Should be Friday topic but will be gone from our minds by then, and
one person deserves remembering:

The song Convoy was commissioned by a DJ named Charlie Douglas (born
Doug China) who, while at the clear channel station in Louisiana where
he worked in the 70s, needed content for his then-new all-trucker
radio show. Charlie passed away a few months ago. He was a friend of
mine. He knew just about everything there was to know about popular
music.

Jim

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Flamers
>
> Mention of dangerous loads and Micro Bus (clearly vw) but nary a mention of
> UN Numbers
>
> paul brandt credited with lyrics
>
> (Yeah, breaker one-nine, this here's the Rubber Duck,
> you got a copy on me Pigpen? C'mon.)
> (Ah yeah, ten-four Pigpen, for sure, for sure.
> By golly it's clean clear to Flagtown. C'mon.)
> (Yeah, that's a big ten-four there Pigpen. Yeah, we definitely got the
> front door good buddy. Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy)
>
> It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
> In a Kenworth pullin logs
> Cab over Pete with a reefer on
> And a Jimmy haulin hogs
> We's headed for bear on eye-one-oh
> About a mile outta Shakeytown
> I says Pigpen, this here's the Rubber Duck
> And I'm about to put the hammer down
>
> Coz we got a little convoy rockin' thru the night
> Yeah we got a little convoy aint she a beautiful sight
> Come on and join our convoy aint nothin' gonna get in our way
> We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the USA
> Convoy
>
> (Ah, breaker,
> Pigpen this here's the Duck and you wanna back off on them hogs?)
> (Ah, ten-four, about five mile or so)
> (Ten roger, them hogs is gettin' IN-tense up here)
>
> By the time we got into Tulsa town we had 85 trucks in all
> But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
> And them bears 's wall to wall
> Yeah them smokeys 's thick as bugs on a bumper
> They even had a bear in the air
> I says Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck
> We about to go a-huntin' bear
>
> Coz we got a great big convoy rockin' thru the night
> Yeah we got a great big convoy aint she a beautiful sight
> Come on and join our convoy aint nothin' gonna get in our way
> We gonna roll this truckin' convoy across the USA
> Convoy
>
> (Ah, you want to give me a ten-nine on that Pigpen?)
> (Ah, negatory Pigpen, you're still too close.
> Yeah them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses.
> Mercy's sakes you better back off another ten)
>
> Well we rolled up Interstate Forty-Four
> Like a rocket sled on rails
> We tore up all of our swindle sheets
> And left 'em sittin' on the scales
> By the time we hit that Shi town
> Them bears was a-gettin' smart
> They bought up some reinforcements
> From the Illinois National Guard
>
> There's armoured cars and tanks and jeeps
> And rigs of every size
> Yeah them chicken coops was full of bears
> And choppers filled the skies
> Well we shot the line
> We went for broke
> With a thousand screaming trucks
> And eleven longhaired friends of Jesus
> In a chartreuse microbus
>
> (Ah, Rubber Duck, this is Sodbuster. C'mon here?)
> (Yeah, ten-four Sodbuster.
> Listen, ya wanna put that microbus in behind that suicide jockey?)
> (Yeah he's haulin' dynamite and he needs all the help he can get)
>
> Well we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
> Prepared to cross the line
> I could see the bridge was lined with bears
> But I didn't have a doggone dime
> I says Pigpen this here's the Rubber Duck
> We just aint gonna pay no toll
> So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
> I says Let them truckers roll, ten-four
>
> Coz we got a mighty convoy rockin' thru the night
> Yeah we got a mighty convoy aint she a beautiful sight
> Come on and join our convoy aint nothin' gonna get in our way
> We gonna roll this truckin' convoy across the USA
> Convoy
>
> (Ah, ten-four Pigpen. What's your twenty? OMAHA?
> Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there, for sure.
> Well mercy sakes good buddy, we gonna back on outta here,
> So keep your thumbs off your glass and the bears off your ......tail.
> We'll catch you on the flip-flop.
> This here's the Rubber Duck on the side. We gone. bye bye.)
>
> [Thanks to Country fan 15 for corrections]
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> �RE: Reading Haz Mat Placards
>>
>> Thanks for all the links that have been posted, leads to great and detailed
>> information. �But, to use a phrase that has become a new part of our
>> society, "There's and App for that!!"
>> It dawned on me that I should check to see if there was anything avaialble
>> for my Android phone and sure enough, several 'apps' (damn, I hate that
>> term!) to give the ability to look up based on the number on the placard.
>> Downloaded one, I'll see how well it works on the next trip.
>>
>
>
>
> --
> roger w
> �From Proverbs:
> Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
> servant who becomes king ...
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