Years ago, I was in labor with my first child and my dad was driving me & hubby 100 miles to the nearest hospital. He got on the C.B. and before I knew it we were being escorted by what seemed like “a thousand screaming trucks.” I certainly was preoccupied but those wonderful men and women got us there safely and with more “congratulations” than I’ve ever heard, before or since. I still see every big rig captain as my own personal heroes. Thank you, Truckers ❤
Such an awesome story! When I was a kid my mom was single with 4 kids… she had a Cb radio and had help from truckers when i got sick! The good ole days! Sweet
This song and Smokey and the Bandit started the CB craze back in the late 70's. I know CBs had already been around for a long time prior to this song but it "popularized them in general population. Fun times.
grew up down south. people up north don't remember opec or mandates back then. coors beer. adopto dad was from oklahoma, we had coors beer in Ga before it was legal. lol I am having fun.
This song Brings back lots of memories for sure I’m still driving since 1979 at 18 years old with a chauffeurs license no CDL required didn’t exist drove a cab over tractor but now drive a conventional tractor but like everything else when the federal government deregulated the trucking industry they killed the good pay and destroyed the truckers wages and lifestyle now it’s a joke. Sad days little pay with to many miles high maintenance and regulated to death and now there going to bring back higher fuel prices so you can’t survive a dirty shame.
My dad was a truck driver for over 3p years,. His handle was Sundown. For the uninformed the cb radio handle (name) is how all truckers referred to each other. When Sundown( my dad) went 10-7 in September of 2020, I had to notify all his truck driving friends. True to their nature his cell phone had them all listed under their cb handles. Dad this is one of the songs we use to listen to together, I miss you and think of you often. Keep On Truckin
It was 1975 and I was 8 years old when this song came out. Talk shit about it all you want but this song was in the top 10 country and pop charts and at least this song tells a story and is not meaningless bullshit like Lil Wayne and that crappy auto tune rap that says absolutely nothing.
+Kevin Hodge I was 11 and down here in NZ it was a number one hit an we all played convoy and all dreamed of being truck drivers................all time classic tune rubber duck 10-4
Damn Pam you ain't kidding take me back Kenworth hauling logs cabover Pete with a reefer on Jimmy hauling Hogs damn what has happened this country where did time go.
Yeah it stirs something inside of me but makes me happy. Sad so much is buried in time. Kids especially ate losing out with modern day life! I also saw post saying kids don't motion for truckers to honk much anymore and truckers miss that
My dad was a truck driver and I used to go with him during summer time when I was out of school. We would listen to this and other trucker stuff. All of it means so much more to me now because after my husband passed away, I decided to drive. I did it for five years from coast to coast and loved every bit of it!!
This song always makes me smile and tear up a little too. My much older brother, Bill, who passed away in 2015, had been a trucker for almost 20 years when he got me into CB radio as a teenager in 1973. When this song came out in '76 I was dumbfounded because the handle he had run back and forth across the country with for more than a decade was...you got it...Rubber Duck! RIP Big Brother. You may have gone 10-7 but you are still loved and missed very much.
my older brother Joe...passed away in 2020 he was not a truck driver..but i still loved and miss him very much..he may be gone, but will never be forgotten by me!!!!
My daughter was about 3 years old when this song came on the radio SHE starts singing at the top of her lungs "John Boy." What little ones hear Now she's 46 and still loves it
Big O Truckin John Boy. What a time when the Waltons was on TV, and this was on the Movie Screen. My uncle took a bunch of us kids to see this movie. I think I was about 9. I can relate because I had no idea what a Convoy was. However, I had heard CB talk since birth. I had a T-shirt said, "What's You 20?" Finally, I learned what it meant about the 5th time I wore it. CB's were a bit of a fad but were used in real life by trucks and out on farms 🚜 .. No cell phones back then, and you had to be within a few miles of each other Lots of static and very hard to understand. Most of the time, I couldn't. Honestly, I don't know how they learned all that. Then, it faded away... nearly all gone.
I can assure you that even in deepest, darkest West Cork, Ireland, for a period of about 6 months back in 1976, every young male with an Opel Kadett was driving around the bog roads saying "10-4 Good Buddy", "What's your 20?", "Roger-D" and "Mind the Shhmokies".
My dad was a trucker in the late 70's, early 80's and I spent two summers on the road with him. This song reminds me a lot about those days I spent on the road with my dad.
I love how the people who weren't born in the 80's-90's are hating on this song, while the people who were, like me, love it. Brings back so many memories.
+Mango Studios I grew up in the 60's and was in my 20's in the 70's. I remember when the CB craze started, everybody had one and acted like they were truck drivers, it was only a short lived fad, really stupid and ridiculous, it lasted only about a year or so when everybody started to throw their CB's away, just like the ridiculous clothes of the time.
Mango Studios I was 10 when this came out. I still love this song. I also liked the movie " Convoy " came out in 1978. If you haven't seen it , check it out.
I was 13 when this song came out. I remember sitting in my dad's car,a 1971 Ford LTD listening to the CB radio. I'd talk on the CB for hours,at the time we all thought it was amazing. I'm 58 now, Dad's passed,the car is long gone but what I wouldn't give to go back in time to those days. Such simple pleasures.
I just heard of C. W. McCall's passing a few minutes ago. I had to listen to this song again. I was 9 in 1975 when this song came out. My family and I loved it! Sure brings back memories! Catchy tune that always stuck in my mind. Time marches on! From Loudoun County,Va. 😇😇😇😇😇⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾😎😎😎😎😎
God I miss the 70's!! Loved this song as a 10 year old girl! My friends and I would like get together with our bikes and do up a "Convoy" and cruise around pretending we were truckers on our Radio Shack Walkie Talkies! It was fun!
Yes good ol 27 Mhz, I remember using it and in a small city there were lots of free channels, back then I had a 40 channel. In a large city it was so congested, this was in the late 80's.
Yep, I hear ya. Channel 19 was the truckers channel and I could always keep an ear out on where the 'bears' were, and if not the truckers, then there was always somebody out there who also know where they were hiding. In those days, they (The Police) could actually hide from you, but today, THAT, is against the law..........somebody might just caught for speeding.
Here the truckies channel was 5, and they would always talk about a double bubble, as in the lights on the top of the cop cars. or they would talk about a divvie van, as in the one they could lock you up in the back.
R.I.P. This clip was played in the mid 90s on a show called 70s Flashback. Suzanne Sommers hosted it just about the same time she did Step By Step. And around the time that VH-1 had reruns of The Midnight Special, America Bandstand. Solid Gold and The Sonny & Cher Show. VH-1 ran 70s Flashback from 1994 to 1999. Erik Estrada hosted after Suzanne left but he only did the final season or so. Leif Garrett was also hosting the show sometimes. But mostly Suzanne Sommers hosted. P.S. Per another clip David Cassidy also hosted. And it was renamed 8 Track Flashback. My memory is fading but I used to watch this. I was between 13 and 18. 30 years have passed.
Loved this song when I was a cb'er in Washington State, KFR1946 also known as the Lost Cause. Transmitted from Olympia. Had a kicker so could transmit as far as Idaho. Moved to Oahu, Hawaii and became a ham radio operator under call sign NH7ZD. Still listen to this song every now and then even in 2024.I was sad hearing about Bill Fries passing but U-Tube is still keeping his songs alive.
Man this chorus is so catchy stuck in my head still to this day. Great use of the F Major key that violin kicks ass. Deserves to be a number one hit ACROSS THE USA!
Hello Deborah you have a very nice name have we meet before? You have a very good way of expressing yourself I wonder what it will cost me to know more about you ?
Songs like this got me into driving trucks.......my uncle played this the first time he took me from grand rapids mi to chicago the rail yards in 1991 and i had a full tummy of pop and jerky......i knew i was hooked and here 30 years later hes gone but im still hauling strong. Long live the back bone of our country.....its drivers.
Hey Man, I retired in 2015, drove Logging Trucks in the Northwest, my Dad was in the Korean War, Us Air Force B-52 Gunner, drove trucks in his earlier days, pass away in 2009. I sure our father's are in good hands, driving the Lord Potatoes Trucks. As my Mom would say every time you hear the Thunder coming from the Heaven, that the Lord Potatoes Trucks on the move again. Keep on Trucking, somebody got to move this Great Country of our..
it gives the warm fuzzy memories of being a child in the 70s, the CB craze and the Trucker craze with films and tv show like smokey and the Bear. i was very young and my father had just sort of retired from years of working in the military and we were on like a 2 year long road trip living in a Volkswagen van and camping at national parks and things like that, when our van broke down in Oklahoma visiting some family so we settled there and my father got a job at a Truck Stop. this was around 77 and he worked there until his death in 97, he use to take me in to work with him all the time and i grew up around that Truck Stop and all the characters that worked there and drivers that always stopped in to fuel when they were passing through. it was a great childhood and that old 70s AM style country music was always in the background and i would go home and stuff like "The Dukes Of Hazzard" or "Hee Haw" or "Any Which Way But Loose" would be on TV and i felt like i was part of the world, these days it feels like all of Hollywood and most of the country hate normal smalltown country folks like this for no reason.
my dad was the greatest trucker ever!! 76 Mack cabover.. global van lines... I was 15 and spent my next few summers watching him put that thing where nobody else would put a car
OMG. I was 12 when this came out! And in 2022 still love it. Breaker Breaker Neon Knight Balls to the wall in my Western Star Twin Turbo Silver 92 Super Charger Detroit Diesel. Class of 88 still rubber side down shiney side up!
The "trucking songs" are just a sample of how deeply people felt love for the unfortunate. Red Sovine and "Teddy Bear" make me cry happy tears each time I listen
Best line of the 70's; It was the Dark of moon on the 6th of June, an a Kenworth haulin logs, a cabover Pete with a reefer on, and a JImmy haulin hogs."
I too was 9 years old in '76. I had what I recall was the the C.W. McHaul tractor trailer toy. Based on C.W. McCall, didn't realize that at the time. Had a lot of fun with that toy. It had a microphone attached to it with the speaker in the tractor. Good memories.
I just read of Mr. McCall's death. I absolutely love this song--I guess you could say its one of my guilty pleasures. My Dad was a long haul truck driver all of his adult life. When this song came out, I was in elementary school and my Dad would take me with him several times during my summer vacations. Of course, my Dad had a CB and we'd monitor it while driving. Occasionally, I'd get on and talk to some of the other truckers. I remember hearing this on the radio, and I loved it from the start. Especially because it mentions the "6th of June", which is my birthday. Along with Red Sovine's "Teddy Bear", this song takes me back to those care free days riding along with my Dad. RIP C.W. McCall.
I was in my teens and cutting wheat in Vernon, I use to listen to this song as we made our way from southeast Missouri to Vernon to begin the harvest. Probably listen to you a lot.
I grew up with CW McCall an honorary member of my Family. This brings back so many wonderful memories of my family roaming all over the Oregon and Northern California mountains together with this blasting out of the 8-track. 😎 Good times in the Way-back Machine!
April Morris you have a nice name you have a very good way of expressing yourself. I like a woman who is spontaneous just as you what will it cost me to know more about you?
One night I was going to My Sister's. The garbage on the CB was bad, so I turned it off but I started getting sleepy. I had to turn it back on. I broke in and the talk changed. Talking makes you alert. There was a guy traveling Northbound, like me. Thank goodness for the CB!!! IT has saved my life more than once!!
I am 54. I remember this song very well. To say it was huge is an understatement. EVERYBODY had a cb radio and this song got the craze going. Hard to believe that we communicated this way 40 yrs ago. Has to seem like the darkest of dark ages to those who were not there. The 70's need to come back but this time we get to bring our phones.
+Robert Miller Dont think I would bring the cell phone, maybe a GPS. As long as there is working phones at all rest stops and truck stops it can still work. The GPS would just make it a little easier.
+John Smith Absolutely. Maps need nothing more than the ability to be refolded after use. They never lose power or signal. Most people have no clue how to use one.
LOVE IT!!! I love "Wolf Creek Pass" by CW, too. Anything that begins with "Me and Earl" can't be all bad. But this song, along with CW's voice, will go down in history.
