# Explain the plot of the song "Convoy" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2011, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-plot-of-the-song-convoy/584842 "2011-06-09T08:49:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-plot-of-the-song-convoy/584842/41 "2011-06-11T03:03:37Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > If you want an even odder song, try the sequel “'Round the World with the Rubber Duck.” “My channel knob just went _crick._” ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-plot-of-the-song-convoy/584842/42 "2011-06-11T19:49:58Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > The real oddity isn’t the police reaction, it’s why the convoy is doing this in the first place. That’s exactly my point. > [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > “The man who laughs has not been told the terrible news.” Really, now. Is the fact that this song was a #1 hit due to no more than a catchy tune with some amusing imagery in the lyrics, or was the whole country stoned when I was born? This is what gets on the charts? We’re cheering in righteous indignation about truckers so they can speed? Did the country just suddenly switch its attention from Vietnam and Watergate to “Convey” as though they were of equal weight? ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-plot-of-the-song-convoy/584842/43 "2011-06-11T20:08:48Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > All the boys and some of the girls. I remember being absolutely obsessed with 18 wheelers around that period. I took a cross country trip with my parents in 1976 and I spent the whole trip counting trucks on the highway. One of the highlights of the trip was when we stopped at a rest stop and a real trucker let me sit in his cabover Kenworth. 🙂 Indeed, I remember the endless commercials for the K-Tel Album of truck driver songs the aired after school on TV. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-plot-of-the-song-convoy/584842/44 "2011-06-11T22:39:03Z")
First, they came for the speeding truckers, and I did not say anything because I was not a speeding trucker… ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-plot-of-the-song-convoy/584842/45 "2011-06-11T23:32:58Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > Is the fact that this song was a #1 hit due to no more than a catchy tune with some amusing imagery in the lyrics, or was the whole country stoned when I was born? You do not understand the power of chartreuse. Only half the country was stoned. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-plot-of-the-song-convoy/584842/46 "2011-06-12T02:14:31Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > Well. That turned into quite a heap of over-analysis, didn’t it? It’s just a silly song, after all. Short version, it’s like Vanishing Point, but bigger and slower. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2011, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-plot-of-the-song-convoy/584842/47 "2011-06-12T03:20:49Z")
> [@Laggard](#): > > Man that song was popular when I was in grade school. All the boys were going to be truck drivers when they grew up. None of them ever did. I learned how to drive a truck, and did a number of runs too. But I didn’t do it because of the song; and to the best of my knowledge, I was the only one from my high school class who did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/explain-the-plot-of-the-song-convoy/584842.md?page=2)