The Alabama Trucking Association has released a new song honoring professional truck drivers as part of National Truck Driver Appreciation Week.
The single, “Get Miles,” features the Alabama-based band Heroes of the Highway and is available on major streaming platforms. An accompanying music video is available on the song’s website.
The release marks the second consecutive year the association and the band have collaborated on a song celebrating the trucking industry. Their first release, “Highway Dreaming,” followed a new driver beginning a career on the road.
“Get Miles” continues that story, depicting the driver as a seasoned professional focused on logging miles, earning a living and embracing life on the highway.
The association describes the recording as an early-2000s post-grunge song built around driving guitars, prominent drums and soaring vocals.
The band features Will Stewart on lead vocals and guitar and Les Nuby on lead guitar, bass and drums. Nuby also engineered and mixed the recording. Ford Boswell provided backing vocals and co-wrote the song with Stewart.
The song presents the open road as a source of peace and escape, following a driver through Southern hills, Western skies and familiar landmarks of long-distance travel.
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week recognizes the estimated 3.6 million professional truck drivers who transport goods and supplies across the United States. Industry groups use the annual observance to highlight drivers’ roles in the national economy and highway safety.
The association said its support for drivers extends beyond the annual observance. It also advocates for stronger professional standards and efforts to remove unsafe or unqualified operators who it says hurt drivers’ earning power and diminish public confidence in the industry.
“Celebrating our drivers one week a year means little if we’re not also doing real work, every other week, to protect their profession—their safety, their earning power, and the public trust they’ve earned through decades of showing up and doing the job at a higher level,” the association said.
The association is also marking the week with meals, T-shirts and other driver appreciation efforts. It encouraged the public to thank professional drivers throughout the year.
