Introducing Tom Lang The Singing Trucker. Tom grew up in central Texas, so is not a stranger to hard work. He would stand at the end of the cotton rows, waving to the big rigs. He was

fascinated by them at a young age and began driving himself when he was 18, in Coos Bay, Oregon. His first truck was a model B Mac with manual steering. He built logging roads in the Sixes mountains of Coos Bay.

A gentleman by the name of Sam Main, hired Tom to drive the Mac. At that time he thought he was quite a stud and could drive any truck with ease, being a farm boy as he was then. On his first day of work, he thought that someone would show him the gear patterns but that was not to happen. His boss at the time, asked him what he was waiting for, and that it was time to head to the mountains. Tom looked at him, half scared to death, knowing he had no idea of the gear patterns. He looked at the boss and said, "I will try anything once."

After grinding and finding the gears on the way to the mountains, he found a few of the gears he needed.

On his first load of rock, he had to stand up to steer the old Mac, because it was so hard to turn. After 3 days of driving the monster, he was so sore, he had to spend a bigger part of his check on Ben-Gay to rub out all his aches and pains. He burnt up 4 heating pads trying to get his muscles to relax.

At that time Tom was playing in the night clubs, part time, but was so sore, he couldn't hold his guitar, so had to sing without it.

He finally got an opportunity to write his first song, titled, "Old Blue." It was about the first highway rig he drove, a 70 model Peterbuilt. which he named "Old Blue."

It had a v-12 jimmey, with a 5 and a 4 transmission, and a 4-11 rear end. Needless to say, he was never late on making a delivery with "Old Blue".

Tom would love to invite everyone over to his website to listen to his songs. Go to www.tomlang.net,  sign his guest book and leave a comment for him.