Trucking
As you may have heard, Santa is having distribution problems in the run-up to Christmas this year. He has contacted Kingsley Brothers Trucking and Freight to help out with the crunch. We’re getting into an 18-wheeler to deliver presents to his various warehouses throughout the continent. People think that since it would be physically impossible to load Santa’s sleigh with the billions of presents necessary to be delivered on Christmas night, that Santa therefore cannot possibly exist. On the contrary, Santa uses a hub-and-spoke distribution strategy, where the presents are stored in warehouses ahead of time, and he can just load up for one or two municipalities at a time. Therefore, it’s up to us truckers to stock these sites in anticipation of the big night.
Santa ponders the famous mathematical Traveling Salesman Problem as he deals with the complicated logistics of Christmas night.
1 - Haulin' Freight - Bob Newman - 1951
2 - Free Wheeling - Leo Watson with Art Shaw and his New Music – 1937
3 - Truck Drivers' Coffee Stop - Dick Reinhart and his Lone Star Boys - 1941
4 - Truck Drivin' Man - Cowboy Jack Derrick - 1947
5 - Truckin' - Prairie Ramblers – 1935
6 - Lonesome Truck Driver Blues - Ray Smith - 1951
7 - Truck Drivers Night Run Blues - Joe "Cannonball" Lewis – 1951
8 - Truck Driver's Boogie - Jim Boyd and his Men of the West - 1950
9 - The Highway Is My Home - Lowell Fulson with Orchestra – 1948
10 - A Fool At the Steering Wheel - Merle Travis - 1948
11 - Heavy Traffic Ahead - Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys - 1946
Refrigerated truck for delivering Christmas snack trays and fruitcakes.
12 - Will There Be a Traffic Light - Carl Story and The Rambling Mountaineers – 1949
13 - Hub Cap Roll - Jimmy Bryant with Speedy West – 1951
14 - Four Wheel Drive - Russell Procope's Big Six – 1946 instrumental
15 - Headlight Blues - Zuzu Bollin – 1951
16 - Can't Nobody Truck Like Me - Leo Raley with Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers - 1937
17 - Let's Get Hot and Truck - Bob Pope and his Orchestra – 1936
18 - The Wayward Truck Matter - Johnny Dollar – 1957 (Radio Drama)
The 1951 De Soto. WSHD-LP Eastport does not endorse this product.
19 - Truck Driver Contestant - You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx – 1950 (Radio Comedy)
20 - Truck Drivers Ride - Jimmy Bryant with Speedy West - 1951
A glimpse into the Santa Multiverse
