he is being pulled over for going "40 miles over the speed limit" (i.e., , although the singer only attests to going ). The Mean Machine is taken to jail to join eleven of the White Knight's other victims, and his truck confiscated. The "White Knight" appears in a cameo in the follow-up single, "Kentucky Moonrunner." While the singer in "The White Knight" attempts to speed only when he believes no cops are present, the titular Kentucky Moonrunner simply outruns them with superior speed, recorded at over 150 miles per hour. The White Knight catches the Kentucky Moonrunner when he crosses into Georgia from Tennessee, with no explanation of how he could do so when the Tennessee cops could not. Commercial performance "The White Knight" reached number one on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in February 1976, and was a modest pop hit, peaking at number nineteen on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was Maggard's only nationwide release to reach the Top 40 on either chart. The song was one of three number one country songs in which the CB radio is central to the plot to top the Hot Country Singles chart during 1976. The other two songs were: "Convoy" by C.W. McCall; four of its six weeks atop the chart were in January. "Teddy Bear" by Red Sovine, peaking in July. It is also the second top-40 pop hit of the 1970s to mention the Georgia State Patrol; Vicki Lawrence mentioned the Patrol in her hit "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia." In both songs, the patrolman arrests the protagonist of the song. Chart positions References 1976 songs Cledus Maggard & the Citizen's Band songs 1976 debut singles Mercury Records singles Citizens band radio in popular culture Songs about truck driving