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Hammer Lane Legends

56: Old School Ways

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 56: Old School Ways, Tony and Brian talk with Barry, a retired trucker, who is also the father of previous guest Ryan from Episode 34: Driving Lessons from PA Drivers. Barry began his trucking career at the age of 16 in the late 1950s, and is still driving to this day. Since he has been driving for over 60 years, he has no shortage of stories to share with us, from his time in service overseas to his experience driving for mushroom farms. If you enjoy hearing the stories about the "good old days" and laughing along with the guys, you are in the right place! Buckle up and prepare for a journey uphill, both ways, with no GPS!

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0:00.0

He put it in park through over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car,

0:12.3

across the front of it, and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you.

0:15.4

The only people really pulled over were truckers.

0:18.2

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

0:21.6

He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,

0:25.6

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

0:30.6

I noticed his plane was really low.

0:33.6

He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spun around. You know, 30 seconds more, he could have hit us.

0:40.3

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

0:47.3

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

0:53.3

That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.

1:02.5

Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends, everybody.

1:04.7

I am Brian Merkel.

1:05.8

And I'm Tony Merkel.

1:06.9

And we want to say, hey.

1:08.0

Hey.

1:08.5

Thank you for joining us.

1:09.9

And what we want to say is if you have a cool story from the road, if you're a driver, if you drive for Uber, if you do any kind of driving, any kind of road time, we want you to contact us with your crazy stories, whether they're crazy, whether they're insane, whether they're, you know, whatever you saw, if you've seen something, if you haven't seen something, if you haven't seen something like that, you shouldn't contact us, should you?

1:30.7

We want the outlaws.

1:31.9

We want people coming on the show who actually break the law.

1:36.1

If you're out there and you're still fudging your e-logs, contact us.

1:41.4

Let's talk about it.

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