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...Orleans radio station at 870 on the dial, they can hear not only country music but business information that could be vital. Two years ago, Disc Jockey Douglas-who has never driven a truck, but was fascinated by the big rigs that rolled through his boyhood home of Ludowici, Ga. -sold WWL on an all-night program beamed specifically at truckers. His show, Charlie Douglas and the Road Gang, has won the loyalty of both listeners and advertisers by operating as a truckers' call board...
...example, one driver who had been misdirected from Jacksonville to Houston was told to turn around and go to Baltimore instead. Douglas also broadcasts warnings, mostly phoned in by truckers, about collisions, closed highways, bad road conditions, and speed traps (like the one that long flourished, ironically, in Ludowici). The show logs 4,500 calls a month, nearly 85% of them long distance. Some request music. The most popular tune is Waitin' at the End of Your Run, which is usually requested not by truckers but by their wives...
...quite as bad as all that, but Ludowici has nevertheless defied the efforts of three Governors, including Maddox, to shut down the speed traps. For years some of the local gas stations also conducted a profitable con game. When an unsuspecting motorist stopped to have his oil checked, the attendant would disable the car by tinkering with the generator or pouring water in the crankcase oil, then suggest that the customer move his crippled vehicle to a nearby garage for repair. Fittingly enough, the repair shop was called "Billy Swindel...
...behind the speed trap, and behind everything else in Ludowici, is the county's colorful political boss, Ralph Dawson, 68, a back-country lawyer who has been running Long County since 1932. Always in a brown felt hat and soiled black suit, Dawson heads a political machine that has never lost an election at the county or city level, and he has not taken lightly Maddox's efforts to shut off his speed-trap revenue. Last year Dawson was tossed out of the Governor's office and called a rascal. To which Dawson replied...
Angered by all these goings on, Maddox says that "if it weren't for the good people there, I'd run the highway right around Ludowici." That, in fact, is what is going to happen. By 1974, Interstate Highway 95 will bypass Long County from Savannah to Brunswick, and the residents of Ludowici will likely be out of pocket for good...