Big Wheel Cannonball was the title of a song written by Vaughn Horton and recorded by American country music artist Dick Curless

Dick Curless

Richard William Curless was an American country-music singer, a pioneer of the trucking music genre, commonly known as the "Baron of Country Music." He was easily distinguished because of the patch he usually wore over his right eye.-Biography:Curless was born in Fort Fairfield, Maine, and moved...

. It follows the same notes as the hit song "Wabash Cannonball". It is far less popular than the song "Wabash Cannonball

Wabash Cannonball

"The Wabash Cannonball" is an American folk song about a fictional train, thought to have originated in the late nineteenth century. Its first documented appearance was on sheet music published in 1882, titled "" and credited to J. A. Roff...

" most likely because it is about trucks and overweight truckers, not mighty railroad trains and their Herculean engineers.

Chart performance

Chart (1970)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles	27
Cash Box	30
Canadian RPM Country Tracks	18