March 5, 2025 • 33 mins
In this episode of Julia's Trucking Cafe Trucking News Hour, I discuss why bystanders had to wake a sleeping driver. I also discuss other stories that have made the headlines in the trucking news. If you would like to view the show and enjoy Youtube, check out our Youtube channel here: If you would like to support the show, you can do so here: Music by: Heyday Highway @ Epidemic Sound.com
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Duck I forty at North Carolina, Tennessee. Line I forty
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is supposed to reopen March first, one lane in each
direction through the Pigeon River Gorge, and it's going to
be forty miles an hour speed limit. And the story
prior to this, luckily I didn't get too far that
the family of this driver who died hosing out toxic
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fumes from a tanker is suing this truck a company
that they instructed him to after he got unloaded to
gave him a ladder and a hose and said here
go wash out your trailer, and he was overcome by
toxic fumes and they found about an hour later they
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found his body in the bottom of the tanker. And
then our first story was that one hundred and thirteen
passengers of an Amtrak train were delayed. It was an
Amtrak train going from New Orleans to New York City.
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As you see here, this is the chassis of the rig.
Here is the cab of the rig, and there's a
close up of the cab of the rig. So again
I apologize about being muted. I have to work on
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that little problem that I have with because of the
music and everything. I didn't want to have sound going
on in the background, and I forget to look at
my screen. I get busy with the stories, which is
no excuse, but I get busy with the stories and
then I don't unmute myself. So after the intro music
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is playing, So apologies about that. So moving on and
in this story, a trucket company owner is charged a
commercial bribery scheme in Colorado. He was charged along with
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two other men in connection with money laundering and a
kickback scheme. Henry Lozano, forty three was charged with recy
to commit money laundering alongside Edward Joseph Shimmel forty nine
and Sabino Lorrea fifty one. According to the US Attorney's
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Office for the District of Colorado, the three men were
involved in a scheme to submit fraudulent invoices to a
contractor providing services for Colorado Electrical Utility Company. They say
that Shimmel and Lorea worked for a contractor providing services
for Colorado Electric Utility Company and August of twenty eighteen,
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the three men illisedly entered into a scheme involving submitting
false invoices to Lozano's trucking company. When Lozano was paid
for the trucking services, would direct Lozana to issue checks
to a network of fifteen other people. Then those people
cashed those checks and gave the cash to Shibbl and Lorea.
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The scheme netted them one million, four hundred and ninety
five thousand, seven hundred and eighty one dollars and fifty
one cents in kickback proceeds between August of twenty eighteen
and June of twenty twenty. They appeared at federal court
in this month of February tenth, and they're expected to
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appear at court later in the month. Shimalez investigating agencies
included the IRS and FBI Denver Field Office. So it
just doesn't pay to try to rook people out of
money because you're gonna get busted. It's just it's just
(05:41):
bound to happen. And as I pull up the other
store next story. Whiskey Dix Trucking Company owner sentenced to
nine years for deleting diesel emission controls, three million dollars
in fraud, and witness tampering. A Missouri business owner was
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sentenced to prison in order to pay millions in restitution
for bank fraud, clean Air Act violations, and threatening witnesses.
On February eleventh, to Farmington, Missouri, Christopher Lee Carroll was
sentenced to one hundred and eight months in prison in
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order to pay three million dollars in restitution. According to
the US Attorney's Office, trucket company Whiskey Dick's Big Truck
Repair was also found guilty of sixteen Clean Air Act
violations and sentenced to three years probation. In August to
twenty twenty four, Carol was sent was convicted excuse me
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of three counts of bank fraud, three counts of making
false statements to a financial institution, one count of conspiracy
to violate the Clean Air Act, and thirteen violations of
Clean Air Act, and two counts of threatening a witness.
According to officials, Carol and his business partner, George Reid,
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owned a timeshare exit company called Square one Group, LLC.
In April of twenty twenty, the pair fraudently applied for
one point two million dollar Paycheck Protection Program the PPP
program loan under the names of their spouses to conceal
Carol's status is a paroled felon and ach shield Carol
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from a potential liability for the fraud. Instead of using
the PPP loan for their existing timeshare exit company, Carol
used the money to start trucket company Whiskey dis authlready
say that Carol had reed falsely claimed to have used
a PPP loan as intended on payroll another allowable expense,
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and went on to seek a second loan of more
than one point six million dollars, taking a total of
six hundred and sixty thousand in owner draws from the
company after the loan was approved. So let me break
this down for you. So back in twenty twenty, during COVID,
when you could get those PPP loans for business small
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businesses to help pay employees, your employees and everything, these
two decided to, Hey, we're gonna go ahead and we're
gonna apply for one of these loans, But instead of
using it for the timeshare company. We're gonna own to
open up our own truck company. Well then they're like, okay,
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we did that, Now let's see if forget some more.
So we're gonna supply apply for a second one, which
they got. Then they turned around and once that loan
was at one point, the second one point six million
was approved, then they pulled raws out of it, six
hundred and sixty thousand dollars worth. The clean air agg
(09:07):
violation relates to Michigan control equipment designed to reduce pollutants
deaf you know, diesel exhaust fluid, that kind of thing.
There's DPF filter on trucks now, you know, to refilter
the diesel. And I don't know about all of it all,
(09:28):
but you know, as a driver had to deal with it.
Carol had that equipment taken off of all the trucks
that they purchased for WIXI whiskey Dick's fleet. I'll get
it right. Eventually, Carol asked one employee to take the
fall for his crimes and told another that he would
stop paying for the employee's lawyer if he talked to
the FEDS. Evidence and testimonies showed Carol did not stop
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paying for the lawyer, said the US Attorney's Office read
seventy pled guilty to bank fraud in September of twenty
twenty two, was sentenced in January of twenty twenty five
time served. He also ordered to pay three million in restitution. Quote.
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The prosecution reinforces our office's priority of going after the
worst pandemic fraudsters, said US Attorney Sailory Fleming. People like
Christopher Kerr took advantage of a one sted generation crisis
to enrich themselves at the expense of struggling Americans. This
office will continue to make sure defendants like Carol are
held accountable to a full extent of the law. So
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four years later and they're coming after people that they're
investigating all this kind of fraud and everything that happened
during COVID, and they're coming after you be prepared. Let
me one second while I checked something. Oops, my bad.
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Then go back to this story. Sorry, didn't want to
skip it. And in this story, a semi truck driver
was killed after colliding with a snowplow on a Colorado interstate.
A semi truck driver was killed in a crash of
the Colorado Department of Transportation snowplow. On February twelfth, around
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five o'clock in the morning, Colorado State Patrol responded to
northbound I twenty five near Wallasburg for a reported crash.
They say the initial investigation shows that a semi truck
rear end of the snowplow at mile marker fifty seven.
The truck driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The
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snow plow driver was hospitalized with injuries. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone who witnessed a crasher as information is asked to
call the Colorado State Police dispatch at seven one nine
five four four two four two four. That's seven one
nine five four four two four to four. And Nebraska
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State Police remind drivers to not drive like it's sunny
outside in seventy five degrees on snow covered highways. As
you could see here, this is a hell of a rack.
According to the State Patrol, the crash involved two semis
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obliterated one truck cabin ripped open the trailer of another.
No information on injuries were released. Wintry conditions throughout the
region have officers reminding drivers to operate safely on treacherous
roadways when are driving conditions are in full force, so
please don't drive like it's sunny and seventy five. They
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roteed their post on social media. Otherwise, like you see here,
this happens and police say that a motorist intentionally crashed
into a tanker truck in Arizona. Police said Glendale, Arizona
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said that on Wednesday morning, crash involving a tanker truck
was caused intentionally by motorists. This crash occurred around eight
thirty in the morning at fifty seventh Avenue and Camelback
Rode in Glendale. The local police say that a man
driving an SUV collided with a tanker truck calling Oxygen
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and he did it on purpose and then tried to
set the suv on fire. Tanker truck caught fire. Following
the crash. Suv driver was involved in an altercation with
police at the seen as they tried to arrest him,
but he eventually was taken into custody and no injuries
were reported. You wonder where the world people's noggins are at?
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You know what you really do? And electric vehicles to
pay their fair share for road maintenance. Under a new
bill about time, lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that ensure
that electric vehicles aren't treated to a free ride on
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America's highways. Senator deb Fisher Representative Dusty Johnson reintroduced the
Fair Sharing of Highways and Roads for Electric Vehicles Acts.
The bill would establish a one time fee for light
dute to electric vehicles to be paid into the Highway
Trust Fund, which goes toward funding road maintenance and improved projects. Currently,
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light duty electric vehicles don't pay into this highway fund.
Most of the Highway Fund comes from federal taxes on fuel,
with the truck trucking industry contributing almost half of all
revenues while representing just four percent of road users, according
to the American Trucket Association. Lawmakers argue that it isn't
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fair that electric vehicles don't pay into it because the
average electric vehicle is significantly heavier than it's gas power
counterpart due to the weight of the batteries. Bills endorsed
by trucket groups include the Owner Operator Independent Drivers ASSOCIATIONYDA
and the American Trucket Association. I'm not going to read
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further their quotes or anything like that, but good deal
and funds from a new one thousand dollars fine for
semi trucks on a bridge will come in handy for
future repairs, says a mayor. The mayor of Mississippi Town
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says one thousand dollars fine aimed at truckers using a
newly repaired bridge will come in handy for future repairs
around the city. Temporary repairs of the Canal Street Bridge
and Natchez, Mississippi, were completed February eleventh. The temporary completion
of the project prompted a lifting of the previous five
ton weight limit, but a ban on commercial vehicles. We've
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been given all clear on the Canal Street Bridge. The
posting of the five ton weight limit is about to
be removed. That means tour buses and emergency vehicles who
need to use that bridge can use it, says the
mayor of Natchez. Excuse me is issued a warning the
truckers about using the bridge. Don't do it, Excuse me,
or you will face a one thousand dollars fine. Temporary
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repairs are designed to give the city five years to
save up the funds for a permanent bridge replacement, which
the Maris is. The newly approved semi truck finds could
help fund. This road is not a truck route, but
we still have trucks violating it. Every day, a new
note truck sign will go up. And we had to
spend six hundred and sixty thousand dollars out of our
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reserves that we did not have budgeted to repair that bridge.
We're going to write tickets to people who drive eighteen
wheelers over that bridge. Thousand dollars will come in handy,
and we'll put that money back into the reserve account
that they spent it from. And traffic is forced to
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turn around on Interstate eighty three in Pennsylvania after oversized
loads stops short of a low bridge. Now my wonderment is,
and sorry for the easiness of the picture. It wasn't
a very good picture. I even went into the news
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outlet that took the photograph and that's the only one
they showed oversized loads. From my background, I've never pulled
oversize but I know people that do or have. They
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have permits and you have to follow the permit. So
how would he come into a low bridge at I
eighty three if he was following his permit? The permits
go around low bridges and everything. So, according to the article,
traffic had it turned around a Pennsylvania highway after an
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oversized load was stuck blocking the road. It happened February twelfth,
around two o'clock in the afternoon in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. According
to the local news, a truck driver hauling an oversized
load stopped short of an overpass on I eighty three
near the Harrisburg Mall after realizing he may not fit
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at least he stopped. Police were contacted and started turning
traffic around on the highway to clear lanes for the
stuck semi truck. But he wasn't stuck because he didn't
get under the bridge yet, but he needed to back
out to the nearest exit. The incident was cleared and
the road was fully opened, so in about two hours,
about four o'clock that afternoon. But that's my biggest question
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on that is why didn't he follow the permits? Or
if he did, why wasn't that bridge listed? And up
next to duidriver rammed into a parked rig so hard
that it flipped in the Love's parking lot. Truck driver
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was arrested for multiple charges after crashing into another semi
truck and a Love's parking lot. This happened February eleventh,
about nine o'clock in the evening at Grand Junction, Colorado.
According to the local New sixty two year old Joseph
Kelly slammed into another semi truck so hard that it
turned it over. Both truck drivers were taken to an
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Aarby hospital for evaluation on their injuries were not released
at the time. Kelly was arrested on DUI and careless
driving charges and being held in the Mesa County Detention Center.
And I'm like, really, dude, and in our top story
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bystanders wake a sleeping truck driver before he burned to
death in his truck fire. This incident happened at York County, Pennsylvania,
around two fifteen in the morning. This facility looks very familiar,
like I've been there before or into the Union Fire
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Company fire crews were called on reports of a vehicle
fire at a loading dock. When crews arrived, they found
a semi was on fire parked at one of the docks.
The fire began in the engine of the semi and
spread into the trailer. After the unit caught fire, fire
sent smoke billowing into the nearby building. Bystanders who witnessed
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fires say they had to wake the sleeping truck driver
who was sleeping in the cab to warn him of
the blaze. He was able to get out of the
truck safely. No injuries were reported, but the semi as
you could see, was a total loss. Those go up
with all the plastics that everything in it burnt, slap
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to the ground and Utah drivers with recent felony convictions
would be barred from holding a CDL under a new
bill only in Utah, not federally. A Utah lawmakers introduced
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legislation that prevent individuals with certain felony convictions from obtaining
a CDL commercial driver's license. The bill would prevent a
driver from obtaining a CDL in Utah if the driver
is convicted in the past three years of a violent
felaty including arson, aggravated assault, and rape, if the driver
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has been convicted of fleeing from the or if the
excuse me, or if the driver was convicted of fleeing
from police, my apologies. HB three seventy five is the
name of the bill. Would also require a criminal background
check in all CDL applicants in Utah. I thought that's
what you had have initially. Anyways, the bill would go
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in effect May seven to twenty twenty five if their
legislature passed it. So if you're in Utah, you're a
fella and you may not be able to get a CDL.
I do you want to go? Drive? A truck and
a string of semis are involved in a twenty two
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car pile up amid snowy weather conditions. Multiple semi trucks
were involved in a pile up crash involving twenty two
vehicles in Washington. This happened day before Valentine's Day, February thirteenth,
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on a Thursday, around I five in Washington. According to
the local news, twenty two vehicles, including semis, box trucks,
and passenger vehicles were involved in this crash. Six people
were hurt. Accident cost traffic to back up as far
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back as twelve miles. The right lane of I five
was opened after about three hours of it up. And
as you can see here, this box truck rear ended
a semi as well. So y'all got to slow down
and it's in the snowy weather. And then I'm sure
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everybody heard about the Green River tunnel explosion and pile
up on I eighty in Wyoming that made the news
a lot last week. A major accident was reported in
Green River, Wyoming. Happened about eleven thirty in the morning
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on February fourteenth. Troopers responded to a multi vehicle crash
a westbound I eighty. According to Wyoming State Patrol. Sorry,
you fix this real quick. Sorry Polly. Everybody. You could
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see the smoke billowing from the tunnel for miles. This
is the inside shot of the tunnel. It was active
fired explosion threat. Multiple passenger vehicles and semi trucks were
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involved in in the wreck and third fatality was reported
and there was twenty six vehicles involved in This is
the inside of the tunnel here. Now you can see
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how I do this and make it fit into the screen.
So there was three fatalities. Sunday the sixteenth, the Wyoming
Department of Transportation shared new details on the major crash
that happened. Stated that twenty six vehicles were involved in
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the pile up, ten passenger vehicles and sixteen commercial semi trucks.
Of those twenty six vehicles, six semis and ten passenger
vehicles were destroyed. Officials also confirmed a new fatality, bringing
the total of people killed in Friday's crashed two three.
About half the vehicles involved in the tunnel crash had
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been cleared as of Sunday night. The westbound tunnel remains
closed as crews continued to remove crashed and burned vehicles
from that scene. So that our hearts go out and
condolences go out to the people that suffered in that crash,
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in that bad accident, and truckers could save forty minutes
through North Carolina a potential speed limit increase. A new
proposed speed limit increased through North Carolina could benefit truck
drivers passing through the area. The bill was introduced last week.
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It also changed licenses special rules for speeding violations. The
speed limit in the state from seventy to seventy five
on highways, which also lead to potential license suspensions for
drivers driving over eighty five miles an hour on roadways
with a seventy five mile an hour speed limit. The
license suspension rules for speeding would only apply to violations
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on or after December one, of the end of this year.
Of twenty twenty five, Supporters of the bills say the
increased speed limit would save time for important jobs such
as trucking. Speed limit change could reduce a truckers round
trip from Wilmington to Asheville by forty minutes. Could save
a bunch of time and a Level two inspection leads
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to a discovery of one point one million dollars in
cash and one hundred and eighty three pounds of pot
and cocaine. Louisiana State Police arrested a semi truck driver
on a drug trafficking charges after a semi inspection and
covered a large amount of drugs and cash. This happened
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around nine thirty in the morning on February fourteenth, when
a trooper stopped a semi on LA four point fifteen
north by ten and Port Allen. Trooper conducted a Level
two inspection at the International Harvester tractor trailer. During the inspection,
he observed a white plastic bag on the floorboard with
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what appeared to be a large sum of cash in it.
With the assistance of the West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office,
the search was conducted of the semi. The search uncovered
one million, one hundred and forty seven thousand, six hundred
and thirty eight dollars in US currency, approximately one hundred
and eighty three pounds of suspected marijuana and approximately seven
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grams of suspected cocaine. The truck driver, Lenny Colado, twenty nine,
of Charlotte, North Carolina, was arrested on charges of possession
with intent to distribute marijuana, synthetic cannabinoids, and transactions evolving
proceeds from drug offenses. So yeah, got to be pretty
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goofy to leave that lying on the floor. And finally,
this evening, a semi truck falls off Eye twenty overpass
and crushes a second box truck underneath, killing the driver.
A driver is dead after a semi truck fell off
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of I twenty and landed on top of another vehicle
in Dallas. This happened on February sixteenth on Interstate twenty
at the Texas three ten in Dallas. According to San
Antonio News, attractive trailer went off of an elevated Eye
twenty ramp and crashed to the ground, where it landed
on top of a pickup truck and a box truck.
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The semi truck then caught on fire. One of the
drivers was killed in the accidents. Unclear which driver died.
No other fatalities have been confirmed, So I hate to
close out the show and that kind of a ending,
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But thank you so much all of you for joining
me this evening. I'm sorry I had to reschedule this
live stream. I try to do it on Wednesday nights.
I'm trying to find a good day that everyone would
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view it, would have the time to view it. Please
let me know in the comments, whether it's on YouTube
or Facebook. Let me know what day. I even did
a poll. What day would you prefer that I would
do a live stream? What day most likely that you
have free time? Is it Saturday evenings? Sunday evenings would
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have to be in the evening instead of during the day.
I do work twelve hours a day. I'm still getting
over the flu that I had last week. That's why
there was not live stream last week. I was sick
as a dog for two and a half days of
my two days off, so that happened over that Wednesday.
So I'm still struggling with the flu a little bit.
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And other than that, thank you again so much for
tuning in joining me this week. I greatly appreciate it.
You'all take care and keep the shiny side up and
have a great week. Thanks again.
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Duck I forty at North Carolina, Tennessee. Line I forty
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is supposed to reopen March first, one lane in each
direction through the Pigeon River Gorge, and it's going to
be forty miles an hour speed limit. And the story
prior to this, luckily I didn't get too far that
the family of this driver who died hosing out toxic
(01:56):
fumes from a tanker is suing this truck a company
that they instructed him to after he got unloaded to
gave him a ladder and a hose and said here
go wash out your trailer, and he was overcome by
toxic fumes and they found about an hour later they
(02:17):
found his body in the bottom of the tanker. And
then our first story was that one hundred and thirteen
passengers of an Amtrak train were delayed. It was an
Amtrak train going from New Orleans to New York City.
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As you see here, this is the chassis of the rig.
Here is the cab of the rig, and there's a
close up of the cab of the rig. So again
I apologize about being muted. I have to work on
(03:04):
that little problem that I have with because of the
music and everything. I didn't want to have sound going
on in the background, and I forget to look at
my screen. I get busy with the stories, which is
no excuse, but I get busy with the stories and
then I don't unmute myself. So after the intro music
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is playing, So apologies about that. So moving on and
in this story, a trucket company owner is charged a
commercial bribery scheme in Colorado. He was charged along with
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two other men in connection with money laundering and a
kickback scheme. Henry Lozano, forty three was charged with recy
to commit money laundering alongside Edward Joseph Shimmel forty nine
and Sabino Lorrea fifty one. According to the US Attorney's
(04:10):
Office for the District of Colorado, the three men were
involved in a scheme to submit fraudulent invoices to a
contractor providing services for Colorado Electrical Utility Company. They say
that Shimmel and Lorea worked for a contractor providing services
for Colorado Electric Utility Company and August of twenty eighteen,
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the three men illisedly entered into a scheme involving submitting
false invoices to Lozano's trucking company. When Lozano was paid
for the trucking services, would direct Lozana to issue checks
to a network of fifteen other people. Then those people
cashed those checks and gave the cash to Shibbl and Lorea.
(04:57):
The scheme netted them one million, four hundred and ninety
five thousand, seven hundred and eighty one dollars and fifty
one cents in kickback proceeds between August of twenty eighteen
and June of twenty twenty. They appeared at federal court
in this month of February tenth, and they're expected to
(05:19):
appear at court later in the month. Shimalez investigating agencies
included the IRS and FBI Denver Field Office. So it
just doesn't pay to try to rook people out of
money because you're gonna get busted. It's just it's just
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bound to happen. And as I pull up the other
store next story. Whiskey Dix Trucking Company owner sentenced to
nine years for deleting diesel emission controls, three million dollars
in fraud, and witness tampering. A Missouri business owner was
(06:07):
sentenced to prison in order to pay millions in restitution
for bank fraud, clean Air Act violations, and threatening witnesses.
On February eleventh, to Farmington, Missouri, Christopher Lee Carroll was
sentenced to one hundred and eight months in prison in
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order to pay three million dollars in restitution. According to
the US Attorney's Office, trucket company Whiskey Dick's Big Truck
Repair was also found guilty of sixteen Clean Air Act
violations and sentenced to three years probation. In August to
twenty twenty four, Carol was sent was convicted excuse me
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of three counts of bank fraud, three counts of making
false statements to a financial institution, one count of conspiracy
to violate the Clean Air Act, and thirteen violations of
Clean Air Act, and two counts of threatening a witness.
According to officials, Carol and his business partner, George Reid,
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owned a timeshare exit company called Square one Group, LLC.
In April of twenty twenty, the pair fraudently applied for
one point two million dollar Paycheck Protection Program the PPP
program loan under the names of their spouses to conceal
Carol's status is a paroled felon and ach shield Carol
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from a potential liability for the fraud. Instead of using
the PPP loan for their existing timeshare exit company, Carol
used the money to start trucket company Whiskey dis authlready
say that Carol had reed falsely claimed to have used
a PPP loan as intended on payroll another allowable expense,
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and went on to seek a second loan of more
than one point six million dollars, taking a total of
six hundred and sixty thousand in owner draws from the
company after the loan was approved. So let me break
this down for you. So back in twenty twenty, during COVID,
when you could get those PPP loans for business small
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businesses to help pay employees, your employees and everything, these
two decided to, Hey, we're gonna go ahead and we're
gonna apply for one of these loans, But instead of
using it for the timeshare company. We're gonna own to
open up our own truck company. Well then they're like, okay,
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we did that, Now let's see if forget some more.
So we're gonna supply apply for a second one, which
they got. Then they turned around and once that loan
was at one point, the second one point six million
was approved, then they pulled raws out of it, six
hundred and sixty thousand dollars worth. The clean air agg
(09:07):
violation relates to Michigan control equipment designed to reduce pollutants
deaf you know, diesel exhaust fluid, that kind of thing.
There's DPF filter on trucks now, you know, to refilter
the diesel. And I don't know about all of it all,
(09:28):
but you know, as a driver had to deal with it.
Carol had that equipment taken off of all the trucks
that they purchased for WIXI whiskey Dick's fleet. I'll get
it right. Eventually, Carol asked one employee to take the
fall for his crimes and told another that he would
stop paying for the employee's lawyer if he talked to
the FEDS. Evidence and testimonies showed Carol did not stop
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paying for the lawyer, said the US Attorney's Office read
seventy pled guilty to bank fraud in September of twenty
twenty two, was sentenced in January of twenty twenty five
time served. He also ordered to pay three million in restitution. Quote.
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The prosecution reinforces our office's priority of going after the
worst pandemic fraudsters, said US Attorney Sailory Fleming. People like
Christopher Kerr took advantage of a one sted generation crisis
to enrich themselves at the expense of struggling Americans. This
office will continue to make sure defendants like Carol are
held accountable to a full extent of the law. So
(10:37):
four years later and they're coming after people that they're
investigating all this kind of fraud and everything that happened
during COVID, and they're coming after you be prepared. Let
me one second while I checked something. Oops, my bad.
(11:06):
Then go back to this story. Sorry, didn't want to
skip it. And in this story, a semi truck driver
was killed after colliding with a snowplow on a Colorado interstate.
A semi truck driver was killed in a crash of
the Colorado Department of Transportation snowplow. On February twelfth, around
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five o'clock in the morning, Colorado State Patrol responded to
northbound I twenty five near Wallasburg for a reported crash.
They say the initial investigation shows that a semi truck
rear end of the snowplow at mile marker fifty seven.
The truck driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The
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snow plow driver was hospitalized with injuries. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone who witnessed a crasher as information is asked to
call the Colorado State Police dispatch at seven one nine
five four four two four two four. That's seven one
nine five four four two four to four. And Nebraska
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State Police remind drivers to not drive like it's sunny
outside in seventy five degrees on snow covered highways. As
you could see here, this is a hell of a rack.
According to the State Patrol, the crash involved two semis
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obliterated one truck cabin ripped open the trailer of another.
No information on injuries were released. Wintry conditions throughout the
region have officers reminding drivers to operate safely on treacherous
roadways when are driving conditions are in full force, so
please don't drive like it's sunny and seventy five. They
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roteed their post on social media. Otherwise, like you see here,
this happens and police say that a motorist intentionally crashed
into a tanker truck in Arizona. Police said Glendale, Arizona
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said that on Wednesday morning, crash involving a tanker truck
was caused intentionally by motorists. This crash occurred around eight
thirty in the morning at fifty seventh Avenue and Camelback
Rode in Glendale. The local police say that a man
driving an SUV collided with a tanker truck calling Oxygen
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and he did it on purpose and then tried to
set the suv on fire. Tanker truck caught fire. Following
the crash. Suv driver was involved in an altercation with
police at the seen as they tried to arrest him,
but he eventually was taken into custody and no injuries
were reported. You wonder where the world people's noggins are at?
(14:13):
You know what you really do? And electric vehicles to
pay their fair share for road maintenance. Under a new
bill about time, lawmakers have reintroduced a bill that ensure
that electric vehicles aren't treated to a free ride on
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America's highways. Senator deb Fisher Representative Dusty Johnson reintroduced the
Fair Sharing of Highways and Roads for Electric Vehicles Acts.
The bill would establish a one time fee for light
dute to electric vehicles to be paid into the Highway
Trust Fund, which goes toward funding road maintenance and improved projects. Currently,
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light duty electric vehicles don't pay into this highway fund.
Most of the Highway Fund comes from federal taxes on fuel,
with the truck trucking industry contributing almost half of all
revenues while representing just four percent of road users, according
to the American Trucket Association. Lawmakers argue that it isn't
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fair that electric vehicles don't pay into it because the
average electric vehicle is significantly heavier than it's gas power
counterpart due to the weight of the batteries. Bills endorsed
by trucket groups include the Owner Operator Independent Drivers ASSOCIATIONYDA
and the American Trucket Association. I'm not going to read
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further their quotes or anything like that, but good deal
and funds from a new one thousand dollars fine for
semi trucks on a bridge will come in handy for
future repairs, says a mayor. The mayor of Mississippi Town
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says one thousand dollars fine aimed at truckers using a
newly repaired bridge will come in handy for future repairs
around the city. Temporary repairs of the Canal Street Bridge
and Natchez, Mississippi, were completed February eleventh. The temporary completion
of the project prompted a lifting of the previous five
ton weight limit, but a ban on commercial vehicles. We've
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been given all clear on the Canal Street Bridge. The
posting of the five ton weight limit is about to
be removed. That means tour buses and emergency vehicles who
need to use that bridge can use it, says the
mayor of Natchez. Excuse me is issued a warning the
truckers about using the bridge. Don't do it, Excuse me,
or you will face a one thousand dollars fine. Temporary
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repairs are designed to give the city five years to
save up the funds for a permanent bridge replacement, which
the Maris is. The newly approved semi truck finds could
help fund. This road is not a truck route, but
we still have trucks violating it. Every day, a new
note truck sign will go up. And we had to
spend six hundred and sixty thousand dollars out of our
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reserves that we did not have budgeted to repair that bridge.
We're going to write tickets to people who drive eighteen
wheelers over that bridge. Thousand dollars will come in handy,
and we'll put that money back into the reserve account
that they spent it from. And traffic is forced to
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turn around on Interstate eighty three in Pennsylvania after oversized
loads stops short of a low bridge. Now my wonderment is,
and sorry for the easiness of the picture. It wasn't
a very good picture. I even went into the news
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outlet that took the photograph and that's the only one
they showed oversized loads. From my background, I've never pulled
oversize but I know people that do or have. They
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have permits and you have to follow the permit. So
how would he come into a low bridge at I
eighty three if he was following his permit? The permits
go around low bridges and everything. So, according to the article,
traffic had it turned around a Pennsylvania highway after an
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oversized load was stuck blocking the road. It happened February twelfth,
around two o'clock in the afternoon in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. According
to the local news, a truck driver hauling an oversized
load stopped short of an overpass on I eighty three
near the Harrisburg Mall after realizing he may not fit
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at least he stopped. Police were contacted and started turning
traffic around on the highway to clear lanes for the
stuck semi truck. But he wasn't stuck because he didn't
get under the bridge yet, but he needed to back
out to the nearest exit. The incident was cleared and
the road was fully opened, so in about two hours,
about four o'clock that afternoon. But that's my biggest question
(19:29):
on that is why didn't he follow the permits? Or
if he did, why wasn't that bridge listed? And up
next to duidriver rammed into a parked rig so hard
that it flipped in the Love's parking lot. Truck driver
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was arrested for multiple charges after crashing into another semi
truck and a Love's parking lot. This happened February eleventh,
about nine o'clock in the evening at Grand Junction, Colorado.
According to the local New sixty two year old Joseph
Kelly slammed into another semi truck so hard that it
turned it over. Both truck drivers were taken to an
(20:13):
Aarby hospital for evaluation on their injuries were not released
at the time. Kelly was arrested on DUI and careless
driving charges and being held in the Mesa County Detention Center.
And I'm like, really, dude, and in our top story
(20:38):
bystanders wake a sleeping truck driver before he burned to
death in his truck fire. This incident happened at York County, Pennsylvania,
around two fifteen in the morning. This facility looks very familiar,
like I've been there before or into the Union Fire
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Company fire crews were called on reports of a vehicle
fire at a loading dock. When crews arrived, they found
a semi was on fire parked at one of the docks.
The fire began in the engine of the semi and
spread into the trailer. After the unit caught fire, fire
sent smoke billowing into the nearby building. Bystanders who witnessed
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fires say they had to wake the sleeping truck driver
who was sleeping in the cab to warn him of
the blaze. He was able to get out of the
truck safely. No injuries were reported, but the semi as
you could see, was a total loss. Those go up
with all the plastics that everything in it burnt, slap
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to the ground and Utah drivers with recent felony convictions
would be barred from holding a CDL under a new
bill only in Utah, not federally. A Utah lawmakers introduced
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legislation that prevent individuals with certain felony convictions from obtaining
a CDL commercial driver's license. The bill would prevent a
driver from obtaining a CDL in Utah if the driver
is convicted in the past three years of a violent
felaty including arson, aggravated assault, and rape, if the driver
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has been convicted of fleeing from the or if the
excuse me, or if the driver was convicted of fleeing
from police, my apologies. HB three seventy five is the
name of the bill. Would also require a criminal background
check in all CDL applicants in Utah. I thought that's
what you had have initially. Anyways, the bill would go
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in effect May seven to twenty twenty five if their
legislature passed it. So if you're in Utah, you're a
fella and you may not be able to get a CDL.
I do you want to go? Drive? A truck and
a string of semis are involved in a twenty two
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car pile up amid snowy weather conditions. Multiple semi trucks
were involved in a pile up crash involving twenty two
vehicles in Washington. This happened day before Valentine's Day, February thirteenth,
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on a Thursday, around I five in Washington. According to
the local news, twenty two vehicles, including semis, box trucks,
and passenger vehicles were involved in this crash. Six people
were hurt. Accident cost traffic to back up as far
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back as twelve miles. The right lane of I five
was opened after about three hours of it up. And
as you can see here, this box truck rear ended
a semi as well. So y'all got to slow down
and it's in the snowy weather. And then I'm sure
(24:17):
everybody heard about the Green River tunnel explosion and pile
up on I eighty in Wyoming that made the news
a lot last week. A major accident was reported in
Green River, Wyoming. Happened about eleven thirty in the morning
(24:40):
on February fourteenth. Troopers responded to a multi vehicle crash
a westbound I eighty. According to Wyoming State Patrol. Sorry,
you fix this real quick. Sorry Polly. Everybody. You could
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see the smoke billowing from the tunnel for miles. This
is the inside shot of the tunnel. It was active
fired explosion threat. Multiple passenger vehicles and semi trucks were
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involved in in the wreck and third fatality was reported
and there was twenty six vehicles involved in This is
the inside of the tunnel here. Now you can see
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how I do this and make it fit into the screen.
So there was three fatalities. Sunday the sixteenth, the Wyoming
Department of Transportation shared new details on the major crash
that happened. Stated that twenty six vehicles were involved in
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the pile up, ten passenger vehicles and sixteen commercial semi trucks.
Of those twenty six vehicles, six semis and ten passenger
vehicles were destroyed. Officials also confirmed a new fatality, bringing
the total of people killed in Friday's crashed two three.
About half the vehicles involved in the tunnel crash had
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been cleared as of Sunday night. The westbound tunnel remains
closed as crews continued to remove crashed and burned vehicles
from that scene. So that our hearts go out and
condolences go out to the people that suffered in that crash,
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in that bad accident, and truckers could save forty minutes
through North Carolina a potential speed limit increase. A new
proposed speed limit increased through North Carolina could benefit truck
drivers passing through the area. The bill was introduced last week.
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It also changed licenses special rules for speeding violations. The
speed limit in the state from seventy to seventy five
on highways, which also lead to potential license suspensions for
drivers driving over eighty five miles an hour on roadways
with a seventy five mile an hour speed limit. The
license suspension rules for speeding would only apply to violations
(27:54):
on or after December one, of the end of this year.
Of twenty twenty five, Supporters of the bills say the
increased speed limit would save time for important jobs such
as trucking. Speed limit change could reduce a truckers round
trip from Wilmington to Asheville by forty minutes. Could save
a bunch of time and a Level two inspection leads
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to a discovery of one point one million dollars in
cash and one hundred and eighty three pounds of pot
and cocaine. Louisiana State Police arrested a semi truck driver
on a drug trafficking charges after a semi inspection and
covered a large amount of drugs and cash. This happened
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around nine thirty in the morning on February fourteenth, when
a trooper stopped a semi on LA four point fifteen
north by ten and Port Allen. Trooper conducted a Level
two inspection at the International Harvester tractor trailer. During the inspection,
he observed a white plastic bag on the floorboard with
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what appeared to be a large sum of cash in it.
With the assistance of the West Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office,
the search was conducted of the semi. The search uncovered
one million, one hundred and forty seven thousand, six hundred
and thirty eight dollars in US currency, approximately one hundred
and eighty three pounds of suspected marijuana and approximately seven
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grams of suspected cocaine. The truck driver, Lenny Colado, twenty nine,
of Charlotte, North Carolina, was arrested on charges of possession
with intent to distribute marijuana, synthetic cannabinoids, and transactions evolving
proceeds from drug offenses. So yeah, got to be pretty
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goofy to leave that lying on the floor. And finally,
this evening, a semi truck falls off Eye twenty overpass
and crushes a second box truck underneath, killing the driver.
A driver is dead after a semi truck fell off
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of I twenty and landed on top of another vehicle
in Dallas. This happened on February sixteenth on Interstate twenty
at the Texas three ten in Dallas. According to San
Antonio News, attractive trailer went off of an elevated Eye
twenty ramp and crashed to the ground, where it landed
on top of a pickup truck and a box truck.
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The semi truck then caught on fire. One of the
drivers was killed in the accidents. Unclear which driver died.
No other fatalities have been confirmed, So I hate to
close out the show and that kind of a ending,
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But thank you so much all of you for joining
me this evening. I'm sorry I had to reschedule this
live stream. I try to do it on Wednesday nights.
I'm trying to find a good day that everyone would
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view it, would have the time to view it. Please
let me know in the comments, whether it's on YouTube
or Facebook. Let me know what day. I even did
a poll. What day would you prefer that I would
do a live stream? What day most likely that you
have free time? Is it Saturday evenings? Sunday evenings would
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have to be in the evening instead of during the day.
I do work twelve hours a day. I'm still getting
over the flu that I had last week. That's why
there was not live stream last week. I was sick
as a dog for two and a half days of
my two days off, so that happened over that Wednesday.
So I'm still struggling with the flu a little bit.
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And other than that, thank you again so much for
tuning in joining me this week. I greatly appreciate it.
You'all take care and keep the shiny side up and
have a great week. Thanks again.
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