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Hammer Lane Legends

BACK IT UP | 20: The Highway Hellhound

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7611 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 20: The Highway Hellhound, our guest Cannon joins Hammer Lane Legends to talk shop and much more. We hear his many stories from the road, including his encounter with a trucking legend known as "The Black Dog.”

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0:00.0

Merkel

0:02.0

Media

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Media

0:06.0

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

0:48.2

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

0:51.8

The only people are really pulled over were truckers.

1:00.0

He said, we're going to hodge, and he didn't slow down. He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.

1:06.0

I noticed his plane was really low. He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it's spot around.

1:13.6

You know, 30 seconds north could have hit us.

1:18.2

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

1:22.9

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

1:29.5

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

1:38.0

Welcome to the show. Everybody's listening to Hammer Lane Legends. I'm your host, Tony Merkle.

1:41.5

And I'm Brian Merkel. And we're really glad that you're here. If you have a crazy and wild story you want to share with us from the road, go ahead and shoot us an

1:47.3

email. Our email address is Hammer Lane Legends at gmail.com. That's Hammer Lane Legends at Gmail.com. Or go to the website, Hammer Lane Legends.com. Hit the contact section, and you can reach that way as well. Either it works for us,

1:42.1

just get a hold of us. Now, Dad, who are we

1:44.1

talking to today? Today, Tony, we're talking to

1:46.2

a driver from us. Now, Dad, who are we talking to today?

2:02.1

Today, Tony, we're talking to a driver from Texas.

2:00.0

His name is Cannon. He is an over-the-road driver. He's had a few experiences on the road, and we're going to sit and have a good conversation with him. And he has this one thing that keeps popping up. It's a recurring theme, this whole black dog thing that some drivers see.

2:01.6

Well, this is a recurring theme for him.

2:18.6

So I think it's going recurring theme, this whole black dog thing that some drivers see. Well, this is a recurring theme for him.

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