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Hammer Lane Legends

236: The Fuel Run

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

 In this episode of Hammer Lane Legends, the hosts chat with Dalton, a trucker with an adventurous career from FedEx deliveries to high-stakes fuel hauling. Dalton shares gripping stories of fuel contamination risks, robbery incidents, and the quirks of gas station customers. They dive into pay structures, the hazards of hauling fuel, and the chaos of panic buying during shortages. Packed with humor and insights, this episode offers a firsthand look at the unique challenges and amusing moments that make life on the road unforgettable. 
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Merkel

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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.

0:21.8

The only people really pulled over were truckers.

0:24.8

He said, we're going hot, and he didn't slow down.

0:28.1

He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,

0:32.2

but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.

0:37.0

I noticed his plane was really low.

0:39.7

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

0:43.6

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

0:48.2

I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of

0:52.7

wood and shot through my window, just like a spear, and stuck in the back of the cab at my truck.

0:59.5

That's probably one of the stranger things I see.

1:01.5

Welcome to Amber Lane Legends. I'm Brian Merkel. I'm Brian Shipper, and I'm Mike Dre.

1:07.3

I totally lost my train's thought with the extra guy. I'm like, if you have a crazy and wild story, you would like to share with us from the road, go ahead and contact us at hL podcast.com. That's hll 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 that way either way it works for us

1:27.8

just get a hold of us we want to have a conversation with you shipper we need emails tell them

1:32.0

about the buy me a coffee absolutely nothing but you know i'm like i'm waiting all together

1:39.8

all right go buy us feel keep us caffeine at buy me a coffee.com slash hammerleans. Virtual tip jar. If you like what we're doing here, support the show, you can just follow simple prompts and do what you got to do. Thanks for looking. Hey, man. Thanks for looking. Well, who are we talking to today? Mike, who we talking to today? Dalton. Dalton. Dalton, we're talking to be right. We're talking to Dalton. I didn't read the pre-show notes, right? There isn't any. You got to stay up to it. We're a fast-moving show here. Dalton, how are you doing? I'm good. How are you all? We're doing well. I'm assuming I'm doing well and I'll let everybody else speak for themselves.

2:34.4

Jipper, are you doing? I'm good. How are you? We're doing well. I'm assuming, I'm doing well, and I'll let everybody else speak for themselves. Jipper, how you doing? Apparently he's online again. The phone and shipper. Hey, there's. Mike, how are you doing? Peek sheets. Fantastic. Living a dream. Living a dream. Living a dream. Oh, this is. Oh, there he is at the bottom of the screen. Okay, I didn't. I didn't even, I'm, I don't know my glasses. You better come for the pregame show notes. I do. I got it. That's all right. I'm like looking at us. It says like, oh, there he is down there. All right.

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