C.W. McCall, the country singer who celebrated truck-driving culture with the hit “Convoy,” has died at 93
“The truckers were forming things called convoys and they were talking to each other on CB radios,” McCall said in a
— also contained elements of a protest song. The 1973 gas shortage, subsequent price spikes, and long lines at the pumps had Americans roiled. A 55 MPH speed limit particularly rankled truckers, who struggled to make a profit amid high gas prices and government regulation.
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