Red Simpson, Bakersfield musician and Dust Bowl migrant whose 1971 country hit “I’m a Truck” helped propel a national enthusiasm for romantic truck-driving lore, has died. He died Friday in ...

Dave Dudley, the country music singer regarded by many as the “father of truck driving songs,” has died. He was 75. Dudley, whose “Six Days on the Road” became a hit record in 1963, died of an ...

If you grew up in the 1970s (or your parents did), you might remember the number-one hit song “Convoy” about a group of renegade truckers. The song spent one glorious week as number one on the pop ...

Bill Fries, an advertising executive better known by his stage name, C.W. McCall, who had hit country records in the 1970s about long-haul truck driving during the height of the citizens band radio ...