Updating the top 10 trucking songs of all time

Updated July 12, 2021, as part of Overdrive's 60th-anniversary series looking back on our history and trucking history itself. 

In 2011, as Overdrive's September 50th-anniversary issue approached, I asked the audience here and via Overdrive's Facebook page for their nominations for No. 1 greatest of all-time trucking song. From a list of those songs with repeat nominations it was whittled to 10 of the most-nominated, then voted on by you for the rankings you see below.

For this year's 60th anniversary, I want to update this list to reflect your current take, given 10 more amazingly diverse years' worth of trucking tunes in the rear-view. Drop your current pick for No. 1 all-time greatest trucking song in the comments here toward that update, whether it's one of the following 10 tracks or more recent classics.  

Read more in And one other remarkable detail of the original version of this list -- it started with an acknowledgement of the influence of one "Big Al" Weekley on its creation -- he was kind enough to vet our list at the time (as was the great Bill Mack, since passed on) and noted many additional songs that he recalls being requested over his long years as a trucking-music DJ, many of which didn’t make the final list, unfortunately. He was producing his own show at the time, and 10 years later, as regular readers will know, he's still doing so, with Overdrive's own involvement in "Overdrive's Music to Truck By." 

If you've missed any of the weekly episodes to date, you can listen via the playlist below and live every Friday at 10 a.m. Eastern via TheBluegrassJamboree.com. It's sure you'll hear one or another of the following tracks spun on most episodes, which brings together classic trucking music and more-recent contributions by the many trucker-songwriters producing music today.