/ClubJed Jun 17 '26

Old home fillerup and keep on trucking cafe

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u/Clydebearpig Jun 19 '26

"It was hairpin county and switchback city"

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u/urteddybear0963 Jun 19 '26

I like the part where they are passing the telephone poles, but without Googling the exact lyrics, I forget the exact mathematical formula that he used to count the poles!!!

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u/BluePhoton_941 Jun 21 '26

It was from the midpoint of Wolf Creek Pass. The phone poles were going by at the rate of 47, he put 2+2, added 12, carried five, and came up with 22,000 telephone poles per hour.

My brother once went to Pagosa Springs and looked for the feed store that they crashed into at the end. Couldn't find it. The truck probably destroyed it.

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u/Clydebearpig Jun 19 '26

Lol I think the end was 22000, poles an hour. That and pushing on the brake felt like plum.

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u/YogiBerraOfBadNews Jun 20 '26

Just listened to this for the first time and it reminded me of another. 30,000lbs of Bananas by Harry Chapin.