250: Finding Your Lane

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kyle opens up about his emotional journey through career shifts in trucking, from navigating job transitions and agricultural hauling to the fallout of a career-altering accident. The hosts dive into the intricacies of trucking, from delivering spent grain to dairy farms to the economics of agricultural transport. They also explore the emotional toll of over-the-road driving, the challenges of balancing work and family, and the importance of finding a niche in the industry. With candid stories, humor, and industry insights, this episode offers a raw and relatable look at life behind the wheel.
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0:00.0	Merkel
0:02.0	Medias
0:05.0	He put it in park through the driver's door, ran out the side of the car, across the front of it, and jump right up the side of the bridge in front of you.
0:21.6	The only people really pulled over were truckers.
0:24.6	He said, we're going hot, and he didn't slow down.
0:27.6	He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,
0:31.6	but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.
0:35.6	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 north could have hit us.
0:48.1	And I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece
0:52.5	of wood and shot through my window, just like a a spear and stuck in the back of the cab of my truck. That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen. Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends. I am Brian Merkel. I'm Brian Shipper. Now I'm Mike Drake. If you've got a crazy and wild story you would like to share with us from the road. If you have stories you'd just like to share with us from the road if you've been experienced as an experienced driver if you're an inexperienced driver if you've been driving for six months if you've been driving for 60 years well if you've been driving for 60 years you should retire but that's a set that's an aside you had a lot of coffee today I did start it off the day well again this is what happens when he has a week off yeah oh you sleep I know, right? It's is what happens when he has a week off. Oh,
1:27.6	you sleep and a lot of coffee? I know, right? It's amazing what happens when you're a driver and you have to get a chance to sleep. Wait a little next week's recordings. It'll be all the crap. Welcome to He and Relay and Legends. Welcome to Her Relay and Legends. I'm Brian. Just a bit outside. Yeah, we're sitting in the outhouse.
1:27.0	No, I'm thinking about it. Anyway, go ahead and contact us at Hammerlane Legends at gmail.com.
1:59.1	That's hammerlain legends at gmail.com. Also, long-thinking about it. Take notice to the new address. Take notice to the new address. It is in the show notes. Are there? They are. Yes. Now we're asking people to read. Right. This is a video or an audio podcast. We're not reading you. This is for video entertainment. This is for entertainment purposes only.
2:00.1	This is our disclaimer.
2:19.2	Entertainment purposes only.
2:20.2	This is our disclaimer.
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2:26.7	We don't offer financial advice, health advice, nothing.
2:27.9	Financially.
2:29.3	Now what you do?
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