April 5, 2025 • 48 mins
In this episode of Julia's Trucking Cafe - Trucking News Hour I discuss the idiotic maneuver of a sedan who attempts to pass a semi while the rig is trying to make a left hand turn and gets crushed in the process. I also discuss other stories that have made the headlines in the trucking industry. If you enjoy the podcast and would like to support the show, please consider making a one-time donation, please visit Paypal.Me Music by: Heyday Highway@Epidemic Sound.com
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Speaker 2 (01:27):
Gooding everything, everybody, Welcome to Julia's Trucking Cafe, Trucking News Hour.
Thank you so much for joining me this evening. There again,
just come home from work, jumped down the live stream
to go ahead and beyond time this week. Thank you
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so much everybody for your patience and with all the
technical difficulties that's going on. And again, thank you so
much for joining me. As always, I have lots of
news to get to, so let's get right to it.
A trucker is taken to the hospital unresponsive after police
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struggled to locate him following a crash. A truck driver
was transported to the hospital unresponsive after being thrown around
to the semi truck early on Monday morning. Now this happened,
I'm a little bit late. So this happened the tenth
of March in Massachusetts Turnpike. According to the local news,
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the accident involved two passenger vehicles and a tractor trailer.
The crash caused a semi to veer off the road
and down an embankment. This is the second vehicle that
was involved in the crash.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
My bad and.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Police initially found no signs of the driver of the
semi truck, but eventually found him unresponsive and transported him
to a nearby hospital. According to the local news, it's
unclear if the driver was ejected from the truck at
the time and became trapped inside somewhere other than the
driver's seat, or escaped before becoming unresponsive, and a second
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person that was involved in one of the other vehicles
was also transported to the hospital. End up next, I
get all this goofy stuff that I don't want and
if Florida. This was the week that a lot of
tornadoes were spawning around the Southern States Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama,
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and to Florida.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Tornado gives a truck driver a rude a wake up
call when is rig flips. Tornado and Florida flip the
truck driver's rig while he and his dog were taking
a nap. Tornado touched down a lake Mary, Florida, at
around nine to forty in the morning. According to local
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Orlando News, a tornado crossed over Interstate four and flipped
a semi truck parked on the side of the road
at the intersection of Commerce Street and Lake Emma Road
as a driver and his dog were taking a roadside nap.
The truck driver, whose name was not released, said that
he and his dog were okay and that he had
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never experienced anything like that before. Now I've been in
the middle of nowhere, Kansas, and I had that happen
to me and truck flipped over.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It was nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It was rocketed, rolling so much so that you couldn't
even really sleep because it was shaken so bad. And
six point two million dollars in cocaine was seized from
a semi truck hauling plastic rap supposedly allegedly hauling plastic
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wrap one of those words, huh.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You have to be so careful on YouTube now allegedly
un alive.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Human transportation because of the algorithms that you have to use,
so you don't get your channel demonetized or deplatformed or
anything like that. So US Customs of Border Patrol recently
seized millions of dollars worth of cocaine from a commercial
vehicle at the Texas Port of Entry. The drug seizure
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took place on the fifth of March at far International
Bridge Cargo Facility at Farer, Texas. They've been if you've
been viewing the show, whether you view it live or
you view it on the replay, they have been really busting.
But at that facility in Far Texas, coming over the border,
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which is great, great for them.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I mean, fentanyl and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean, just the granule of fentanyl will kill you.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's just nuts.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I may look away because my there again. I have
two cats and they decide, oh, it's playtime while mom's
on the live stream.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yay. So anyway, back to back to the article.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The semi truck was selected for more than one inspection.
Equipment and a cane. I dued it and the physical
physical inspection of the truck uncovered one hundred and fifty
packages of alleged cocaine weighing four hundred and seventy pounds
get sealed within this commodity was hauling this plastic rap let.
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The estimated street value of the seized cocaine is six million,
two hundred and eighty four thousand, five hundred and eighty
six dollars and change.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I put the hand change in.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The truck driver was arrested and the truck trailer, of course,
of the cocaine were handed over to the Texas Department
of Public Safety. You know, we've heard so much of
these drug seizure and confiscation stories that I mean, I'm
not gonna bore you with all the details of it.
And this next story one second. Sorry, I always have
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to pull it up. Sadly, a man and his infant
son passed away in a ten vehicle pile up amid
a snow squall in Vermont. Now, remember how the weather
got so crazy. It was seventy five degrees. We had
about twenty five thirty tornadoes across central in southern Mississippi,
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and they were having snow in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It was just nuts.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
About a week week and a half back. Vermont State
Patrol confirmed that a man in his infants were killed
in a multi vehicle pile up on I ninety one
around seven thirty in the evening. Troopers responded to I
ninety one northbound near mile marker thirty eight in Rockingham, Vermont,
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for a ten plus car crash. Trying to figure out
where I'm here. At here, sorry, my apologies. The Hyundai driver,
Taylor Benington, thirty nine, of Connecticut, was pronounced out alives
at the scene, and Bennington's son, Perry Lake, four months old,
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was airlifted to a local hospital but ultimately passed from
his injuries. Bennington, Bennington's wife, Evelyn Lake, thirty eight, and
the couple's three year old son were hospitalized with non
life threatening injuries. Investigation into the crash indicates multiple northbound
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vehicles were involved in minor crashes and slid off due
to deteriorating road conditions and low visibility in.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
A snow squall.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Vehicles al right, sorry, I'm having a little bit of
a hard time seeing Vehicle number two twenty twenty four
Peterbilt fuel tanker truck had stopped due to the crashes ahead,
and the Hondi was unable to stop and slid into
the rear of the fuel tanker.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Our condolences is with the wife and the remaining child.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And in top story, a sedan illegally passing a semi
gets wedged underneath the trailer.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
In New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Police are investigating a car versus a semi truck crash
that occurred in Gloucester Township, New Jersey. This crash happened
on March eighth at the intersection of Slicker Road and
Garwood Road in Gloucester Township. I may not be proud
of that, right, I'm sorry people from New Jersey. I'm
probably butchering the heck out of it. When the Gloucester
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Township Police Department arrived on scen and they discovered a
sedan wedged underneath a semi trailer. Pastor of the sedan
sustained a broken arm and lacerations, and no one else, luckily,
was injured. Preliminary investigation showed the driver of the sedan
failed to observe that the tractor trailer was executing a
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left turn. As a result, the driver of sedan began
illegally passing the trailer, at which point he struck the trailer,
where the vehicle became wedged under it by the rear
axles of the trailer. The crash resulted in diesel fuel
leak and promptly a multi agency respt bonds. So there again,
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Now this is where you're looking at it. This picture,
you're looking at it from the truck standpoint, but it's
actually on the driver's side of the truck. So he
was trying to make a left hand turn. The guy
wanted to go around him on the left and right
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in underneath his semi. This is what happens when he
don't pay attention to turn signals or you don't use
turn signals period. But anyway, on to the next article. Now,
off duty cop fired multiple shots at a semi truck
on I ninety five in Florida. Yeah, yeah, another great week.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
In the news.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
An officer involved shooting involving a seven truck is under
investigation by a police in Jacksonville. The shooting occurred on
March tenth, around four o'clock in the afternoon on southbound
IE ninety five in Jacksonville. According to the Sheriff's Office, there,
seventy year old North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Based truck driver was en route to Charlotte and to Cape.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
From Charlotte to Cape Coral, the truck driver was driving
south an I ninety five near Atlantic Boulevard when he
allegedly came into contact with an un marked vehicle driven
by Jackson Sheriff's officer, Lieutenant Mark Crawford. The Sheriff's Office
says that the semi truck and unmarked vehicle may have
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come into contact more than once. Crawford, who works playing
closed detail, was not wearing a body camera and exited
his vehicle and fired four shots into the semi near
the engine bay set the Sheriff's office. The semi truck
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driver was uninjured. Crawford was treated for a shoulder injury.
So apparently they were playing, you know, meet the press.
Crawford had worked for the Sheriff's Office for twenty one
years and this is his fourth now on I two
three fourth Officer involves shooting. According to the Sheriff's office,
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it's an active investigation and JSO is seeking anyone who
witnessed the incident or anyone video to come forward and
contact them. They never leave a number anymore. They used
to leave numbers, phone numbers all the time or something
like that. But I'm sure if you google them you
could get.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
In touch with them.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
But yeah, can we say he needs a few anger
management classes and would be meet Thieves are pursued by
police after attempting to steal a load of beef. A
group of tempted thieves were pursued by police after attempting
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to steal a load of beef in Philadelphia. The incident
occurred or on March eleventh, round two in the morning,
at a Cisco warehouse at South Philly. According to local news,
a group of men in a box truck backed up
to a semi parked outside of the warehouse. Police were
called and officers arrived before any of the beef cargo
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could be unloaded from the semi truck. Thank goodness officers arrived.
I mean that's millions of dollars right there. The suspects
fled the scene in a getaway vehicle, and the officers,
of course gave chase. Chase went on for several minutes
before police called it off near four Street and Gerard
Avenue at the edge of North Liberty's neighborhood. Investigation revealed
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that the box truck used by the thieves was stolen
and no arrest were made.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
In on this scene. Sometimes it's like a course not.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And a truck hauling an excavator hits overpass, triggering a
five vehicle crash on I ninety five and closing.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I ninety five for some time.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Nine ninety five runs from the eastern seaboard all the
way down to Florida, so all the way up Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, I believe even further than that, all the
way down to Miami. Virginia State patrol Or investigating an
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overpass strike that occurred in Henrico. The crash happened around
nine thirty in the morning on I ninety five south
in Henrico, Virginia. A truck hauling an excavator I ninety
five struck the overpass. The three from the overpass strike
then triggered a crash involving five vehicles. And if you
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look real close, the truck that's like under the next
bridge in the picture is like totally obliterated. That pickup
truck there. I couldn't get a zoom in on that.
You could see a little bit better in this slide.
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So I hope everybody's doing well this evening. And up
next to an International loan star decided to go on
a joy ride on a Portland beach and got stuck.
So you know, well, I'll give me just a second.
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Something messed up lost my place. Sorry about that. Here
we are that w wasn't too bad. An International Loan
Star was rescued by jeeps after a bobtailed joy ride
incident happened March eleven that Sunset Beach, norther Career Heart, Oregon,
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at about eleven in the morning. According to the local news,
a truck driver and a passenger drove their International Loan
Star on the beach for a joy ride during high tide,
causing them to get stuck. Luckily, a group of off
roading enthusiasts was on the beach when the rig got stuck,
and a team of them was able to help the
truck driver get unstuck with the help of their four
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wheel drives. We see trucks like this out there every
so often, but he came out at high tide, which
is a terrible time, said one.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Of the guys of this four x four group.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So yeah, if you're gonna try that, don't go on
high tide. She needs to go on low tide when
the water is out and then there's more.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Each goofy.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And a driver refuses to willingly return to West Virginia
after truck for trial after forcing a car off a
bridge and into the lake. Now, if you remember on
the last episode. I know it's been a minute, and
my apologies, but a gentleman was going through West Virginia
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in a semi truck and unwillingly forced this car off
the bridge and into the water, killing the gentleman inside
the vehicle. And now they're wanting to have him come
back to stay on trial, and he's like, yeah, no,
not going to do that, not at all.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So they may have to.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Is it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Extradition, extradite him? I think that's the word. Correct me.
I'm sure you're going to correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Truck drivers refusing to willingly return to West Virginia for
trial after being charged for a fatal wreck that forced
a car.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Off a bridge.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
The accident happened in Morganton, West Virginia, back in January.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
My bad, it wasn't the last episode.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
The warrant for the driver's arrest, along with a related lawsuit,
was not issued until March. According to the local news,
A man initially believed to have driven the truck was
arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, that same week, but was released
after officers realized that that man was not a suspect.
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The real driver was arrested several days later in Fontana, California.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Instead.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Now, the Sheriff's office say that that driver has refused
to waive his to waive his extradition for negligent homicide charge.
This means that he will not willingly return to West
Virginia for trial and will only return and once a
governor's warrant has been issued by the Governor of California,
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Gavin Newsom. So he's like.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
He's fighting extradition.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
In other words, that he's you know, you got to
force me to go back to West Virginia and he's
trying to hide in California. The Sheriff's office said it's
committed to ensuring justice is served and will provide further
updates as this case progresses, which is good, which I'll
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be reporting on it then. And scrapped forklifts litter roadway
after a semi truck load shifts. The accident happened March
eleventh in Illyria, Ohio. According to the local news, a
semi truck was hauling scrap forklifts when I took a
right turn from State Route fifty seven onto Interstate ninety
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east bound ramp. During the turn, the load shifted, causing
the trailer to overturn. The truck driver was cited for
load shift. It was unhurt in the incident. I mean
he laid it slap over. Crews that responded to the
scene say it was a difficult clean up. It was painstaked,
the slow to get it done and to get the
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trailer upright. It took three and a half hours, which
that's not really long, not really And one let me
look for something real quickly.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
One second. Please, sorry about that. I had to look
something up real quickly for one of the segments. And
I reported on this.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And I don't want to beat as a proverbial dead horse,
but the Green River Tunnel out of Wyoming, apparently they're
still working on it. It it may be cleaned up
by now, but as of March eleventh, there was even
tighter with restrictions on I eighty and Green River Tunnel.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
As they keep doing. I mean, it was a mess.
It was a mess.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
The Wyoming dot announced a new.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
With restriction of eight feet six inches for vehicles traveling
on I eighty through the eastbound Green River Tunnel near
Green River, Wyoming, following the completion of paving operations. The
previous restrictions were ten and a half feet wide and
sixteen foot height restriction. The DOT says that oversized vehicles
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should contact the Wyoming Highway Patrol and Overside Load Permit
Office for detours. I mean it would that tunnel was
completely burned. They have to, you know, scrape it down
the path. The excuse me, I was gonna say paving, but.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
The black was melted. It was hot.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It was a hot fire that they have to redo
the hole inside. Besides dragging out all the cooked vehicles
and everything. The DOT is now focused on readying the
westbound tunnel for reopening. The cleanup operation is extensive and
there's currently no estimated time for the tunnel to reopen.
The contracted clean Harbors and Environmental We've seen those Industrial
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Service company to conduct the cleanup and disposal work in
the westbound tunnel, and they're working with the company to
begin to work as soon as possible. Officials said. Drivers
passing through the area asked to drive cautiously and beware
of roadside workers and our vehicles. And this day in
trucking history, Jimmy Hoffa led the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Now, if you are.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Have been in the truck and industry any amount of time.
You know who I'm talking about. This segment of this
Day in Truck and History is mainly for the younger
crowd under thirty. If you don't know who Jimmy Hoffe is.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
He was.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Born February fourteenth to nineteen thirteen. He disappeared July thirtieth,
nineteen seventy five, but was declared dead July thirtieth, nineteen
eighty two. So I'm giving you a little truck and
history here. He was an American labor union leader who
served as the president of the Teamsters International Brotherhood of
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Tingsters from nineteen fifty seven until nineteen seventy one. He
is notorious for his alleged tige to organize crime and
for his disappearance under mysterious circumstances. Heraldo Rivera was a
real big investigat reporter back when I was in school,
and he did a whole big thing about where is
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Jimmy Haffa buried?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And this, that and the other.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Some more of the history of Jimmy Hoffa. From an
early age, Haffa was a union activist. He became an
important regional figure within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters by
the mid twenties. By nineteen fifty two, he was a
national vice president of the Teamsters, and between nineteen fifty
seven and seventy one he was its general president. Haffa
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secured the first national agreement for Teamster's rates in nineteen
sixty four with the National Master Freight Agreement.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
He played a major.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Role in the growth and development of the union, which
eventually became the largest by membership in the US, with
over two point three million members at its peak. During
his term as its leader, Haffa became involved with organized
crime for the early years of Teamster's work, a connection
that continued until his disappearance. He was convicted and went
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to jail for jury tampering, attempted bribery conspiracy, along with
mail and wire fraud in nineteen sixty four in two
separate trials. He was imprisoned in sixty seven and sentenced
to thirteen years.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
In mid seventy one.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
He resigned as president of the union as part of
a commutation agreement with President Nixon and was released later
that year, but he was barred from union activities until
nineteen eighty. Hoping to regain support and to return to
the Teamster's leadership, he unsuccessfully tried to overturn the order.
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How Haffa disappeared on July thirtieth, nineteen seventy five. He
is generally thought to have been murdered by the mafia
and was declared legally dead in nineteen eighty two. Haffa's
legacy and the circumstances of his disappearance continued to stir debate.
I'm not going to go into.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
A lot of that.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
That's just a summary of what he did.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
But that's.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
This day in trucking history. Now let's get back to
the news. Ohio DOT plan truck parking facility.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
On I eighty.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
The Ohio Department of Transportation is moving ahead with a
project to add truck parking facility along I eighty near
the Ohio Pennsylvania state line next year. The DOT recently
announced plans to turn a shuttered rest area on westbound
I eighty and Hubbard Township I know where that is,
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into a truck parking facility. Work is scheduled to begin
now or I'm sorry, next year in twenty twenty six.
The proposed truck parking facility would include thirty eight truck
parking spaces, restroom, facilities, lighting, a camera system, and green
space whatever green for walking your dog of that kind
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of thing. I guess the Hubbard Township truck parking project
is be paid for by a grant from Nationally significant
Multi Motor Freight and High Projects Fund. If you have
comments or questions about the facility parking facility, you can
reach out to this mister pac Environmental Specialist, Ohio Department
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of Transportation, District four. His number is three three zero
seven eight six four six three one, or you can
email him at Brian Capital b ri I A n
dot pec pec k at doot dot Ohio dot gov.
That's Brian Capitol b dot Peck Capitol p e c
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k at dot dot Ohio dot gov. I think there
should be more than thirty eight parking spots actually, but
that's just me and a driver with a felony warrant
still on the run after getting stuck on a dirt
road and fleeing from police on foot. A truck driver
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with a felony warrant still on the run after fleeing
police at Pennsylvania. This happened March seventh. Now there again,
this was last week, so I have I see any
updates I'll definitely report if they found him, captured him.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
This kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Truck driver Lee du Bois, that's how I'm going to
pronounce it, had an active felony warrant for his arrest
for aggravated assault by motor vehicle when he was spotted
driving a semi near Friendzosa trucking en route two O
nine troopers and attended to conduct the traffic stop, but
Dubois kept driving and tried evade police by taking his
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semi down a dirt road. The rig became stuck on
the back road and so Dubois began to flee police
on foot. He ran into the woods and was successfully
evaded arrest. He was still on the run as let's
see March thirteenth. Police are asking anyone with information or
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his whereabouts or have you seen him, to contact Pennsylvania
State Patrol Jonestown at seven one seven eight sixty five
two one nine four. That's seven one seven eight sixty
five two one nine four, And there's his picture there
of Lee du Bois. He's still at large as of
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the thirteenth. So, like I said, I will keep you
posted if they captured him. And a truck driver is
unalived in a crash on Utah Interstate believed to have
been caused by high winds. The Utah Highway Patroller investigating
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a collision.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
That claimed the life of the truck driver.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
The crash occurred around ten in the evening on March twelfth,
eighty and mile markers seventy eight in Grantsville, Utah.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
The Highway Patrol.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Said a blue Semi truck with eastbound on I eighty
when it rolled over and crashed into the median. The
driver of the semi passed in the crash. The passenger
was transported to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
For treatment of injuries.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
No other vehicles were involved in the crash, and troopers
said that high winds are suspected for the cause of
the crash. So apparently there was a lot of high
winds in that area at that time and a shipping
containers completely and neatly knocked off the chassis while trying
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to squeeze under a railroad bridge. Motors recently filmed the
shipping container getting knocked neatly off of this chassis when
he was trying to squeeze underneath the railroad bridge.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Now I cannot post a video, but.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
You can check it out it's on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
In the video, the truck driver heads underneath the railroad bridge,
causing the top of the shipping container to hit the bridge.
A bit of the container appears to get peeled off
by the bridge before the container is eventually slid right
off the back of the trailer. The container then lands
on the roadway and even appears.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
To be.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Really centered in the lane as you could see. The
Michigan Department of Transportation has since sent a maintenance engineer
to inspect the bridge, which was then deemed safe to use.
A bridge specialists at Railroad Inspector are also scheduled to
inspect the bridge out of abundance of caution. So, yeah,
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just completely slid right off the end of the dug
one flatbed that it was on, and those chain snap
you hit it hard enough to change, are gonna snap.
So having it just chained through the holes on the
bottom of the container, yeah, it's gonna snap.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
This story.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Two people are passed in a multi vehicle crash at
I forty in Arizona. Arizona authorities are investigating a fatal
multi vehicle collision that occurred in severe winter weather. This
happened March thirteenth and I forty at mile marker one
point fifty nine near Williams, Arizona. You see that as
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Semi was set ablaze. According to the Department of Public
Safety in Arizona, the crash involved multiple vehicles, including Semis.
Officials have confirmed that two people passed in the crash.
It isn't clear how many people were injured. Ash Fork
Fire assisted william Fire Department on a multi vehicle crash
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on the forty Freeway and forty Freeway between Williams and
ash Fork can be very dangerous during adverse weather conditions.
The drive accordingly or avoid it entirely if possible, said
the Fire Department. And a truck driver is charged for
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dumping aviation fuel onto to an Alabama roadway so he
could avoid a trip back to Mississippi because he may
have been overloaded. Truck drivers facing multiple charges for allegedly
dumping thousands of gallons of fuel and Moundville, Alabama, Era area,
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Alabama based truck driver Terry fifty six is facing five
counts of reckless and danger and one count of criminal mischief.
According to state and federal charges and state and federal charges,
excuse me could be issued I'm getting tongue tied.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It's been a long day.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
The charges were filed and connects you with fuel dumping
incident that occurred on March thirteenth in Mountville, Alabama. According
to the local news, police say that Terry was rejected
when he tried to fill up at a local fuel
depot because he still had fuel in the tanker and
a fuel depot employees are not permitted to mix new
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fuel with old fuel. Terry allegedly left the depot, telling
workers he would return with an empty tanker. The nearest
fuel dump site to Moundville is in Meridian, Mississippi. Mountville
police say that rather than traveling to Mississippi, Terry drove
off the route, released the valves and other safety mechanisms,
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and drove along Jackson Street and Polewater Loop County Road
twenty one, discharging between fifteen and two thousand gallons of
aviation fuel.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Good Night.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
The fuel was spilled out over a five mile stretch,
including on a bridge over a creek. Are you madman?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You talk about how much dog one fishing and aquatic
life he killed doing that. Fifteen hundred to two thousand
gallons of fuel.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Good night?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
How are you that much of an idiot?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Apparently, multiple agencies responded to the fuel spill, including Emergency
Management Tuscaloosa, has Man, Alabama Apartment EPA. Jesus just because
he didn't have to go back to freaking Mississippi and
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do it the right way, too freaking lazy.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
God.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I'm sorry, but that is just ridiculous. And five people
passed an eighteen vehicle crash on Austin. I had to
get away from that story, y'all. I just I didn't
want to lose it.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
I had to. I had to go on.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Multiple Yeah, and my kitten is saying hello if you
can hear. Multiple fatalities were reported during a pile up
crash in Austin. The crash happened around eleven thirty on
March thirteenth on I thirty five north of Austin. Police
say that seventeen vehicles, including a semi truck, were involved
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in the crash on southbound thirty five. I'm sorry, I'm
really having a hard time seeing my contacts for Arbalerry,
so let me take a break just a second.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
This is the critter. If you could see him, I
don't know if you could see him in there he is.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
This is my rescue kitty, will take just a quick break.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Can't really see you. You can see hi. His head's
kind of in and out. I guess he's like, what
do you mean? My head's in and out?
Speaker 4 (39:05):
So this is this is my we.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
That's my kitty.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
You can look up.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
You can look up and say hi, yep, so how
I'm doing this? So so you got I can have
a background is a secret. But that's why he's fading
in and out a little bit. And I'm promoting gorse
Ki's Restaurant in the hometown of Mosanie, Wisconsin, where I
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got the shirt.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Anybody's wondering, and it is.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I'll take a picture of the back polk on the
patio every starting in June, every Sunday afternoon, starting at.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
One o'clock and till like six I think six seven.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Anyway, back to the story. When Cruise arrived down the scene,
several people were pinned inside their vehicles. Five people were
pronounced alive at the scene, including three adults, one child,
and one infant. Sadly to say, and if you don't
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have any you have straight pipes on your truck, you
could be facing one thousand dollars fine, revoke registration under
a new Colorado bill. So straight pipes is no muffler,
so you get the big eight ten inch round straight pipes. Yeah,
you could be facing up to a thousand dollars fine
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and pulling your registration out of your vehicle.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill it could be in
the works that targets noisy commercial vehicles with increased fines
and revoke registration. It's currently under consideration a Colorado General Assembly,
and we're tightening up muffler requirements for commercial vehicles operating
the state of Colorado. While only in the state of
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Colorado now that you're passing through. But if you live
in Colorado and he got straight pipes.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
While current law only requires a muffler at commercial vehicles
equipped with Jake break, the bill seeks to require mufflers
on all commercial vehicles. It also increases a fine for
commercial vehicles without mufflers or straight pipes from five hundred
dollars to one thousand dollars, and the commercial vehicle may
not be registered for one year unless the owner or
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the operator shows compliance. The bill would also require that
muffler be installed in such a way that it may
be visually inspected to sure its present, intact and functioning properly,
not hiding it under the truck. It's saying yeah, I
got one. It needs to be visible. Carrier can avoid
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the fine if they prove that a compliant muffler was
installed before the citation was issued. The fine is reduced
by fifty percent if a compliant muffler is installed within
thirty days of the citation. According to Colorado News and
Their Motor Carriers Association says that a small number of
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truckers remove their mufflers because they prefer the look and
loud noise that their trucks produce without one.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Yeah, I have a lot of log haulers. The callers
go by where I live and two o'clock in the morning,
empty momb.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Right by my wall. That's unnecessary. You don't need that garbage.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
I don't care how cool you think it is.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Have some you know, consideration for somebody that's asleep, because
you know, I gotta get up at four in the
morning to go to work myself, so really I really
don't freaking appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
But anyway, whoops, hang on there you go.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
And winter weather.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Wrong, but then.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Can and it's still happening in Washington, warns after a
series of snowy semi truck crashes. A sense of snowy
truck semi truck crashes forced the temperate closure of Interstate
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ninety in Washington. This happened March thirteenth, starting at approximately
five point thirty in the evening along snow Qualit May Pass.
According to the State Patrol, a series of snowy crash
of semi trucks shut down the westbound Interstate ninety at
Easton Pass and eastbound I ninety near the summit of
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Still call me.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
The closure lasted until about.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Eleven thirty that night as officers and tow trucks worked
to clear the crash semi trucks.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
You just got to slow down and bad weather, guys,
it's just not cool.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Lost my place there we go found it.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Video shows does the vehicles and a pile up on
nine twenty seven near Amarillo amid zero visibility dust storm.
So this is when all that crazy weather was going on,
you know, Louisiana, Like I said, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
all the way across the South.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
It was nuts.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
A major pile up was reported in Amberillo, Texas. Pile
up occurred in March fourteenth, northbound I twenty seven between
Canyon and Happy, Texas. So far little information was released,
but there could be as many as fifty vehicles involved
in the crash, as blowing dust created zero visibility. At
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the time of the writing of the article, no serious
injuries were reported, but you could see in the picture
how bad the dust storm really is.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
It's nuts.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
And a driver is found on alive and a landfill
after being reported missing by his trucket company. Now not
that anything there was foul play or anything, not that
I know of. Officers are investigating the passing of a
truck driver a landfill in Minnesota. Incident happened on the
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twelfth at Elk River, Minnesota. According to the trucket company
called Elk River Police Department around nine in the morning
to report one of the driver's missing. The driver was
supposed to be delivering a lower to the landfill. Officers
ride to the landfill after receiving the missus percy report
and found a driver had passed at the scene. His
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passing is still under investigation, but police do not suspect
foul play and I ten in New Mexico closed after
truck calling excavator hits an overpass, and that story will
have to be for another time. I want to thank
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each and every one of you for joining me this evening.
I greatly appreciate it. Trying to still work twelve hour
days working at a paper mill act so I come in,
I kind of rush around so I am there again.
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Like I told you, I'm doing all of us myself.
I don't have a big production team. My two cats
they work for free, all cat food or treats. They're cheap,
cheap labor. But all they do is get on the
keyboard and do one of these numbers. So thanks again
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for joining me. Keep the sunny side up, name the
shiny side up, and we'll see you next time.
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Speaker 2 (01:27):
Gooding everything, everybody, Welcome to Julia's Trucking Cafe, Trucking News Hour.
Thank you so much for joining me this evening. There again,
just come home from work, jumped down the live stream
to go ahead and beyond time this week. Thank you
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so much everybody for your patience and with all the
technical difficulties that's going on. And again, thank you so
much for joining me. As always, I have lots of
news to get to, so let's get right to it.
A trucker is taken to the hospital unresponsive after police
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struggled to locate him following a crash. A truck driver
was transported to the hospital unresponsive after being thrown around
to the semi truck early on Monday morning. Now this happened,
I'm a little bit late. So this happened the tenth
of March in Massachusetts Turnpike. According to the local news,
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the accident involved two passenger vehicles and a tractor trailer.
The crash caused a semi to veer off the road
and down an embankment. This is the second vehicle that
was involved in the crash.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
My bad and.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Police initially found no signs of the driver of the
semi truck, but eventually found him unresponsive and transported him
to a nearby hospital. According to the local news, it's
unclear if the driver was ejected from the truck at
the time and became trapped inside somewhere other than the
driver's seat, or escaped before becoming unresponsive, and a second
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person that was involved in one of the other vehicles
was also transported to the hospital. End up next, I
get all this goofy stuff that I don't want and
if Florida. This was the week that a lot of
tornadoes were spawning around the Southern States Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama,
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and to Florida.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And Florida.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Tornado gives a truck driver a rude a wake up
call when is rig flips. Tornado and Florida flip the
truck driver's rig while he and his dog were taking
a nap. Tornado touched down a lake Mary, Florida, at
around nine to forty in the morning. According to local
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Orlando News, a tornado crossed over Interstate four and flipped
a semi truck parked on the side of the road
at the intersection of Commerce Street and Lake Emma Road
as a driver and his dog were taking a roadside nap.
The truck driver, whose name was not released, said that
he and his dog were okay and that he had
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never experienced anything like that before. Now I've been in
the middle of nowhere, Kansas, and I had that happen
to me and truck flipped over.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It was nuts.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
It was rocketed, rolling so much so that you couldn't
even really sleep because it was shaken so bad. And
six point two million dollars in cocaine was seized from
a semi truck hauling plastic rap supposedly allegedly hauling plastic
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wrap one of those words, huh.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
You have to be so careful on YouTube now allegedly
un alive.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Human transportation because of the algorithms that you have to use,
so you don't get your channel demonetized or deplatformed or
anything like that. So US Customs of Border Patrol recently
seized millions of dollars worth of cocaine from a commercial
vehicle at the Texas Port of Entry. The drug seizure
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took place on the fifth of March at far International
Bridge Cargo Facility at Farer, Texas. They've been if you've
been viewing the show, whether you view it live or
you view it on the replay, they have been really busting.
But at that facility in Far Texas, coming over the border,
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which is great, great for them.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
I mean, fentanyl and all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
I mean, just the granule of fentanyl will kill you.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's just nuts.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I may look away because my there again. I have
two cats and they decide, oh, it's playtime while mom's
on the live stream.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yay. So anyway, back to back to the article.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The semi truck was selected for more than one inspection.
Equipment and a cane. I dued it and the physical
physical inspection of the truck uncovered one hundred and fifty
packages of alleged cocaine weighing four hundred and seventy pounds
get sealed within this commodity was hauling this plastic rap let.
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The estimated street value of the seized cocaine is six million,
two hundred and eighty four thousand, five hundred and eighty
six dollars and change.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
I put the hand change in.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
The truck driver was arrested and the truck trailer, of course,
of the cocaine were handed over to the Texas Department
of Public Safety. You know, we've heard so much of
these drug seizure and confiscation stories that I mean, I'm
not gonna bore you with all the details of it.
And this next story one second. Sorry, I always have
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to pull it up. Sadly, a man and his infant
son passed away in a ten vehicle pile up amid
a snow squall in Vermont. Now, remember how the weather
got so crazy. It was seventy five degrees. We had
about twenty five thirty tornadoes across central in southern Mississippi,
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and they were having snow in Iowa.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It was just nuts.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
About a week week and a half back. Vermont State
Patrol confirmed that a man in his infants were killed
in a multi vehicle pile up on I ninety one
around seven thirty in the evening. Troopers responded to I
ninety one northbound near mile marker thirty eight in Rockingham, Vermont,
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for a ten plus car crash. Trying to figure out
where I'm here. At here, sorry, my apologies. The Hyundai driver,
Taylor Benington, thirty nine, of Connecticut, was pronounced out alives
at the scene, and Bennington's son, Perry Lake, four months old,
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was airlifted to a local hospital but ultimately passed from
his injuries. Bennington, Bennington's wife, Evelyn Lake, thirty eight, and
the couple's three year old son were hospitalized with non
life threatening injuries. Investigation into the crash indicates multiple northbound
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vehicles were involved in minor crashes and slid off due
to deteriorating road conditions and low visibility in.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
A snow squall.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Vehicles al right, sorry, I'm having a little bit of
a hard time seeing Vehicle number two twenty twenty four
Peterbilt fuel tanker truck had stopped due to the crashes ahead,
and the Hondi was unable to stop and slid into
the rear of the fuel tanker.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Our condolences is with the wife and the remaining child.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
And in top story, a sedan illegally passing a semi
gets wedged underneath the trailer.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
In New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Police are investigating a car versus a semi truck crash
that occurred in Gloucester Township, New Jersey. This crash happened
on March eighth at the intersection of Slicker Road and
Garwood Road in Gloucester Township. I may not be proud
of that, right, I'm sorry people from New Jersey. I'm
probably butchering the heck out of it. When the Gloucester
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Township Police Department arrived on scen and they discovered a
sedan wedged underneath a semi trailer. Pastor of the sedan
sustained a broken arm and lacerations, and no one else, luckily,
was injured. Preliminary investigation showed the driver of the sedan
failed to observe that the tractor trailer was executing a
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left turn. As a result, the driver of sedan began
illegally passing the trailer, at which point he struck the trailer,
where the vehicle became wedged under it by the rear
axles of the trailer. The crash resulted in diesel fuel
leak and promptly a multi agency respt bonds. So there again,
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Now this is where you're looking at it. This picture,
you're looking at it from the truck standpoint, but it's
actually on the driver's side of the truck. So he
was trying to make a left hand turn. The guy
wanted to go around him on the left and right
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in underneath his semi. This is what happens when he
don't pay attention to turn signals or you don't use
turn signals period. But anyway, on to the next article. Now,
off duty cop fired multiple shots at a semi truck
on I ninety five in Florida. Yeah, yeah, another great week.
Speaker 4 (11:54):
In the news.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
An officer involved shooting involving a seven truck is under
investigation by a police in Jacksonville. The shooting occurred on
March tenth, around four o'clock in the afternoon on southbound
IE ninety five in Jacksonville. According to the Sheriff's Office, there,
seventy year old North Carolina.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
Based truck driver was en route to Charlotte and to Cape.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
From Charlotte to Cape Coral, the truck driver was driving
south an I ninety five near Atlantic Boulevard when he
allegedly came into contact with an un marked vehicle driven
by Jackson Sheriff's officer, Lieutenant Mark Crawford. The Sheriff's Office
says that the semi truck and unmarked vehicle may have
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come into contact more than once. Crawford, who works playing
closed detail, was not wearing a body camera and exited
his vehicle and fired four shots into the semi near
the engine bay set the Sheriff's office. The semi truck
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driver was uninjured. Crawford was treated for a shoulder injury.
So apparently they were playing, you know, meet the press.
Crawford had worked for the Sheriff's Office for twenty one
years and this is his fourth now on I two
three fourth Officer involves shooting. According to the Sheriff's office,
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it's an active investigation and JSO is seeking anyone who
witnessed the incident or anyone video to come forward and
contact them. They never leave a number anymore. They used
to leave numbers, phone numbers all the time or something
like that. But I'm sure if you google them you
could get.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
In touch with them.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
But yeah, can we say he needs a few anger
management classes and would be meet Thieves are pursued by
police after attempting to steal a load of beef. A
group of tempted thieves were pursued by police after attempting
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to steal a load of beef in Philadelphia. The incident
occurred or on March eleventh, round two in the morning,
at a Cisco warehouse at South Philly. According to local news,
a group of men in a box truck backed up
to a semi parked outside of the warehouse. Police were
called and officers arrived before any of the beef cargo
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could be unloaded from the semi truck. Thank goodness officers arrived.
I mean that's millions of dollars right there. The suspects
fled the scene in a getaway vehicle, and the officers,
of course gave chase. Chase went on for several minutes
before police called it off near four Street and Gerard
Avenue at the edge of North Liberty's neighborhood. Investigation revealed
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that the box truck used by the thieves was stolen
and no arrest were made.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
In on this scene. Sometimes it's like a course not.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
And a truck hauling an excavator hits overpass, triggering a
five vehicle crash on I ninety five and closing.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I ninety five for some time.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Nine ninety five runs from the eastern seaboard all the
way down to Florida, so all the way up Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, I believe even further than that, all the
way down to Miami. Virginia State patrol Or investigating an
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overpass strike that occurred in Henrico. The crash happened around
nine thirty in the morning on I ninety five south
in Henrico, Virginia. A truck hauling an excavator I ninety
five struck the overpass. The three from the overpass strike
then triggered a crash involving five vehicles. And if you
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look real close, the truck that's like under the next
bridge in the picture is like totally obliterated. That pickup
truck there. I couldn't get a zoom in on that.
You could see a little bit better in this slide.
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So I hope everybody's doing well this evening. And up
next to an International loan star decided to go on
a joy ride on a Portland beach and got stuck.
So you know, well, I'll give me just a second.
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Something messed up lost my place. Sorry about that. Here
we are that w wasn't too bad. An International Loan
Star was rescued by jeeps after a bobtailed joy ride
incident happened March eleven that Sunset Beach, norther Career Heart, Oregon,
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at about eleven in the morning. According to the local news,
a truck driver and a passenger drove their International Loan
Star on the beach for a joy ride during high tide,
causing them to get stuck. Luckily, a group of off
roading enthusiasts was on the beach when the rig got stuck,
and a team of them was able to help the
truck driver get unstuck with the help of their four
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wheel drives. We see trucks like this out there every
so often, but he came out at high tide, which
is a terrible time, said one.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Of the guys of this four x four group.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So yeah, if you're gonna try that, don't go on
high tide. She needs to go on low tide when
the water is out and then there's more.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Each goofy.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
And a driver refuses to willingly return to West Virginia
after truck for trial after forcing a car off a
bridge and into the lake. Now, if you remember on
the last episode. I know it's been a minute, and
my apologies, but a gentleman was going through West Virginia
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in a semi truck and unwillingly forced this car off
the bridge and into the water, killing the gentleman inside
the vehicle. And now they're wanting to have him come
back to stay on trial, and he's like, yeah, no,
not going to do that, not at all.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
So they may have to.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
Is it.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Extradition, extradite him? I think that's the word. Correct me.
I'm sure you're going to correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Truck drivers refusing to willingly return to West Virginia for
trial after being charged for a fatal wreck that forced
a car.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Off a bridge.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
The accident happened in Morganton, West Virginia, back in January.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
My bad, it wasn't the last episode.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
The warrant for the driver's arrest, along with a related lawsuit,
was not issued until March. According to the local news,
A man initially believed to have driven the truck was
arrested in Phoenix, Arizona, that same week, but was released
after officers realized that that man was not a suspect.
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The real driver was arrested several days later in Fontana, California.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Instead.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Now, the Sheriff's office say that that driver has refused
to waive his to waive his extradition for negligent homicide charge.
This means that he will not willingly return to West
Virginia for trial and will only return and once a
governor's warrant has been issued by the Governor of California,
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Gavin Newsom. So he's like.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
He's fighting extradition.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
In other words, that he's you know, you got to
force me to go back to West Virginia and he's
trying to hide in California. The Sheriff's office said it's
committed to ensuring justice is served and will provide further
updates as this case progresses, which is good, which I'll
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be reporting on it then. And scrapped forklifts litter roadway
after a semi truck load shifts. The accident happened March
eleventh in Illyria, Ohio. According to the local news, a
semi truck was hauling scrap forklifts when I took a
right turn from State Route fifty seven onto Interstate ninety
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east bound ramp. During the turn, the load shifted, causing
the trailer to overturn. The truck driver was cited for
load shift. It was unhurt in the incident. I mean
he laid it slap over. Crews that responded to the
scene say it was a difficult clean up. It was painstaked,
the slow to get it done and to get the
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trailer upright. It took three and a half hours, which
that's not really long, not really And one let me
look for something real quickly.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
One second. Please, sorry about that. I had to look
something up real quickly for one of the segments. And
I reported on this.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
And I don't want to beat as a proverbial dead horse,
but the Green River Tunnel out of Wyoming, apparently they're
still working on it. It it may be cleaned up
by now, but as of March eleventh, there was even
tighter with restrictions on I eighty and Green River Tunnel.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
As they keep doing. I mean, it was a mess.
It was a mess.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
The Wyoming dot announced a new.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
With restriction of eight feet six inches for vehicles traveling
on I eighty through the eastbound Green River Tunnel near
Green River, Wyoming, following the completion of paving operations. The
previous restrictions were ten and a half feet wide and
sixteen foot height restriction. The DOT says that oversized vehicles
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should contact the Wyoming Highway Patrol and Overside Load Permit
Office for detours. I mean it would that tunnel was
completely burned. They have to, you know, scrape it down
the path. The excuse me, I was gonna say paving, but.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
The black was melted. It was hot.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
It was a hot fire that they have to redo
the hole inside. Besides dragging out all the cooked vehicles
and everything. The DOT is now focused on readying the
westbound tunnel for reopening. The cleanup operation is extensive and
there's currently no estimated time for the tunnel to reopen.
The contracted clean Harbors and Environmental We've seen those Industrial
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Service company to conduct the cleanup and disposal work in
the westbound tunnel, and they're working with the company to
begin to work as soon as possible. Officials said. Drivers
passing through the area asked to drive cautiously and beware
of roadside workers and our vehicles. And this day in
trucking history, Jimmy Hoffa led the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Now, if you are.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Have been in the truck and industry any amount of time.
You know who I'm talking about. This segment of this
Day in Truck and History is mainly for the younger
crowd under thirty. If you don't know who Jimmy Hoffe is.
Speaker 5 (24:21):
He was.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Born February fourteenth to nineteen thirteen. He disappeared July thirtieth,
nineteen seventy five, but was declared dead July thirtieth, nineteen
eighty two. So I'm giving you a little truck and
history here. He was an American labor union leader who
served as the president of the Teamsters International Brotherhood of
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Tingsters from nineteen fifty seven until nineteen seventy one. He
is notorious for his alleged tige to organize crime and
for his disappearance under mysterious circumstances. Heraldo Rivera was a
real big investigat reporter back when I was in school,
and he did a whole big thing about where is
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Jimmy Haffa buried?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
And this, that and the other.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
Some more of the history of Jimmy Hoffa. From an
early age, Haffa was a union activist. He became an
important regional figure within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters by
the mid twenties. By nineteen fifty two, he was a
national vice president of the Teamsters, and between nineteen fifty
seven and seventy one he was its general president. Haffa
(25:33):
secured the first national agreement for Teamster's rates in nineteen
sixty four with the National Master Freight Agreement.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
He played a major.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Role in the growth and development of the union, which
eventually became the largest by membership in the US, with
over two point three million members at its peak. During
his term as its leader, Haffa became involved with organized
crime for the early years of Teamster's work, a connection
that continued until his disappearance. He was convicted and went
(26:06):
to jail for jury tampering, attempted bribery conspiracy, along with
mail and wire fraud in nineteen sixty four in two
separate trials. He was imprisoned in sixty seven and sentenced
to thirteen years.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
In mid seventy one.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
He resigned as president of the union as part of
a commutation agreement with President Nixon and was released later
that year, but he was barred from union activities until
nineteen eighty. Hoping to regain support and to return to
the Teamster's leadership, he unsuccessfully tried to overturn the order.
(26:43):
How Haffa disappeared on July thirtieth, nineteen seventy five. He
is generally thought to have been murdered by the mafia
and was declared legally dead in nineteen eighty two. Haffa's
legacy and the circumstances of his disappearance continued to stir debate.
I'm not going to go into.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
A lot of that.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
That's just a summary of what he did.
Speaker 4 (27:11):
But that's.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
This day in trucking history. Now let's get back to
the news. Ohio DOT plan truck parking facility.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
On I eighty.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
The Ohio Department of Transportation is moving ahead with a
project to add truck parking facility along I eighty near
the Ohio Pennsylvania state line next year. The DOT recently
announced plans to turn a shuttered rest area on westbound
I eighty and Hubbard Township I know where that is,
(27:56):
into a truck parking facility. Work is scheduled to begin
now or I'm sorry, next year in twenty twenty six.
The proposed truck parking facility would include thirty eight truck
parking spaces, restroom, facilities, lighting, a camera system, and green
space whatever green for walking your dog of that kind
(28:18):
of thing. I guess the Hubbard Township truck parking project
is be paid for by a grant from Nationally significant
Multi Motor Freight and High Projects Fund. If you have
comments or questions about the facility parking facility, you can
reach out to this mister pac Environmental Specialist, Ohio Department
(28:39):
of Transportation, District four. His number is three three zero
seven eight six four six three one, or you can
email him at Brian Capital b ri I A n
dot pec pec k at doot dot Ohio dot gov.
That's Brian Capitol b dot Peck Capitol p e c
(29:04):
k at dot dot Ohio dot gov. I think there
should be more than thirty eight parking spots actually, but
that's just me and a driver with a felony warrant
still on the run after getting stuck on a dirt
road and fleeing from police on foot. A truck driver
(29:32):
with a felony warrant still on the run after fleeing
police at Pennsylvania. This happened March seventh. Now there again,
this was last week, so I have I see any
updates I'll definitely report if they found him, captured him.
Speaker 3 (29:50):
This kind of thing.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Truck driver Lee du Bois, that's how I'm going to
pronounce it, had an active felony warrant for his arrest
for aggravated assault by motor vehicle when he was spotted
driving a semi near Friendzosa trucking en route two O
nine troopers and attended to conduct the traffic stop, but
Dubois kept driving and tried evade police by taking his
(30:14):
semi down a dirt road. The rig became stuck on
the back road and so Dubois began to flee police
on foot. He ran into the woods and was successfully
evaded arrest. He was still on the run as let's
see March thirteenth. Police are asking anyone with information or
(30:38):
his whereabouts or have you seen him, to contact Pennsylvania
State Patrol Jonestown at seven one seven eight sixty five
two one nine four. That's seven one seven eight sixty
five two one nine four, And there's his picture there
of Lee du Bois. He's still at large as of
(31:00):
the thirteenth. So, like I said, I will keep you
posted if they captured him. And a truck driver is
unalived in a crash on Utah Interstate believed to have
been caused by high winds. The Utah Highway Patroller investigating
(31:21):
a collision.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
That claimed the life of the truck driver.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
The crash occurred around ten in the evening on March twelfth,
eighty and mile markers seventy eight in Grantsville, Utah.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
The Highway Patrol.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Said a blue Semi truck with eastbound on I eighty
when it rolled over and crashed into the median. The
driver of the semi passed in the crash. The passenger
was transported to the hospital.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
For treatment of injuries.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
No other vehicles were involved in the crash, and troopers
said that high winds are suspected for the cause of
the crash. So apparently there was a lot of high
winds in that area at that time and a shipping
containers completely and neatly knocked off the chassis while trying
(32:11):
to squeeze under a railroad bridge. Motors recently filmed the
shipping container getting knocked neatly off of this chassis when
he was trying to squeeze underneath the railroad bridge.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Now I cannot post a video, but.
Speaker 3 (32:29):
You can check it out it's on YouTube.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
In the video, the truck driver heads underneath the railroad bridge,
causing the top of the shipping container to hit the bridge.
A bit of the container appears to get peeled off
by the bridge before the container is eventually slid right
off the back of the trailer. The container then lands
on the roadway and even appears.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
To be.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Really centered in the lane as you could see. The
Michigan Department of Transportation has since sent a maintenance engineer
to inspect the bridge, which was then deemed safe to use.
A bridge specialists at Railroad Inspector are also scheduled to
inspect the bridge out of abundance of caution. So, yeah,
(33:24):
just completely slid right off the end of the dug
one flatbed that it was on, and those chain snap
you hit it hard enough to change, are gonna snap.
So having it just chained through the holes on the
bottom of the container, yeah, it's gonna snap.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
This story.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Two people are passed in a multi vehicle crash at
I forty in Arizona. Arizona authorities are investigating a fatal
multi vehicle collision that occurred in severe winter weather. This
happened March thirteenth and I forty at mile marker one
point fifty nine near Williams, Arizona. You see that as
(34:11):
Semi was set ablaze. According to the Department of Public
Safety in Arizona, the crash involved multiple vehicles, including Semis.
Officials have confirmed that two people passed in the crash.
It isn't clear how many people were injured. Ash Fork
Fire assisted william Fire Department on a multi vehicle crash
(34:34):
on the forty Freeway and forty Freeway between Williams and
ash Fork can be very dangerous during adverse weather conditions.
The drive accordingly or avoid it entirely if possible, said
the Fire Department. And a truck driver is charged for
(34:57):
dumping aviation fuel onto to an Alabama roadway so he
could avoid a trip back to Mississippi because he may
have been overloaded. Truck drivers facing multiple charges for allegedly
dumping thousands of gallons of fuel and Moundville, Alabama, Era area,
(35:22):
Alabama based truck driver Terry fifty six is facing five
counts of reckless and danger and one count of criminal mischief.
According to state and federal charges and state and federal charges,
excuse me could be issued I'm getting tongue tied.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
It's been a long day.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
The charges were filed and connects you with fuel dumping
incident that occurred on March thirteenth in Mountville, Alabama. According
to the local news, police say that Terry was rejected
when he tried to fill up at a local fuel
depot because he still had fuel in the tanker and
a fuel depot employees are not permitted to mix new
(36:03):
fuel with old fuel. Terry allegedly left the depot, telling
workers he would return with an empty tanker. The nearest
fuel dump site to Moundville is in Meridian, Mississippi. Mountville
police say that rather than traveling to Mississippi, Terry drove
off the route, released the valves and other safety mechanisms,
(36:26):
and drove along Jackson Street and Polewater Loop County Road
twenty one, discharging between fifteen and two thousand gallons of
aviation fuel.
Speaker 4 (36:42):
Good Night.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
The fuel was spilled out over a five mile stretch,
including on a bridge over a creek. Are you madman?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Oh my god?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
You talk about how much dog one fishing and aquatic
life he killed doing that. Fifteen hundred to two thousand
gallons of fuel.
Speaker 1 (37:10):
Good night?
Speaker 3 (37:12):
How are you that much of an idiot?
Speaker 2 (37:16):
Apparently, multiple agencies responded to the fuel spill, including Emergency
Management Tuscaloosa, has Man, Alabama Apartment EPA. Jesus just because
he didn't have to go back to freaking Mississippi and
(37:36):
do it the right way, too freaking lazy.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
God.
Speaker 2 (37:46):
I'm sorry, but that is just ridiculous. And five people
passed an eighteen vehicle crash on Austin. I had to
get away from that story, y'all. I just I didn't
want to lose it.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
I had to. I had to go on.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Multiple Yeah, and my kitten is saying hello if you
can hear. Multiple fatalities were reported during a pile up
crash in Austin. The crash happened around eleven thirty on
March thirteenth on I thirty five north of Austin. Police
say that seventeen vehicles, including a semi truck, were involved
(38:30):
in the crash on southbound thirty five. I'm sorry, I'm
really having a hard time seeing my contacts for Arbalerry,
so let me take a break just a second.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
This is the critter. If you could see him, I
don't know if you could see him in there he is.
Speaker 2 (38:48):
This is my rescue kitty, will take just a quick break.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
Can't really see you. You can see hi. His head's
kind of in and out. I guess he's like, what
do you mean? My head's in and out?
Speaker 4 (39:05):
So this is this is my we.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
That's my kitty.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
You can look up.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
You can look up and say hi, yep, so how
I'm doing this? So so you got I can have
a background is a secret. But that's why he's fading
in and out a little bit. And I'm promoting gorse
Ki's Restaurant in the hometown of Mosanie, Wisconsin, where I
(39:37):
got the shirt.
Speaker 3 (39:38):
Anybody's wondering, and it is.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I'll take a picture of the back polk on the
patio every starting in June, every Sunday afternoon, starting at.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
One o'clock and till like six I think six seven.
Speaker 2 (39:55):
Anyway, back to the story. When Cruise arrived down the scene,
several people were pinned inside their vehicles. Five people were
pronounced alive at the scene, including three adults, one child,
and one infant. Sadly to say, and if you don't
(40:17):
have any you have straight pipes on your truck, you
could be facing one thousand dollars fine, revoke registration under
a new Colorado bill. So straight pipes is no muffler,
so you get the big eight ten inch round straight pipes. Yeah,
you could be facing up to a thousand dollars fine
(40:38):
and pulling your registration out of your vehicle.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill it could be in
the works that targets noisy commercial vehicles with increased fines
and revoke registration. It's currently under consideration a Colorado General Assembly,
and we're tightening up muffler requirements for commercial vehicles operating
the state of Colorado. While only in the state of
(41:04):
Colorado now that you're passing through. But if you live
in Colorado and he got straight pipes.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
While current law only requires a muffler at commercial vehicles
equipped with Jake break, the bill seeks to require mufflers
on all commercial vehicles. It also increases a fine for
commercial vehicles without mufflers or straight pipes from five hundred
dollars to one thousand dollars, and the commercial vehicle may
not be registered for one year unless the owner or
(41:33):
the operator shows compliance. The bill would also require that
muffler be installed in such a way that it may
be visually inspected to sure its present, intact and functioning properly,
not hiding it under the truck. It's saying yeah, I
got one. It needs to be visible. Carrier can avoid
(41:55):
the fine if they prove that a compliant muffler was
installed before the citation was issued. The fine is reduced
by fifty percent if a compliant muffler is installed within
thirty days of the citation. According to Colorado News and
Their Motor Carriers Association says that a small number of
(42:18):
truckers remove their mufflers because they prefer the look and
loud noise that their trucks produce without one.
Speaker 4 (42:25):
Yeah, I have a lot of log haulers. The callers
go by where I live and two o'clock in the morning,
empty momb.
Speaker 3 (42:36):
Right by my wall. That's unnecessary. You don't need that garbage.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
I don't care how cool you think it is.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
Have some you know, consideration for somebody that's asleep, because
you know, I gotta get up at four in the
morning to go to work myself, so really I really
don't freaking appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (43:01):
But anyway, whoops, hang on there you go.
Speaker 4 (43:09):
And winter weather.
Speaker 3 (43:14):
Wrong, but then.
Speaker 2 (43:16):
Can and it's still happening in Washington, warns after a
series of snowy semi truck crashes. A sense of snowy
truck semi truck crashes forced the temperate closure of Interstate
(43:37):
ninety in Washington. This happened March thirteenth, starting at approximately
five point thirty in the evening along snow Qualit May Pass.
According to the State Patrol, a series of snowy crash
of semi trucks shut down the westbound Interstate ninety at
Easton Pass and eastbound I ninety near the summit of
(44:00):
Still call me.
Speaker 4 (44:01):
The closure lasted until about.
Speaker 2 (44:03):
Eleven thirty that night as officers and tow trucks worked
to clear the crash semi trucks.
Speaker 4 (44:11):
You just got to slow down and bad weather, guys,
it's just not cool.
Speaker 3 (44:17):
Lost my place there we go found it.
Speaker 2 (44:24):
Video shows does the vehicles and a pile up on
nine twenty seven near Amarillo amid zero visibility dust storm.
So this is when all that crazy weather was going on,
you know, Louisiana, Like I said, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia,
all the way across the South.
Speaker 3 (44:45):
It was nuts.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
A major pile up was reported in Amberillo, Texas. Pile
up occurred in March fourteenth, northbound I twenty seven between
Canyon and Happy, Texas. So far little information was released,
but there could be as many as fifty vehicles involved
in the crash, as blowing dust created zero visibility. At
(45:10):
the time of the writing of the article, no serious
injuries were reported, but you could see in the picture
how bad the dust storm really is.
Speaker 3 (45:21):
It's nuts.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
And a driver is found on alive and a landfill
after being reported missing by his trucket company. Now not
that anything there was foul play or anything, not that
I know of. Officers are investigating the passing of a
truck driver a landfill in Minnesota. Incident happened on the
(45:51):
twelfth at Elk River, Minnesota. According to the trucket company
called Elk River Police Department around nine in the morning
to report one of the driver's missing. The driver was
supposed to be delivering a lower to the landfill. Officers
ride to the landfill after receiving the missus percy report
and found a driver had passed at the scene. His
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passing is still under investigation, but police do not suspect
foul play and I ten in New Mexico closed after
truck calling excavator hits an overpass, and that story will
have to be for another time. I want to thank
(46:37):
each and every one of you for joining me this evening.
I greatly appreciate it. Trying to still work twelve hour
days working at a paper mill act so I come in,
I kind of rush around so I am there again.
(46:58):
Like I told you, I'm doing all of us myself.
I don't have a big production team. My two cats
they work for free, all cat food or treats. They're cheap,
cheap labor. But all they do is get on the
keyboard and do one of these numbers. So thanks again
(47:19):
for joining me. Keep the sunny side up, name the
shiny side up, and we'll see you next time.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Now that nu naff nap lap up nap nap Now
n na nap nap na.
Speaker 5 (48:17):
Na na nah nap up nap nap stop.
Speaker 1 (48:34):
Back naff nap nap NAA puff
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