154: Diamond Reo Disaster Averted

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

Leisure, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Automotive, Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode, "154: Diamond Reo Disaster Averted"; the guys are joined by Scott a driver for 20+ years. Scott got his start in the industry as a cement block hauler, working his way up from the factory to the cab. He worked for the cement block hauler for a little over 20 years, until he found his current job hauling milk. While working with the cement block hauling company, Scott managed to find himself in a plethora of wild scenarios, and saw many hilarious, and odd sights. Including a nearly disastrous scenario that involved brake failure, a big hill, and a lady at a red light! This was a great episode, with a lot of good insight. So sit back, relax, and check your brakes, this one is doozy!

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0:00.0	Merkel
0:02.0	Medias
0:05.0	He put it in park through over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car,
0:18.0	across the front of it, and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you.
0:21.6	The only people who pulled over were truckers.
0:24.6	He said, we're going hodge, and he didn't slow down.
0:27.6	He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.
0:36.6	I noticed his plane was really low.
0:39.3	He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spun around.
0:43.3	You know, 30 seconds north could have hit us.
0:46.3	And I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of wood
0:52.3	and it shot through my window,
0:54.7	just like a spear, and stuck in the back of the cab of my truck.
0:59.4	That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.
1:08.1	Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends. I am Brian Merkel.
1:10.7	I'm Brian Shipper.
1:12.0	If you have a crazy and wild story you would like to share with us from the road, go ahead and get a hold of us at HLLPodcast at Protonmail.com.
1:22.6	That's HLLPodcast at Protonmail.com.
1:26.9	Leave us, you know, send us an email or go to the Hammer Lane Legends web page. You can hit the contact section. You can get a hold of us that way. Either way it works for us. Just get a hold of us. We'd love to talk to you. Have a conversation with you about your experiences on the road. That's the whole point of the show is to get the driver's experiences out there and shine a light on not the industry itself, but on the drivers in the industry because basically they are the industry.
1:51.7	Without the drivers, there is no industry.
1:54.7	Chip, tell them about the voicemail line.
1:56.8	The voicemail line, 515-585, M-E-R-K, that's 515-585-6-375.
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