Back It Up | 200: Office Lanes

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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

4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

This is our 200th EPISODE! Thank you for tuning in every week to catch the latest Hammer Lane Legend, sharing their story. Here's to 200 more!

In this week's lively and entertaining episode, we sit down with Donna Lynn, the dynamic and multifaceted wife of Hector, a previous guest and truck driver. Donna Lynn shares her unique perspective on the trucking industry, not from behind the wheel, but from her critical role in claims and customer service. With a blend of humor and insight, she discusses the challenges and nuances of dealing with everything from damaged goods to managing a hectic household. Alongside anecdotes about her work and life, including her history with Hector from high school sweethearts to their family life now, Donna Lynn's story offers a refreshing look at the trucking world from a seldom-heard viewpoint. This episode peels back the curtain on the industry's office side, highlighting the essential contributions of those who keep the wheels turning from behind the scenes.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. I just wanted to give you a quick update and let you know what's going on with the show.
0:06.5	Right now, we are in a little bit of a hiatus because recently two weeks ago on a Tuesday night,
0:13.9	my dad, Brian Merkel, had a heart attack before he was heading into work.
0:19.6	So I just wanted to let you all know that over the next couple of weeks, there's still
0:23.9	going to be some back-it-up episodes that are posted on the typical interview Wednesdays.
0:29.8	But after that, he's going to be back in the studio, and he should be able to get back into
0:35.4	the swing of things like he was doing.
0:38.2	So anyway, just wanted to let you all know before the show that this isn't the,
0:42.6	we're not just doing back-it-ups now, but anyway, so enjoy the show.
0:47.4	Merkel.
0:49.7	Media. You know, do you. You. Go ahead. The
0:57.0	. He put it in park through over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car, crossed the front of it, and jumped right up the side of the bridge in front of you.
1:32.5	The only people really pulled over were truckers.
1:35.5	He said, we're going hot, and he didn't slow down.
1:38.9	He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic, but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way.
1:47.0	I noticed his plane was really low.
1:50.0	He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it sput around.
1:54.0	You know, 30 seconds north could have hit us.
1:57.0	I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece of wood
2:03.6	and shot through my window just like a spear and stuck in the back of the cab at my truck.
2:10.2	That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.
2:20.1	Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends.
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