Heres a challenge for you all
to jointly compose a UK truck drivers ballad!!!
It has to rhyme… and be in verses… I will start the first line and then the next member adds one that rhymes And if at that point …completes the verse lets try to ensure it makes sense and portrays our industry…
My First line…
Motorway running… all is fine,
But something tells me , just down the line…
Rikki… what are you on??, I want some… LOL… 
Okay, heres my tuppence worth…
Brake Lights shine One by One…
there goes my speed in sad decline…
… I’m climbing this hill, but don’t have the power
Time for a stop in less than an hour.
(From the busman’s lament: I’ve driven a volvo, denis dart and optare, but I keep getting Iveco’s it’s not [zb] fair. I think they should scrap them and put them to grass, and if I get one tomorrow they can just kiss my ahem)
Motorway running… all is fine,
But something tells me , just down the line…
Brake Lights shine One by One…
there goes my speed in sad decline
I’m climbing this hill, but don’t have the power
Time for a stop in less than an hour
NEXT VERSE ANYONE??
I got a knackered old DAF when I turned up on Monday to work
The boss is a nutter, and the planner’s a qualified jerk
It’s the middle of winter, ten below
I’m stuck outside a warehouse, got nowhere to go
Six days on the road, I’m going to make it to a lay-by tonight
TruckNet UK:
Motorway running… all is fine,
But something tells me , just down the line…
Brake Lights shine One by One…
there goes my speed in sad decline
I’m climbing this hill, but don’t have the power
Time for a stop in less than an hourNEXT VERSE ANYONE??
What we need to a Name for this song, and the next bit is the Chorus…
And what is it??, is it a sad, slow typical old style country??, or a modern upbeat country/rock??, or a pure fire-breathing Rock/Metal track??..
"ensure it makes sense and portrays our industry… "
Crikey!! Truck-driving makes sense?
Portray which part of the industry?
The part where we get punished for working too hard?
Or the part where we have to eat ghastly over-priced food and pay exorbitant sums of money just to park up for the night?
Maybe a verse about how we get locked up abroad for no reason?
Or how we get shafted by cops, ministry men, freight agents, customs officials, cut-price foreign hauliers, juvenile planners with acne, incompetent forklift drivers who wreck our trailers, Albanian people smugglers, …
I vote for country-rock, coz it’s quite easy to play. And no pedal steel guitars. I’m off the beach for ten days so I shall take the trusty acoustic with me and work on a tune. Jolly good idea.
As I was driving down the road,
a Trucker I did spy,
His pants were down around his feet,
a tear was in his eye.
He said “I’ve been acosted by a trucker who was gay”
I smiled at him then winked and said
“This ain’t your lucky day”
i know he said it dont look good
in fact its very bleak
i didnt think thats what he meant
when he said turn the other cheek!!!
Something tells me that’ll never make number 1!! 
Don’t give up the day job lads
And theres me thinking this was gonna be serious!!..
oh yeah of little faith… . just sing it like “ernie the fastest milkman”. its gotta be better than the cheeky girls…hasnt it?
Motorway running… all is fine,
But something tells me , just down the line…
Brake Lights shine One by One…
there goes my speed in sad decline
I’m climbing this hill, but don’t have the power
Time for a stop in less than an hour
chorus
foot to the floor , hear those engine’s roar
ain’t gonna stop till i reach the door.
kitkat:
Motorway running… all is fine,
But something tells me , just down the line…
Brake Lights shine One by One…
there goes my speed in sad decline
I’m climbing this hill, but don’t have the power
Time for a stop in less than an hourchorus
foot to the floor , hear those engine’s roar
ain’t gonna stop till i reach the door.
I open the door and the coffee smells fine. It’ll really help me
to get down the line. That’s my stop made and I’m off
up the grade for 15 hours of diesel and grief. When I stop for the night, I’ll sleep allright, the booking time’s crazey . I’ll never make that
so if you ring me again you can go to hell.
I remember a sketch by Not the 9 o Clock news which was a trucking song. Think is it was “I love truckin and i like to truck”. They were driving a Leyland Roadtrain ( remember them) or at least a Leyland with the T45 cab on it.
Going off thread does anyone know what happened to the ■■■■■■■ Roadtrain Leyland did. I remember seeing it at the Scottish Motor Show (86?) one of the truck mags did a feature on it at the time.