OH, yeah, for air conditioning in Texas, you kept a cooler with two or three hand towels iced down. Wipe your face and neck, ever 10 mins or so, and wrap around your neck. Return to cooler, get a "fresh one", and repeat as necessary!! LOL You don't want to know how hot it can get in the cab, with the "boot", missing off where your gear shift went through the floor board!!
In my misspent youth, I drove an 18 wheeler for a while.....not quite as glamorous as portrayed. 10 speed Roadranger, and no air cushioned seats!! LOL You, and your seat bounced to every seam in the highway, (and pot hole). They (the tractors) are about like driving a space craft today, compared to 45 yrs ago!! LOL
LMAO!!!! That was damn good one! I was not expecting that... "....current stuff makes you wanna jump in front of one!" too funny, gonna be laughing about his one. Going to tell it to my country music loving friends...
giving you new guy a heads up on trucking.Why you think the song talks about little white pill.it ani't cause he's a junky.Jitterbugs back on out.you new guy have fun
Yeah trucking is a real ball.now you figure for the hrs you are on that truck.figure out a mc donals employee make 7 something and hr and your on that truck 24/7 while your out.you might make 2.50 .now here something else to think about
D O T them boys you'll love and they can make your day the shits you know what it cost to have a mud flap missing in Dallas tx. 250 if you own that truck it'll come out your pocket..OH I guess I'd better stop it might make some trucking school mad.
NEW JERSEY by Monday.and where did you say you live HA HA HA!!! Dallas TX.Oh!!.you'll really began to love your Dispatcher.now it Monday and you ass is sitting up in New Jersey. by 10 am you wife is blow'en a fuse "HONEY"!! where you at new Jersey AAAAAh NEW JERSEY!!!!!.Hate to scare you new guys but thats the life of a trucker.you'll begain to lovehate your job
for 8 hrs.you cant sleep cause the trainer is in the sleeper while wait to load are unload. now you run your ass off trying to make a deadline.OH no driver you cant stop you'll shut the Plant down.there dieing for that load.and you get there and sit for 12 hrs HUM.Hay dispatcher thought they needed this HOT load.Now you wife's a call'en "HONEY"!! when you coming home?? you tell her Monday, will now it Friday and you favorite dispatcher a beep'en ya HAY DRIVER I GOT THIS HOT ASS LOAD GOING TO
Now if your one of those kind that crave video game that 140 will that;ll be gone.now if your married will the wife will be pissed call dispatch wanting know why you have not got payed.now when you call home the wife will be cussing your ass out.Hony where to rent money, Oh honey the kids needs shoes.ah when are you coming home.just think it now been 4 WEEK and your ass is behind on all the bills your wife is PISSED OFF AT YOU!!trucki8ng is a great hum.now think of this you sit in a dam dock fo
This is to all those thinking of getting in to trucking. first off DO NOT FALL for that line of make 51,000 your first yr.its bull these trucking companies only pay a new driver 350 a week to start.to those that do not know it cost 30 a day out there just to eat.now 30 time 7 thats 210 dollars a week.from 350. that will leave you with 140.not much is it.if your thinking of going to a trucking school all they will do is help you get your CDL.and everything they showed you thow it out the window
truckdrivers hymn gone are the days of armstrong power steering and roadranger crash boxes they are mostley autoshifts and air conditioning gone are the old 6 speed and 3 speed joey .love this song but aussie slim dustys lights on the hill would be equal favorite
truckdrivers hymn gone are the days of armstrong power steering and roadranger crash boxes they are mostley autoshifts and air conditioning gone are the old 6 speed and 3 speed joey
lol ok from old truck driver ICC, interstate commerc comission,Jimmy is 5 star GMC,White is now frieght liner, codriver in glove box was code for white pills. and anyone remeber hand signels for cops location or chicken coops when there were no cbs? colored lights on dash told what channel on short wave your on ? lol
Hey there - to anyone reading this - after loving this song for years and years, only about five years ago did I realize what ICC stood for, or "I'm a little overweight and my log books are way behind." Now getting ready to make the drive from Maine to Arizona and have got this on my iTunes. If you see a red Toyota - with a Siamese cat laying in the window - barrel by you as you drive west, it may be me!! God willing, I'll arrive safely.
@weightfeather1 This is the original. Dudley was (as far as I know) not on a major label, and rerecorded this song several times for small independent labels (like Starday/Nashville). This is the original 1963 version.
@MISisback Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware Dave was with Mercury. Then again, if your parents knew him then you would know about labels for which Dave recorded. Thanks again!
i'm a real truck driver and HoustonPublisher has showed his ingnorance about driving a truck in a semi you feel every single pothole the truck or trailer hits. a semi would run right over a car but you would feel it i drive for u.s xpress and am 4th generation trucker .
LOL at you including the rig from "Duel" at 1:02. I'm trying to imagine the psychopathic trucker in that movie merrily singing along with this on the radio as he's trying to run down Dennis Weaver's ass!
LOL at you including the rig from "Duel" at 1:07. I'm trying to imagine the psychopathic trucker in that movie merrily singing along with this on the radio as he's trying to run down Dennis Weaver's ass!
I remember when I was 3-5 years old, I used to be scared of the big rigs when the engine was rattling when my dad used to drive them rigs, until i gotten bigger & then gotten over my fears of the noise too. Plus, my dad & uncle's had also gotten me into talking on the C.B.'s to other truckers or other people whom I've met in person too. So, it was all thanks to Convoy, Breaker, Breaker(w/Chuck Norris) & Smokey & The bandit movies too.
i have to say you got good taste somkey & the bandit is great and dave dudley is un beatable out of curiostity are you a turker i am but thats just me born and raised on it its in my blood
@460EFI Forgive my diesel ignorance, oh yes, I know diesel is oil, I just was not aware that new diesels blew smoke, it seemed to me throughout my life all the older rigs blew the black smoke and I thought it was worn rings, thanks for squaring me away. The intent of my original comment was for laughs and a backhand slap at government regulation but looks as if that original intention, at least in your interpretation, went up in smoke...
@weightfeather1 He may have known it, but then again from what I saw it was a small car so can't be sure. One thig is for sure though the driver of that car was was lucky they were in front of the rig and didn't go under the van, if would of been the case it would be over for them and that's for sure.
Smoke blowing black as coal? Mr. Dudley, think of the environment and get that long overdue ring job..you don't want some govermental agency going into spasms, now do you????ha...ha..
@rainstormz28 lol. man, diesels blow smoke when they are brand new. (if they are tuned right.) you realized diesel IS oil? when they blow smoke, it just means that the motor isnt gettin enough air to burn all the fuel. most big rigs wont even need a ring job til or after the million mile mark. AND, where he says flames are shootin out the stack, well, back in the day, there were trucks that really did shoot flames. ;)
I had the original single of this from 1963 - it was on Golden Wing records. Dave Dudley had several other truck drivin' songs like this one. One of them gave birth to a Ric Flair promo: "I'm a kiss stealin', wheelin' dealin' (limousine ridin', jet flyin') truck drivin' son of a gun".
The different engines that were keystone in changing the industry. The 2-cycle motors from GM came out of the war and into the first over the road trucks. Cummins was always a strong player as well. Guys were buying larger injectors from companies on their routes and playing with the pumps for speed. But still no comparison to the motors of the day. Then there was CAT. I will not forget pulling big mountain,, settled in for the climb and a CAT outpulled. That motor was that good back then 60's.
@MaddogMarineSibil 671 DID ME RIGHT ON MY EPIC CRUISE FROM NEW YORK TO CINTI. ON THE WATER . up the hudson river to the erie canal across lake erie ,up lake Huron down lake Mich. thru chicago ship &sanitation canal ,Ill. waterway down the Mississippi & up the Ohio river In 187 ft. boat built 1902
Hey-TheBandit... your timing on the lyrics to the images is excellent! Love that part where "it's blowin' black as coal"! I've 2.5 Million miles + OTR and I love this song! Listened to it as a kid back about '76 and watched TV's "MOVIN" ON". Now I have a 21 year truckin' career to look back on. Thank you for the upload!
Couple years ago, Our '50 Chevy 3.5 ton grain truck wouldn't go into the 3 high gears, so my dad borrowed his friend's old Diamond T tractor and rented a grain trailer. On one of our trips to the elevator, this song played on the classic country station. That was COOL!
Today's new trucks can cover some ground, one blew past me like I was standing still on the Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson, I was going 75, he must have been going 120 or faster.
in the past they geared the trucks slow and then ran them fast, at their limits mos of the time, today we gear them fast and in most cases drive them slow, but all it takes to get a truck to do 100 these days is a few clicks of a mouse
@TheBandit77TransAm one button kit will do the trick @ it takes 15 minutes in a truck stop parking lot BACK THEN when a fellow trucker would help in de regulation sucked the solidarity out of US
@redneckfromthenort if you run a truck over 65 you use more fuel than anything 65 is the ultimate speed for a truck. my daddy had an older truck it ran great my brother has a 07 and it runs great so there isn't any dispute in my eyes to see if they older the better they are it's all in the driving in my opinion..
Those movies like Convoy really crack me up. They make good entertainment, though far from reality. Haven driven every type of truck Dave Dudley's singing about in this song, I can tell you, anyone in their right mind would never attempt to drive a car under a rig unless they're ready to commit suicide. I can tell you this, when that rig runs over them and it will that driver won't even spill his coffee, loaded or unloaded. If the driver even knows he hit something. Nice try though Hollywood.
hahaha yeah tell me about it. although Smokey and the Bandit had a lot of realism.........it was very possible to do. I don't think anyone is that stupid to do that, but its possible! haha lol
Retired trucker here, and love these songsd
Leo92053 1 day ago
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Pretty darn cool version! Checkout mine at rockabillygone all one word for rockabilly originals and oddball covers.
rockabillygone 5 days ago
"Six Days on the Road" - the truck driver's NATIONAL ANTHEM...
bluzdawg 5 days ago
Dave, Red and the other truck driving music kings influenced Trucker's Last Ride and my other truck driving songs. Thanks Dave.
songwriter1954 6 days ago
nice rigs but here´s to my hubby-i´´m waiting for you-always-i love you-forever
luckyfein 1 week ago
My Pops sent me this. Been driving big truck just 18 years. This song put a big ol smile on my face today. Thanks =)
clkwrkorng2001 1 week ago
I think the rig at 1:05 is the "ghost truck" from Steven Speilberg's t.v. movie, "Duel."
gmartinz01 1 week ago
@gmartinz01 You are correct.
OneChristianView 4 days ago
Like the original better than the so called remake by Sawyer Brown. (Completely butchered and ruined it)
MrMovienut72 1 week ago
i drink , fuck and drive truck
iltis1985 2 weeks ago
OH, yeah, for air conditioning in Texas, you kept a cooler with two or three hand towels iced down. Wipe your face and neck, ever 10 mins or so, and wrap around your neck. Return to cooler, get a "fresh one", and repeat as necessary!! LOL You don't want to know how hot it can get in the cab, with the "boot", missing off where your gear shift went through the floor board!!
Later
R3F
Red3Fish 4 weeks ago
In my misspent youth, I drove an 18 wheeler for a while.....not quite as glamorous as portrayed. 10 speed Roadranger, and no air cushioned seats!! LOL You, and your seat bounced to every seam in the highway, (and pot hole). They (the tractors) are about like driving a space craft today, compared to 45 yrs ago!! LOL
Later
R3F
Red3Fish 4 weeks ago 2
it runs in your blood
atchleyron 1 month ago
I always root for the semi when I watch Duel.
TheAlaskamarine 1 month ago
One of my favorite songs.
Greetings from Norway =)
aafkgirl91 1 month ago
I see the Duel truck is pictured. Great movie
z250B 1 month ago
Dogs Bollox Vid ;-)
WhiteLineCrime 1 month ago
Love the guitar on this
mikelandreth 1 month ago
This song would sound great covered by Junior Brown.
OScaleAmtrak 1 month ago
I am a Trucker and still listen to these songs while running the Highways and byways .thanks
Ladywiser1 2 months ago 2
@Ladywiser1 im not a trucker and i love these songs
2012zmac 1 month ago
i m only 32,but this era of music was the best
MrJustinbama 2 months ago
F.B.B. did an awesome cut of this tune
buffspringfield 2 months ago
Goog Old Dave Dudley!
rockabillygone 2 months ago
Thankyou very much for your downloads
1959Karena 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Sup with the Don Rich licks?!? Very cool!!! Great singing--very nice indeed.
absurdplanet 3 months ago
I love trucks and new places. This is so the job 4 meh!
HorseLuver628 3 months ago
Classic song matched by some classic rigs...thanks for a great post
thecountofbasie 3 months ago
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aafkgirl91 4 months ago
I am a 20 year old woman, and this is my favorite song <3
aafkgirl91 4 months ago
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nice ;)
SgtRebel34 3 months ago
is that an old pete fuelie at 1:06?
NP535overdrive 4 months ago
@NP535overdrive yeah thats the one in the movie Dual
traxcavator50 3 months ago
Real country music makes you wanna drive a truck, the current stuff makes you wanna jump in front of one!
enduroman428 4 months ago 89
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LMAO!!!! That was damn good one! I was not expecting that... "....current stuff makes you wanna jump in front of one!" too funny, gonna be laughing about his one. Going to tell it to my country music loving friends...
geekintheperimeter 2 months ago
@enduroman428 Damn Straight. >:D
TehJew22 2 months ago
@enduroman428 LMAO man you nailed it.So true so very true.
maxwelld1961 2 months ago
@enduroman428 thats a big 10-4
jermiahmartinez 1 month ago
@enduroman428 No kidding , No feeling No Heart!!!
WhostheMAC1 3 weeks ago
giving you new guy a heads up on trucking.Why you think the song talks about little white pill.it ani't cause he's a junky.Jitterbugs back on out.you new guy have fun
mogges1 4 months ago
Yeah trucking is a real ball.now you figure for the hrs you are on that truck.figure out a mc donals employee make 7 something and hr and your on that truck 24/7 while your out.you might make 2.50 .now here something else to think about
D O T them boys you'll love and they can make your day the shits you know what it cost to have a mud flap missing in Dallas tx. 250 if you own that truck it'll come out your pocket..OH I guess I'd better stop it might make some trucking school mad.
mogges1 4 months ago
NEW JERSEY by Monday.and where did you say you live HA HA HA!!! Dallas TX.Oh!!.you'll really began to love your Dispatcher.now it Monday and you ass is sitting up in New Jersey. by 10 am you wife is blow'en a fuse "HONEY"!! where you at new Jersey AAAAAh NEW JERSEY!!!!!.Hate to scare you new guys but thats the life of a trucker.you'll begain to lovehate your job
but dont believe me
mogges1 4 months ago
@mogges1 Honey be dressed up and ready to go when i get home friday lol!Then your on the cell phone 5 states away i wont be home honey
qball090872 4 months ago
@qball090872 will ok honey leave the " BEER"
mogges1 3 months ago
for 8 hrs.you cant sleep cause the trainer is in the sleeper while wait to load are unload. now you run your ass off trying to make a deadline.OH no driver you cant stop you'll shut the Plant down.there dieing for that load.and you get there and sit for 12 hrs HUM.Hay dispatcher thought they needed this HOT load.Now you wife's a call'en "HONEY"!! when you coming home?? you tell her Monday, will now it Friday and you favorite dispatcher a beep'en ya HAY DRIVER I GOT THIS HOT ASS LOAD GOING TO
mogges1 4 months ago
Now if your one of those kind that crave video game that 140 will that;ll be gone.now if your married will the wife will be pissed call dispatch wanting know why you have not got payed.now when you call home the wife will be cussing your ass out.Hony where to rent money, Oh honey the kids needs shoes.ah when are you coming home.just think it now been 4 WEEK and your ass is behind on all the bills your wife is PISSED OFF AT YOU!!trucki8ng is a great hum.now think of this you sit in a dam dock fo
mogges1 4 months ago
This is to all those thinking of getting in to trucking. first off DO NOT FALL for that line of make 51,000 your first yr.its bull these trucking companies only pay a new driver 350 a week to start.to those that do not know it cost 30 a day out there just to eat.now 30 time 7 thats 210 dollars a week.from 350. that will leave you with 140.not much is it.if your thinking of going to a trucking school all they will do is help you get your CDL.and everything they showed you thow it out the window
mogges1 4 months ago
6 days on the road and hell yea im gunna make it home tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!
savagechevyman 4 months ago
Back in the day, a "White" probably was a White-Freightliner.
BabyPuma124 5 months ago
Beautiful trucks, accept for the cabovers and volvos.
HorseLuver628 5 months ago
truckdrivers hymn gone are the days of armstrong power steering and roadranger crash boxes they are mostley autoshifts and air conditioning gone are the old 6 speed and 3 speed joey .love this song but aussie slim dustys lights on the hill would be equal favorite
1951jmc 6 months ago
truckdrivers hymn gone are the days of armstrong power steering and roadranger crash boxes they are mostley autoshifts and air conditioning gone are the old 6 speed and 3 speed joey
1951jmc 6 months ago
or a " freightshaker"?
rdfronnie 6 months ago
@rdfronnie A Freightliner. They are big junk plastic trucks.
xDONTxTREADxONxMEx 6 months ago
anyone one know what a " corn binder" is?
rdfronnie 6 months ago
lol ok from old truck driver ICC, interstate commerc comission,Jimmy is 5 star GMC,White is now frieght liner, codriver in glove box was code for white pills. and anyone remeber hand signels for cops location or chicken coops when there were no cbs? colored lights on dash told what channel on short wave your on ? lol
btk1873 6 months ago
Hey there - to anyone reading this - after loving this song for years and years, only about five years ago did I realize what ICC stood for, or "I'm a little overweight and my log books are way behind." Now getting ready to make the drive from Maine to Arizona and have got this on my iTunes. If you see a red Toyota - with a Siamese cat laying in the window - barrel by you as you drive west, it may be me!! God willing, I'll arrive safely.
hillyhill8645 6 months ago
Just found out a Jimmy is a GMC truck and a White is White truck Company bought out by Freightliner
tippersteffi1 6 months ago
What's a Jimmy and a White at 00:42
tippersteffi1 6 months ago
@tippersteffi1 I think a White is a White GMC but I dont know what a Jimmy is.
xDONTxTREADxONxMEx 6 months ago
SWEET.....! BLESSINGS TO DAVE AND YOU WHO POSTED IT.
airfanteddy 6 months ago
my dad ands i make just a long journey its unbelievebel i llove that job sow mutch
cobra6342 7 months ago
this is a great song, well written, with ICC checking on down the road, taking little white pills,etc
99% true lyrics by the writer.
bowater12345 7 months ago
@weightfeather1 No problem. Cheers!
elc1960 8 months ago
@weightfeather1 This is the original. Dudley was (as far as I know) not on a major label, and rerecorded this song several times for small independent labels (like Starday/Nashville). This is the original 1963 version.
elc1960 8 months ago
@elc1960
Actually, he was on Mercury for a time.
He was from my area. My parents were very close friends with him. My dad still has one of the stage vests that Dave gave to him.
MISisback 7 months ago
@MISisback Thanks for the info. I wasn't aware Dave was with Mercury. Then again, if your parents knew him then you would know about labels for which Dave recorded. Thanks again!
elc1960 7 months ago
i'm a real truck driver and HoustonPublisher has showed his ingnorance about driving a truck in a semi you feel every single pothole the truck or trailer hits. a semi would run right over a car but you would feel it i drive for u.s xpress and am 4th generation trucker .
fortysixand88 8 months ago 13
@fortysixand88 please trucim carefull i lost one of my best friend yers ago in Tanker Truck wreck. everytime i seee a semi i think of Chris
oldermusiclover 1 month ago
3 people with NO taste
Nineteen58Fury 8 months ago
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LOL at you including the rig from "Duel" at 1:02. I'm trying to imagine the psychopathic trucker in that movie merrily singing along with this on the radio as he's trying to run down Dennis Weaver's ass!
MervynCruddy 8 months ago
LOL at you including the rig from "Duel" at 1:07. I'm trying to imagine the psychopathic trucker in that movie merrily singing along with this on the radio as he's trying to run down Dennis Weaver's ass!
MervynCruddy 8 months ago
Just love that lead guitar !
mikelandreth 9 months ago
I think it should be against the law for anyone other than Dave Dudley to sing this song....and that guitar!...haaail yes!!
8aPeach2 9 months ago
Speak of truckin tunes the other day I got to meet Dale Watson!
borntrippin 9 months ago
Drive a Truck an listen to this Song ♥
UrteilonAir 10 months ago
I remember when I was 3-5 years old, I used to be scared of the big rigs when the engine was rattling when my dad used to drive them rigs, until i gotten bigger & then gotten over my fears of the noise too. Plus, my dad & uncle's had also gotten me into talking on the C.B.'s to other truckers or other people whom I've met in person too. So, it was all thanks to Convoy, Breaker, Breaker(w/Chuck Norris) & Smokey & The bandit movies too.
RockingRebel69 10 months ago
Great Vid for this!
theonamous 10 months ago
i have to say you got good taste somkey & the bandit is great and dave dudley is un beatable out of curiostity are you a turker i am but thats just me born and raised on it its in my blood
djdale860 11 months ago
DIESEL!
5jonesville 1 year ago
The most poisonous exhaust is odorless. Diesel stinks, but is not that harmful. however, anti-grav is the way to go.
howtoplanaparty 1 year ago
@460EFI Forgive my diesel ignorance, oh yes, I know diesel is oil, I just was not aware that new diesels blew smoke, it seemed to me throughout my life all the older rigs blew the black smoke and I thought it was worn rings, thanks for squaring me away. The intent of my original comment was for laughs and a backhand slap at government regulation but looks as if that original intention, at least in your interpretation, went up in smoke...
rainstormz28 1 year ago
snowman and the bandit.
baldy194859 1 year ago
Great song, tells the whole story !
megacat2012 1 year ago
@weightfeather1 He may have known it, but then again from what I saw it was a small car so can't be sure. One thig is for sure though the driver of that car was was lucky they were in front of the rig and didn't go under the van, if would of been the case it would be over for them and that's for sure.
HoustonPublisher 1 year ago
Smoke blowing black as coal? Mr. Dudley, think of the environment and get that long overdue ring job..you don't want some govermental agency going into spasms, now do you????ha...ha..
rainstormz28 1 year ago
@rainstormz28 lol. man, diesels blow smoke when they are brand new. (if they are tuned right.) you realized diesel IS oil? when they blow smoke, it just means that the motor isnt gettin enough air to burn all the fuel. most big rigs wont even need a ring job til or after the million mile mark. AND, where he says flames are shootin out the stack, well, back in the day, there were trucks that really did shoot flames. ;)
460EFI 1 year ago
Dave Dudley was a Gay truckdriver who loved meeting men at greasy truckstops and fornacating in the back of his smelly old Rig.
yourdickis2limp 1 year ago
By the way, where'd you meet him?
mastouris69 1 year ago
Been there, done that.
Four million miles and still trucking.
I started driving in 1959 in a gravel pit. I was fourteen at the time and am still going. Wouldn't consider doing anything else.
And have never been without a job. Good drivers are always in demand.
Creaky1964 1 year ago
@Creaky1964 keep on truckin....
mastouris69 1 year ago
I had the original single of this from 1963 - it was on Golden Wing records. Dave Dudley had several other truck drivin' songs like this one. One of them gave birth to a Ric Flair promo: "I'm a kiss stealin', wheelin' dealin' (limousine ridin', jet flyin') truck drivin' son of a gun".
elc1960 1 year ago
Im 13 but Iv had the pic at 059 hangin on my wall since i was 3
Peterbiltluver 1 year ago
omg reminds me of my dad thad died driving his big rig .12/29/81/ this is for you daddy!
metalmom63 1 year ago
BREAKER! BREAKER! Who's that HOT blonde driven the Kenworth?
HoboGus 1 year ago
This is a kick A** song! My muscles get pumped just listening to it! ★★★★★!
AquANeoNDreaM 1 year ago
It was really a Rock & Roll song and Dudley should be considered for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!!!
OlymPigs2010 1 year ago
Love this!!!!
MsBananabelle 1 year ago
The Peterbilt from the movie "DUEL" at 1:05.
4freespeech 1 year ago
@4freespeech I thought I was the only one that liked that movie! Very good flick and terribly underated. Same ilk as Vanishing Point
Prestologs 1 year ago
not a bad looking peterbilt.
baldie194859 1 year ago
Awesome the backup singers making the truck sound Raaaaaaaaain?
mrhayz600 1 year ago
Awesome listen to the back up singers makin the truck sound Brrrrrraaaaaain!
mrhayz600 1 year ago
Best version ever
MJSCountry 1 year ago
The different engines that were keystone in changing the industry. The 2-cycle motors from GM came out of the war and into the first over the road trucks. Cummins was always a strong player as well. Guys were buying larger injectors from companies on their routes and playing with the pumps for speed. But still no comparison to the motors of the day. Then there was CAT. I will not forget pulling big mountain,, settled in for the climb and a CAT outpulled. That motor was that good back then 60's.
MaddogMarineSibil 1 year ago
@MaddogMarineSibil 671 DID ME RIGHT ON MY EPIC CRUISE FROM NEW YORK TO CINTI. ON THE WATER . up the hudson river to the erie canal across lake erie ,up lake Huron down lake Mich. thru chicago ship &sanitation canal ,Ill. waterway down the Mississippi & up the Ohio river In 187 ft. boat built 1902
rockme51 1 year ago
Hey-TheBandit... your timing on the lyrics to the images is excellent! Love that part where "it's blowin' black as coal"! I've 2.5 Million miles + OTR and I love this song! Listened to it as a kid back about '76 and watched TV's "MOVIN" ON". Now I have a 21 year truckin' career to look back on. Thank you for the upload!
45Driver 1 year ago
Good job! Smoke blowing black as coal.... Think I'm happy?...Your right! Perfect timing!
dirtydobber123 1 year ago
Awsome, just freakin awsome!
bionictrucker1 1 year ago
you could have a b model cat with 3.73s but flip them top 2 gears around and really get things done!!!!
tbonefromhell 1 year ago
Cool Song.
Monsternutt 1 year ago
Cool!!z!
dallymallyer 1 year ago
Love this song!!!
wrj9221 1 year ago
Great video and really great song. First heard it when I was ten back in 63
MrKJP101 1 year ago
FUCK YEAH
docwondernuts 1 year ago
well done
jjnippleman 1 year ago
Was soll ich sagen...? Great! Keep
on trucking!
GunnarOlaf 1 year ago
Offloaded 18 wheelers for 15 years. Enjoyed meeting all the different drivers from around the country. Not one of them looked like Jerry Reed!
halkonsurfone 1 year ago
Screamers r pretty good 2
Deathkilla39 1 year ago
That Army tanker is badass. I used to drive one of them when I was in the service.
mnsnake 2 years ago
I cant wait till i get my class - a cdl drivin a freightliner with a detroit 500 - just four more years and then my dad can relax back in the bunk
Deathkilla39 2 years ago
this song reminds me of my old tow truck a 671 powered international with a 13 speed roadranger
6D9fbird 2 years ago
ouch 318 screamer
farmboi27 1 year ago
I heard this song when i was on the eastern seeboard head home from 3 weeks out!!
qball090872 2 years ago
Couple years ago, Our '50 Chevy 3.5 ton grain truck wouldn't go into the 3 high gears, so my dad borrowed his friend's old Diamond T tractor and rented a grain trailer. On one of our trips to the elevator, this song played on the classic country station. That was COOL!
Kolfritz 2 years ago 11
the truck my dad drives can go 136 flat out and it's a peterbilt 379 with a 600 cat
884427726zb 2 years ago
nice truck...ext hood? and what year?
S10man93 2 years ago
it is a 2000 379
884427726zb 2 years ago
thats what a man who sings ought to sound like
dizzypilots1 2 years ago 23
old trucks are cooler.
TheBandit77TransAm 2 years ago
So are old truck drivers. I had several uncles that were truckers & they were the coolest. :-)
chesterzelda 2 years ago
Today's new trucks can cover some ground, one blew past me like I was standing still on the Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson, I was going 75, he must have been going 120 or faster.
81broncoman 2 years ago
in the past they geared the trucks slow and then ran them fast, at their limits mos of the time, today we gear them fast and in most cases drive them slow, but all it takes to get a truck to do 100 these days is a few clicks of a mouse
redneckfromthenort 2 years ago
yeah........but older trucks are still cooler. great machines. you're right though, changes in speed for trucks these days are easy.
TheBandit77TransAm 2 years ago
yeah old trucks are alot cooler, easier to work on to lol
redneckfromthenort 2 years ago
@TheBandit77TransAm one button kit will do the trick @ it takes 15 minutes in a truck stop parking lot BACK THEN when a fellow trucker would help in de regulation sucked the solidarity out of US
carolina4733 1 year ago
@redneckfromthenort if you run a truck over 65 you use more fuel than anything 65 is the ultimate speed for a truck. my daddy had an older truck it ran great my brother has a 07 and it runs great so there isn't any dispute in my eyes to see if they older the better they are it's all in the driving in my opinion..
darksoulwu 1 year ago
Those movies like Convoy really crack me up. They make good entertainment, though far from reality. Haven driven every type of truck Dave Dudley's singing about in this song, I can tell you, anyone in their right mind would never attempt to drive a car under a rig unless they're ready to commit suicide. I can tell you this, when that rig runs over them and it will that driver won't even spill his coffee, loaded or unloaded. If the driver even knows he hit something. Nice try though Hollywood.
HoustonPublisher 2 years ago 4
hahaha yeah tell me about it. although Smokey and the Bandit had a lot of realism.........it was very possible to do. I don't think anyone is that stupid to do that, but its possible! haha lol
TheBandit77TransAm 2 years ago 4
@TheBandit77TransAm saw a guy try in LA a year ago...didnt end well...lost his head
countrymusicgtavboy2 7 months ago
Natl. Lampoons Christmas Vacation!
S10man93 2 years ago
Nice work here.
NASCARTHUNDER01 2 years ago
nice cool song Dave Dudley rules.
GooseGoose01 2 years ago
Nice work!!
TannerG1989 2 years ago
Good choice of song I LOVE THIS VID.
epiphoneplayer10 3 years ago
Good video,a nd an outstanding song. Great!
Johi2410 3 years ago