"Look, son! It's one of nature's most beautiful sights: the convoy!"
-- Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "Maximum Homerdrive"
A series of vehicles moving together, usually military vehicles or truckers.
Also a hit "novelty" song (c) 1976 by C.W. McCall (From the album Black Bear Road) - Songwriting credit to Bill Fries and Chip Davis.
Beginning with the opening line "It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June..."1, the song chronicled a multi-state trip by the narrator, with the CB handle "Rubber Duck", and his ever-growing transport truck convoy. They travel from Los Angeles (called 'Shaky Town' in the song) through Tulsa and clear across the continental United States, via Chi-Town, to end up on the Jersey Shore. Full of trucker lingo and CB 10-codes, the song spent six weeks across the pop and country charts in early 1976.
The song spawned a 1978 Kris Kristofferson movie, directed by Sam Peckinpah, co-starring Ali MacGraw and Ernest Borgnine.
We gone. 'Bye,'bye.
- The remainder of the actual lyric has been removed, as per most recent opinions on E2 and copyrighted materials. Sorry, you'll have to Google it up...