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And I've Been From Tucson to Tucumcari
allen griggs
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Tehachapi to Tonopah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made,
Driven the back roads, so I wouldn't get weighed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqv85coyTw&list=RDRNqv85coyTw
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made,
Driven the back roads, so I wouldn't get weighed...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNqv85coyTw&list=RDRNqv85coyTw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJHcD0kHTGk
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads, so I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me weed, whites, and wine
And show me a sign
I'll be willin'
Thank you Lowell George. Great song about truck driving.
I just dodged the scale in Texas the other day, on I 35 at mm 119. Hooked a load that was 540 heavy on the drive wheels. I didn't load it heavy, and I didn't drive it from North Carolina to Duson, Louisiana.
It was just my job to get it from Duson to Laredo Texas.
Just had to detour through Bigfoot Texas and I was on my way. The freight has got to be delivered.
Boys, this is my swan song. I am in Columbus Texas tonight, go to Laredo tomorrow. Then, it is back to South Carolina and I will clear out my truck and be done.
Got to take six months off to build an addition onto my log house.
I really like driving the Big Rig and will hate to leave the job. I am 64 years old and not getting any younger, got arthritis in the left hip that is not getting any better.
Gotta build this log house while I still can.
Hopefully, all will go well with the construction, and by October will be back in the Big Rig. Willin'
Are you going to post pics of your progress on the addition?
The "duck walk" under a trailer and climbing into a trailer using only the ICC bumper to stand on could be a problem if you have a hip joint issue.
You might talk to your employer and ask what hoops you will have to jump through when you go back in the fall.
I am a Celt and I need to learn the Celtic language, it is calling to me.
randomnut you are right, there was a lot more romance to truck driving back in the seventies when Lowell George recorded this song. If you smoke weed, you will be busted on a random drug test.
No sense in taking whites, and forging your log book. You don't have a log book, you have a computer to keep up with your time, and the computer doesn't lie, or even fudge the facts.
Back in the seventies, truck drivers hung around the driver's lounge, or outdoor picnic area at the truck stops, calling their wives on the pay phone, or talking with the other drivers, playing guitar and telling stories to one another. These days, drivers hole up in their trucks, talk to their wives on the cell phone, watch videos on their tvs, or mess around on the internet in air conditioned comfort. Like I am doing now.
It is a much more lonely job these days, than it was 40 years ago.