The truck-driving ballads that flashed through country music in the 1960s and early 1970s eventually fueled a popular-culture craze for trucking, culminating in a brief CB radio fad.

Dave Dudley, a pioneer of truck-driving country songs and a former radio disc jockey who recorded more than 40 country hits from 1961 to 1980, died Monday in Danbury, Wis. He was 75. The cause was … ...

Dave Dudley, the country music singer regarded by many as the "father of truck driving songs," has died.

Tony Justice calls the wide open road and Dandridge, Tennessee, home. He’s a throwback, this gear-jamming and country music singing free spirited son of the south.

I like a good truck-driving song. Was “Convoy” a good truck-driving song? Your artistic mileage may vary, but in terms of commercial success, “Convoy,” released in 1975 at the height of ...

He was an advertising executive whose spoken-word songs about truck driving and CB radio became unlikely hits in the 1970s.

TORONTO, Ont. - Why are there so few Canadian trucking songs? Outside of "Bud the Spud," one is hard pressed to come up with any truck driving tunes that fly the Maple Leaf.Yes, there was Hank Snow an ...