Truckers came together this past weekend with friends from all walks of life to raise more than $40,000 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation for breast cancer awareness and research at the Large Cars & Guitars truck show in Kodak, Tennessee.
The event, held in the expansive parking lot of a minor league baseball stadium Friday and Saturday, May 5-6, is the brainchild of trucker-songwriter Tony Justice, conceived in part to honor his wife, Misty, and her own victorious battle with breast cancer. The event was sponsored by a veritable host of partners, including RoadWorks Manufacturing, the Bennett Family of Companies, and Howes.
The Massey Motor Freight Stage at the event was graced by national acts Aaron Tippin, William Michael Morgan, Robbie Hopkins and Tony Justice himself. Other acts included
Having almost doubled in size and scope since the inaugural 2022 show, the event boasted 175 trucks and, according to Justice, 12,000 attendees.
Reflecting Justice's own passion for trucking, music, and altruism, the event felt like a combination between Willie Nelson's Fourth of July Picnic, a celebration of survivors, and one of the finest displays of old iron you'll see just about anywhere.
This sharp 2000 model 379, dubbed
Justice, the progenitor of an online revival in trucking music, is a bona fide digital phenom. With streams in the tens of millions, his own tour bus, and annual download revenues north of six figures, Justice occupies a position as an indie artist attained with little to no support from terrestrial or satellite radio. His followers measure in the hundreds of thousands, and call themselves “Chromies” -- the trucking-music equivalent of Deadheads, maybe.
