January 24, 2025 • 39 mins
In this episode I discuss what happened with a pregnant Uber driver that crashes into a parked semi truck. I also discuss other top trucking stories that have made the headlines in the news in the trucking industry. If you enjoy my show and would like to become a patron/sponsor you can do so by clicking here: https://www.patreon.com/juliastruckingcafe If you would like to make a one-time donation to help keep the show going you can do so by clicking on the Donate button on the bottom of this page. Music by: Heyday Highway @EpidemicSound.com
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
You are listening to Julia's Truck and Cafe News Hour.
Semi truck leaves IFI freeway and splashes into a waterway,
closing lanes during peak post holiday travel. Several lanes on
I five in LA were shut down on Sunday morning
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for a wreck involving a semi truck that crashed into
a nearby waterway. The accident happened just before three am
on Sunday, December twenty ninth, on the IPI Freeway south
of Parker Road and Castaic, California. According to the local news,
the semi veered off the roadway and crashed through a
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guard rail before landing in a shallow waterway by the road.
Direct caused a fuel spill and spent sent the truck
driver to the hospital. The extent of the driver's injuries
have not been released. Multiple lanes of the freeway shut
down for cleanup and investigation of the incident. A waterway
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basically drains into the ocean, said the wrecking company, So
we're going to try to control the fuel spill and
make sure that there isn't any fuel that goes into
the waterway and hence, you know, polluting everything.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yes, this is what I love about live. You screw up.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Everybody sees it right there in there, no editing it
out until later. And in this story, a truck driver
cited after striking a park patrol vehicle on New York
Interstate Police are asking drivers to move over for emergency
vehicles following a crash in New York State involving a
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police patrol vehicle and a semi truck. A crash occurred
shortly after seven pm on December twentieth at Big Flats,
New York. According to the local Sheriff's Office, deputies were
dispatched on I eighty six near the Steuben County line
to assist with a single vehicle crash in the eastbound lane.
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The driver in that crash suffered a head injury and
required transportation to the hospital. Quote Sheriff's Deputy Caitlin Fletcher
was parked at the rear of the accident scene and
stopped partially on the shoulder of the roadway and the
driving lane, and had a directional signal activated to instruct
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all approaching traffic to move over to the passing lane.
As Deputy Fletcher was preparing to exit her patrol vehicle,
a semi operated by Morris rutout hauling milk, approached the
accident scene but failed to move over. Because of this,
the semi struck the driver's side of the patrol car,
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setting the patrol car off the south shoulder of the
road way and down the embankment, causing extensive damage to
both the patrol vehicle and the front of the semi.
Deputy Fletcher was hospitalized with minor injuries. No one else
was hurt. Luckily, she, you know, I'm sure, got out
of the way before she could have really got hurt.
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An officer was attacked by a cow set loose in
a cattle truck fire. Police officer was injured by a
cow free during a cattle holler fire in Idaho. According
to the local shares who responded to the scene, a
semihull and cattile had caught fire on I fifteen. When
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the officer arrived, the truck had already unloaded the cattle
from the trailer as a precaution, and other first responders
were attempted to corral the cows. One cow that ran
into the northbound lane of I five, where the officer
tried to catch it, but the cow charged him instead
and knocking him to the ground. The cow then continued
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to attack the officer as he was on the ground,
so the officer shot the animal in self defense. The
officer was transported to a local hospital, where he was
treated for minor injuries and released the same day. Authorities
say that the cow had been injured in the truck fire,
which may have led to its aggressive behavior. I fifteen
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souths was completely closed for several hours as officers worked
to corral the remaining cows, loaded them onto another trailer,
and then went ahead and cleared the wreckage. The initial
cattle trailer was seriously damaged in the fire, which appeared
to have started near the wheels. The loose cows did
not cause any crashes, and the only cow killed was
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the one that the officer shot. So I bet you
he was shitting his breeches getting chased down by a cow.
I had that happen, but it was a steer, and
I ended up taking a two by four and going
after the steer to show a moose boss. Well, hence
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why I got a little missing tooth right here, because
when I smacked it on the head, it turned around
and hit me square. The two by four, I mean
bounced off, it hit in between the horns, it bounced,
and then it hit me in the right in the
mouth and ended up getting a busted tooth out of
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that deal. So there's a little Jillia truck and story
for you. And up next to New York City congestion
pricing starts last weekend. Here is one of my cost truckers.
New York City is set to become the first city
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in the US to implement congestion pricing. The pricing plan
is scheduled to begin on Sunday, jayquar fifth, after an
eight month pause and drastic price cut by Governor Kathy Hochel.
Congestion pricing will take effect in the Manhattan Zone, which
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include local streets and avenues at or below sixtieth Street
near Central Park during the peak hours. The toll will
cost nine dollars for passenger vehicles who enter the zone,
fourteen dollars and forty cents for work trucks, twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
One dollars is sixty cents for semi trucks.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Semi trucks will be charged five dollars and forty cents
for overnight hours. Peak hours are considered five am to
nine pm Monday through Friday and nine am to nine
pm on the weekends. The tolls will be collected through
easy Pass. The entries are already set up at congestion
zone entry points, and drivers without an easy Pass will
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be mailed to toll bill and charged even a higher price.
If the toll continues, so will rise in twenty twenty
eight and then again in twenty thirty one. There are
currently several court cases aimed at trying to halt congested
pricing until a comprehensive study on its effects has been completed,
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including one brought by the state of New Jersey. A
ruling on the New Jersey case is expected to be
reached prior to January fifth. President ELEC. Donald Trump has
also stated that he plans to end the congested pricing
plan when he takes office on January twentyeth.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Gotta love them.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Gotta love New York City. Oops, wrong way, wrong way,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And in this story California Highway Patrol and investigating his
suspicious death of a man found lying near a semi
truck Texad New York. Yeah, I know, I didn't like
going on to the city when I used to run,
but I would get one hundred bucks combat pay, though
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for having to go into.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
They turned around and threw me an extra one hundred
bucks for doing that, so I'm like, okay, not but anyway,
back to the story. The California Highway Patrols investigating the
depth of a man found lying in the roadway near
a semi truck parked on the shoulder of Highway one
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sixty six. The man was found around noon on Sunday,
December twenty ninth, on the eastbound shoulder of Highway one
sixty six between Old River Road and Interstate five near Bakersfield.
According to the local news, police were called to the
area on reports of a semi stopped on the westbound
shoulder since the night before. When officers arrived to investigate,
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they discovered a man lying dead across the road from
the stopped semi. Investigators closed an eight mile stretch on
a Highway six one sixty six to investigate the incident.
Officers are calling the death suspicious. No further information was released,
and I'm surprised that I was saying before, I was
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surprised that they didn't leave a phone number where if
you saw anything, you know, the man crossing the road
or the truck stopping or anything like that to call.
But you could always look up the I don't have
a handy, but the Bakersfield Police Department, I'm sure, And
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it would be off a California Highway one sixty six
if you saw anything, hurt anything. And Iowa Trucking Company
building is a total loss after going up and smoked.
Which is not funny, but multiple firefighting agencies responded to
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a large fire at a truck at company in Greenfield, Iowa.
This happened on December twenty seventh, around four o'clock in
the afternoon. Firefighters responded to g n H Motor Freight
Lines on the north side of Greenfield for a reported
structure fire. Fischer said that the blaze started in the shop,
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then moved rapidly through a storage facility and into a
secondary store second story office area. No injuries were reported.
The local fire department said that the building is a
complete loss. Firefighters returned to the scene on Saturday morning
after hotspots reignited, causing piles of powdered egg to continue
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to burn for an extended period of time. And yeah,
the flames were rolling.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
On that one. That's too bad.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Luckily nobody doesn't say that anybody was in the building
or not, so hopefully not and that you know, hate
to see anybody getting anybody get hurt. And then on
continuation of that story, the cause of the truck of
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company fire that burned all weekend probably will never be determined.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
As you could see here in this photo, the.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Building was burned so extensively that the cause of the
fire will likely never be determined, as the firefighters. The
crews fought the fire through Saturday evening, but by Monday,
December thirty, yet the business was on fire again.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We thought we had a pretty we did a pretty
good job of it Saturday by noon, where there really
wasn't hardly any smoke left, said the fire chief. We
ended up dumping Saturday night roughly twelve thousand gallons on
what's burning right now, And obviously that didn't help. As
a Monday evening, fire crews were continuing to monitor the
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fire but were unable to take further action until the
company's insurance approves. Really, the insurance had to prove the
firefighters to put the damn fire out.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Quote the extent of the damage is so much on
the end were started.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That there's not going to be.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Able to be a real determination on how it really started,
said the fire chief, stating that the building was full
of raw and powdered eggs, which have continued to feed
the fire. So now we know that powdered eggs is flammable,
just like if you didn't know this powdered non dairy creamer,
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the little bitty creamers, they're flammable. You have to have
a flammable placard when you haul the the non dairy
powdered creamer. Now you know powdered eggs are flammable too.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You learn something watching this show and not just listen
to me banter. Let me go back up to where
I was, because I kind of skipped around on this
one and in this story, as you see the title,
the truck drivers found de ceased in a cab behind
the South Carolina gas station. I keep checking my phone here.
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Authorities confirmed that the truck driver is found dead in
his vehicle at a gas station in Aca County, South Carolina,
last week Tuesday. This is at six in the morning
on December thirty first. The Aca County Corners Office was
called to a cook Trip located in Greenville, South Carolina.
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According to the local news, a truck driver is found
dead in the cab of the truck park behind the
gas station. No foul play is suspected at this time
and autopsy is scheduled. The identity of the truck driver
has not been released. And this is a developing story.
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So what I tried to do here in order to
read the stories because I don't know all of them
off the top of my head, I'll give you a
little background as I yep, you have to learn something
new every day as I go through the articles. I
have my tablet underneath my screen down here. That's why
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keep looking down, and that's where I have all the
news articles, so I could just scroll through them as
I'm changing, flipping through each article at a time. And
California State Patrol says it was too late implementing chain
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laws on I seventy, leading to more than a dozen
semis stuck. This is published New Year's Eve. Interstate seventy
was shut down for several hours on Monday after multiple
semis were allowed to pass by the chain station without
chaining up. The closure of eastbound I seventy through Vail
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Pass of Colorado was first announced on the thirtieth at
one thirty in the afternoon, about thirty minutes after heavy
snow began falling in the area. The snow also forced
the closure of Highway twenty four detour around Veil between
three and five pm. According to the local news, more
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than a dozen semis were allowed to pass the chain
station without chaining up before the chain laws were finally implemented.
By then, multiple semis were already struggling to make it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Up the incline. Make it up veil.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's just a sheet of ice up there, multiple spun
out vehicles, said the local State Patrol. Rice explained that
the Colorado State Patrol is mainly responsible for notifying the
Colorado Department of Transportation that chain laws should go into effect,
but admitted that this time was behind the ball on
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getting the chain laws set in place, and it's too late,
and at that point, semis were already on climbing up veil.
At about one oh five pm, I started seeing all
the trucks that couldn't get up the hill. Who drives
were a local private car service, So I radioed my
other driver and told him to go around on Highway
twenty four and he barely made it through. Then I
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seventy was reopened on Monday evening just before five pm.
No injuries or serious crashes were reported, unlike I seventy.
But I don't have that article this week. It's going
to be next week's show. Where it was in Illinois,
there was a heck of a crash. We'll talk about
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that next week. And once again last week, Kroger made
it in the news. Now this is two for two.
Kroger distribution centers shut down due to a worker's murder.
Lee's truckers waiting in line fro up to seventy two hours.
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Truckers have reported waiting for days to access the grocery
store distribution center in Memphis after an act of a
workplace violence shuttered a facility for several days. Day after Christmas,
mister Hobson was killed during a dispute at the Kroger
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DC in Memphis. Hobson coworker Anderson Todd has since been
arrested and charged with a second degree murder. Following the incident,
at Kroger warehouse was reportedly shuddered for four days for
the investigation.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Now this is the.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Story that I talked about on last week's episode, so
this is a continuation of it. The local news reports
that some truck drivers said they waited up to seventy
two hours inside their trucks at the facility, spending the
weekend after the Christmas holiday waiting in line. And you
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can't leave once you check in, because I've been to
this Kroger and you see the picture that is people
triple parked.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
There.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Normally you back in on an angle, then you have
to walk all the way down to the end of
this angle parking where they got the guard check and
then you could check in like an hour early or something,
and then you gotta go walk back to your truck.
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They will call you when they have a door, and
it was taking up to three days to get a door,
and you can't leave.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You can't go to the truck stop, you can't.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I bet your door dasher was making a killing with
drivers being there for seventy two hours. You know, I
would have made a killing at door dash delivering food
to the drivers over there.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
But I digress.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Truck drivers also said that they were hauling loads of
fresh food when the distribution center was shut down, so
they also had to run the for units. Truck driver
Dennis Wade told the outlet that the waight had cost
him one thousand dollars. Another driver, Martin Acosta, said the
DC closure cost him about three grand and lost loads. Yeah,
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because you already have another load booked.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I did that.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You know, you expect to be deliver on time, and
you have another load book for later that day or
the next morning or something like that, and you had
to cancel and then then you don't know when you're
gonna get out of there because everything.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Is backed up.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, it's a pain. A Costa also said that he
was worried about missing the holidays with his family. So, yeah,
it's be prepared. Take food with you. Stop at Walmart,
get some food before you go in there, because you
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don't know. I'm sure it's better now. And we usually
got in and got out, you know, without you know,
you never realized that something like that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That was like a fluke.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
In all the years I've been driving, this is the
first time I've ever heard about anybody being hurt or
anything like that at Kromer, at that Kroger, and I've
delivered there quite often and in this article, a trucker
is seriously injured by a reversing motorist while he was
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working on his semi truck. Police are investigating after a
truck driver is seriously hurt by a motorist at a
parking lot in Lubbock. The accident happened on December thirtieth,
just before eleven in the morning on North Luke two
eighty nine in Lubbock, Texas. According to the local news
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of thirty six year old truck driver Greg Vargas was
working near his semi truck at a convenience start parking
lot when he was struck by an suv. The suv
was driven by a seventy six year old Willie Nelson
William Nelson, who was backing out of a parking place
when he collided with Vargas. Vargas was transported to a
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hospital with serious injuries as a result of the incident.
Police are still investigating. And no, I don't think it's
the same Willie Nelson because he lives in Texas well,
but not around Lumpock. I don't think, not one hundred
percent sure on that, but I'm sure it would have
made the news if you know the truth.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The real, Really, Willie Nelson was.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Involved in any kind of a wreck, you know, that
would definitely make the news. And if have you been
to West Virginia lately. On seventy seven, I believe, then
the West Virginia turnpi remember the big travel center at
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the West Virginia Turnpike that was closed like forever. Well,
they reopened and they expanded the truck parking. Popular West
Virginia Travel Plaza reopened to the public after was shut
down for several months for upgrades.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Several months.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, til like dang near a year. On the seven thirties,
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced the reopening of the
Beckley Travel Plaza, located along the West Virginia Turnpike. The
Beckley Travel Plaza was closed in early August for demolition
and renovation to allow for upgrades and expansion of truck
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parking facilities. Am I thinking of Beckley or am I
thinking there was another one there in West Virginia that
was closed for the longest time? Is that the Beckley one?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
This looks like the looking at a bigger picture, that's
a drone footage that I'm seeing here. It looks like
it's the same one official set in July that thirty
five truck parking places would be added to the facility,
bringing the total number of truck parking places to one
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hundred and sixty five. You still better get in there
by three o'clock in the afternoon, because one hundred and
sixty five park places isn't hardly anything. I mean, look
at Whites. Whites is up to three hundred and fifty
and during the week most of that is all doug
on full. So other amenities include Starbucks, Wendy's, pop Eyes,
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Mountain State Market restaurants, which will run twenty four to seven,
increased restroom facilities, electric vehicle charge jingleish we forget that,
a drive through a separate vehicle, and semi fueling options.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm truly blown away by how this plaza has turned out.
It's even more than we imagine, said the governor. A
few years ago, no one would have dreamed that West
Virginia would be featured in a top travel guides or
become a top tourist destination. Now, people from all over
the world are coming to experience almost heaven. We need
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to update our travel plazas to match the excitement and
energy of our visitors. And that's exactly what we've done.
You could tell the snarkiness of my voice.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Right. This isn't just a pit stop.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It's our opportunity to show off the beauty and spirit
of West Virginia. The reason why I'm talking like this
is because of the fact, you know, it's so much
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and so
much political crap he's spewing when he's talking like this.
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That is just trying to, you know, make it all
sound so pretty and everything. But yeah, the cops suck.
Let's be real and sort of the scalehouses. But anyway,
I digress.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And then.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Massachusetts passes a bill saving nearly five hundred truckers from
having their CDL yanked for archaic offenses.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Hang on a second.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I have two cats and they're always.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
One's a munchkin and the other one's five years old, and.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
The little one always wants to beat up the big one,
dominating thing.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
But anyway, back to this story. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So Massachusetts passes a bill saving nearly five hundred truckers
from having their CDL yanked for archaic offenses. Nearly five
hundred truckers will likely be safe from losing their livelihoods
thanks to the passing of a bill by Massachusetts lawmakers
on New Year's Eve. Back in August of twenty twenty four,
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the Massachusetts Registery of Motor Vehicles informed four hundred and
eighty two CDL holders that their licenses would be revoked
due to a lifetime look back at violations on their record. Boy,
ain't that's some crap. In October of twenty twenty four,
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Massachusetts lawmakers introduced emergency legislation attempting to stop.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This looming revocation.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
On the thirty first of December twenty twenty four, that
bill had was passed, preventing the Registry of Motor Vehicles
from disqualifying drivers for holding a CDL for life for
two or more listed infractions. Additionally, any offenses on a
driver's record prior to two thousand and five will be
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excluded from consideration. There's no quote, there's no question that
these old, archaic violations that were committed so many years ago,
I have no bearing on whether that person is a
safe driver now. And everyone I've spoken to have maintained
a clean record, said the attorney defending several CDL holders.
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As of New Year's Eve, the bill had been passed
and completed. The Massachusetts Governor Healy has ten days designed
into law. After that, the RMV has until the end
of February to comply with that new law. So how
would you like them, apples? He's why I don't live
in Massachusetts. I mean, you know, get away with murder sometimes,
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I swear. And in Oregon, police credit a semi truck
driver was stopping a suspected drunk driver that was involved
in a hit and run. So it's about time we
I could report on some good news for a change,
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instead of everything people dying and places burning down and
all of the recks and everything. After a while, it
just gets to be a lot. So police and Eugene, Oregon,
say that a semi truck driver assisted in stopping a
suspected intoxicated motorist after a hit and ruck crash on
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New Year's Eve. Shortly after two pm on December thirty first,
the Eugene Police Department responded to West sixth Avenue and
Blair Bullar for a multi vehicle crash. Police say that
three vehicles were westbound on West sixth Avenue, where the
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far left lane merges to the right. The Police department
described the crash.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And the aftermath.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
This Porsche Mueller H thirty four, later identified as the
driver of a Masda, was in a merged lane and
merged into a semi and struck the front left corner
of the semi. The Semi swerved to the right when
it was struck and was forced to the right and
into a Ford Explorer's lane. The driver of the Ford
Explorer sped ahead of the semi. Mueller is reported to
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have merged in front of the semi, was behind the
Ford Explorer and rear ended it. The Ford Explorers driver
pulled into an auto repair business to exchange info, but
Mueller left and the tractor trailer was following it. Boy,
you can't make this up in the movies, can you.
The Semi trucks thirty one year old driver followed Mueller,
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then slowly merged her car to a stop and carefully
moved the car into a guard rail so she could
not leave. Police said that Mueller was arrested and booked
in the Lane County Jail on multiple charges, including DUI,
two counts of hit and run, reckless driving, and two
counts of reckless endangering.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
So I'm like, holy Molly.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So yeah, she was just gonna take off coming in
from the left lane, merging to the right. It shows
backwards on the camera. Sorry, and she merged into the semi.
The semi shot over hit a Ford Explorer. The Ford
Explorer shot around the semi. She come in front of
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the semi, behind the Explorer and then rear end of
the Explorer and then takes off like wow wow wow.
And in our top story, a pregnant uber driver crashes
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into a park semi and kills the passenger. One person
died after an accident involving a sedan and a stop
semi truck in Philadelphia. This happened in December thirty one year,
around ten forty five in the evening.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
In Philly. According to the local news, a.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Thirty two year old pregnant uber driver crashed the sedan
into a park semi truck, crushing the front passenger side
of the car underneath the trailer, so she ran underneath
the ICC bumper. Both the uber driver and the passenger
were taken to the hospital following the accident. The passenger
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was pronounced dead at eleven to ten pm. The uber drivers.
It's been listed in stable condition. The truck driver was
not hurt. We're incredibly saddened by the horrible crash and
our keeping those involved in our thoughts. We're continuing to
look into this and stand by to assist in the investigation,
an Uber spokesperson wrote in a statement. The cause of
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the crash is still under investigation at the time of
writing of this article, and of course, as always, as
I have any more updates on these stories, I will
report them as soon as possible and then overheight semi
truck causes a chain reaction crash beneath a Michigan overpass.
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Now you see, if you look to the left of
your screen, you see the white truck. Doesn't look like
anything's wrong with it, does it? But yet everybody scattered
everywhere behind them. A semi truck crashed into a low
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overpass on Tuesday, causing a chain reaction involving three other vehicles.
Accident happened on the thirty first, around nine to forty
five in Door Township, Michigan. According to the local news,
a semitruck tried to go underneath the one hundred and
forty fourth Avenue overpass on US one thirty one. I
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have been there, but was over the height limit. The
collision caused a chain reaction crash with three other vehicles,
including a box truck. Only minor injuries were reported in
the crash, but the roadway remained closed till about two
forty five pm that afternoon for cleanup and investigation.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Of the accident.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
The one hundred and forty fourth Avenue overpass had been
closed until further notice after being structurally compromised during the crash,
and no information has been and released as far as
what happened. Not not a wood and a man is
freed from the depths of a tanker trailer filled with
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feed after slipping and falling inside. So if you can
imagine loose wheat, oats corn, if you any kind of
a hopper bottom trailers or bulk tank trailer or anything
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like that, you sink down in there, step down in
that stuff. It's just like quicksand and you'll just keep
sinking because of the weight. A man was pulled to
safety after falling into a tanker trailer filled with feed
at a facility in Ohio last week Thursday. This incident
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occurred in January seven at Middle Street in Homeworth, Knox County, Ohio.
According to the local news, a subcontractor was working around
the trailer when he slipped and fell inside, where he
became stuck. The Homework Fire Department and the Alliance Fire
Department worked together to wrap a harness around a worker
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and lift him out of the feed haller using the
fire department ladder truck. The rescue took about two hours
to complete. The man was then transported to the hospital
with no life threatening injuries. Officials say the worker slipped
during a standard procedure involving the feed hauler and then
No further information has been released on I'm sure he's
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hopefully he's okay. So I want to thank everybody for
tuning in. I've also started, I want to make this
little plug toward the end. I've also started creating.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I don't know if we could see this.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Here we go coloring books, so I know it's backwards.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
It looks backwards to me.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But these are eight and a half by eleven coloring
books that I have through Amazon, and they're like seven
eight dollars apiece, so you.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Can see that they're.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Full page coloring books. These are this one's predominantly for boys.
I was thinking of my grandson when I did this,
and I keep a blank page in case they use
markers or anything like that. Sorry, it's kind of fading
in and out, but if you want to check that
out is jbas Books on Facebook as a page, and
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then I have all listing. I have two or three
of them up right now now. I am also doing
a Mardi Gras one with Mandi Gras masks and everything.
So it's good fun for the kids. Heck, some of
them are so cute that I'll sit down in color
just for something to do. You scribble on paper, you
scribble on notes or something like that. Heck, and you
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scribble in a coloring book. A friend of mine ordered
one for her granddaughter, and granddaughter loved it. My grandson
loved it. And that's what some of the other things
that I'm doing. Also check out my merchandise store at
Julia's Truck at Cafe at spring dot com and there again,
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if you check out our Facebook page, that's also listed there.
Anything that I'm doing new or creative or anything like that,
I have on Julia's Truck at Cafe Facebook page Truck
of News Hour on Facebook. So I hope everybody had
a good New Year. Thank you so much for tuning
in and keep the shiny side up.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
And until next time.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
You have been listening to Julia's Truck, a Cafe Truck
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You are listening to Julia's Truck and Cafe News Hour.
Semi truck leaves IFI freeway and splashes into a waterway,
closing lanes during peak post holiday travel. Several lanes on
I five in LA were shut down on Sunday morning
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for a wreck involving a semi truck that crashed into
a nearby waterway. The accident happened just before three am
on Sunday, December twenty ninth, on the IPI Freeway south
of Parker Road and Castaic, California. According to the local news,
the semi veered off the roadway and crashed through a
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guard rail before landing in a shallow waterway by the road.
Direct caused a fuel spill and spent sent the truck
driver to the hospital. The extent of the driver's injuries
have not been released. Multiple lanes of the freeway shut
down for cleanup and investigation of the incident. A waterway
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basically drains into the ocean, said the wrecking company, So
we're going to try to control the fuel spill and
make sure that there isn't any fuel that goes into
the waterway and hence, you know, polluting everything.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yes, this is what I love about live. You screw up.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Everybody sees it right there in there, no editing it
out until later. And in this story, a truck driver
cited after striking a park patrol vehicle on New York
Interstate Police are asking drivers to move over for emergency
vehicles following a crash in New York State involving a
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police patrol vehicle and a semi truck. A crash occurred
shortly after seven pm on December twentieth at Big Flats,
New York. According to the local Sheriff's Office, deputies were
dispatched on I eighty six near the Steuben County line
to assist with a single vehicle crash in the eastbound lane.
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The driver in that crash suffered a head injury and
required transportation to the hospital. Quote Sheriff's Deputy Caitlin Fletcher
was parked at the rear of the accident scene and
stopped partially on the shoulder of the roadway and the
driving lane, and had a directional signal activated to instruct
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all approaching traffic to move over to the passing lane.
As Deputy Fletcher was preparing to exit her patrol vehicle,
a semi operated by Morris rutout hauling milk, approached the
accident scene but failed to move over. Because of this,
the semi struck the driver's side of the patrol car,
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setting the patrol car off the south shoulder of the
road way and down the embankment, causing extensive damage to
both the patrol vehicle and the front of the semi.
Deputy Fletcher was hospitalized with minor injuries. No one else
was hurt. Luckily, she, you know, I'm sure, got out
of the way before she could have really got hurt.
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An officer was attacked by a cow set loose in
a cattle truck fire. Police officer was injured by a
cow free during a cattle holler fire in Idaho. According
to the local shares who responded to the scene, a
semihull and cattile had caught fire on I fifteen. When
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the officer arrived, the truck had already unloaded the cattle
from the trailer as a precaution, and other first responders
were attempted to corral the cows. One cow that ran
into the northbound lane of I five, where the officer
tried to catch it, but the cow charged him instead
and knocking him to the ground. The cow then continued
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to attack the officer as he was on the ground,
so the officer shot the animal in self defense. The
officer was transported to a local hospital, where he was
treated for minor injuries and released the same day. Authorities
say that the cow had been injured in the truck fire,
which may have led to its aggressive behavior. I fifteen
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souths was completely closed for several hours as officers worked
to corral the remaining cows, loaded them onto another trailer,
and then went ahead and cleared the wreckage. The initial
cattle trailer was seriously damaged in the fire, which appeared
to have started near the wheels. The loose cows did
not cause any crashes, and the only cow killed was
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the one that the officer shot. So I bet you
he was shitting his breeches getting chased down by a cow.
I had that happen, but it was a steer, and
I ended up taking a two by four and going
after the steer to show a moose boss. Well, hence
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why I got a little missing tooth right here, because
when I smacked it on the head, it turned around
and hit me square. The two by four, I mean
bounced off, it hit in between the horns, it bounced,
and then it hit me in the right in the
mouth and ended up getting a busted tooth out of
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that deal. So there's a little Jillia truck and story
for you. And up next to New York City congestion
pricing starts last weekend. Here is one of my cost truckers.
New York City is set to become the first city
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in the US to implement congestion pricing. The pricing plan
is scheduled to begin on Sunday, jayquar fifth, after an
eight month pause and drastic price cut by Governor Kathy Hochel.
Congestion pricing will take effect in the Manhattan Zone, which
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include local streets and avenues at or below sixtieth Street
near Central Park during the peak hours. The toll will
cost nine dollars for passenger vehicles who enter the zone,
fourteen dollars and forty cents for work trucks, twenty.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
One dollars is sixty cents for semi trucks.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Semi trucks will be charged five dollars and forty cents
for overnight hours. Peak hours are considered five am to
nine pm Monday through Friday and nine am to nine
pm on the weekends. The tolls will be collected through
easy Pass. The entries are already set up at congestion
zone entry points, and drivers without an easy Pass will
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be mailed to toll bill and charged even a higher price.
If the toll continues, so will rise in twenty twenty
eight and then again in twenty thirty one. There are
currently several court cases aimed at trying to halt congested
pricing until a comprehensive study on its effects has been completed,
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including one brought by the state of New Jersey. A
ruling on the New Jersey case is expected to be
reached prior to January fifth. President ELEC. Donald Trump has
also stated that he plans to end the congested pricing
plan when he takes office on January twentyeth.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Gotta love them.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Gotta love New York City. Oops, wrong way, wrong way,
here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
And in this story California Highway Patrol and investigating his
suspicious death of a man found lying near a semi
truck Texad New York. Yeah, I know, I didn't like
going on to the city when I used to run,
but I would get one hundred bucks combat pay, though
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for having to go into.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
New York City.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
They turned around and threw me an extra one hundred
bucks for doing that, so I'm like, okay, not but anyway,
back to the story. The California Highway Patrols investigating the
depth of a man found lying in the roadway near
a semi truck parked on the shoulder of Highway one
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sixty six. The man was found around noon on Sunday,
December twenty ninth, on the eastbound shoulder of Highway one
sixty six between Old River Road and Interstate five near Bakersfield.
According to the local news, police were called to the
area on reports of a semi stopped on the westbound
shoulder since the night before. When officers arrived to investigate,
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they discovered a man lying dead across the road from
the stopped semi. Investigators closed an eight mile stretch on
a Highway six one sixty six to investigate the incident.
Officers are calling the death suspicious. No further information was released,
and I'm surprised that I was saying before, I was
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surprised that they didn't leave a phone number where if
you saw anything, you know, the man crossing the road
or the truck stopping or anything like that to call.
But you could always look up the I don't have
a handy, but the Bakersfield Police Department, I'm sure, And
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it would be off a California Highway one sixty six
if you saw anything, hurt anything. And Iowa Trucking Company
building is a total loss after going up and smoked.
Which is not funny, but multiple firefighting agencies responded to
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a large fire at a truck at company in Greenfield, Iowa.
This happened on December twenty seventh, around four o'clock in
the afternoon. Firefighters responded to g n H Motor Freight
Lines on the north side of Greenfield for a reported
structure fire. Fischer said that the blaze started in the shop,
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then moved rapidly through a storage facility and into a
secondary store second story office area. No injuries were reported.
The local fire department said that the building is a
complete loss. Firefighters returned to the scene on Saturday morning
after hotspots reignited, causing piles of powdered egg to continue
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to burn for an extended period of time. And yeah,
the flames were rolling.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
On that one. That's too bad.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Luckily nobody doesn't say that anybody was in the building
or not, so hopefully not and that you know, hate
to see anybody getting anybody get hurt. And then on
continuation of that story, the cause of the truck of
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company fire that burned all weekend probably will never be determined.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
As you could see here in this photo, the.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Building was burned so extensively that the cause of the
fire will likely never be determined, as the firefighters. The
crews fought the fire through Saturday evening, but by Monday,
December thirty, yet the business was on fire again.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
We thought we had a pretty we did a pretty
good job of it Saturday by noon, where there really
wasn't hardly any smoke left, said the fire chief. We
ended up dumping Saturday night roughly twelve thousand gallons on
what's burning right now, And obviously that didn't help. As
a Monday evening, fire crews were continuing to monitor the
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fire but were unable to take further action until the
company's insurance approves. Really, the insurance had to prove the
firefighters to put the damn fire out.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Quote the extent of the damage is so much on
the end were started.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
That there's not going to be.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Able to be a real determination on how it really started,
said the fire chief, stating that the building was full
of raw and powdered eggs, which have continued to feed
the fire. So now we know that powdered eggs is flammable,
just like if you didn't know this powdered non dairy creamer,
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the little bitty creamers, they're flammable. You have to have
a flammable placard when you haul the the non dairy
powdered creamer. Now you know powdered eggs are flammable too.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
You learn something watching this show and not just listen
to me banter. Let me go back up to where
I was, because I kind of skipped around on this
one and in this story, as you see the title,
the truck drivers found de ceased in a cab behind
the South Carolina gas station. I keep checking my phone here.
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Authorities confirmed that the truck driver is found dead in
his vehicle at a gas station in Aca County, South Carolina,
last week Tuesday. This is at six in the morning
on December thirty first. The Aca County Corners Office was
called to a cook Trip located in Greenville, South Carolina.
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According to the local news, a truck driver is found
dead in the cab of the truck park behind the
gas station. No foul play is suspected at this time
and autopsy is scheduled. The identity of the truck driver
has not been released. And this is a developing story.
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So what I tried to do here in order to
read the stories because I don't know all of them
off the top of my head, I'll give you a
little background as I yep, you have to learn something
new every day as I go through the articles. I
have my tablet underneath my screen down here. That's why
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keep looking down, and that's where I have all the
news articles, so I could just scroll through them as
I'm changing, flipping through each article at a time. And
California State Patrol says it was too late implementing chain
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laws on I seventy, leading to more than a dozen
semis stuck. This is published New Year's Eve. Interstate seventy
was shut down for several hours on Monday after multiple
semis were allowed to pass by the chain station without
chaining up. The closure of eastbound I seventy through Vail
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Pass of Colorado was first announced on the thirtieth at
one thirty in the afternoon, about thirty minutes after heavy
snow began falling in the area. The snow also forced
the closure of Highway twenty four detour around Veil between
three and five pm. According to the local news, more
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than a dozen semis were allowed to pass the chain
station without chaining up before the chain laws were finally implemented.
By then, multiple semis were already struggling to make it.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Up the incline. Make it up veil.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
It's just a sheet of ice up there, multiple spun
out vehicles, said the local State Patrol. Rice explained that
the Colorado State Patrol is mainly responsible for notifying the
Colorado Department of Transportation that chain laws should go into effect,
but admitted that this time was behind the ball on
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getting the chain laws set in place, and it's too late,
and at that point, semis were already on climbing up veil.
At about one oh five pm, I started seeing all
the trucks that couldn't get up the hill. Who drives
were a local private car service, So I radioed my
other driver and told him to go around on Highway
twenty four and he barely made it through. Then I
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seventy was reopened on Monday evening just before five pm.
No injuries or serious crashes were reported, unlike I seventy.
But I don't have that article this week. It's going
to be next week's show. Where it was in Illinois,
there was a heck of a crash. We'll talk about
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that next week. And once again last week, Kroger made
it in the news. Now this is two for two.
Kroger distribution centers shut down due to a worker's murder.
Lee's truckers waiting in line fro up to seventy two hours.
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Truckers have reported waiting for days to access the grocery
store distribution center in Memphis after an act of a
workplace violence shuttered a facility for several days. Day after Christmas,
mister Hobson was killed during a dispute at the Kroger
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DC in Memphis. Hobson coworker Anderson Todd has since been
arrested and charged with a second degree murder. Following the incident,
at Kroger warehouse was reportedly shuddered for four days for
the investigation.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Now this is the.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Story that I talked about on last week's episode, so
this is a continuation of it. The local news reports
that some truck drivers said they waited up to seventy
two hours inside their trucks at the facility, spending the
weekend after the Christmas holiday waiting in line. And you
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can't leave once you check in, because I've been to
this Kroger and you see the picture that is people
triple parked.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
There.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Normally you back in on an angle, then you have
to walk all the way down to the end of
this angle parking where they got the guard check and
then you could check in like an hour early or something,
and then you gotta go walk back to your truck.
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They will call you when they have a door, and
it was taking up to three days to get a door,
and you can't leave.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
You can't go to the truck stop, you can't.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I bet your door dasher was making a killing with
drivers being there for seventy two hours. You know, I
would have made a killing at door dash delivering food
to the drivers over there.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
But I digress.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Truck drivers also said that they were hauling loads of
fresh food when the distribution center was shut down, so
they also had to run the for units. Truck driver
Dennis Wade told the outlet that the waight had cost
him one thousand dollars. Another driver, Martin Acosta, said the
DC closure cost him about three grand and lost loads. Yeah,
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because you already have another load booked.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
I did that.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You know, you expect to be deliver on time, and
you have another load book for later that day or
the next morning or something like that, and you had
to cancel and then then you don't know when you're
gonna get out of there because everything.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Is backed up.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, it's a pain. A Costa also said that he
was worried about missing the holidays with his family. So, yeah,
it's be prepared. Take food with you. Stop at Walmart,
get some food before you go in there, because you
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don't know. I'm sure it's better now. And we usually
got in and got out, you know, without you know,
you never realized that something like that's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That was like a fluke.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
In all the years I've been driving, this is the
first time I've ever heard about anybody being hurt or
anything like that at Kromer, at that Kroger, and I've
delivered there quite often and in this article, a trucker
is seriously injured by a reversing motorist while he was
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working on his semi truck. Police are investigating after a
truck driver is seriously hurt by a motorist at a
parking lot in Lubbock. The accident happened on December thirtieth,
just before eleven in the morning on North Luke two
eighty nine in Lubbock, Texas. According to the local news
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of thirty six year old truck driver Greg Vargas was
working near his semi truck at a convenience start parking
lot when he was struck by an suv. The suv
was driven by a seventy six year old Willie Nelson
William Nelson, who was backing out of a parking place
when he collided with Vargas. Vargas was transported to a
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hospital with serious injuries as a result of the incident.
Police are still investigating. And no, I don't think it's
the same Willie Nelson because he lives in Texas well,
but not around Lumpock. I don't think, not one hundred
percent sure on that, but I'm sure it would have
made the news if you know the truth.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
The real, Really, Willie Nelson was.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Involved in any kind of a wreck, you know, that
would definitely make the news. And if have you been
to West Virginia lately. On seventy seven, I believe, then
the West Virginia turnpi remember the big travel center at
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the West Virginia Turnpike that was closed like forever. Well,
they reopened and they expanded the truck parking. Popular West
Virginia Travel Plaza reopened to the public after was shut
down for several months for upgrades.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Several months.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yeah, til like dang near a year. On the seven thirties,
West Virginia Governor Jim Justice announced the reopening of the
Beckley Travel Plaza, located along the West Virginia Turnpike. The
Beckley Travel Plaza was closed in early August for demolition
and renovation to allow for upgrades and expansion of truck
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parking facilities. Am I thinking of Beckley or am I
thinking there was another one there in West Virginia that
was closed for the longest time? Is that the Beckley one?
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
This looks like the looking at a bigger picture, that's
a drone footage that I'm seeing here. It looks like
it's the same one official set in July that thirty
five truck parking places would be added to the facility,
bringing the total number of truck parking places to one
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hundred and sixty five. You still better get in there
by three o'clock in the afternoon, because one hundred and
sixty five park places isn't hardly anything. I mean, look
at Whites. Whites is up to three hundred and fifty
and during the week most of that is all doug
on full. So other amenities include Starbucks, Wendy's, pop Eyes,
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Mountain State Market restaurants, which will run twenty four to seven,
increased restroom facilities, electric vehicle charge jingleish we forget that,
a drive through a separate vehicle, and semi fueling options.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I'm truly blown away by how this plaza has turned out.
It's even more than we imagine, said the governor. A
few years ago, no one would have dreamed that West
Virginia would be featured in a top travel guides or
become a top tourist destination. Now, people from all over
the world are coming to experience almost heaven. We need
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to update our travel plazas to match the excitement and
energy of our visitors. And that's exactly what we've done.
You could tell the snarkiness of my voice.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
Right. This isn't just a pit stop.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
It's our opportunity to show off the beauty and spirit
of West Virginia. The reason why I'm talking like this
is because of the fact, you know, it's so much
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, and so
much political crap he's spewing when he's talking like this.
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That is just trying to, you know, make it all
sound so pretty and everything. But yeah, the cops suck.
Let's be real and sort of the scalehouses. But anyway,
I digress.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
And then.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Massachusetts passes a bill saving nearly five hundred truckers from
having their CDL yanked for archaic offenses.
Speaker 2 (26:41):
Hang on a second.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I have two cats and they're always.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
One's a munchkin and the other one's five years old, and.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
The little one always wants to beat up the big one,
dominating thing.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
But anyway, back to this story. Sorry about that.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
So Massachusetts passes a bill saving nearly five hundred truckers
from having their CDL yanked for archaic offenses. Nearly five
hundred truckers will likely be safe from losing their livelihoods
thanks to the passing of a bill by Massachusetts lawmakers
on New Year's Eve. Back in August of twenty twenty four,
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the Massachusetts Registery of Motor Vehicles informed four hundred and
eighty two CDL holders that their licenses would be revoked
due to a lifetime look back at violations on their record. Boy,
ain't that's some crap. In October of twenty twenty four,
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Massachusetts lawmakers introduced emergency legislation attempting to stop.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
This looming revocation.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
On the thirty first of December twenty twenty four, that
bill had was passed, preventing the Registry of Motor Vehicles
from disqualifying drivers for holding a CDL for life for
two or more listed infractions. Additionally, any offenses on a
driver's record prior to two thousand and five will be
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excluded from consideration. There's no quote, there's no question that
these old, archaic violations that were committed so many years ago,
I have no bearing on whether that person is a
safe driver now. And everyone I've spoken to have maintained
a clean record, said the attorney defending several CDL holders.
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As of New Year's Eve, the bill had been passed
and completed. The Massachusetts Governor Healy has ten days designed
into law. After that, the RMV has until the end
of February to comply with that new law. So how
would you like them, apples? He's why I don't live
in Massachusetts. I mean, you know, get away with murder sometimes,
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I swear. And in Oregon, police credit a semi truck
driver was stopping a suspected drunk driver that was involved
in a hit and run. So it's about time we
I could report on some good news for a change,
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instead of everything people dying and places burning down and
all of the recks and everything. After a while, it
just gets to be a lot. So police and Eugene, Oregon,
say that a semi truck driver assisted in stopping a
suspected intoxicated motorist after a hit and ruck crash on
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New Year's Eve. Shortly after two pm on December thirty first,
the Eugene Police Department responded to West sixth Avenue and
Blair Bullar for a multi vehicle crash. Police say that
three vehicles were westbound on West sixth Avenue, where the
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far left lane merges to the right. The Police department
described the crash.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And the aftermath.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
This Porsche Mueller H thirty four, later identified as the
driver of a Masda, was in a merged lane and
merged into a semi and struck the front left corner
of the semi. The Semi swerved to the right when
it was struck and was forced to the right and
into a Ford Explorer's lane. The driver of the Ford
Explorer sped ahead of the semi. Mueller is reported to
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have merged in front of the semi, was behind the
Ford Explorer and rear ended it. The Ford Explorers driver
pulled into an auto repair business to exchange info, but
Mueller left and the tractor trailer was following it. Boy,
you can't make this up in the movies, can you.
The Semi trucks thirty one year old driver followed Mueller,
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then slowly merged her car to a stop and carefully
moved the car into a guard rail so she could
not leave. Police said that Mueller was arrested and booked
in the Lane County Jail on multiple charges, including DUI,
two counts of hit and run, reckless driving, and two
counts of reckless endangering.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
So I'm like, holy Molly.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
So yeah, she was just gonna take off coming in
from the left lane, merging to the right. It shows
backwards on the camera. Sorry, and she merged into the semi.
The semi shot over hit a Ford Explorer. The Ford
Explorer shot around the semi. She come in front of
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the semi, behind the Explorer and then rear end of
the Explorer and then takes off like wow wow wow.
And in our top story, a pregnant uber driver crashes
(32:13):
into a park semi and kills the passenger. One person
died after an accident involving a sedan and a stop
semi truck in Philadelphia. This happened in December thirty one year,
around ten forty five in the evening.
Speaker 2 (32:34):
In Philly. According to the local news, a.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
Thirty two year old pregnant uber driver crashed the sedan
into a park semi truck, crushing the front passenger side
of the car underneath the trailer, so she ran underneath
the ICC bumper. Both the uber driver and the passenger
were taken to the hospital following the accident. The passenger
(32:56):
was pronounced dead at eleven to ten pm. The uber drivers.
It's been listed in stable condition. The truck driver was
not hurt. We're incredibly saddened by the horrible crash and
our keeping those involved in our thoughts. We're continuing to
look into this and stand by to assist in the investigation,
an Uber spokesperson wrote in a statement. The cause of
(33:18):
the crash is still under investigation at the time of
writing of this article, and of course, as always, as
I have any more updates on these stories, I will
report them as soon as possible and then overheight semi
truck causes a chain reaction crash beneath a Michigan overpass.
(33:45):
Now you see, if you look to the left of
your screen, you see the white truck. Doesn't look like
anything's wrong with it, does it? But yet everybody scattered
everywhere behind them. A semi truck crashed into a low
(34:06):
overpass on Tuesday, causing a chain reaction involving three other vehicles.
Accident happened on the thirty first, around nine to forty
five in Door Township, Michigan. According to the local news,
a semitruck tried to go underneath the one hundred and
forty fourth Avenue overpass on US one thirty one. I
(34:27):
have been there, but was over the height limit. The
collision caused a chain reaction crash with three other vehicles,
including a box truck. Only minor injuries were reported in
the crash, but the roadway remained closed till about two
forty five pm that afternoon for cleanup and investigation.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Of the accident.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
The one hundred and forty fourth Avenue overpass had been
closed until further notice after being structurally compromised during the crash,
and no information has been and released as far as
what happened. Not not a wood and a man is
freed from the depths of a tanker trailer filled with
(35:13):
feed after slipping and falling inside. So if you can
imagine loose wheat, oats corn, if you any kind of
a hopper bottom trailers or bulk tank trailer or anything
(35:35):
like that, you sink down in there, step down in
that stuff. It's just like quicksand and you'll just keep
sinking because of the weight. A man was pulled to
safety after falling into a tanker trailer filled with feed
at a facility in Ohio last week Thursday. This incident
(35:58):
occurred in January seven at Middle Street in Homeworth, Knox County, Ohio.
According to the local news, a subcontractor was working around
the trailer when he slipped and fell inside, where he
became stuck. The Homework Fire Department and the Alliance Fire
Department worked together to wrap a harness around a worker
(36:19):
and lift him out of the feed haller using the
fire department ladder truck. The rescue took about two hours
to complete. The man was then transported to the hospital
with no life threatening injuries. Officials say the worker slipped
during a standard procedure involving the feed hauler and then
No further information has been released on I'm sure he's
(36:46):
hopefully he's okay. So I want to thank everybody for
tuning in. I've also started, I want to make this
little plug toward the end. I've also started creating.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
I don't know if we could see this.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Here we go coloring books, so I know it's backwards.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
It looks backwards to me.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
But these are eight and a half by eleven coloring
books that I have through Amazon, and they're like seven
eight dollars apiece, so you.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
Can see that they're.
Speaker 1 (37:31):
Full page coloring books. These are this one's predominantly for boys.
I was thinking of my grandson when I did this,
and I keep a blank page in case they use
markers or anything like that. Sorry, it's kind of fading
in and out, but if you want to check that
out is jbas Books on Facebook as a page, and
(37:56):
then I have all listing. I have two or three
of them up right now now. I am also doing
a Mardi Gras one with Mandi Gras masks and everything.
So it's good fun for the kids. Heck, some of
them are so cute that I'll sit down in color
just for something to do. You scribble on paper, you
scribble on notes or something like that. Heck, and you
(38:16):
scribble in a coloring book. A friend of mine ordered
one for her granddaughter, and granddaughter loved it. My grandson
loved it. And that's what some of the other things
that I'm doing. Also check out my merchandise store at
Julia's Truck at Cafe at spring dot com and there again,
(38:40):
if you check out our Facebook page, that's also listed there.
Anything that I'm doing new or creative or anything like that,
I have on Julia's Truck at Cafe Facebook page Truck
of News Hour on Facebook. So I hope everybody had
a good New Year. Thank you so much for tuning
in and keep the shiny side up.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
And until next time.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
You have been listening to Julia's Truck, a Cafe Truck
and News Hour. Check us out on Facebook and Twitter.
Take care, have a blessed d
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