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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So here's why I need a truck driver or somebody
in the trucking business. Is it? Is it a I
don't know what law. Yeah, it would have to be
a law if a truck is in an accident and
whether it's with a car or anything else, they have
to stay on this on the scene. Right, but if
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you're a run exactly, that's what I would think, right,
But I mean, listen, there are sometimes that if a
car just kind of bumps something or whatever, the car leaves,
But don't trucks have to stay I would guess. So
isn't that kind of a law that the in the
trucking world that if there is an incident or a
run in or something like that, whether it's with a
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car or property, that the truck is required to stay
on the scene and at least.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Report it back to there.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
What do you call that the z Yeah, dispatch, dispatch
and let them know, Hey, I was just in this.
If there's a problem, some he may call the eight
hundred number on the back of the truck or whatever
line for hi Ellie of the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Hey, yes, sir, you're a you're a truck driver, Yes, sir, yes,
there I.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Am excellent eighteen wheeler. Right, yes, sir, Hey, what are
the rules if you like, that's a big vehicle right
to be driving around? And I know you guys have
licenses and stuff, but it's still a big vehicle and
it's not always the easiest. Is there is there a
law in trucking that says if you if you hit
not just another car but property, that you have to
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report it and stay on the scene.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Uh yeah, yeah, that's exactly what you're supposed to do. However, Uh,
it's just one of those things like even with even
with four wheelers h or people that try to pick
up your stuff like cars, you go into a ditch
or something like that and you leave run.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Not everybody does that, you.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Know, but it is it is the law. Yeah, you're
you're supposed to reported with either your dispatch and then
trying to make contact with whoever's property has been damaged.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I will say this, Uh, I don't know that the
the the rut thing didn't even cross my mind, right,
Like that doesn't so what you made a rut?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
There's ruts everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But yeah, yeah, you gave a little chuckle there, like
not everybody stop saying reports all the time.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Uh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, it's kind of one of those things where it's like,
am I gonna make it to my delivery on time?
What kind of damage was done?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Like, like I said, if if if I had to
turn around or something like that in a in a
parking lot and there was a private business and my
trailer men's to make a little rut in the ditch
or something like that. Those are one of those things
where it's like, all right, this is.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Uh, I'm gonna make adjustment.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Call here.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, what if you tour what if you tore down
what if you tore down a ute?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And power lines?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, no, that's that's there.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying, Like the rut doesn't
bother me, still talking with a smile. Wait, so you'll
take down a power line.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You'll you'll take.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Down the power line and be like nobody's looking.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
No, no, no, absolutely not, absolutely not. I might have
taken out a roadside or two.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
People know the speed limit.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
All right, very good.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I might have taken a curve, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, and again, tell me you bumped a tell me
you bumped a sign. Safe by the way, like there's
a there's a U turn on Rockfield Pike. Well, it's
a turn that you could turn left into across Rockfield Pike,
or you can try to make a U turn and
there is a sign there. And so like when I
used to be able to go out on the balcony
and kind of air out in the morning, sometimes you
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would see a truck try to make a U turn
and there is a sign there that does say like
like left turn, yield or something. I have seen that
sign come down on occasion by a driver.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Of a truck, but they just keep going.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That's a tight it is absolutely That's why they hit
that sign so they don't stop those medians. They also
may not know that's a big vehicle.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
When those median signs are bent, we are to assume
they've been struck by a larger truck.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I do, yeah, But again I can live with that,
like that's a that's a that's a tight turn. I'm
trying to get to where I need to go. The
sign doesn't well, I mean, sometimes the sign does go
all the way down. But sometimes I think, no, sometimes
I think that.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
They don't know. I honestly believe that.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
If I took down a utility poll, what I know Yes,
what if I took down multiple Yes, even more so?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
More so, can somebody explain to me what happened? In Florida?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
This is Cape Coral, which I believe is south. It's
on the coast side, the Gulf side, south of Tampa.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh, Okay, an eighteen wheeler and they have they have
ring camera of it driving through a residential neighborhood. Oh no,
residential neighborhood eight am Sunday morning.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Got a detour. So was the truck even allowed to
be there in the first place?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, trucks could raise told me trucks could drive through
as that trucks can't be on.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The Yeah, because a bridge overpasses.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
No.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
There are also some weight concerns too.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The like like I know that they say no trucks
on the GW Parkway, But isn't that because of the
overpasses or because.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You see them get stuck all the time and then
they have to call for help to back up.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Okay, but there's there's I don't care if an eighteen
wheeler comes down my street at eight o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
There are signs sometimes up that say like no through traffic,
and that's for sedans.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, but like, what what do you do if you
have a moving truck.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
That's not through traffic?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, well, I don't know where this guy was going
now it is an unmarked truck. And they also said
it's a refrigerator truck, so like it's refrigerated. Eight am
Sunday morning, a mysterious eighteen wheeler carried out a four
hundred thousand dollars destruction spree in a Florida neighborhood, dragging cars,
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flattening fences, and knocking down power poles.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Then, like a ghost poof, it vanished.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Just after eight am Sunday, and Cape Coral police are
still searching for the truck and its drivers. Witnesses reported
hearing a loud collision followed by a power outage in
the area. Preliminary investigation indicates that a large commercial semi
struck a utility line and continued traveling westbound, dragging the
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lines behind it. The damage extended across multiple homes and vehicles.
Six utility poles were knocked down, So I was six.
I was curious about one, maybe two? This is six
and he dragged them all behind him.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Is that what collected vehicles?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
No? No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Uh. Then he hit several parked cars that were also
dragged across people's front yards and numerous fences were damaged
and knocked over. Wow, you got to see what the
fences look like. The resulting power outage did extend for
multiple blocks.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No injuries.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Well, that's a good sign or a good thing. Sorry
about cars though.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Traffic camera images indicate the cab of the truck was
yellow and it was hauling white refrigerated trailer. It was
last seen headed north on Burnt Store Road.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
That's a pretty identifiable tractor trailer.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, they do have a piece with that bright yellow cab.
Bright yellow cab is very bright.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
They do have a piece of the trailer because when
it took out some of the poles, it ripped off
top of the truck.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
And listen, I get it. I'm not a trucker. But
there's nothing, there's no worth unmarked. There's nothing that I
can't see that maybe somebody would be able to use
to identify the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes, yellow cab.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well yes, other than that, no, but like even look
at the cab, like most of the time it says
something on the side like keep on trucking or something
like that company name number, and even like the the
container I don't know what you call that the truck part.
There's nothing on there. And I don't know if that's
because it's a refrigerated truck, but there's nothing on there.
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Were they hauling something where they were like, do not stop,
do not stop.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
For fear of spoilage?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, because we're carrying something we're not supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Oh oh oh, well, I said, I'm not a trucker.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
No no, but like and again it would be something
that had to be refrigerated.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Say that photo is even worse, but there you can't
barely tell that cab is yellow in that photo almost
looks like a black and white photo.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The yeah, no that there you go.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
There's nothing on the on the truck that says what
oh they put cones up to stop traffic?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Now? Is there.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Faded markings have a previous company like paint over it.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But I think that happens if you get a container
from somebody like secondhand, and you just want to get
rid of it, like it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Have to say A and P.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And again I'm not a truck. Those cones are where
the power lines went down, like I see them across
the road.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, he took down six poles. Look at their.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Fence, there's the offence.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, and then I dragged a couple of cars through
the yards there.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
How much in damage?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Over four hundred thousand dollars. Golly, maybe that's why you go.
You're just like, I'm not paying those are my two
a rut? A lot of damage and there's nothing identifiable.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Oh, they knocked over the street basketball hoop too, dick.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Hello, Hey, who's.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
This hey man? This is Corey from Richmond, Virginia. How
you doing? Man?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Good Corey? What's going on here?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I'm not one hundred sure, sir.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
I don't that light pole and taking all that down then,
I mean, clearly you can see if that guy was
paying attention.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I don't know, man, It's just crazy to me. I
ain't never heard nothing like that before.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, he took down six utility poles.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And they said that like they're just dragging behind him
because the wires are stuck to the truck. He's banging
into cars and dragging him all over neighborhoods, knocking down fences.
And then he took off, which based on the last guy.
You guys aren't supposed to do that kind of damage
and then leave. What would be in the roof, sir?
What would be in the refrigerated truck though that has
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no markings.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
On it, Sir, I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I drop for AHA dumpster cans every day, so I'm
not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Now if you if you hit something like that, you
would stop right.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Oh, of course, absolutely, yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Or is that just so much damage where you just
rolled the dice and been like, oh, I didn't know?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh no, sir, no, no no.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
A lot of these areas have height uh signs up everywhere,
so I don't know if it was he just went
through an area that it was well, it.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Wasn't tall enough for his truck. I'm not one hundred
percent sure.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And Tyler's trying to tell me that trucks can't go
through like residential neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You guys can do that, right.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It all depends on the height.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Yeah, there's any low, there's low wires and stuff and overhead.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
A lot of times we cannot, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I wouldn't even know how high up the power lines are.
All right, Very good, thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Yes, Tom, there's a comment on the Cape Coral Cape
Coral Police Department's original post from yesterday that Semi didn't
even feel that power line. Hard to call the hit
and run when he couldn't tell that you fools didn't
fix the low hanging power lines.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
So you would take out six utility polls that have
no idea?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
That seems hard to believe, right, I.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Mean, those trucks are massive.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
But were the power lines in bad shape? A lot
of people saying those the lines were too low?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
What about the cars that he dragged through? Were they
in the wrong place? And the fences that I smashed?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Why didn't you park in your driveway?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So I'll give you maybe the power lines were too low,
but he still was dragging and pushing cars.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Around all over Line four. Hi Elli in the morning.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Hello, Hey, who's that this monica?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Hey you're a truck driver?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yes, sir, have you done anything like this?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Go back to what what the somebody posted that if
the lines or sometimes the power lines are in bad
shape and kind of have a little bit of droop
to them, that sometimes you'll hit them, well.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
In some cases they need to repair that but in
some cases some people who'd be falling asleep behind the wheel.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh whoops, whoops.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah you got doubt, You forgot doubt?
Speaker 5 (13:32):
What not?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You though? No, ma'am? Good it eat in the morning.
You're waking up.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
You should be fresh, Yes, you should be. But some
people they just keep on going.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
If you took down a utility poll with a truck,
would you.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Know, Oh hell yeah, you gonna fell it?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You will, okay, like sometimes I don't know, Like I
bet if you hit a deer, you don't know that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You hit it.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
You gonna feel anything. If you are in tone with
your truck, you're gonna feel it. You're gonna feel some
kind of bump because you supposed to be paying attention.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
What's the rule about checking mirrors too?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
And then you posed to pre trip your vehicle after
you you get out of the vehicle, right, Oh yeah,
but I.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Didn't even stop check it afterwards and be like, oh,
I must have hit something like cars of fences. Yeah,
what is the mirror rule? Aren't you supposed to check mirrors?
Is it every three seconds or six seconds?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Three to six seconds seconds? But at the same time,
you're supposed to make sure your clid before you make
any change, changing lanes.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
New rules.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, and I wasn't. I wasn't changing, I wasn't changing lanes.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I was just taking I did. I did get up
on a curve.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Just to make sure you're clid and driving.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And also you could see he could have saw it
that pull.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
People want to see that pole dragon.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Hey, what is the and why is there no markings
at all on the cab or on the truck?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No markings? Nothing that sound like a fresh truck?
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Do you mark meaning that that you don't? You don't
have no company? Slag uh no, no company.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And that's a fresh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Truck, like you say fresh, like oh I got you
fresh clothes? Or or is it like like illegal illegal like.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
New or it could be illegal if you don't have
no markings on it. In other words, he could have
also just stolen it.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, man, that's a that's a hefty, hefty allegation.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
That's world man.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Conviction.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
All right, very good, very good, Thank you. Monica Hill
in the morning. Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's that?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Man?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
A long time listening?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Appreciate it. Are you a truck driver?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Yeah, it's forty years driving out here. Tennis state hustling.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, I got you. What's going on here?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Yeah, man, that's uh, that's like narcos, man, that's something
that that's and you sat down in Florida too, man,
So yeah, that that's that's something that's some illegal issues
going on down there.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But it's keep Coral in Naples. It's not like it, of.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Course, man. I mean that's you know, that's that's where
all the big power people live. You know, they got
all money, and you know, they're not gonna live in
the in the ghettos in the hood. They're gonna live
in a nice area. I mean through a neighborhood like that.
You know, they.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You know, they probably just look, oh damn it, your
hut down. Oh there you are, there, you are.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Have you ever have you ever? Have you ever taken
down a pole?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well, funny story, brother. I was I was working. I
was hauling a scrap metal, uh basically for a big,
big company. H And I was down in col Pepper, Virginia. Uh.
He a small little tight streets down there, and uh
I messed around and trying to make a turn, and
I clipped a light pole, uh and pretty much drove
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away my Dispatch caused me about ten minutes later. They're like, hey,
you did you hit a light pole? I was like, yeah,
but I didn't knock it down.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
You know, they got state troopers and police on site,
and you know, they're they're looking for you. I was like,
are you serious. Yeah, they're looking for you. They're saying
that you pretty much damaged the light pole. I was like,
I mean, yeah, I did damage it, but I ain't
knock it down.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Did you have to go Did you have to go back?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Dude? I basically made a U turn and I hauled
my ass back man, because they thought they were gonna
put a warrant out for me in all other mess
and you know, they had me on camera. You know,
the track, the corner of the trailer. You know, we're
always basically trying to get around the light pole. And yeah,
I did damage a little bit of it, but you
know I didn't knock it down. I didn't drag it
down the street or nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I would have been if dispatch would have called me,
I'd have been like who me?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
What?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, right, that's exactly what I was like. I
was like, yeah, I don't I don't think that was me, man,
But I'll go.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I could talk to the nice people, but I you know,
it's not me.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
He was like, yeah, you was the only tractor trailer
on that street. I was like, right, you're you're the
only one driving a dumb trailer with a black peole
built Like yeah, yeah, you're right, You're right. I'm not
going nowhere. Let me turn back around.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Hey, do you agree with what Monica said with If
you find a truck like that that's got no markings
on it, no fighting, nothing or anything, that's a fresh truck, dude.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
That I mean, like I said, that's that's some that's
some underground, illegal, uh mafia type thing going on over there. Man.
You know, like if you got no you got no
DT number, which is basically, you know, a number that
the government gives you, you know, to put on your
truck and it's registered with your company. Like if you
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don't have no kind of marketings, no numbers, no company number,
nothing on your truck, Like, dude, you're doing some illegal stuff.
You know, unless it's a you know, unless it's a
government vehicle. You know that. But you're gonna see you know,
government tags on there.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Right, I got most of the.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Most of the government trucks. Uh, they don't have no
kind of numbers, no decals or nothing on them. But
you know you'll see a government tag on there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
But and even though even though this guy took down
six utility polls, damaged half a dozen vehicles, knocked down
a bunch of fences, took out the basketball hoop, do
you side with Everybody's like, well, sometimes those lines are drooping.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Uh yeah, man, funny story down in fairfaxt in Fairfact City.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I was working for Coca Cola back in the time,
like in two thousand and six, and uh, I sked
around and drove in the backstreet back there and knocked
down took down cable wires with me. You know, this
was in the afternoon. This was an afternoon and I'm
driving through the street and I'm seeing people coming out
of the houses waving and screaming at me. I'm like,
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what the hell is wrong with these people? Like, what
the hell is going on? You know? I rode down
in the window and they're like, hey, mother effort. He
took out my damn direct TV came up. Oh damn sorry.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I looked at I look at the back of my trailer.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Dude, I got like one hundred cable lines just dragging
behind me, you know. But like I said, I got
twenty years out here driving, so you know, you got
to make mistakes to get better.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Absolutely, that's what we learned from. That's where we learned from,
all right, dude, Hey, I appreciate the phone call. Thank
you my friend. Yes, Tom, Now he didn't know the
caller when he took down the lines. But Lorie writes,
I live about two miles down the road where this happened.
I went past it yesterday. It looks like a tornado.
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He had to have known
So here's why I need a truck driver or somebody
in the trucking business. Is it? Is it a I
don't know what law. Yeah, it would have to be
a law if a truck is in an accident and
whether it's with a car or anything else, they have
to stay on this on the scene. Right, but if
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you're a run exactly, that's what I would think, right,
But I mean, listen, there are sometimes that if a
car just kind of bumps something or whatever, the car leaves,
But don't trucks have to stay I would guess. So
isn't that kind of a law that the in the
trucking world that if there is an incident or a
run in or something like that, whether it's with a
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car or property, that the truck is required to stay
on the scene and at least.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Report it back to there.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
What do you call that the z Yeah, dispatch, dispatch
and let them know, Hey, I was just in this.
If there's a problem, some he may call the eight
hundred number on the back of the truck or whatever
line for hi Ellie of the morning.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Hey, yes, sir, you're a you're a truck driver, Yes, sir, yes,
there I.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Am excellent eighteen wheeler. Right, yes, sir, Hey, what are
the rules if you like, that's a big vehicle right
to be driving around? And I know you guys have
licenses and stuff, but it's still a big vehicle and
it's not always the easiest. Is there is there a
law in trucking that says if you if you hit
not just another car but property, that you have to
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report it and stay on the scene.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Uh yeah, yeah, that's exactly what you're supposed to do. However, Uh,
it's just one of those things like even with even
with four wheelers h or people that try to pick
up your stuff like cars, you go into a ditch
or something like that and you leave run.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Not everybody does that, you.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Know, but it is it is the law. Yeah, you're
you're supposed to reported with either your dispatch and then
trying to make contact with whoever's property has been damaged.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I will say this, Uh, I don't know that the
the the rut thing didn't even cross my mind, right,
Like that doesn't so what you made a rut?
Speaker 2 (02:15):
There's ruts everywhere.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
But yeah, yeah, you gave a little chuckle there, like
not everybody stop saying reports all the time.
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Uh, yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Well, it's kind of one of those things where it's like,
am I gonna make it to my delivery on time?
What kind of damage was done?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Like, like I said, if if if I had to
turn around or something like that in a in a
parking lot and there was a private business and my
trailer men's to make a little rut in the ditch
or something like that. Those are one of those things
where it's like, all right, this is.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Uh, I'm gonna make adjustment.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Call here.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, what if you tour what if you tore down
what if you tore down a ute?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
And power lines?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, no, that's that's there.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying, Like the rut doesn't
bother me, still talking with a smile. Wait, so you'll
take down a power line.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
You'll you'll take.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Down the power line and be like nobody's looking.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
No, no, no, absolutely not, absolutely not. I might have
taken out a roadside or two.
Speaker 6 (03:31):
People know the speed limit.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
All right, very good.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I might have taken a curve, that's all right.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Yeah, and again, tell me you bumped a tell me
you bumped a sign. Safe by the way, like there's
a there's a U turn on Rockfield Pike. Well, it's
a turn that you could turn left into across Rockfield Pike,
or you can try to make a U turn and
there is a sign there. And so like when I
used to be able to go out on the balcony
and kind of air out in the morning, sometimes you
(04:01):
would see a truck try to make a U turn
and there is a sign there that does say like
like left turn, yield or something. I have seen that
sign come down on occasion by a driver.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Of a truck, but they just keep going.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
That's a tight it is absolutely That's why they hit
that sign so they don't stop those medians. They also
may not know that's a big vehicle.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
When those median signs are bent, we are to assume
they've been struck by a larger truck.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
I do, yeah, But again I can live with that,
like that's a that's a that's a tight turn. I'm
trying to get to where I need to go. The
sign doesn't well, I mean, sometimes the sign does go
all the way down. But sometimes I think, no, sometimes
I think that.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
They don't know. I honestly believe that.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
If I took down a utility poll, what I know Yes,
what if I took down multiple Yes, even more so?
Speaker 2 (04:49):
More so, can somebody explain to me what happened? In Florida?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
This is Cape Coral, which I believe is south. It's
on the coast side, the Gulf side, south of Tampa.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Maybe.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
Oh, Okay, an eighteen wheeler and they have they have
ring camera of it driving through a residential neighborhood. Oh no,
residential neighborhood eight am Sunday morning.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Got a detour. So was the truck even allowed to
be there in the first place?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Well, trucks could raise told me trucks could drive through
as that trucks can't be on.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
The Yeah, because a bridge overpasses.
Speaker 5 (05:31):
No.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
There are also some weight concerns too.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
The like like I know that they say no trucks
on the GW Parkway, But isn't that because of the
overpasses or because.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
You see them get stuck all the time and then
they have to call for help to back up.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Okay, but there's there's I don't care if an eighteen
wheeler comes down my street at eight o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
There are signs sometimes up that say like no through traffic,
and that's for sedans.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah, but like, what what do you do if you
have a moving truck.
Speaker 6 (06:00):
That's not through traffic?
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Okay, well, I don't know where this guy was going
now it is an unmarked truck. And they also said
it's a refrigerator truck, so like it's refrigerated. Eight am
Sunday morning, a mysterious eighteen wheeler carried out a four
hundred thousand dollars destruction spree in a Florida neighborhood, dragging cars,
(06:23):
flattening fences, and knocking down power poles.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Then, like a ghost poof, it vanished.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Just after eight am Sunday, and Cape Coral police are
still searching for the truck and its drivers. Witnesses reported
hearing a loud collision followed by a power outage in
the area. Preliminary investigation indicates that a large commercial semi
struck a utility line and continued traveling westbound, dragging the
(06:54):
lines behind it. The damage extended across multiple homes and vehicles.
Six utility poles were knocked down, So I was six.
I was curious about one, maybe two? This is six
and he dragged them all behind him.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Is that what collected vehicles?
Speaker 2 (07:12):
No? No, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Uh. Then he hit several parked cars that were also
dragged across people's front yards and numerous fences were damaged
and knocked over. Wow, you got to see what the
fences look like. The resulting power outage did extend for
multiple blocks.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
No injuries.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
Well, that's a good sign or a good thing. Sorry
about cars though.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Traffic camera images indicate the cab of the truck was
yellow and it was hauling white refrigerated trailer. It was
last seen headed north on Burnt Store Road.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
That's a pretty identifiable tractor trailer.
Speaker 7 (07:54):
Isn't it.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Well, they do have a piece with that bright yellow cab.
Bright yellow cab is very bright.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
They do have a piece of the trailer because when
it took out some of the poles, it ripped off
top of the truck.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
And listen, I get it. I'm not a trucker. But
there's nothing, there's no worth unmarked. There's nothing that I
can't see that maybe somebody would be able to use
to identify the vehicle.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes, yellow cab.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Well yes, other than that, no, but like even look
at the cab, like most of the time it says
something on the side like keep on trucking or something
like that company name number, and even like the the
container I don't know what you call that the truck part.
There's nothing on there. And I don't know if that's
because it's a refrigerated truck, but there's nothing on there.
(08:45):
Were they hauling something where they were like, do not stop,
do not stop.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
For fear of spoilage?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
No, because we're carrying something we're not supposed to be.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Oh oh oh, well, I said, I'm not a trucker.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
No no, but like and again it would be something
that had to be refrigerated.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Say that photo is even worse, but there you can't
barely tell that cab is yellow in that photo almost
looks like a black and white photo.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
The yeah, no that there you go.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
There's nothing on the on the truck that says what
oh they put cones up to stop traffic?
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Now? Is there.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Faded markings have a previous company like paint over it.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But I think that happens if you get a container
from somebody like secondhand, and you just want to get
rid of it, like it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Have to say A and P.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
And again I'm not a truck. Those cones are where
the power lines went down, like I see them across
the road.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Yeah, he took down six poles. Look at their.
Speaker 6 (09:42):
Fence, there's the offence.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Yeah, and then I dragged a couple of cars through
the yards there.
Speaker 6 (09:49):
How much in damage?
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Over four hundred thousand dollars. Golly, maybe that's why you go.
You're just like, I'm not paying those are my two
a rut? A lot of damage and there's nothing identifiable.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
No.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Oh, they knocked over the street basketball hoop too, dick.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Hi?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Hello, Hey, who's.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
This hey man? This is Corey from Richmond, Virginia. How
you doing? Man?
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Good Corey? What's going on here?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
I'm not one hundred sure, sir.
Speaker 8 (10:27):
I don't that light pole and taking all that down then,
I mean, clearly you can see if that guy was
paying attention.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
I don't know, man, It's just crazy to me. I
ain't never heard nothing like that before.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, he took down six utility poles.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
And they said that like they're just dragging behind him
because the wires are stuck to the truck. He's banging
into cars and dragging him all over neighborhoods, knocking down fences.
And then he took off, which based on the last guy.
You guys aren't supposed to do that kind of damage
and then leave. What would be in the roof, sir?
What would be in the refrigerated truck though that has
(11:04):
no markings.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
On it, Sir, I'm not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 8 (11:09):
I drop for AHA dumpster cans every day, so I'm
not one hundred percent sure.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Now if you if you hit something like that, you
would stop right.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Oh, of course, absolutely, yes, sir?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Or is that just so much damage where you just
rolled the dice and been like, oh, I didn't know?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Oh no, sir, no, no no.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
A lot of these areas have height uh signs up everywhere,
so I don't know if it was he just went
through an area that it was well, it.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Wasn't tall enough for his truck. I'm not one hundred
percent sure.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
And Tyler's trying to tell me that trucks can't go
through like residential neighborhoods.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
You guys can do that, right.
Speaker 4 (11:49):
It all depends on the height.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Yeah, there's any low, there's low wires and stuff and overhead.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
A lot of times we cannot, sir.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I wouldn't even know how high up the power lines are.
All right, Very good, thank you, sir.
Speaker 6 (12:01):
Yes, Tom, there's a comment on the Cape Coral Cape
Coral Police Department's original post from yesterday that Semi didn't
even feel that power line. Hard to call the hit
and run when he couldn't tell that you fools didn't
fix the low hanging power lines.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
So you would take out six utility polls that have
no idea?
Speaker 6 (12:22):
That seems hard to believe, right, I.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Mean, those trucks are massive.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
But were the power lines in bad shape? A lot
of people saying those the lines were too low?
Speaker 2 (12:36):
What about the cars that he dragged through? Were they
in the wrong place? And the fences that I smashed?
Speaker 7 (12:42):
Why didn't you park in your driveway?
Speaker 1 (12:47):
So I'll give you maybe the power lines were too low,
but he still was dragging and pushing cars.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Around all over Line four. Hi Elli in the morning.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Hello, Hey, who's that this monica?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Hey you're a truck driver?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yes, sir, have you done anything like this?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Nope?
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Is that true?
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Go back to what what the somebody posted that if
the lines or sometimes the power lines are in bad
shape and kind of have a little bit of droop
to them, that sometimes you'll hit them, well.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
In some cases they need to repair that but in
some cases some people who'd be falling asleep behind the wheel.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Oh whoops, whoops.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yeah you got doubt, You forgot doubt?
Speaker 5 (13:32):
What not?
Speaker 1 (13:33):
You though? No, ma'am? Good it eat in the morning.
You're waking up.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
You should be fresh, Yes, you should be. But some
people they just keep on going.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
If you took down a utility poll with a truck,
would you.
Speaker 7 (13:48):
Know, Oh hell yeah, you gonna fell it?
Speaker 1 (13:52):
You will, okay, like sometimes I don't know, Like I
bet if you hit a deer, you don't know that.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
You hit it.
Speaker 7 (13:59):
You gonna feel anything. If you are in tone with
your truck, you're gonna feel it. You're gonna feel some
kind of bump because you supposed to be paying attention.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
What's the rule about checking mirrors too?
Speaker 7 (14:14):
And then you posed to pre trip your vehicle after
you you get out of the vehicle, right, Oh yeah,
but I.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Didn't even stop check it afterwards and be like, oh,
I must have hit something like cars of fences. Yeah,
what is the mirror rule? Aren't you supposed to check mirrors?
Is it every three seconds or six seconds?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Three to six seconds seconds? But at the same time,
you're supposed to make sure your clid before you make
any change, changing lanes.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
New rules.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Yeah, and I wasn't. I wasn't changing, I wasn't changing lanes.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I was just taking I did. I did get up
on a curve.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Just to make sure you're clid and driving.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
And also you could see he could have saw it
that pull.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
People want to see that pole dragon.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Hey, what is the and why is there no markings
at all on the cab or on the truck?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No markings? Nothing that sound like a fresh truck?
Speaker 7 (15:16):
Do you mark meaning that that you don't? You don't
have no company? Slag uh no, no company.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
And that's a fresh.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Truck, like you say fresh, like oh I got you
fresh clothes? Or or is it like like illegal illegal like.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
New or it could be illegal if you don't have
no markings on it. In other words, he could have
also just stolen it.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Okay, man, that's a that's a hefty, hefty allegation.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
That's world man.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Conviction.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
All right, very good, very good, Thank you. Monica Hill
in the morning. Hello, Yeah, Hi, who's that?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
Hey, what's up?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Man?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
A long time listening?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Appreciate it. Are you a truck driver?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Yeah, it's forty years driving out here. Tennis state hustling.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, I got you. What's going on here?
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Yeah, man, that's uh, that's like narcos, man, that's something
that that's and you sat down in Florida too, man,
So yeah, that that's that's something that's some illegal issues
going on down there.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Man.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
But it's keep Coral in Naples. It's not like it, of.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Course, man. I mean that's you know, that's that's where
all the big power people live. You know, they got
all money, and you know, they're not gonna live in
the in the ghettos in the hood. They're gonna live
in a nice area. I mean through a neighborhood like that.
You know, they.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
You know, they probably just look, oh damn it, your
hut down. Oh there you are, there, you are.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Have you ever have you ever? Have you ever taken
down a pole?
Speaker 5 (17:01):
Well, funny story, brother. I was I was working. I
was hauling a scrap metal, uh basically for a big,
big company. H And I was down in col Pepper, Virginia. Uh.
He a small little tight streets down there, and uh
I messed around and trying to make a turn, and
I clipped a light pole, uh and pretty much drove
(17:26):
away my Dispatch caused me about ten minutes later. They're like, hey,
you did you hit a light pole? I was like, yeah,
but I didn't knock it down.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah, but.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
You know, they got state troopers and police on site,
and you know, they're they're looking for you. I was like,
are you serious. Yeah, they're looking for you. They're saying
that you pretty much damaged the light pole. I was like,
I mean, yeah, I did damage it, but I ain't
knock it down.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Did you have to go Did you have to go back?
Speaker 5 (17:57):
Dude? I basically made a U turn and I hauled
my ass back man, because they thought they were gonna
put a warrant out for me in all other mess
and you know, they had me on camera. You know,
the track, the corner of the trailer. You know, we're
always basically trying to get around the light pole. And yeah,
I did damage a little bit of it, but you
know I didn't knock it down. I didn't drag it
down the street or nothing like that.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
I would have been if dispatch would have called me,
I'd have been like who me?
Speaker 5 (18:23):
What?
Speaker 1 (18:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Yeah, yeah, right, that's exactly what I was like. I
was like, yeah, I don't I don't think that was me, man,
But I'll go.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
I could talk to the nice people, but I you know,
it's not me.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
He was like, yeah, you was the only tractor trailer
on that street. I was like, right, you're you're the
only one driving a dumb trailer with a black peole
built Like yeah, yeah, you're right, You're right. I'm not
going nowhere. Let me turn back around.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Hey, do you agree with what Monica said with If
you find a truck like that that's got no markings
on it, no fighting, nothing or anything, that's a fresh truck, dude.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
That I mean, like I said, that's that's some that's
some underground, illegal, uh mafia type thing going on over there. Man.
You know, like if you got no you got no
DT number, which is basically, you know, a number that
the government gives you, you know, to put on your
truck and it's registered with your company. Like if you
(19:24):
don't have no kind of marketings, no numbers, no company number,
nothing on your truck, Like, dude, you're doing some illegal stuff.
You know, unless it's a you know, unless it's a
government vehicle. You know that. But you're gonna see you know,
government tags on there.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
Right, I got most of the.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
Most of the government trucks. Uh, they don't have no
kind of numbers, no decals or nothing on them. But
you know you'll see a government tag on there.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
But and even though even though this guy took down
six utility polls, damaged half a dozen vehicles, knocked down
a bunch of fences, took out the basketball hoop, do
you side with Everybody's like, well, sometimes those lines are drooping.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Uh yeah, man, funny story down in fairfaxt in Fairfact City.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I was working for Coca Cola back in the time,
like in two thousand and six, and uh, I sked
around and drove in the backstreet back there and knocked
down took down cable wires with me. You know, this
was in the afternoon. This was an afternoon and I'm
driving through the street and I'm seeing people coming out
of the houses waving and screaming at me. I'm like,
(20:30):
what the hell is wrong with these people? Like, what
the hell is going on? You know? I rode down
in the window and they're like, hey, mother effort. He
took out my damn direct TV came up. Oh damn sorry.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I looked at I look at the back of my trailer.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
Dude, I got like one hundred cable lines just dragging
behind me, you know. But like I said, I got
twenty years out here driving, so you know, you got
to make mistakes to get better.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Absolutely, that's what we learned from. That's where we learned from,
all right, dude, Hey, I appreciate the phone call. Thank
you my friend. Yes, Tom, Now he didn't know the
caller when he took down the lines. But Lorie writes,
I live about two miles down the road where this happened.
I went past it yesterday. It looks like a tornado.
(21:17):
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