C.W. McCall: McCall Keeps On Trucking
Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 21 February 1976
JUST IMAGINE the scenario: a thousand massive trucks, a petroleum-driven army, hurtling down the highway in a strict convoy formation, all the drivers linked together by radio, and the whole spear formation battering against anything that falls in its path like stop lights, toll booths and other road users.
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