Gerald Lucas Jr.

Overdrive Staff

May 4, 2017

I wrote this song about a truck driver out of work trying to get back on the road building his truck out of spare parts from different rigs I thought it would have great appeal to truckers and since I’m a trucker I can relate to it

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