I received a couple of phone calls from drivers on Tuesday, Sept. 2, to relay the news that Jerry Reed had died at age 71. It was the first time in my eight years at Truckers News that someone called ...

Arguably the best-known and most-loved trucker movie is “Smokey and the Bandit,” and sharing that limelight is its signature song by Jerry Reed, “Eastbound and Down.” The movie, released in 1977, came ...