Songfacts®:

• This driving rocker was written by Blackfoot mainstays Rickey Medlocke and Jakson Spires. The highway that inspired the track is Route 81 in a stretch going north to New Jersey. This is not an inspiring stretch of road, but it's where Medlocke got the idea for the song as he was riding in the group's tour van.
  
  "We were right around Winchester, Virginia, and I started playing it," he said in his Songfacts interview. "I wrote the opening of the lyrics, 'Another day another dollar, after I've sang and hollered,' and it took off from there."
• This was Blackfoot's biggest hit. The Jacksonville band placed one other song in the Top 40, "Train, Train," which is also on the Strikes album.
• The third verse contains song titles from their first two albums:
  
  Yes these big wheels are ready to roll - "Big Wheels" from their first album No Reservations (1975).
  
  We've been flyin' high and so low - "Flyin' High," the title track of their 1976 album.
  
  All this madness ain't as crazy as it seems - "Madness" from Flyin' High.
  
  I'm just a stranger on this road - "Stranger on the Road" from Flyin' High.
  
  I stand alone only in my dreams - "I Stand Alone" from No Reservations.