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Hammer Lane Legends

167: Steering the Legacy

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode Brian and Shipper are joined in studio by Austin and his dad, a returning guest, Nevin Sr. Austin heard his dad, and brother's, episodes and decided he should share his story as well. In his time riding along with his dad as a child, he enjoyed watching and learning how to shift gears and handle the truck. His desire to hit the road didn't fade as he grew up, and took to trucking himself. Now, Austin has been driving for just over 18 years, 13 of which has been for the same employer. He has a ton of stories to share, and didn't hold back. So sit back, relax and enjoy the ride!

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0:00.0

Merkel

0:02.0

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0:05.0

He put it in park through the driver's door

0:16.0

ran out the side of the car,

0:18.0

crossed the front of it, and jumped right up 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 to Hodge, and he didn't slow down.

0:27.6

He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they can see him come and they just got out of the way.

0:35.6

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.

0:59.5

That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.

1:08.1

Welcome to Hammerland Legends. I'm Brian Merkel.

1:10.5

I'm Brian Shipper. If you have a crazy and wild story you you would like to share with us from the road, or if you would like to just come on and have a conversation about your experiences that you've had on the road, whether you're an Uber driver, a tractor-trailer driver, whether you drive an EMT or a school bus or a transit bus. We'd like to talk to you. We'd just like having a conversation with people who drive.

1:45.8

Tell us about your experiences on the road. You can go ahead and get a hold of us at HLLPodcast at ProtonMail.com. That's HLLL Podcast at ProtonMail.com. You'd think by now I'd have it in my head, but you know, what can I say? Or you can go to the Hammerlane Legends webpage at hammerlandledgons.com. 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. Shipper. Tell them about the voicemail line. Voice mail line is short stories, 5, 10 minutes at the most. anything crazy wild you seen or you heard of or somebody told you about or whatever.

2:03.9

515. five, ten minutes at the most. Anything crazy wild you've seen or you heard of or somebody told you about or whatever.

2:09.6

515-585-M-A-R-K, 515-58-6-3-7-5.

2:12.1

Again, a short story, you know, a quick one-hit thing.

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