Forty-seven-year-old Weekley, a truck driver for TJ Wood of Overton and a part time disc jockey at KRVN for the last 10 years, struck gold when his song รขโฌล18 Wheels Roll Onรขโฌย hit No. 1 Wednesday on the country and gospel music charts. The song, which he wrote in 2003, took a while to take off, but according to Weekley thatรขโฌโขs just part of the process. รขโฌลI wrote and recorded it, then it got some air play and kind of laid around for a while,รขโฌย he said. รขโฌลAnybody can get a song copy written, but the next step to that song is getting it published within a company because thatรขโฌโขs when the song gets the opportunity to get picked up by other artists.รขโฌย Weekleyรขโฌโขs success got started when he was networking with country music legends D.K. and Sherrie Brewster of Yet to Come Publishing, under Gaither Management, in Branson, Mo. They decided to put รขโฌล18 Wheels Roll Onรขโฌย on the 2009 รขโฌลBig Hearted Trucker In A Good Lookinรขโฌโข Hatรขโฌย compilation series.
รขโฌลAbout a week after I sent the song down there, D.K. called and said, รขโฌหMan, this is a great song,รขโฌโขรขโฌย Weekley said. รขโฌลThen they told me they were going to put it on the next album, and he told me I was going to be the one singing it because it was the track I produced in Nashville, Tenn.รขโฌย Weekley said the song took him about 10 minutes to write one night when he was at KRVN. รขโฌลI was doing a ball game that night and I had my guitar with me and I was just sitting there and the song came to me,รขโฌย he said. รขโฌลI just zipped it right down. I threw it in my guitar box and never thought anything about it.รขโฌย
