THE Legendary Southern Shaker

[@dubmcbride5952]

I was there. I didn’t know Eddie well but did visit with him at Colton Ca and Quartzite Az in 77. I stopped hauling produce and chickens in 84, but this isn’t about me it’s about Eddie. I loved that life and kept trucking until 2017. Had 50 years and by Gods grace is the only way I lived thru it… 73 now and get my diesel fix driving my private bus. Go from Ark to Quartzite Az once a year to a bus rally in January. Just got in from that trip. Going across I 20 and I 10 floods me with memories. I do regret my sin, the drugs, loose women and my language but I cherish the memories of those drivers. We never meant to hurt anyone but instead hurt ourselves. RIP Eddie and to the few still alive God Bless and in case you don’t know it Jesus Saves. Dub McBride.. AKA Bad Company.

[@dubmcbride5952]

When I mentioned sin I was referring to my on.

[@truckinfam2207]

Marry them sticks too the dashboard in that never late V8 Cat. Sitting on the $$$ign. I-10 westbound just leaving the TTT. Shaky bound. Those where the days my friend thought they’d never end. 44years on the concrete seas by the “Grace of God”

[@RandyKent-wj8ie]

There will never be another shaker (on of akind) rip eddie

[@johnstull9029]

Rest in peace southern shaker, my dad (dusty) ran with him with his 74 H cab with a 3408cat. You had to have big house power and your balls screwed on Tight to run with him. You get a butch of driver's together talking on the radio the miles just shed off with the states lol, man I would loved to trucked with him. Me and dad truck together some but just can't do what they done back then..I'm third generation owner operator and proud of what I do, so to all of you sticking with the old ways ( god bless you )

[@aj-kwt909truckin31]

👍😎👍💯

[@davidhatfield8345]

I heard a booming voice on the radio many nights saying clear the left lane Southern shaker’s coming through and you knots in the 80’s

[@rodeobum1561]

There aint too many of us old school Hiway Heros out here anymore. Those days are gone forever but i still and always will do things just like my daddy and granddaddy did and taught me. Those ways make us the best at our trade that we can be, mr Truckdriver, Woop Woop! Truckemup🤠✊🫵🏻💪

[@johnkeener4330]

that's cool we always ran jet fuel and hooked up with him alot of times

[@ARe-vc5uv]

wall to wall and tree top tall 😈🤣

[@rodeobum1561]

Them was the good ole days when we could get out there and stroll💪🤠🏴‍☠️

[@PapaJ5667]

Never had the opportunity to meet shaker or any others named in the video ..I started driving in march of 92 after my 25th birthday...I was trained by a veteran named Squeezer out of vero beach Fla met alot of old timers with our company T.W. Owners and sons and met a lot and learned alot from the old veterans of the highway and still learn something everyday ....R.I.P Shaker and all those we have lost along the way ...you can take the driver out of the truck but you cant take the truck out of the driver !!! Amongst my memories of the last 27 or so yrs and couple million miles ago outside the birth of my kids,my divorce, being on the road with some of the finest this industry has ever seen are the best ....some of the finest individuals I've had the honor and privilege to meet have been truck drivers ....this new generation of driver will never know how it was back in tha days of professionalism,and driver courtesy and respect .....God bless all the old hands still rolling on that endless black ribbon some of yall taught this rookie the ropes and I have much respect for those I've met and haven't met ....

[@eddiegantt5985]

You weren't missing much

[@rodeobum1561]

Sure enough, driver, you got that right! God bless you and all us Hiway Heroes. When we are all gone they will make a movie about us and how we kept this country rolling on and safe for all. Happy Trails…

[@nightcrawler1]

my words exactly.. 34 years now thanks for all the advice around the horseshoe coffee bar drivers ty ty ty

[@reaper51]

Last time I saw Eddie was at the El Paso Truck Terminal in 89. He was headin home and I was going to Shakey. Damn,I miss those days!! Shaker I owe you one & it won't be long before we are all sitting at that round table & talking yesterday! RIP SHAKER.....Reaper is out &rollin'

[@gregoryj.m.8985]

Saw Southern Shaker rollin east a number of times...lots of memories .....I've hung up the reins but I still have my President Jackson and my kicker....how about it !

[@hogcat858]

The old ITA business channel has a few of the old timers on it. Please don't say the frequency here.

[@marywilliams1646]

Eddie, was a good person. With a very big truck. I knew him when I was a young girl, my handle was Georgia baby doll, my husband back then was Tomslick....lol. we were members of the skeeter town gang. I'm 65 now. We were outlaws back then. I-10 and i-20 is where we mostly ran..including shaker. I was 18 back then. Lots a good times between all of us. I sure miss talking to alot of them people. Shaker was good people.

[@yolandabanks5995]

Didn't come no better❤❤

[@wildturkey1956]

Eddie has been a friend of mine for a long time I have been trucking for 39 yrs and heard all the stories and I can say most of them are true. We still talk from time to time and he is still the best. Thanks for making this a great tribute to The Southern Shaker

[@ericparrish1515]

Enough simulation

[@timyoungblood6359]

Me and ole JR Reed was just talking bout the legend I met shaker as a kid when my dad ran with him briefly being at a young age I don’t have the stories you gear jammers that actually ran with him did just a 6 yr old memory is all now ole Wolfman sure got some stories bout him though honestly I love hearing stories of the real true Trucking days guess that’s why I try to keep the real trucking legends legacies alive while I am out here. Respect to all the gear jammers that came before me always

[@KenMcknight-f5y]

I outran shaker one night across Arizona, but he was and still is the famous southern shaker, the outlaw if all us outlaws!!! Rest in peace my friend, and my brother of the wind.

[@donnielovell5245]

I too grew up in those days. and believed that the only way to live on the road was, fast. fast as you could go. I truly loved my chicken haulin days. and still miss it at times.

[@jimmyhoward2509]

THANK YOU DONNIE YES THOSE WERE THE DAYS WE WERE THE REAL DEAL NO SMOKEY&BANDIT SHIT. .THATS WHY I WROTE& RECORDED THE SONG. OF SONGS SOUTHERN SHAKER IT MADE EDDIE A HIWAY HERO SONG BY JIM HOWARD DALLAS,TX. CONTACT # 214-722-5801 CELL#469-613-,4957@J D.H

[@chickenbuttdeluxe]

I used to run into Shaker quite a bit back in the day and he must've taken a shine to me because he would look for me on the way to or from the Coast or the NW corner.. I sure hope you rest in peace old buddy... Snake said it and I'm back out...

[@virgilgray]

Been there, done that. My old KW 900L 13 double over used to run New York / Cali upwards of 100 to 112 out in the western states. OH those memories! Bad News was the handle. What I wouldn't give to go back to those days. God bless all the truckers that managed to roll through those times.

[@rivkaholszewski3634]

Ran for Craig Truckin back in the late Seventies. Ran with Shaker enough times, I was Runnin NY to LA.Those were the days my friend.😵

[@pointingdog7235]

@Some 1poisoned the water hole A kind Kojak with a Kodak. Rare these days.

[@pointingdog7235]

@Some 1poisoned the water hole Your handle on here makes me wonder if you were in the Corps.

[@eddiegantt5985]

Trust me, that guy had the shaker shaking in his boots more than once

[@79powerstrokediesel54]

The fact I was born too late to be around during truckings greatest era will be my 13th reason one day I know it.😢

[@elizabethdaniel347]

OMG. What a HAPPY, HAPPY DAY of memories to me. Eddie Gantt is a Great Man. I had the privilege to meet him going across TX hearing SHAKE, SHAKE. You knew to move in the right lane cause he was coming thru. I will introduce myself, I an CAROLINA ANGEL. Eddie gave me my C.B. handle. I was a Hitchhiker. And yes those was good ole days the real deal real people. I love and miss ALL my BUDDIES.

[@Nomadcreations]

It Warms My Heart To Read All the Good posts here, Thanx Posters!!! I Only drove a small car/single sleeper but Knew the "Rules of the Road" Mostly Long Gone Now.

[@patriotnemisis]

I was running 85 plus in nm one nite " shaker passed me like I was parked on the side of the road sitting still then watching his tail lights disappear "he had balls bigger then the kw he was driving " he was a legend no doubt in my mind " he had the guts to take it to the limit every round " there will never be another shaker " and that's the way it should be. He earned it ! RIP Eddie. 44 yrs out here " be seeing you soon eddie.

[@elizabethedwards1417]

Well driver don't feel bad I was runn8ng right at 112 and when he past me I went feeling large to what happened this thing broke lol

[@eddiegantt5985]

I remember that night. There is no way you were going 85....more like 45

[@kennethhood2168]

Is this guy they thought he was driving auto car a trucker told me he was running 130 when he got 140 the guy smiled and ran out sight is this true he said had the fast time from s.c CA who is this guy that drive that autocar are was a Pete with the fuel turn up with that cat

[@kennethhood2168]

​@@elizabethedwards1417 who is the guy who had the Autocar are was a Pete with the fuel turn up they say this truck do 140 easy they say this is the only truck that 150 plus must be 18 spd and I guess them extra gear is high gears to run that fast that cat had to have 600 are better under the hood and this is coming through Texas

[@fuzzybutkus8970]

I started in 78’ The difference I see between myself and new hands today. I knew exactly what I wanted to do when I was 4 years old and in those days there weren’t schools in every state. I worked my way up in heavy wreckers and proved myself before someone offered me a road job.Now it seems to me that most drivers(Not all) got into trucking as a last resort. I used to buy those old hands dinner and just talk about trucking.If I had a problem I didn’t whine to my dispatcher.I talked to all those guys that knew I just wanted to learn and they’d help me figure it out because it was usually my fault anyway if I was honest. I’m retired now but miss it dearly. Stay safe out there drivers.

[@digger89784]

I have been truckin over the road since 71 and always loved it. these boys out there now don't have any idea about the joy of the yesteryear trucking. I am proud to be in that class of truckers. sometimes hard but always fun. I started trucking in 1968. I have a 1968 W.W. CONVENTIONAL WITH 300 IN. W.B. A B-C 400 CUMMINS 390 REARS AND Volvo air ride and a 9x4 tranny

[@otis6871]

You nailed it brother

[@heavymachinery2843]

Respect from Austria my dad was on the higway for 45 years Respect to you truckers 👍👍

[@pameladavis9779]

R.I.P. to the original Bandit...a True legend

[@Harely360]

A true inspiration.

[@wildturkey1956]

Eddie has been a friend of mine for a long time I have been trucking for 39 yrs and heard all the stories and I can say most of them are true. We still talk from time to time and he is still the best.

[@marywilliams1646]

I hope one day I can see all my buddies one day too, I miss everyone, yep we all sat at the round table. We used to all meet up at the petro in elpaso. Yep we did . That was our me e ting grounds.petro was a huge dirt lot back then and nothing but petro at that exit and dirt lot.i remember!

[@frankpeavy4538]

Shaker was a Class Act. and say what you want to about him and his legendary status , but all those people who claim to outrun him , he is the only one with a song and a video written and made about him. rest in peace mr. James E.Gantt. the legend of the Southern Shaker will live forever.

[@peachmachanic]

never knew any body clam to out run shaker,...most hands that could een run with him were just happy to tag along behind him...i never could.... lord i know there setting around the big table tell some good storys now,...rip eddie,..see ya and specialK,..saddle tramp,..crazy horse and poor boy on the other side....

[@tonycouch276]

Frank Peavy i draggin wagon out ran shaker &road runner with a 1971 peterbilt 1693 cat industrail engine twin turbos ,5&4 turned around 3.55 rears & no govenor

[@frankpeavy4538]

Tony couch that's nice. But you still don't have a song written about you or a video made about you. That was the point of my comment. Sounded like one bad ass truck and engine that you had I would like to see a picture of it. You know what they say without pictures it never happened

[@sabrinacordell6290]

A song or video can be made about anybody. Just takes a few minutes to do it.

[@yLeprechaun]

sabrina cordell, well then, get after it!

[@johncunningham4820]

What a GREAT SONG and Tribute to a Legend . I am an Australian , so , of course never heard of him , until now . R.I.P Road Brother .

[@frankdavis2225]

I met him way back in the 80s when I was a kid out on the road with my dad. his truck was very impressive.

[@eddiegantt5985]

Thank you!

[@offgridcabin1557]

God granted me the time and ability to start my career back in the early 70's when trucking was at it's heights! I knew some of these names, and I ran with most of these outlaws running the western states with our large cars. Mine was a 72 KW walkin with twin turbo's Buzzin Dozen and a 10 speed road ranger and 4 speed brownie. I could pass everything but a fuel stop! Lol. Ridgerunner was my CB handle.

[@Rob_Basich]

ridgerunner was 20,000 peoples handle.

[@kylemorice4870]

@@Rob_Basich mines headless horseman an I'm sure there's a million guys or more with that handle. I'll bet there was more than one southern shaker but the one in this video is the best known hands down.

[@jamesozment1]

1032 BlackSheep waivin from the big horn state !

[@offgridcabin1557]

@@Rob_Basich Yeah, but I had the handle when we still had 7 channel radio's and you had to have a CB License to operate one. KFD7262.

[@nightcrawler1]

Night crawler 34 years now

[@kevindrobot389]

Those were the best days of my life. Running with Eddie into Hunts Point. How we made it I’ll never know.

[@ryanmiller3003]

Love seening old school driver Shaker!!!! I have an old shaker and some times I have to go and do some low stepin left lane runnin!!!! These old Timers were real drivers!!!

[@rickypennington7127]

God bless the Southern Shaker. Never met him but talked to him other CB.. LoneStar over and out!

[@rickmcdaniel9685]

I spent 26 years coast to coast shaker was always the talk on the squalk box Rest In Peace shaker

[@christopherreeves2887]

This is Temptation.... Renaie in Tennessee. You've been on my mind today. Couldn't let the day pass by without paying my respect to you sir. I'm glad your up yonder making that ol trip out yonder. Things out here are sad, pathetic amongst other things. The trucks.... They go sooo fast in the parking lots.... Bright lights that blind you (hardly anyone turns them on and off) to let you know you've passed. It's seems most don't do anything. You know... There's an old saying... There's a hell of a lot of truck drivers but very few hands...... How true.... How true. I'm honored to have known you as I have. And say thank you for the memories.... I truly feel I'm from a day of long ago........ As Jason Aldeen says.... See you when I see you!!!!

[@rodeobum1561]

I always will turn them off and back on never flashing the rookie hibeams lol

[@truckinfam2207]

Never gonna b same out here like it was back in the 70s. It’s a bygone era I’m proud to say I was part of. When your out here these days it has definitely changed

[@franka8888]

Yeah, we have swift now lol

[@Ronald-t4x]

never got to meet Eddie gant aka southern shaker but heard stories about him growing up including the Arizona one talk about a real outlaw he was it. Anyway Eddie will meet you at that big truck stop in the sky.

[@MikeBrown-ii3pt]

I remember all these old songs from riding with my dad as a kid. My ride is an 06 Classic XL ISX Cummins, Eaton 13 over and 3.73 Rockwell rears. I spec'd and bought her new in 05 , my 3rd tractor but 1st new one. I've also tracked down and bought the tractor that I spent the most time with dad in. 78 Jimmy General, 8v92ta Detroit 15 speed, unkown rears so far. Gentleman Jim is in my shop waiting on restoration now in memory of dad. His handle was Dandy Dancer and I'm Roughboy.

[@rodeobum1561]

Look on the shaft that the yoke is splined to and there is a set of numbers stamped on the end. They are the formula that will tell you the ratio

[@kevindrobot389]

He was the man we all looked up too! I chased him once to Hunts Point out of Cali. Almost killed me. Those days unfortunately are gone. That 3408 was screaming the entire time and we never went doing to double digits. God I miss him and those days

[@randyrudder2451]

RIP Shocker was a pleasure strolling with you in the past. Got rid of my Peterbilt with that 1,250 hp 1MM Caterpillar but built me another one in a 99 W900 600E 1MM KICKING 650HP 18 0ver she will only do 137 top not like my other just done what I wanted. Didn't put brownlight or splitter on rear end. Cowboy said that. Diesel Born Diesel Bred will be driving this old truck till I am dead. Living in the left lane and loving it.

[@tedwilliams9295]

I ran across him every week in the 70s. between Arkansas and California.

[@jeffwalsh4747]

RIP MY BROTHER IT AINT LIKE IT USED TO BE. MISS THE OLD MONFORT LANE

[@steveshepard4145]

❤😥your right Brother, ain't to many of us left. I'd like to get a couple more of them 30,40 or more truck convoys goin before I retire. I'm 64 and I've been out here since 1982. Still loving it. ❤👍

[@steveshepard4145]

Triple T, Four k, Ted's, Tonipaw Joe's, Tiger, Union 76, RIP Griffins. All gone. You can't get a good meal anymore!!!!😥 fast food SUCKS!

[@elizabethdaniel347]

@@steveshepard4145 you started trucking in 82, I started hitchhiking in 82. Eddie gave me my c.b handle Carolina Angel. I just found out he past away in 2016. My heart sank. Plz be careful and remember SHAKE SHAKE.

[@asphaltcowboy11keleman55]

Shit Monfort lane.. man I haven’t heard that in years 🤘🏻

[@johnallan863]

Monford

[@paulgoodrich9926]

Live on shake ride on big fellow I run with shake one time i 10 west in az. It was awsome 😍I am retired now but I never will forget that trip I had a large car at the time the man was awsome 😀 R I P my friend

[@crystalcantrell-watterson5504]

I want to say a big thanks for honoring my daddy (Double Trouble)Tim Cantrell. He has been gone now for 12 years on April 30. His truck was 1977 Red & Black Spotless Peterbuilt. Those were good days for my family and how I wish we could have those days back. Thank you Southern Shaker for putting my daddy in the legends of truckers. A LEGEND HE WAS! - TIME FLIES -

[@truckinfam2207]

Saw your daddy s Pete in Overdrive Magazine. Bad to the Bone it was

[@anthonywest6927]

R.I.P M.R. Eddie. Got the pleasure of meeting you when I was about 15yo. I'm just trying to keep the true trucking alive. Carolina Rabbit west bound and down.

[@claytonmcknight6864]

A bunch of us need to get together and start bob tail racin again the bandit series is cool and all but it ain’t like the fun truck loving drivers that ran the tracks back then

[@donaldhopson3368]

I hauled cattle for LA Sonny Campbell out of Elp for yrs with my trk and trailer .. I've felt fortunate to have known Eddie because of how he treated me .. he liked our KTA's & 5X4's .. while we didnt run much over 80 we could do it just about whenever we wanted weighing way over 80,000 .. On my way back to Elp one night I was between Wilcox & San Simon and I heard Eddie behind me .. I was running empty around 75/80 .. He caught me and passed me as we ran past the AZ rest area and bought me coffee at Shady Grove TS .. In later yrs I hauled freight between Elp & Dfw and Eddie & I would see ea other at Weatherford and run together to Elp [when he had time to slow down around 80] In my mind he'll always be a legend for how I saw him treat other folks and I know this for sure, he had the backbone & balls to sit between the steering wheel & seat and run that fast all night long! RIP SHAKER you are missed but will never be forgotten! Hoppy

[@dennisspencer1113]

Used to go by, "The Gingerbread Man." That was so I could tell the Smokies to, "Run run run just as fast as you can but you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man." Ran a lot of produce from SoCal, AZ into the PNW and Canada. Ended up in Alaska running the Haul Road, Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. Getting too old for it now. Still keep a truck, a long nosed KW with a Cat 550. Pretty good old rig. Still haul a little dirt with it.

[@sprdaxlw9l]

Yes, R. I. P. and may the Good Lord be with your family in this time of of loss and mourning.

[@salerivez6313]

I meet him at Toltec Az. Became a regular customer at our Babe And Sal polishing Shop, what a sight. have pictures to prove it.

[@shannonburns6724]

Had me a 359 with V8 kitty, those pukin dozen weren’t all that good. Now a 12V92 with a second electric fan cooled radiator behind the cab, they would run. Tires back then would not take the heat, and bias plys would just fly apart. A 6+4 with 24.5 talls and 3.23 diffs would stroll on down the big road. Shaker would run, he made up time by not visiting in every truck stop. The Gun Runner back at you. Now if you can find a Pete with a V12 cat, there is a real motor. But with the cost of fuel these days, nope.

[@mikemcnally9592]

Damn I long for these bygone days. I would love to do one more west coast turnaround before I pass on

[@DawnNLN-ee2kh]

Me too! I still got my '88 Pete large car!

[@kytrucking67]

The original Bandit. RIP Shaker.

[@mikemcnally9592]

kytrucking67 Damn Straight Hand

[@elizabethdaniel347]

Always

[@Flash-vq4jn]

That’s a No Shitter

[@johnsanders5909]

I first met James going down 65 to Alabama. Rolling along behind a rabbit letting him hunt for Smokey for me & I was doing 90 mph on a Sunday afternoon. Looked up in the mirror & saw this large car rollin in the hammer lane & he went by about 110-120. I hollowed at him & he was stopping in Alabama . I followed him in there & I met one of the nicest men I’d ever met. We talked a few minutes & he was hooking up with the “Georgia Rattler” to run with but I had to watch that, not enough gears in my truck. RIP Shaker those good ole days of 70s & 80s are gone in time but not my mind. I’m 71 yrs old now & have let the BIG IRON cool off as my health has put a stop on me but would give anything to make one more run. Ole Southern Style signing out 10-8 & 10-10 . I’m also from South Carolina - Greenwood

[@lostnlonely138]

Hello Southern Style ....have you ever run east bound mississippi scales and maybe get hand cuffed to the handle on muffler guard one night?!!

[@lostnlonely138]

Ohhh, and lets not forgoet....Mickey Mouse...Mickey Spigner from Sumtner South Carolina....he ended up with Eddies burgandy pete thats in the video....she had a v8 cat n 2 sticks!!! The people who read all these comments and posts will KNOW what is true and what is not....and those are " HANDS".....my daddy always said "helluva lot of drivers But Very Few " HANDS"...." Temptation " in Tennessee

[@eddiegantt5985]

Who is james??

[@emanennis8992]

​​​​​​​​@@lostnlonely138 no that was my dad possibly he run scale in a maroon KW in Mississippi and what you're describing happened to him he said their was cops in the interstate parted like the red sea to keep him from running them over he said he turned on the jakes stood on the breaks and was running a 103 when he looked down he drove for someone out of Tennessee then i believe or Rudy Topeke out of Dardanelle Arkansas one of the two he said as soon as he stood out on running board a cop snaped a cuff to muffler handle and one on his hand and said wait here son said they had him cuffed to the muffler and two bull haulers pulled over behind him if it's the same time believe his handle was Nightstalker back then

[@jeffreyscruggs8759]

I knew the Man personally , one of the best human being I ever had the pleasure to meet ,one hell of a TRUCK DRIVER , I had the pleasure of running with him several times cause we didn't live for apart .I could run with but not outrun , LOL I went by Sneaky Snake . R.I.P. SHAKER.

[@zeeezeee123]

Sneaky Snake,, I remember that Handle...I went by Caretaker...I lived a block from Snake Doctor in Montgomery, Al.,,Monkey Doctor, and Real McCoy were also from Montgomery....We all ran down on I-10 & I20...Ran with Eddie and Janice some.. I'll tell Janice what you wrote when I talk to her in August...Rod Moody

[@captainamerica9028]

You can still see shaker's ghost roaming the highways at night. I have seen him pass me on I 40 several times, and he just looks over and laughs at me, then he guns it and leaves me in the dust. Then you look up and nothing is there

[@lowrider8464]

Been hanging out in West Memphis and Salinas to much hand lol

[@scottknickman9828]

cool cucumber see his gost on i640 come out of Knoxville tn one night about 3am

[@rivkaholszewski3634]

My name is Chip Olszewski, I know what your saying is true, I ran with Shaker back in the late Seventies...We all be together on God's Big Road one day. Peace Brother.

[@hphggr9652]

@@scottknickman9828 i seen him too driver.....but noone believes him....:)

[@rags-fv6ko]

I love hearing stuff like that

[@jamesgrehan7931]

Love it, LEFT LANE HIGH STEPIN'

[@marywilliams1646]

Yep everywhere was 55mph we all haul ass, and looked for the cop and the bottom of van horn hill everytime... always waiting on us. ...lmao

[@jasonboswell2824]

Shaker was the real deal I know Eddie personally him & my dad (stepper) were good friends right along with teddy bear,left lane ,rambling man, Carolina kid ,& & they had real large units back then v-8 cats,kta Cummings, & 6 day turn around to California n back to the Carolinas is what they did for the most part

[@ericparrish1515]

Pick out all kinds of shit.

[@terryadams2408]

I ran with shaker many many times over the years I miss the old days

[@altonfarmer8227]

I knew most of the trucker and trucks mentioned and seen in this video. Great memories of the late 70s and early to mid 80s. I drove for zip Trucking Jackson Mississippi, Fred Meese Stewart Mississippi, Bobby Kinchens, Jackson Mississippi amongst others. Moved on to MC distributors , Pensacola Florida. Moved on back to Mississippi in the mid-90s and started Highland cows for Big Springs Cattle Company Poplarville Mississippi. "BLACKJACK OUT!"

[@lostnlonely138]

Do you remember Custom Cattle, maroon, burgandy petes?

[@hogcat858]

Pan Head here.

[@tonymyers862]

Mad Jack from the Carolinas is my grandfather Bob Mahan Sr. He drove for Hammery

[@JesseSilas-mr3qi]

I had the privilege of working for a local Legion, although not as famous as Shaker. Wayne Hayes aka "fat boy" Shreveport, La. was from what I learned while working there was an extremely popular during that same time frame. Fat boy had 2 CAN'Ts . You CAN'T do it, you CAN'T stay😂

[@joeburgess2557]

May peace be upon you Mr Shaker. I met him when i was 15 in the 70s. Last i saw him was in kenly Nc. Back in the day the truckstop was called Honeycutt. Thats when truckdriving was the real deal. Run Joe Run

[@roycewinburn1633]

I think the mud hole was deeper at Honeycutt's than anywhere on 301 &95 maybe not but dam close.

[@BrianW._1313]

even IF ONLY HALF of the stories of this legendary trucker were true, that would still put him head & shoulders above everybody else...!!!

[@eddiegantt5985]

That's why I'm an elephants dick on wedding night taller than everyone else son. You ever done barstow to Bangor in 13 hours? I was ahead of my time son. Now shut up before I go getchoooo leadaaa and dress him in baby blue high heels.

[@louparksjr9602]

Sorry to hear the legend passed. Would love to hear the stories up there at that supper club table between Shaker, Scooter, Carolina Demon, Capt. Jack and my daddy Tinman

[@brendabrookskoehl2689]

Can you please text me

[@jeffwalsh4747]

ran the bottom 30 yrs ago and things have changed since then but don't know if shaker remembers me. sixpack. but we had fun an I think about those days everyday. runnin shakey every week was rememberable. the song is a true tribute to rooster cruising. shiny side up eddie long live the rooster cruiser. if u see this let me kno sixpack

[@hogcat858]

Ya 6pack I remember you. Pan Head

[@brendabrookskoehl2689]

Jeff. Do you know six pack

[@zybeco]

Ain't nothing better than being HAMMER DOWN CAROLINA BOUND!!!

[@ericparrish1515]

Hammer is broke. Doesn't work on electric babysitter

[@zeeezeee123]

Eddie and Janice made my Southern Route (I-20/I-10) turns something to look forward to...from the "supper club in Long View, Tx. all the way to Colton, Ca.we all loved to hear Eddie tell old stories and correct all the old stories made up about him...Never heard him brag......His best friend was Big Iron who just confirmed to me on the phone,, Eddie Died around 5 AM this morning..

[@stevenstegall8937]

CR Moody so was he from long view tx

[@juliojonesS]

that was Gene's Truck stop I believe off I-20 in Longview , Colton was a wild ass plce at times LoL !!!

[@bobbibrawley189]

Yes, longview was genes supper club, and then on down to miss lucys exit 66 peyote texas! How those were days full of 💕

[@bobbibrawley189]

Ohhhh....370 gordon texas....clays cb shop!!!!

[@sabrinacordell6290]

@@juliojonesS Colton was the damn underground

[@tumbleweed4172]

That fiddle at 1:18 - 1:35 is heavenly. I could listen to it all day.

[@garthbrooks3020]

You ever heard me clack the shit out of tambourines??? Blows that fiddle out of the water!

[@RJB2262]

Hey Eddie, its the "Damn Idiot" (then) now the retired "Thunder Chicken" waving a hand at ya. I hope the miles & years have been good to you. I am glad I was able to spend a few encounters with you in an era when Men were drivers & all others were nervous. I never good stay up with you in the "Monfort Lane" as my fading memory is like that of your tailights in the "Wind". Thanks for the Truckin it up good times. I think I still have 1 of them comchecks somewhere :)

[@ericparrish1515]

Little hands

[@nightcrawler1]

i could listen to this all day

[@derrilsalter4490]

I used to see him flash by out on I-20. One night I saw him going east and talked to him a little on the radio. On down the road was another eastbound truck and the driver was telling for the Shaker. I told him he was about an hour behind him. Then the driver said they had left Fresno on Tuesday night and this was Thursday night when they were between Augusta and Columbia. He had got that far behind him to that point.

[@ronaldbond9866]

He was in his a model black completely restored and 48ft stainless utility hauling cheese out of Wisconsin, he ask about van ,easyrider,and Benny, shadow ...rest easy shaker never forget the last rides we trucked together, I still tell the stories to all the new drivers until we meet again. Long live the lengend

[@Elizabeth-tn9if]

I bought that wagon from shaker I got my money right and we set a time for me to meet up with him at his house I gave him 28000 for that trailer I had 2 stakes of cash 14000 each he counted one stack put it to the side and he would get about half way in the next stack and mess up on the count and have to start over about the third time he said fucket close enough and signed the title 5:11

[@Elizabeth-tn9if]

And did it all on the hood of his lightning pickup

[@garthbrooks3020]

Eddie gantt and his lifestyle is what inspired me to write my song "much too young" the lyrics "all the cards are on the table with no ace left in the hole" came to my mind when I heard about the Arizona speed trap catching shaker steppin loooowwwww. My good friend Clint Black also wrote the song "A Good Run Of Bad Luck" about the shaker because eddie was a high roller even when the chips were down. To win granny mozes over and see "breezes" truck turn around. And also dont tell Trisha but back in 84 I too took Granny mozes for a rip 😩 we all know how that ended.

[@garthbrooks3020]

@@westonneuendorf8476 I couldnt last a full 8 seconds, more like 7.82 seconds. Didnt quite make it to the buzzer. Breeze was judging and gave me a 3

[@parkersmith7197]

the good old days are gone

[@rsumsixtyfo6766]

Ya it's sad... I went back to Shakey in 08 just to see what has changed (in chicken trucking) and all the way across the desert the cb was quiet and extended hoods had mostly been replaced by throw away plastic trucks. If they only knew what they missed. I will never see the crazy days again but I'd do it all over again for free. Rip west turn around chicken trucks. Whoop whoop!

[@MrHolt-qq4fx]

There will never be another time in America like those days.....2 or 3 drivers license from multiple states and more tickets than you could count....I lived it and still sometimes can't imagine it in today's time.....

[@billpruitt1313bp]

3or4 log books just as many license high triple digit long hood largecar 359 379 and w-9's plus a western star here and there 8to28 all in a ROW & HIGH SPEED ROLLIN I got in at the tail end of the legendary time and watched the dream of trucking die before my eyes. . I'm still out here do most my miles at night and have my whole career basically also still in a 379 extended hood Caterpillar black smoking twin straight pipe stacks and triple digit running Large car Pete which now and then but I tell ya not very often nor for very far we get it opened up and strolling across the night road with tears in my eyes but love of the past I wish I had been there earlier for in my heart. God did bless the open road and the drivers of it with the best of all time...

[@davidmccullough2376]

@@MrHolt-qq4fx Called me 14 and 1/2 on radio, left lane chickenhauler. Back in those days id get home, first words better half would ask was, how many tickets this trip. Then how many over 100 mph. Didnt even say Hi or she miseed me, just how many tickets. Always had them extra license. Bet drivers dont even know what an Arkansas postcard drivers license is. Id just send to arkansas and get a new one, lol. Good times are gone for us old chicken haulers, new bread couldnt survive the old days. Screwed up and gave them my tarheel license that was a bad mistake, cause it had my arkansas postcard license got stuck to it stuck to it. Be safe driver, not many of us left

[@MrHolt-qq4fx]

@@billpruitt1313bp I'm still out there two....run two lanes mostly and sleep all day and run all night when I can.....chuckle alot to myself at the madness that trucking has become....roll on big Mama the highway is my home

[@MrHolt-qq4fx]

My 81kw run out at 97mph.....shaker an two other trucks rolled past me one night in Texas like I was standing still...... remember it like yesterday

[@eddiegantt5985]

That wasnt me, that was definately the northern shaker.....trust me I would remember it like it was today because I never did anything cool

[@jessieodom7119]

I remember back in the late 80s I got stopped by Texas just east of van horn trying to catch up with those guys and back then Texas had 2 cops in a car one would come to the drivers side the other to the passenger side, the cop said boy you trying to catch them trucks? ahead? I said no I'm running interference for them lol he just laughed and said driver have a good night and tell them boys we ain't so bad lol never forget that night was very good memories 106 mph on i 10 all the way too shakey don't see how we survived those days guys now can't drive 65 without killing each other

[@Solo-di5om]

lol so true

[@johnkeener4330]

i grow up in a truck and I can put the mother fucking hammer down love this cat❤❤

[@MrLeftlane1313]

One of the fastest country songs ever. Whoop and ride....

[@eddiegantt5985]

The phrase actually goes ride and whoop! Ask granny moses.

[@danfitzgerald5943]

Remember thesm in my day he was a legend

[@danfitzgerald5943]

Man

[@zaqueltooocool]

Eddie......you probably don't remember me. I-10 east bound you came up behind me, chatted a bit and you told me to hang on to my pantyhose as you flew by me with no lights on doing over 100. I still tell that story. Glad to see you are still around. Sweet Revenge.

[@zaqueltooocool]

Now I hear you passed away earlier this year. You left a lot of us with great memories.

[@rsumsixtyfo6766]

I'm not Eddie, but running across the bottom (I -10) west of El Paso when the moon was bright... (You could actually see pretty well, except for gators and shit like that) There was nothing more fun than warning someone that you were about to blow their doors off...(with no lights on, of course) The best part is that the reaction on the radio was always the same.... "GOOOOOD DAMN!!!! FL~Ca turnaround back in the day.

[@travischristen7140]

Andrea Dinsmore that's the only way to stroll like that head lights only turn lights on you look like someone else

[@sabrinacordell6290]

@@travischristen7140 Actually it's a damn stupid way.

[@pillsbury2390]

R.I.P Shaker.

[@johnferraro63]

the red and black Pete 57 seconds in video was my good friend Tim Cantrell from Seymour Missouri back in the 80s me and my brother used to run to California with Tim and drive his truck with him he was a bad ass dude and i miss him RIP Double Trouble Heckle and Jeckle from back east in Connecticut still truckin but those were the good ole days miss them

[@stevemccoy8138]

Did Tim out run Shaker?

[@tommysimmons5266]

I swear I seen this driver at Triple T in Arizona a few times over the years, didn’t know him just heard about him.

[@jeffsutton950]

Rest in peace southern shaker.

[@ericparrish1515]

Turbo

[@hogcat858]

CLAY, Ms Liz from the old Jimmies truck stop in Madison FL died almost a year ago. Thought ya needed to know my friend from the 80's

[@deborahdavis2843]

I am pretty sure my husband , also now deceased, knew Southern Shaker. Seems like I remember them talking on the cb and my husband talking about him.

[@ronaldbond9866]

Last time I seen shaker we ate dinner at the old truckstop in doswell VA, at the 98

[@mikemcnally9592]

RIP Mr.Gantt, you sir will always be remembered and missed

[@ericparrish1515]

Do all you mf guards need a good ass kickin or what

[@daltoncummingstx]

My dad's handle was Ratfink and we were just talking about Southern Shaker and the old days of trucking.

[@TimHollis3006]

My all time favorite song!

[@fuzzybutkus8970]

I guess “ Southern Shaker” had a jet engine in that KW. Santa Rosa Calif. to Birmingham Ala. is 2033 mile. At 12 hours that 196 mph. Even at 18 hours it’s 112mph avg.

[@lostnlonely138]

Merry Christmas Shaker. "Temptation" in Tennessee. Ol dog from Lancaster & Sons, & Har-Bet Trkg. Those were the days! Longgg gone.....

[@michaelsatterly634]

Run with him several times and glad I was able to call him friend a great man no doubt

[@dustincrapps3075]

The Southern Shaker has passed away. 08/23/16. RIP

[@brendabrookskoehl2689]

Where did he pass away. Do you know the old gray ghost that run with shaker

[@CameronBuler-r5b]

R.I.P EDWARD GANTT. TELL. BIG IRON, FITH WHEEL,DOUBLE T,AND SITTIN BULL. SURE DO MISS YALL. BE GLAD. YOUR GONE, CAUSE TRUCKIN SUCKS. JUST LIKE NASCAR. SEE YA TRAIN.

[@jfassett18]

This is my all time favorite song

[@jimmock1155]

Those were the days! We used to hear about him clear up in PA. Haha!

[@Nomadcreations]

Yep When Driving had a brotherhood of Camaraderie & Morality

[@michaelhayes8449]

My GOD to many drivers still till today are looking for a HERO, and even someone who believes he's one in his own mind will do. I grew up in a family of truck drivers, and also in the time of Southern Shaker, and understand, I'm not trying to run him in the ground, but to keep on building something up higher, and higher will only lead to it crumbling down around you. Look! Yea, he had a good running truck, but so did many others! When you see a truck running coast to coast, your first thought is, that drivers hauling produce back, and many times heading out with textiles not chicken. Shaker ran out with a reefer so the film he hauled for camera's had to be kept cool, and a full load of film didn't weigh crap, and most of the time heading back, he hauled empty totes that the film was transported in back here to SC. Folks automatically think that by him pulling a reefer, and in laws owning the farmers market, that every load was produce, but it wasn't. When he did haul produce you would find his truck to be more tamed than you thought, and also see that it ran about the same as everyone else. I'm not talking bad about him, or putting him down purposely, just hoping to open a few eyes, and let folks know that we already have a legend, and that's Big Joe, and Phantom 309 lol... Oh, and one more thing! The jaw dropping feat of flip flopping 2 rounds in 1 week can be explained pretty easy. When you run into Orange County, drop off, and reload in the same place, at the same dock, then step back across, and the run begins in SC to shakey and back to SC, the math is easy to do. Shaker wasn't the only driver to do so, just a driver who told others he did. Most drivers didn't share that info: cause the drug charges would have sent them away for a long time. Popping 18.8's, and a couple of chews on a toothpick soaked in horse speed could give you wings that red bull only wishes it could give. There's 168 hours in a week, and 1 turn around could be done in less than 75 hours, that times 2 is only 150. So can you see now that it could be done, and was done by more than just Shaker. When your flying high on enough speed to win the Kentucky Derby, a lot of things could happen, and none of which deserves any praise, just the opposite. I spent quite a few years being geeked up, and none of what I or anyone else did deserves an award. My health today, is showing the wear and tare of what many called the good old days, but drivers of old, or drivers of new, don't get caught up in a world that the devil thrives in. The only hero worth mentioning, is the one this month is in honor of, and that JESUS CHRIST, the real hero of life. GOD bless yall, and Merry CHRISTmas....

[@lewiemcneely9143]

+Michael Hayes I side with you. I've pulled the weight but not the miles but know plenty that have and they're just shot if they're living at all. 1/4 heart capacity and strokes. Ain't worth it. Life's too short to live too fast. Thanks to the "stress test" I'm off the road but still burn the diesel. 40+ years is and was a plenty. Yall handle it for me and the rest that's getting too rickety to do it as our lovely government says. God Be With Yall. The Hammerhead

[@rippersix293]

Michael Hayes well said brother, I too was one of those that ran with both feet flat on the floor! The people like shaker, the best that ever ran the road! We all were heros, some more advertised than others but rest assured heros none the less. I pulled my Reefer out of Michigan to the west coast every week, meat out and produce back. Did the I-80 left lane shuffle for more years than I want to remember. Rest in peace shaker, and all the heros that ran as hard as their truck and bravery would allow! Riptide goin 10-10 CYA!

[@steveharbuck4780]

True, my dad ran hard as hard can be. Whites and coffee. Run without sleep for a week, over and over, shortens your life. Ran for 40 years. Died at 58.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Lost a whole bunch of the old gang lately. Pretty much all in 6 months to a year. But that's what happens when you pop a pill to get a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread. Paybacks are rough.

[@kevinaniska800]

Michael Hayes Zaza

[@kenrod86]

Hey Shaker...Scatter Brain here, good to know you aredoing well, take care brother sure do miss the good ole days

[@jimmyhoward2509]

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[@dirty_red_70]

Tear in my eye from losing a legend, smile on my face from the song! #truck on shaker! Rest easy hand.

[@daxtinsley5285]

Good Ole Day's. I first met him in 1977 in Ontario, Ca. I was driving for Carpet Transport.

[@reaper51]

U just might be one of "Prader's Raiders" u reckon?

[@daxtinsley5285]

@@reaper51 Yes I am.

[@fredricciardelli2275]

When I was young and starting out in an outlaw parking lot I actually got to meet him and some of these boys another good song is death of the cracker king those Florida boys taught me chicken haulin I drove for a bacon cheese burger off the pompano Market YOUNGBLOOD out whoop whoop