Canada's Song Of The Year

When I was in my early teens there was a song that was popular for a while, "Convoy" by C.W. McCall. It was about an ever-growing convoy of outlaw truck drivers that proceed eastward across the United States.

Citizen's Band (CB) radio was popular at the time, with the general public and not only with truck drivers, and the backdrop of the song is the truckers talking to each other on CB. Each trucker had a CB "handle" or username. The song is through the perspective of "Rubber Duck". 

CB radio had it's own 10 codes, 10-4 means "OK". Truck drivers had their own CB slang, "bears" were state police who wear hats similar to that of Smokey Bear.

I thought it was just a fanciful song. I had never heard of any such thing as a hostile convoy of trucks.

But the truck protests in Canada are like this song come to life. It is just about like the scenario in the song. The trucks started in the west and moved eastward, focusing on Ottawa.

Toward the end of the song the convoy approaches a toll bridge. Sure enough the focus of the protests in Canada recently moved to the Ambassador Bridge.

I see online that the song reached number one in Canada. I am certain that this song, which was later made into a movie, planted the psychological seed for the present protests. The singer was American but Canada is also dependent on long-distance trucking. 

I don't think that the "Convoy" song was totally original. There was an earlier song about motorcyclists, "Born To Be Wild" by Steppenwolf. "Convoy" is very much like a remaking of that song for truckers.