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Mike
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Blue Moon Highway
(Country Music...and then some.)
www.bluemoonhighway.com

ZB Custom S-10 (#0509)

My Dad was in the trucking business all his life and my two brothers drove. I have a good on hands knowledge of this.

Thanks for the tip. I like them. Excellent harmonies.

Don't they have rigs in the outback that tow about five trailers?

I used to call that song "Willig" because there was a trucking company by that name back then. In concert, Linda Ronstadt dedicated it to all the truckers in the audience. But from what everybody says here, things aren't what they used to be, and it took me thirty years to notice.

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"I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back." --Henny Youngman

[This message was edited by Darryl Hattenhauer on 03 November 2006 at 10:26 PM.]

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...the truck driver of yesteryear had a much better reputation than the trucker of today...

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AMEN BROTHER!!!
Some of 'em,today,are downright road hogs! In attempting to pass 'em,they wait until you get right up to 'em,then they pull out into the left lane,or two of 'em will get side by side,goin' up a hill,& ya can't pass either one of 'em. They slow ya down to,about,40 in a 55 or 65 mph zone.

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What the heck kind engine and trans do they use that would get all that weight started and yet get it up to a decent speed? How fast do they go?

Here in Phoenix, they trucked in a HUGE transformer on a series of flatbeds and lowboys, and the top speed was 7 miles per hour/ 11 kmh. I don't know what they used to get that thing rolling. They must have been through five gears before they hit one mile per hour. But 7 miles per hour from Los Angeles to Phonix would give you a lot of time to write the trucking song to end them all.

But for me I think Bill Kirchen is keeping the flame burning. King of Dieselbilly is worth it just for "Truck Stop at the End of the World" -- one of the funniest kick-!@@#!?! twangsongs I know.

-eric

p.s. "Rig Rock Deluxe" is the CD with the joint track. And it's got some real howlers on it.

[This message was edited by Eric Jaeger on 06 November 2006 at 11:03 PM.]

"Looking through the World Thru a Windshield"

"Mama Hated Diesels"

The Knights of the Road image has been replaced by a 400 pound slob in sweat pants who chucks pee jugs out the window. The rest areas and CBs have been taken over by queers who refuse to keep to themselves.

Cell phones, Qualcom satellites and XM radio--and I do love my XM--have all but made the CB radio obsolete, thus the commaraderie is nothing like it used to be. Half the truckers out there today don't even talk English. And the other half have such filthy mouths that you can't turn on the CB for a minute without somebody coming unglued. I can't even turn it on when my wife's with me.

4 wheelers have no patience whatsoever and now a lot of truckers are getting about as bad. D.O.T. cops are nothing more than revenuers anymore. It's no longer about safety, it's big business.

About every time you get out of the truck, somebody tries to scam you. It's not safe to park anywhere anymore. If the lot lizards or the scam artists don't get you, the cops will. Heck I've seen them wake guys up in the middle of the night and inspect their trucks.

Rates really haven't changed much in 25 years yet trucks cost 2 1/2 times what they did back then and fuel is 4 or 5 times what it was. Nobody can afford to go on strike and the big companies would gobble up the few crumbs the independents have left if they shut down. Anybody got any cheese for my whine?