# Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June ... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 6, 2017, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dark-of-the-moon-on-the-sixth-of-june/788263 "2017-06-06T10:22:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dark-of-the-moon-on-the-sixth-of-june/788263/21 "2017-06-07T15:24:30Z")
Since the lyrics say: _Was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June In a Kenworth pullin’ logs_ I’d assume RD was in the Kenworth. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dark-of-the-moon-on-the-sixth-of-june/788263/22 "2017-06-07T15:24:48Z")
For a lot of my single-digit years, I thought the line “We just ain’t a-gonna pay no toll … So we crashed the gate, doing 98 … I said ‘Let them truckers roll, 10-4’” was the best lyric ever recorded. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > So, the lil ol convoy started out with just “a Kenworth haulin’ logs, a cabover Pete with a reefer on, and a Jimmy haulin’ hogs”. Obviously, the Jimmy is “Pig Pen”, but which is the Duck? [Wikipedia’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(song)) entry on the song would have us believe that RD is at the wheel of the Kenworth; I see no reason to dispute that. > [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > The movie gives RD a Mack and a tank trailer. It also gives him a different motivation from the song, so we’ll just ignore that film completely. We watched the movie about a year ago; I’d forgotten that it was directed by Sam Peckinpah. (It’s not a very good movie, but it’s interesting from a stylistic/historic sense.) Shoutout to “['Round the World With the Rubber Duck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukM73rSi488),” the sequel to “Convoy” that recounted how the long-haired friends of Jesus allowed about half of the trucks to cross the Atlantic Ocean. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dark-of-the-moon-on-the-sixth-of-june/788263/23 "2017-06-07T15:37:29Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Interesting, thanks! Still, I find the CB and internet message board conceptions of “handle/username” to be more closely related – more than just a nickname, but a way to preserve anonymity when communicating with many people you can’t see, over a distance. A quote that I usually see attributed to Dave Barry: “The Internet is just CB Radio with more typing.” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dark-of-the-moon-on-the-sixth-of-june/788263/24 "2017-06-07T16:10:01Z")
There certainly were a lot of “trucker” films in the 70s, as well as tv series Movin’ On, BJ and the Bear, and at least one episode that I know of (McClouod - Bonnie and McCloud) trying to catch the wave of CBs and trucks. As a teenager who liked to build truck models, I watched them all. As an adult fan of good films, well…I don’t think I’ll go buy any copies for my collection. Though I must add that _Hijack!_ holds up well. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dark-of-the-moon-on-the-sixth-of-june/788263/25 "2017-06-07T16:19:06Z")
So, would [Duel](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/) be a trucker movie or a horror movie? ---
**Author:** ![Satchmo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/satchmo/32/4223_2.png) [@Satchmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satchmo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dark-of-the-moon-on-the-sixth-of-june/788263/26 "2017-06-07T17:36:08Z")
Also a short lived TV series called [The Highwayman](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094479/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_62), starring Sam J. Jones aka Flash Gordon. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dark-of-the-moon-on-the-sixth-of-june/788263/27 "2017-06-07T17:45:33Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > So, would [Duel](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/) be a trucker movie or a horror movie? I’d put it as horror. It isn’t _about_ the truck. It isn’t about the The truck is more of a “monster”. Since you really don’t see the driver, the truck itself is the monster. While no one thinks the truck is supernatural, de-emphasising the driver moves it closer to classic horror in tone. It’s like _Killdozer_ without the supernatural aspects. For a similar style, _Hot Rods to Hell_ is about the kids driving the titular vehicles, not the cars themselves, and isn’t horror. Maximum Overdrive likewise isn’t a trucker movie, I would think, and neither is Transformers. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-the-dark-of-the-moon-on-the-sixth-of-june/788263.md?page=1)