206: Roadside Resilience

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this week's episode, Brian and Brian chat with Bobby Jo who shares her wild and intense experiences on the road. She vividly paints the life of a truck driver, highlighting not only the physical dangers of her job, such as narrowly avoiding accidents and dealing with hazardous situations but also the personal challenges she faces as a woman in a male-dominated industry. Bobby Jo’s journey from a dock worker to a respected trucker showcases her resilience and adaptability, reflecting the broader challenges and peculiarities of truck driving, from dealing with unexpected roadside incidents to navigating industry biases against women.

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0:00.0	Merkel
0:02.0	Medias
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 really pulled over were truckers.
0:23.6	He said, we're going to Hodge, and he didn't slow down.
0:26.6	He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.
0:34.6	I noticed his plane was really low.
0:38.3	He went right in front of us, hit the fence,
0:41.3	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
0:55.2	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.
1:07.2	Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends. I am Ryan Merkel. I'm Brian Shipper.
1:10.1	If you have any crazy and wild stories you would like to share with us from your experiences on the road, go ahead and contact us at HLLPodcast at Protonmail.com. That's HLLL Podcast at Protonmail.com. Or go to the Hammerlane Legends.com webpage. Hit the contact section, get a hold of us that way. Either way it works for us, just get a hold of us.
1:28.9	Shipper, tell them about the voicemail line.
1:30.9	Voice mail lines, a short story, things that you've seen, created, participated in, anything.
1:39.5	Yes.
1:40.0	You know, leave a short message on the answer machine, follow the prompts that Tony tells you to do,
1:45.2	and, you know, we'll play them on the air.
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