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Hammer Lane Legends

253: Road Warriors

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

 In this episode of Hammer Lane Legends, Brian, Shipper, and Mike sit down with Randall to swap trucking stories filled with humor, challenges, and decades of experience. From hauling chickens to mastering flatbed driving, they explore the evolution of truck stops, safety regulations, and the unspoken rules of the road. With laughs, personal anecdotes, and reflections on the beauty of driving through Canada, this episode captures the camaraderie, quirks, and ever-changing world of trucking.

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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, 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,

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 strangers.

1:02.0

I find that hard to believe.

1:03.2

Shipper, tell him about buying me a coffee.

1:04.8

Oh, by the way, welcome to Hammer Lane Legends.

1:06.8

Yeah, that was your line.

1:08.7

That was one of the line.

1:09.6

And I forgot that part.

1:10.4

Find me at coffee.com slash hammerland virtual tip jar. If you like this, the debacle, what you call the show, the virtual tip jar, follow a symbol prompts. Have at it. Enjoy. Yep. Peace be with you. He got it. He narrowed it down. Peace be with you. That's what they do in church, right? They turn around at peace be with you.

1:27.6

Okay.

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