Back It Up| 211: Road Warriors

Hammer Lane Legends

Merkel Media

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4.7 • 611 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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In this week's episode, Brian and Shipper are joined by Aaron. Aaron's journey into the trucking industry began during the COVID era, marked by the challenges of training and the critical support of a good trainer. He reflects on the waning camaraderie and professionalism among truck drivers and candidly discusses the strain his career choice put on his relationship with his mother, though he has found peace with it.

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0:00.0	Merkel
0:02.0	Media
0:04.0	Media
0:05.0	The He put in and parked over the driver's door, ran out the side of the car,
0:42.2	crossed the front of it, and jumped right off the side of the bridge in front of you.
0:45.9	The only people are really pulled over were truckers.
0:49.0	He said, we're going hodge, and he didn't slow down.
0:52.2	He went across the median onto the oncoming traffic,
0:56.0	but where they could see him come and they just got out of the way. I noticed his plane was
1:02.8	really low. He went right in front of us, hit the fence, and it spot around. You know, 30 seconds
1:08.8	more, he could have hit us. And I went around that truck and a guy, stepped out from behind the truck and threw a piece
1:16.6	of wood and shot through my window just like a spear and stuck in the back of the cab
1:21.6	at my truck.
1:23.6	That's probably one of the stranger things I've seen.
1:33.4	Welcome to Hammer Lane Legends.
1:34.9	I am Brian Merkel.
1:38.2	I'm Brian Schipper.
1:40.0	Thanks for coming along, Shipp.
1:40.7	There you go.
1:41.5	You are going.
1:42.4	Way to play.
1:44.4	You can keep my pyehold shut. You got to be in it to win it, Shep. You didn't say, go. You're welcome. Way to play. You've only keep my pie holes shut.
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