Bear-hunting in mythology, not so far back

The Hunter is typically a male, an image of strength and tribe. In this case, Truckers.

Citizens’ Band radio, take a totem, new name for self:

• Wildcat
• Canadian Redhead
• Blue Marlin (a Chevy van)
• Kentucky Kid
• The Illinois Playboy
• Bluebeard
• Old Dutchman
• Bumblebee

with a talking stick / in your hand, in the air / at the wheel of an 18 / yes, eighteen-wheeler

Sometimes talking four-wheeler, too:

“Four-wheeler, she’s clear”

that is, not a Bear

“Ya got ears”

“Keep an eyeball out for”

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Time check
Road check

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“At 205, Eight-O
westbound Bear flipping around”

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“Green stamps” are dollar bills
(reflecting store promotion trading stamps
of the time)
hence, “on the green stamps”
means turnpike tolls
perhaps bridges, too

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“Was you in Harrisburg Pee A last night?
I was a-talkin’ to you”

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In Gilligan’s Island, meaning Ohio
during Governor Gilligan’s term

“The Bears got seventy-five dollars out of me,
lost you,” meaning fine paid

A rig is reported doing “a roly-poly,” that can’t be good.

The signoff of departing or divergent interchanges:

• “Have a good trip”
  “Don’t feed no Bears”
  “Catch you all later”

Wonder where they all are now.