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Hammer Lane Legends

201: (Brown) Gold Rush

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode we are joined by Ryan, a trucker who specializes in transporting septic and liquid waste. Through a blend of weather talk and geographic musings, Ryan unfolded the intricacies and adventures of his not-so-ordinary job. He shared tales that spanned from attending niche industry conventions to the gritty details of hauling everything from grease traps to animal blood. His recounting of navigating environmental regulations, facing unexpected challenges on the road, and his encounters with wildlife painted a vivid picture of the day-to-day life in a seldom-seen side of trucking. 

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0:00.0

Merkel

0:02.0

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0:04.0

He put it in park through the driver's door, ran out the side of the car, across the front of it, and jumped right up the side of the bridge in front of you.

0:20.0

The only people who really pulled over were truckers. He said, we're going to of the car, across the front of it, and jump right off the side of the bridge in front of you.

0:23.0

The only people who really pulled over were truckers.

0:29.7

He said, we're going to Hodge, and he didn't slow down. He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.

0:36.1

I noticed his plane was really low.

0:38.3

He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spun around.

0:42.3

You know, 30 seconds more he could have hit us.

0:47.3

And I went around that truck and a guy,

0:49.3

stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of wood

0:52.3

and shot through my window, just like a spear,

0:55.7

and stuck in the back of the cab of my truck.

0:58.7

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

1:07.9

It's a well-loiled machine, dude.

1:09.5

That's all I can tell you.

1:12.2

Well, here we go. Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends. I am Brian Merkel. And I'm Brian Shipper. If you have a crazy and wild story, you would like to share with us from the road, or if you'd just like to have a conversation with us about your experiences from the road, go ahead and contact us at HLLL Podcast at ProtonMail.com. that's HLLPodcast at ProtonMail.com. Or go to the HammerlainLegents.com web page at the contact section, get a hold of us that way. Either way it works for us. Just get a hold of us. We want to have a conversation with you. We love talking with drivers, no matter what kind of driver you are, male, female. That's where you stop. Of course, that's where I stop. But, I mean, it doesn't matter if you drive a big truck, a small truck, Uber, a Prius that identifies as a truck. A Prius that identifies as a truck. No matter how you identify your vehicle, it's okay. We just want to have a conversation with you because this is what we do.

2:01.7

Shipper, tell him about the voicemail line. And then going to buy me a coffee.

2:06.9

Yes, sir.

2:09.4

Voice mail line, 515, 585, 6375, 515, 585, M-E--R-K for those of you that don't like numbers.

2:20.0

Anyway, leave a short story of anything crazy, wild, zany, goofy that might have happened to you,

2:25.7

co-worker, or those you love.

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