255: Hauling Hollywood

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Blockbusters don’t move themselves—Hollywood’s Teamsters do. Scott, a fourth-generation Hollywood trucker, joins Brian, Shipper and Mike to reveal the high-speed, high-stakes world of hauling movie magic. From Avengers to Iron Man, hear how rigs, stunts, and set moves make the impossible happen. Exploding Dr. Pepper trucks? Slicing a Rolls Royce in half? It’s all in a day’s work.
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0:00.0	Merkel
0:02.0	Media
0:04.0	Media
0:05.0	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.
0:21.6	The only people who really pulled over were truckers.
0:24.6	He said, we're going hodge, and he didn't slow down.
0:27.6	He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.
0:35.6	I noticed his plane was really low.
0:39.6	He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it sput around.
0:43.6	You know, 30 seconds more, he 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 it shot through my window,
0:54.7	just like a spear, and stuck in the back of the cab of my truck.
0:59.4	That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.
1:07.7	Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends. I am Brian Merkel.
1:10.4	I'm Brian Shipper, and I'm Mike Drake. And we are Hammer Lane Legends. If you have a crazy and wild story you would like to share with us from the road. If you like to have a conversation with us about your experiences on the road, go ahead and contact us. If you drive for anything, if you drive for Uber, if you're a truck driver, if you're a whatever kind of driver, an EMT driver.
1:28.3	Mike, give me another driver.
1:29.5	A suck truck driver.
1:30.9	I actually drove a suck truck years ago.
1:33.6	It was one of the first jobs I had in this industry, and it sucked.
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