BACK IT UP | 11: Trucker Turned Trooper

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On Episode 11: Trucker Turned Trooper, we talk with Brian who has driven truck on and off for 22 years. In 1998, Brian began truck driving, but later stopped as he was accepted into the police academy. As a person who has dipped his toes in both industries, Brian wanted to join us to share some of his stories!

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0:00.0	BAS.
0:02.0	BAS.
0:03.0	BAS!
0:04.0	BAND.
0:05.0	BAND.
0:06.0	BAND.
0:07.0	BAND. Welcome to Back It Up Fridays with Hammer Lane Legends.
0:33.1	This is your host, Jack Merkel, and I'm here to just give you a quick introduction for this week's Friday show, and that would be episode 11 trucker turn trooper.
0:42.0	One of our earliest episodes, and man was at a go one.
0:46.2	This was just a story.
0:47.7	This was basically Brian, the truck driver's story, who had been on and off trucker for quite some time over 20 years
0:56.0	and then got accepted into Police Academy. And it was honestly a very good story to hear.
1:01.2	If you guys remember it, you know it was good. And if you don't remember it, give it a listen.
1:06.0	This is a good one. So we hope you enjoy it. Have a great weekend. Adios.
1:22.5	He put it in park through over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car,
1:25.6	crossed the front of it, and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you.
1:29.3	The only people are really pulled over were truckers. He said, we're going hodge, and he didn't slow down.
1:32.3	He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,
1:36.3	but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.
1:41.3	I noticed his plane was really low. He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it sput around.
1:48.1	You know, 30 seconds more he could have hit us.
1:52.7	I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of wood
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