For conservatives, bad ideas never die, they just get recycled ad nauseam. So when a few dumbfuck truckers decide they’ve had enough of this mask-wearing, vaccine-taking reality, they retreat to the same dumb response their pappies and grandpappies did when faced with problems that, given their limited intellects, they couldn’t possibly understand.
This was a stupid song back when it came out, and it has remained stupid through the years. Sure, it was only written and produced in 1975 to capitalize on the citizens band radio craze of the day, but its sentiment — that truckers were somehow being victimized by government because they had to follow safety regulations — was born from the same narcissistic obsession with their imaginary victimization so common among conservatives today. Fuck your feelings? Yeah, because they’re too busy whining about their own.
Ask yourself, do you really want truckers dodging the regulations on load weight and driver rest that exist to keep other motorists safe? Was it really onerous to have to drive 55 mph? Did common citizens support this agenda? Of course not, just as common citizens don’t support the conservative agenda today.
The name “C.W. McCall” was just as bogus as the trucker complaints outlined in the lyrics — he was created by an adman, William Dale Fries, for bread commercials. The commercials led to a couple of country songs, one of which reached No. 40 on the country charts, before “Convoy” became a surprise No. 1 hit. Fries tried repeatedly to capture more lightning in the same bottle without anywhere near the same success, so he became an environmentalist and moved to Colorado.
The music, by the way, was written by Chip Davis, who later proved this mediocrity was no fluke by founding Mannheim Steamroller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqYTX7parRw