The Peach Pickers The Peach Pickers The Peach Pickers is an American songwriter team, composed of Rhett Akins, Dallas Davidson, and Ben Hayslip. Akins and Hayslip met while attending high school together in Valdosta, Georgia, before Akins signed a contract with Decca Records in the mid-1990s. Davidson began songwriting in college, where he was roommates with singer Luke Bryan at Georgia Southern University. He and Akins met in 2004 when the two co-wrote "Kiss My Country Ass", which both Akins and Blake Shelton recorded. After Akins brought Davidson to a songwriting session, the three began holding songwriting meetings every Wednesday. Among the songs
North Carolina State Highway Patrol By 1946, all personnel on military status had returned to duty with the Patrol. As of 2008, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol had an authorized strength of over 1,800 sworn law enforcement officers. In 2008, the NC State Highway Patrol arrested 23,199 people for Driving While Impaired, seized $10 million worth of drugs, and investigated 1,081 fatalities on North Carolina highways. The Motor Carrier unit fined thousands of truck drivers for various violations. North Carolina State Highway Patrol The North Carolina State Highway Patrol is the highway patrol agency for North Carolina which has no per-se "state police" agency.