The Best Truck-Driving Country Songs

Got your ears on? Then keep the rubber side down and the bugs off your glass and get your eyeballs on this.

With their single ‘Truck Driver’s Blues’, Cliff Bruner and His Boys’ are often credited with the first ever truck-driving country song when it came out all the way back in 1939. But it was President Eisenhower's administration that introduced the interstate highway system and ushered in the golden age of trucker country in the mid-1960s as commercial long haul truck drivers and the lives they lead out on the road became the new pioneers of the West.

The curious country sub-genre boomed again in the 1970s with the crossover success of CW McCall's 'Convoy' and Jerry Reed's 'East Bound and Down', as truck drivers became unlikely American folk heroes.

We've gathered together 50 of the finest, from Dave Dudley to Red Simpson and Red Sovine to Dick Curless and Kathy Mattea, in our playlist of The Best Truck-Driving Country Songs.

Wind ‘er up, good buddy and let ‘er go! We’ll see y’all on the flip side. Over.

Check out the full tracklist below:

1. 1.

   Carole With an E

   Brennen Leigh

2. 2.

   Convoy

   C.W McCall

3. 3.

   Teddy Bear

   Red Sovine

4. 4.

   Six Days On The Road

   Dave Dudley

5. 5.

   Truck Driving Woman

   Norma Jean

6. 6.

   Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses

   Kathy Mattea

7. 7.

   East Bound and Down

   Jerry Reed

8. 8.

   Hello, I'm A Truck

   Red Simpson

9. 9.

   A Tombstone Every Mile

   Dick Curless

10. 10.

    Truck Stop Cutie

    Willis Brothers

11. 11.

    Truck Driver's Blues

    Cliff Bruner

12. 12.

    Endless Black Ribbon

    Tiny Harris

13. 13.

    Beaver on My Back, Bear on My Tail

    Red Simpson

14. 14.

    There Ain't No Easy Run

    Dave Dudley

15. 15.

    Truck Driving Mother

    Stella Parton

16. 16.

    Truck Driver's Lament

    Johnny Dollar

17. 17.

    White Line Fever

    Merle Haggard

18. 18.

    Truck Driving Man

    Dick Nolan

19. 19.

    Travelin' Man

    Dick Curless

20. 20.

    Little Joe

    Red Sovine

21. 21.

    The Bridge Washed Out

    Warner Mack

22. 22.

    Big Footed Dan

    Benny Martin

23. 23.

    Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves

    Red Simpson

24. 24.

    Long Haul Weekend

    Willis Brothers

25. 25.

    Gear Shiftin'

    Pete Drake

26. 26.

    Old Home Filler-Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Cafe

    C.W. McCall

27. 27.

    Little Ole Model A

    Buzz Martin

28. 28.

    Phantom 309

    Red Sovine

29. 29.

    The Girl on the Billboard

    Del Reeves

30. 30.

    Gooseball Brown

    Lonnie Irving

31. 31.

    Truck Drivin' Buddy

    Frankie Miller

32. 32.

    Sleeper, Five-By-Two

    Red Simpson

33. 33.

    Me and Ole C.B.

    Dave Dudley

34. 34.

    Eighteen Wheels A Rolling

    Betty Amos

35. 35.

    Giddy Up Go

    Red Sovine

36. 36.

    I've Been Everywhere

    Johnny Cash

37. 37.

    The Bull and The Beaver

    Merle Haggard

38. 38.

    California Turnarounds

    David Allan Coe

39. 39.

    Truck Drivin' Outlaw

    Dennis Olson

40. 40.

    Truck Driving Woman

    Philomena Begley

41. 41.

    The Legend

    Jerry Reed

42. 42.

    Woman Behind the Man Behind the Wheel

    Red Sovine

43. 43.

    Give Me Forty Acres

    Jim & Jesse

44. 44.

    Overloaded Diesel

    Jimmy Griggs

45. 45.

    C.B. Savage

    Rod Hart

46. 46.

    Diesel Drivin' Donut Dunkin' Dan

    Willis Brothers

47. 47.

    Caffeine, Nicotine, Benzedrine (And Wish Me Luck)

    Jerry Reed

48. 48.

    Green Truck Driver's First Experience With Radar

    Coleman Wilson

49. 49.

    Movin' On

    Merle Haggard

50. 50.

    Roll, Truck, Roll

    Red Simpson

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