Owner-operator David Michaels, of Baxter, Tennessee, has been selected as one of 10 semi-finalists in the Overdrive-Red Eye Radio Trucker Talent Search competition for 2021. He submitted his original song, “The Storm,” which he says has a double meaning.
“I wrote the song about my little dog who has become my service dog,” he says. “But when you listen to the song and the words, it’s of a child singing about her parents.”
Michaels started singing at age 7 and began writing songs in 2004. He says he entered the contest because “I felt I’d be giving back to my trucker family out here.”
The 49-year-old owner-operator has been trucking for 31 years and currently hauls van freight over the road for Balkan Xpedited.
