263: The Florida Long Haul

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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In this episode of Hammer Lane Legends, explore the highs and lows of life on the road. Aaron shares stories of fatherhood, slip-seating, and the challenges of keeping shared trucks clean. The hosts dive into Florida’s unique trucking rules, frustrating truck maintenance, canceled backhauls, and varying pay structures. With humor and camaraderie, they recount unpredictable moments—from grocery store deliveries to a Christmas Eve adventure—capturing the reality and resilience of truckers everywhere.

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0:00.0	Merkel
0:02.0	Media
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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 off 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.
0:39.6	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
0:52.6	wood and shot through my window,
0:54.7	just like a spear, and stuck in the back of the cab at my truck.
0:59.4	That's probably one of the stranger things.
1:01.6	Well, Holy Moses, welcome to Hammer Lane Legends.
1:05.5	I am Brian.
1:06.2	I think, what's the name of the show?
1:09.2	I don't know.
1:09.9	I don't remember what your name was.
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