And I was running with it. I don’t actually believe in ghosts, you know. 
Though I do routinely eat at the EAT truck stop on the 10 in Cabazon, the one with the dinosaurs. No ghost truckers spotted so far.
Say what you will about “Convoy”, it’s at least no “Put Another Log On The Fire”.
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(about ghost trucks) I didn’t know there was a code for that! Does it happen enough that a special code is needed?
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You won’t find them on the road…they just exist in the billing when a trucking company wants to cheat on a job where they’re paid by the load.
The point being that Rubber Duck is at the head of the convoy in Jersey, and Pig Pen is at the end in Omaha. That’s one looooooong convoy!
You drive six miles and your convoy has reached the other coast.
The first time I went there, I was tempted to say “Large Marge sent me.” But I thought, nah, they must hear that all the time. But surprisingly, they don’t have ANY memorabilia from the film. I figured they’d at least have a Pee Wee Memorial Booth, but nope. Not even a framed picture.
And to make it worse, the dinosaurs were bought by some fundamentalist Christian sect, and they use them as promoting tools for their “dinosaurs were contemporary to humans” spiel.
^ I gotta go lie down. 
Enjoy the lesser known sequel Around the World with the Rubber Duck.
Well, convoy isn’t actually sexist. Or even masculinist. It’s just this kind of boyish fantasy about wow wouldn’t it be cool if we all just convoyed together and then we would stick it to the man with their rules and hassles. The song ends before the inevitable break up of the convoy, because everyone there has a job moving a load. They don’t appear to be trying to blow off their actual jobs. Their complaints seem to be only about the chickenshit they deal with on the job - tolls and weigh stations, possibly also road rules and those who enforce them. But they’ve got the attention of authorities, but each vehicle loses the immunity of the convoy as soon as it attempts to break away and finish its job.
I know there was a movie based on this song, but I’ve never seen it. Can anyone tell me how they dealt with consequences in the film?
Been a long time since I’ve seen it so I can’t remember but you could watch it here.