147. Trucking – Pup Was Trapped Inside Crushed Truck

In this episode of Julia's Trucking Cafe - Trucking News Hour, I discuss what happened to trap a pup inside a truck that was crushed. 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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Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (01:10):
Hey everybody, how is everyone doing this evening? I'm trying
to get some things clarified here that wasn't supposed to
do that. There, Sorry, I'm back. You gotta love live streaming,

(01:40):
you really, really really do. I have lots and lots
and lots of news to get to for again, all
the the drugs coming into the country. Also, how the

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how can I say it? The legislation, the executive order
where the DOT is now cracking down on non English
speaking drivers and what that's going to affect.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
To.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Updates on stories that I have previously reported on. I
have updates on that to how a truck driver was
in a horrific crash and the title of the show,
how his pop was with his French bulldog was with

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him and was in a crushed cab of the truck.
What happened there, How drivers are going to be placed
out of service if they don't speak English. I will
expand and define what that means and how in my
own backyard here in this North Mississippi, how a truck

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stop made national trucking news. Small little bitty town in
North Mississippi made the national headlines. So please stay tuned
and thank you as always. Also, I want to give
a shout out to Max Velocity and on his YouTube channel.

(03:35):
There are a lot of tornadoes going through Oklahoma and
into Arkansas right now as I am recording this, as
I am streaming this. So if you are on Interstate forty,
if you were up in a Fayetteville area or Asylum
Springs or any part of that area in western Arkansas
eastern Oklahoma, please beware of the weather. Severe thunderstorms like crazy.

(04:04):
It's coming into my area in North Mississippi, headed into
a little rock Memphis. Everything tomorrow, overnight, tonight, and tomorrow,
So please make sure that your weather aware. Don't try
to outrun it, park it, go to ditch, don't stay

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in your truck, find a safe place. So it's Max
m ax Velocity at YouTube dot com, Great Weather Channel.
Young Man went to college for meteorology and just graduated college.
Definitely has anytime there's severe weather, tornado outbreak or whatever.

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He will stay online like for sixty hours at a time,
so definitely check him out as always. Like I mentioned,
lots of news to get to, so let's get right
to it. In our first story, seventy six percent of

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inspections resulted in out of service orders during the commercial
vehicle operation in Maryland and on the d C Parkway.

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Multiple law enforcement agencies partner for commercial vehicle inspection operation
along to Baltimore Washington Parkway. This is the end of
April April twenty second to twenty third. The commercial vehicle
inspection detail took place then along to Baltimore Washington Parkway
connecting Baltimore, Maryland to d C, which is I believe

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around four ninety five nine that the loop and everything.
According to the police department up there, one hundred and
forty eight commercial vehicles were inspected during that operation. Of
total of six hundred and fifty violations were identified. Of these,
seventy six percent of the vehicles were placed out of service,

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which means if you are not in the truck, drive
a community and you're watching my program, it means that
you cannot drive a vehicle until you get what's the
matter fixed, so you will be parked, and you will
have an orange stick or slapped on your window, meaning
that you cannot move until you get everything fixed that

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they found wrong with your vehicle. United States Park Police,
which also took part in this operation, additionally reported one
hundred and seventy citations were issued and that the opera
should resulted in want arrest for driving while intoxicated DWI.

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They also remind drivers that commercial vehicles are prohibited on
all NaSTA Park Service roads. And we got thank you James,
James Ellen five sixty seven for just following up on

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discord and also on Twitch. So I got that little
bit of an interruption, So thank you, James. I greatly
appreciate it. And there's more. There's more. I've just started
streaming here a couple of months back. But if you

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want to watch some more episodes on our YouTube channel, James,
you can, I will. The links are going to be
in the description box. Back to the news. So there
was a lot of stuff going on on those inner
inspections on the Parkway and what's inside that White House

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Executive orders. Our next article on English language requirements for
truck drivers. You need to speak it. You need to
speak it, and you need to be able to write it.
It's not that hard, it's not that complicated. On now
there again this I'm always a little late. So on

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end of April, the White House issued a sweeping new
EO Executive Order intended to strengthen federal English language requirements
for truck drivers and to crack down on fraudulent commercial drivers.
On April twenty eighth, President Trump made headlines when he
signed this executive order targeting several truck in industry issues,

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including English language proficiency for CDLs. I'm not going to
read the whole EO, but yeah, it's designated as our
official national language as of March first, twenty twenty five.
Should not be non negotiable safety requirement for professional drivers,

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meaning me, no speak no English, doesn't work anymore. They
should be able to read and understand traffic science, communicate
with traffic safety, border patrol, agriculture checkpoints, and cargo weight
limit station or waistcale station officers. Drivers need to provide
feedback to their employers and customers and receive related directions

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in English. This is just common sense, it says right
in the EO. This is why federal law requires that
to operate a commercial vehicle. A driver quote must read
and speak the English language succinctly to converse with general public,
to understanding highway traffic signs and signals in the English language,

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to respond to officer inquiries, and to make entries on
reports and records log books. Be able to sign your
name not just an X on shipping papers. Yet this
requirement has not been enforced in ten years, and American
roadways have become less safe. So good on your President

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Trump as far as making sure that you know English
language is our predominant language here in this country, which
there again it should be. And here check this out.
That's a Lamborghini in that back of that truck. Commercial
vehicle inspection leads Wyoming troopers to a stolen Lamborghini. Who

(10:53):
to thunk it? Just one second? My tablet always likes
to drag. A Wyoming State Patrol trooper made a surprising
discovery during a commercial vehicle inspection last week. A trooper
took this inspection, I'm sorry took place back at April

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twenty third trooper conducted commercial vehicle inspection discovered that a
luxury sports card was inside the trailer was stolen. I mean,
who's gonna haul around a Lamborghini. The trooper, conducting a
thorough investigation, determined that the vehicle had a cloned then,

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which was an attempt to conceal the stolen vehicle. The
car was seized and made available for the owner to retrieve.
Several out of service violations were then issued. Great work
to the trooper on staying vigilant and being thorough. Says
that his bosses, So yeah, they come up with a
stolen Lamborghini. It takes all kinds, let me tell you.

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And a truck driver in this story is sentenced to
prison for hauling two point five million dollars worth of
cocaine from California to Illinois this week of Keller or

(12:24):
I should say back end of April. Now, so the
stories that I'm reporting on are the end of April,
first week of May. I've always run late, James, and uh,
it definitely running late. So would I say, you know

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this week or something like that. It's really the when
these stories, these stories took place was the end of April.
A California truck driver back to the article, was sentenced
to a federal prison for attempting to transport a large
load of cocaine from California to Cago. Barstow resident Ronald Coleman,
forty five, was sentenced to eleven years in the pen.

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According to the US Attorney's Office, Coleman previously pled guilty
to one counter possession with intent to distribute for five
kilos or more of cocaine. Coleman was pulled over by
Illinois State patrol on I eighty eight near Morrison in
April of twenty twenty three. During this traffic stop, with

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the assistance of a canine unit, police discovered two suitcases
filled with cocaine. As a part of the plea agreement,
of course, he pled out. Coleman admitted that he knew
he was transporting more than discovered two suitcases filled. My
cat decided to hit my Coleman admitted, my cat decided

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he wanted to watch me live, so he hit my phone.
There again got a leve of live stream. More than
as a plea agreement, Coleman admitted that he knew he
was transporting more than ninety one kilos of cocaine with
a street value of two point five million dollars. Coleman
then told authorities that he was transporting the cocaine to

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a warehouse in Chicago where he was to exchange the
drugs for cash and transport the money back to California.
So this was a round for him, bring the drugs
out of California, swap it out, get paid out with money,
turn around, take the cash back to California. Again. Heck
of a racket. Officials also say that Coleman admitted to

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carrying a firearm to protect himself. He says the cocaine
into cash during transport, and that Coleman expect to be
paid for transporting the drugs to the Chicago warehouse. The
case was investigated with the assistance of the Illinois State
Police and USD. Usdoties points to two deadly crashes to

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show that truck drivers who don't understand English are actually
highway hazards, and that is as you could see, a
very horrific crash there. The US Department of Transportation has
followed up on action by the current administration to enforce
English language proficiency, which in other words, elp requirements for

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truck drivers by pointing to two high profile fatality crashes
that officials say were caused by drivers who did not
speak English. President Trump signed an executive order to rescind
twenty sixteen policy that loosened enforcement on longstanding federal regulations

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that require commercial vehicle operators to be able to speak, read,
and understand English succinctly to read road science, and communicate
with law enforcement and other members of the public. As
I just explained following up on this, behalf of the
dot that directly pointed into a pair of high profile
commercial vehicle crashes as examples of the lack of this

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English proficiency and can harm safety on America's highways. The
documented FMCSA is documented where drivers inability to read our
signs and speak our language may have contributed to a
series of fatal accidents. Twenty nineteen, a semi truck driver
traveling down a crowded highway at almost one hundred miles

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an hour blew past several warning signs that warned of
steep grades and dangerous curves. The driver ultimately hit multiple
vehicles and a fatal crash, killing four and injuring others.
I reported on that story back in twenty nineteen. This
gentleman was traveling across Interstate seventy. He was just a

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local driver in trust state out of the state of Texas.
Never really been out of Texas, never ran the hills
or anything. Twenty seven years old and killed four people
because he lost his breaks coming down veil and in well,
actually it wasn't really veiled, but that real long steep

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gray coming into Denver on Interstate seventy. So that's one
of the cases. Like I said that, I did report
the driver ultimately hit multiple vehicles in that fatal crash,
like I said in January of twenty twenty five, a
fatal collision in West Virginia. The second case involved a
driver fleeing another accident who required an interpreter for the

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post crash investigation. So the first crash, like I said this,
Menderos was initially issued one hundred and ten year sentence
after he was convicted on twenty seven charges, including the
counts of vehicul homicide. In October of twenty twenty one. However,

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the sentence was reduced to just ten years, so they
knocked off one hundred year sentence off of him because
the Hispanic community got in a hissy fit about one
hundred and ten year sentence. You had no disregard, and
his excuse was he couldn't understand English, but killed four people.

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So anyway, I'm not gonna go on. I could go
on and on and on about that, but I'm not
going to. It would take take up a lot more
than an hour program. So let's go on to other stories.
Arson investigation is underway at Illinois trucking and warehouse facility.

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Illinois fire marshals are investigating a structure fire that occurred
at Adulton Trucking and Warehouse business. This happened in April
twenty nine, shortly before eight o'clock in the morning. Firefires
responded to event Trucking and Warehouse, a business located at
thirteen hundred block at Dalton, Illinois. When crews arrived on

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the scene, the building was engulfed in flames. Multiple agencies
responded to the three alarm fire, but the facility was
then destroyed. Luckily, no one was injured. The deputy fire
chief told the local news the fire is suspicious in nature.
We do have a fire marshal out here currently with
our arson team. The outlet also reports that business was

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raided in December of twenty twenty four by the Illinois
Secretary of State State Police because vehicles parked on the
property were allegedly connected to a stolen auto investigation, So
you never know what you're going to find in a
fire or anything else, so it is kind of questionable

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you know what really caused that fire and a tanker
driver in this next story was airlifted after crashing into
a slow moving motorist on Interstate forty in North Carolina.
A tanker truck driver was airlifted to a hospital after

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crashing to a slow moving motorist on Interstate forty in
North Carolina on Tuesday morning. The accident happened just before
six o'clock in the morning, April twenty ninth, along eastbound
Interstate forty in North Carolina. According to the local news,
a tanker truck hauling fuel crashed into a slow moving motorist,

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causing the semi truck to overturn. He must have hit
him offul dog on hard. Two oncoming semis were unable
to completely avoid the wrecked tanker truck, but only caused
minor damage to the fuel hauling semi. A pickup truck
driver then swerved to avoid the overturned truck, poll was
unsuccessful and collided with the semma with the tanker truck.

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The collision caused a tanker truck to then catch fire
after the pickup truck hit it, so two semis were
coming at him, barely missed the tanker after he laid
it over. Then a pickup truck come flying through he
could miss it, hit the tanker, and then erupted into flames.
A box truck driver then swerved to avoid that crash,

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skid it into the median cables and came to rest
in the median The tanker truck fire tanker truck fire
caused by the crash was a slow movie more damaged
the roadway and injured the truck driver. Truck driver was
airlifted to a hospital for treatment of his injuries. I mean,
as you could see, it's you know, engulfed in flames. There.

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That's not the tanker truck in the background of the
picture next to the trees. It's the one that you
cannot see in the flames. Firefighters worked to extinguish the fire,
which eventually caused an explosion. The ground was on fire,
said the fire chief. Vehicles were on fire, the road

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was on fire. You see it on You see this
on in the t on TV and in the movies.
But it's nothing. You don't go out and discard the water.
When the fire is so hot, your water is just
evaporating before it even gets there. Pretty much kind of
learn to burn it, burn itself out. So, yeah, it's

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something that hot you can't even get near it. And
luckily more cars didn't explode or anything else with a
fire that hot. You know. So, and a bond is
reduced from one point two million to seven thousand dollars
for driver in this fade that causes fatal eighteen vehicle

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pile up on I thirty five. Now I reported on
this in my last show, last episode. A truck driver
involved in that fatal pileop on I thirty five last
month had his bond reduced massively. The pileop happened back

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in March near Austin, Texas. Five people were killed and
eleven more were seriously injured, and thirty seven year old
Solomon because I cannot pronounce his last name, was initially
charged with seven felony counts related to driving while intoxicated
based on police assessments, and was jailed on one point

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two million dollar bond. A toxicology report then determined that
there was no detectable traces of drugs or alcohol in
his system at the time of the crash. After the
release of the results earlier in the month of April
is the driver's lawyer filed a motion to have his

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bond reduced to a dollar per charge that he could
be released. April twenty ninth, the judge approved of the
reduction a bond from one hundreds of dollars per charge
to one thousand dollars per charge. According to the Austin
Local News, new pre tile conditions have also been imposed

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for his release, including he's got to wear ankle bracelet,
no curfew or restricted zones, use of ignition interlock device
on his vehicle, he gets random drug screens, pre trial services, supervision,
and prohibited from operating any semi or commercial vehicle. He's

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still facing multiple felony charges for the crash, but the
results of the toxicology report have brought the intoxication related
charges into question. So cops got that one wrong, didn't they.
And a driver accused of forcing a car into a
frozen lake back months ago has now been extradited to

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West Virginia. If you remember, in the last couple of shows,
I was getting saying updates about how this driver was
out of California. He wasn't going to come back voluntarily,
and I mentioned that they'd have to extradite him back
to West Virginia if he's not going to come you know,
be a man and step up and face the consequences

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of what he did. And yeah, they're having to extradite
him back to West Virginia now to stand trial. So that,
you know, really goes without saying on this one. And again,
my tablet's got a glitch. We are, like I said,

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we're having severe weather, so I don't know if that
has something to do with it, but yeah, so I
hate this as far as that goes. Let's see if
I can pull it up again. Sorry about that one moment.

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As I'm trying to pull up the article, it's it's
being a pain in my butt and I have to
do it this way because if I don't, then the
little screen right here you will see everything I'm doing.
And I don't have multiple screens. I have a all
in one and that's all it's that's all it's gonna do.

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So let's go on to the next story and see
if that one will pull up. I'm dune truck driver
who killed a crew of linemen did not even have
a CDL. Well, so nothing's working for me now. I

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apologize about this, and I don't have There's so many
articles that I don't have a way to memorize them all.
I really don't understand what's going on with this goofy thing.

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I helped the whole dog on show isn't going to
be like this is gonna be get very aggravating care coms.

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I just had to exit out and try starting it
all over again, So my apologies. The driver of a
dump truck that killed a crew of lineman in North
Carolina did not have a valid CDL. This incident occurred
in Eden, North Carolina, as a crew of linemen were
working as contractors for Duke Energy. According to the local

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news in North Carolina, the dump truck was the City
of Eden vehicle driven by sixty six year old Michael
Ray Vernon inst Gators believe that the dump truck ran
a stop sign before crashing into the crew of linemen.
For the six people hit passed away in the accident,
they were identified as seventy one year old Douglas Garland Sides,

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thirty five year old William Evans, thirty two year old
Madison Carter thirty year old Matthew Lockwood. Two people hit
in the incident were airlifted with serious life threatening injuries.
One person in the bucket truck was taken to a
nearby hospital with non life threatening injuries. Vernon met investigators

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at the magistrate's office, where he was officially charged with
one count of failing to stop for a stop sign,
one count of operating a commercial vehicle without a valid CDL,
and four misdemeanor counts of death by motor vehicle. He's
being held on a fifty thousand dollars unsecured bond. So

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while he ran a stop sign and ran into a
crew through a four linemen, Holy moly, and seventy one
years old, and this brand new driver pulls a man
from the car before it catches on fire. My tablet's

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giving me fix. See. Oh I'm sorry. I'm trying real
hard out to whip it out the window. A brand
new truck driver that rescued a man from a burning
car after crashed into his trailer. Truck driver Charles Vicker
was driving along Interstate sixteen in Doubling, Georgia, when a

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car crashed into the back of his tra semi Vicker
was able to pull over to the shoulder, but it
wasn't until he excuse me, was it until he got
out of his rig when he realized the car was
wedged underneath the trailer and was starting to catch fire.
He said, the driver wasn't able to move, he wasn't

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able to get out, watching him burned alive. I just
couldn't do that. I just couldn't live with that on
my conscious end quote. Vickers told the local news. He
ran to the car behind his semi trailer, and just
as the car caught fire, managed to pull the driver

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out of the car. Vickers then used his fire extinguisher
to put out the flames. The other two and two
other truck drivers even managed to stop and help and
use their own fire extinguishers to extinguish the flames of
the car. That was me pulling that dude out of
the car. I didn't know somebody was recording it, though,

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he said. In a response of the video of the rescue,
Vickers says he's a brand new truck driver. He's only
been driving a rig six months. So thank you so much,
mister Vickers for helping this motorist out. Does not say
in the article what happened that he got rear ended

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like he did. Possibly, you know, inattentive driving would be
what I could imagine of being on the road. James,
you don't know that I've been or James, James, you
don't know that I've been on the road thirty six years.
Myself and solo lady veteran driver and I started this

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show seven years ago now, and just this year I've
been deciding to do live streams. And in one of
our top this top story, driver loses his breaks on

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a bridge and long and his dog was also with him.
This happened in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, where the local fire
company said the tractor trailer driver lost their brakes, causing
him crash while traveling, causing a closure in the area

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of Route thirty at scrub Ridge. A driver was able
to free themselves from the wreckage and was taken to
the Fulton County Medical They released more information about the crash,
saying the driver lost control while going down a sharp decline.
He was going too fast. He went off the road

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and into a grassy area to try to slow down
before getting back on the road. He ended up flipping it,
he hit a guard rail and a utility pole, causing
the vehicle to roll and break apart before sliding down
an embankment. A passerby alerted Cruise about a bulldog also

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stuck in the cab of the truck, and crews were
able to rescue it. So this miss Lynch and the
fire department. A witness to the crash said that Meredith,

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excuse me, not Miss Lynch. Witness of the crash, Meredith
LVY pardon me, reportedly alerted Firefires that there was a
French bulldog still trapped in the rect semi and crews
were able to rescue the dog, named Chloe. And there's
Chloe right there. Her statement is quote. Last night, on

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our way home from Rourke, roughly around eleven, we witnessed
the worst trucking accident she's ever seen on the scrub bridge.
The driver lost his brakes and ended up in a ditch.
The driver had his dog with them, a little French
bulldog named Chloe. He wasn't able to take his dog
with them when they left the scenes, so B and

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I offered to take care of her until we could
figure out how to get them back to each other.
The State that the truck was in shows that he
was protected and this man and the dog were protected
by unseen forrest. I'm not going to say what she said.
Chloe came out of the accident without a single scratch

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and the driver is in stable condition, she said in
a social media post. According to the local fire chief,
Lbi agreed to take the dog home with her overnight
while the truck driver was transported to the hospital, then
coordinated with the driver and his family to return Chloe
to them at a hospital in Hershey. Follow up from

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that crash on scrub Bridge. If not for the young
lady telling us there's a dog still in the cab
and how it survived after getting her up to the road, now,
what are we going to do? The driver was seriously
injured and luckyly luckily he had a cell phone. A
phone call was made to a relative in Florida. Meredith

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agreed to take Chloe home with her. We're happy to
pass along these pictures we're taking as Meredith has returned
a pup to the owner and relatives at Hershey Medical
Center where the driver is recovering from his injuries, said
the fire chief. So truck driver and dog survived this

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horrific crash. Yeah, that's a truck. That's pieces of the
truck and this story. Truck drivers are to be placed
out of service for a lack of English language proficiency.
This is starting next month, in June of twenty twenty five.

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I'm thinking I'm gonna need to update my tablet. So
this is just expounding on the story that I talked
about with the executive order. But I wanted to share
with you when it's going to be starting that they're
serious about this. They're not playing. It's going to be
next month. It's so in just like two three months,

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they're already, you know, And what out of service means,
let me define that. Out of service means that when
you get inspected and your truck is placed out of
service for mainly breaks, you know, steering this kind of thing,
they will place a slap of big orange sticker to

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your window or your windshield. You will be asked to
pull over, or they will if the cop is nice.
If he's nice, they will let you go or follow
you to a truck stop where they'll frequent and they'll
watch and make sure you don't leave, and you will

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be placed out of service. Where you cannot drive, you're
shut down until you get those repairs fixed, or until
you Now, in this case, if your lack of English
language proficiency, you're gonna have to get somebody English speaking
in order to drive that truck away, is my thought.

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Let's see what they say. The Commercial Vehicle CBSA Safety
Alliance announced major action on the English like ELP bit
for truck drivers in compliance with direction from the White House.
They announced starting June twenty fifth of twenty twenty five.
Non compliance with this existing federal regulations where commercial truck

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drivers be proficient in English language is an out of
service violation. They're not saying how to get around it.
There again, you know you have to be able to
answer questions. The mino speak no English, need an interpreter.

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That ain't gonna fly anymore, y'all. So you come into
this country, you better be able to speak the language,
or don't bother getting a CDL. You have to be
able to speak the language and any other job all
besides door dashing, which I DoorDash do. When I was home,
I was door dashing too. You wouldn't believe how they

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got the translation on the phone, and just show them
the screen when you go into restaurants and stuff. It's
nut and a greyhound bus strikes three semis parked on
the shoulder of a rest area exit ramp. Now, I

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they're a goin to be an old school and starting
back in nineteen eighty eight when I started and got
my chauffeur's license and then grandfathered in to the CDL,
you would not believe we never parked on ramps back then. Ever,
because of accidents like this, they cannot see you. They're

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not looking for you. Nobody is cars, other trucks, buses
like a greyhound full of people. They're not looking for
you to be parked on the shoulder of a rest
area to sleep. And this was before the rest area.
This was on the off ramp, so and that's the

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worst place to park. So here is that's what happened
to the bus. After he hit the first semi that
you see the trailer is all mangled. Then he went
and hit the next semi where it says that's the

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more you'll see the motor coach in the second arrow.
You go to the arrow on the right. That was
the second the flatbed that he hit, and then he
came to rest against the mac the last one, he
went right down the line to the shoulder. I'm thinking,
just my personal opinion now is speculation allegedly the bus

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driver may have been dozen off to do something like that.
Look at that damage to the first semi trailer he hit.
I mean, those tandems are pushed up and that trailer
is up in the air. It's it's it's nuts. But
what's even worse. This happened in twenty twenty three. First

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now the National Transportation Safety Board two years later, it
is first now going to investigate what the hell happened
and was a multiple fatality crash there. First, this crash
happened July twelfth to twenty twenty three, so this July

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will be two years ago. A motor coach operated by
Greyhound Lines traveling from Indianapolis, Indiana, to Saint Louis, Missouri,
was westbound on Interstate seventy. Quote. As the motor coach
approached the westbound Silver Lake Rest Area, passed by it
all the time. About mile marker twenty seven point four,

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the motor coach departed, got off of I seventy onto
the Rest Area exit ramp, where it collect with three
semis that were parked on the ramps right shoulder. As
a result, three motor coach passengers were they passed away
because of the accident. The driver and remaining passengers sustained

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injuries ranging from minor to sirius. The semi drivers who
were inside the bunks at the time of the crash
were not injured. Officials noted that the westbound Silver Lake
Rest area has sixty four total parking spaces, including twenty
one that are designated as semi truck parking spaces, with

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one of these being a handicap space. They planned to
determine the problem cause of the crash with the intent
of issuing safety recommendations to prevent similar events, like no
parking on a shoulder. For example, what I've been saying
for thirty years, you don't park on the show. You

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don't park on the side of the interstate to let
your dog out. You know, it's safer to get off
on the on ramp. You get off the off ramp,
you crossover, especially if there's a bridge I call it
a dac and cross over, because then you have to
be slow to come on. You know, you're gaining speed

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as you go down the on ramp, get off the
off ramp crossover, come back down, then pull over on
the shoulder of the road to let your puppy dog out.
You don't stop by the side of the interstate unless
you've blown a tire or you got an air leak,
and it's emergency situations only. I don't know where everybody

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figured out it was okay to sleep on the side
of the interstate because crap like this happens. This is
my point right here, This is what happens. And they
were on the shoulder, but still they were way off
the interstate. But can you imagine that happening on the
interstate when everybody's doing, you know, well over speed limit.

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Let's just see. Yeah, so yeah, still amazes me what
drivers do. Florida troopers locate the semi truck driver following
another double fatality crash. This happened on Interstate ninety five, Florida.

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At the time, Florida was on the lookout for a
semi truck believed to be involved in a deadly crash
in Palm Bay. The crash occurred May second, around ten
o'clock in the morning Eastern time. They report that two
people have passed in what have been described as a
hit and run crash. They're looking for a semi truck

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with possible damage to the front grill and the front
right headlight. And then, as an update May second round
four pm, the semi truck was a located excuse me,
and the truck driver was arrested on I ninety five.
The crash victims have been identified as surveyors who were

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standing on the shoulder of eye ninety five near their
vehicle when they were struck. And you know, then he
took off on top of that. So now here is
a story regarding the town that I live in, Okay, Mississippi.

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Truck stop is raided after complaints about selling kretum and tyan.
I am not any familiar with these substances at all.
Tian tipteen nipteene, tian nipteene. See I came and pronounce it.

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I did look him up though, and kretum is ground
up and it's for coming down off of opiates. And
also tan uptine is what's called truck stop heroin. So

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rumor has it in town that this has been going
on for several years. The new owner now they were
again allegedly the new owner of the truck stop didn't
want to pay extortion money to the local sheriff allegedly

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and that this is the reason why the truck stop
suddenly mysteriously got raided. But yet in the news article
because my little town made the national trucking news here
just out of the blue, you know, they got rated

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and they were saying recently conducted a search warrant on
the truck stop after receiving complaints about the sale of
illegal substances. From who this has been going on. I've
been living here ten years. I've been seeing that truck,
that stuff in the truck stop forever. Nobody ever said
a word, So I wonder if the rumors aren't true

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about you know, hey, give me a little cash. I
look the other way, just saying legendly contacted the local sheriff.
He wouldn't take my call, wouldn't comment. They conducted a

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multiple undercover operations which say led to discovery that this
truck stop, located Highway South on forty five south like
you're going to West Point Tupelo on West Point, was
in violation of the ordinance prohibiting the used purchase, possession, distribution, sale,
or offering the sale of synthetic cannabi cannabinoids, which that's

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not even they're not even synthetic or other synthetic products
which has been in effects. It's twenty nineteen. Yeah, bs,
so you know there's kratum, lots of kratum, lots and
lots of credum u z tabs with kratum in it.
They didn't say anything about Tanana pin and it was

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in possession of twenty twenty seven bottles of Zaza white
used in the making of Tyan tyaneen UH schedule one
controlled substance. There again, it's truck stop heroin is what
they call. So it's just and they also found UH

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syldan syldan a pill which is UH similar to viagra,
and and it was also UH I guess prescription. The
truck stop clerks where he shoot citations. Baider turned himself

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in that charges up the possession of a counterfeit substance
with a tend to distribute and possession of a patrolled
subus substance. He was later released on bond. Yeah, he
refused to pay. So then all of a sudden, you know,
this all come down on them, and I'm just like
now theyre again allegedly, So this is this is the

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rumor mail in town that this is what's going on.
It's kind of may It reminds you walking the movie
Walking Tall where he got the dirty Law Apartment done it.
That's what I'm thinking. And a for here's some more

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dirty law enforcement. Former trooper in Massachusetts, it's guilty and
forty eight charges for giving false passing scores to forty
CDL applicants in exchange for bribes. This is just some
of the items that they bribed him with. Former sergeant
with the Massachusetts State Police was found guilty on dozens

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of charges related to a commercial driver's license bribery scheme.
Oh one sidebar to the previous story about the town
that I live in. If it happens in my little
town in North Mississippi, where I lived just two miles
south of the Tennessee line in the woods, it can

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happen in your backyard. So it's everywhere. Don't think that,
oh this just is of the big city like Massachusetts
or someplace like that. If it could happen in the
woods by miles, it could happen any dog on wear.
It's all over anyway, back to the current story, the

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state trooper was found guilty and dozens of charges related
to this bribery scheme. Gary Seed Across fifty nine, was
found guilty by federal jury in Boston on the following
charges two counts of conspiracy to commit extortion, one count
of extortion, six counts of honest services mail fraud, three

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counts of conspiracy to falsify records, nineteen counts of falsification
of records, seventeen counts of false statements. He was acquitted
of one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, two counts
of extortion, three counts of falsification of records, and three
counts of false statements. Scheduled for sentencing in July of

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twenty twenty five. So here in a couple of months.
So they knocked some of the charges down. In other words,
I guess for him, I want to say, admitting to it,
but working with agencies and the investigation and for cooperating,

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that's the word I'm looking for. So Yeah, And a
driver is rescued from a dangling semi truck and it's
one of three truck trucking accidents in the same location.

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Truck driver is rescued from a dangling semi truck in
Louisville was just one of three crashes. This happened on Saturday,
May third, and the other occurred to occurred on the
next day, Sunday, May fourth, all on the Kentucky Bridge
on Interstate sixty five south of Louisville. According to the

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local news, Saturday afternoon crashed evolve a car hauler that overturned,
throwing several cars over a concrete barrier and onto a
nearby ramp. No injuries reported in that crash, but the
incident did not did require excuse me approximately five hours
of clean up, causing backups. Then the second wreck in

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the same location occurred Sunday morning. The semi truck lost
control for an unknown reason, sending the rig crashing through
the concrete barrier. Semi came to a stop with a
cab dangling off the bridge as you see here in
the photo. Louisville Fire Department were repelled to the cab
of the truck to rescue the trap driver inside the

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danglar semi truck, which took about thirty minutes. The driver,
I was in good spirit, said the fire tree. When
firefighter was with him got him in that harness. He
got out. He actually was waving to the first responders
there and thanking people, so he was in pretty good shape.
But I bet you he had to clean his breeches.

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I bet you he took a big old dump in
his breeches when that happened. Thank goodness, I have never
had to experience anything like that. And there's the other
part of the wreck, and that was the car hauler.
And the first picture was the second wreck that happened Sunday.

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So this is the wreck first wreck that happened Saturday.
And you could see the car right there that hit
the off ramp. So luckily I don't believe that any
he didn't report that anybody got hurt, and the truck

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drivers arrested on suspicion of dui after hitting several park
cars and four poles. He obliterated that vehicle, didn't he
This happened in San Bernardino, California. Recently responded to an

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extensive property damage involving a semi truck. Yeah, I think
incident took place shortly after four in the morning on
May third in San Bernardino, California. Police say that a
semi truck collided with several parked cars and also struck
two utility poles and two light poles near Arrowhead and

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rialto avenue. The driver. The semi truck sustained minor injuries.
Relic reported that the collision caused extensive property damage. Yeah,
like knocking the motor out of the car. He was
arrested on suspicion of duy And he was a private
contract driver, so he was like a lease lease op driver,

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so he wasn't really with any company per se. And
they're saying this truck driver sentenced twenty two and a
half years for colliding with a bus full of hockey
students and he didn't have any remorse about it. The
truck driver, with no remorse for the accident was sentenced

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to more than twenty two years after colliding with a
bus full of hockey players high school. Victor Santos of Brooklyn,
New York, pled guilty to twenty six counts each of
criminal recklessness and causing serious bodily injury while operating a

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vehicle on May fifth in Indiana. According to the local news,
says was driving a semi trucking reckless man or on
the night of November twelfth, twenty twenty two. Excuse me,
he was sentenced then, or he pled I'm sorry he
pled guilty then my bad. He's been holed over for sentencing.

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But the accident happened back in twenty twenty two. Santos
was operating a semi at high speeds around ninety miles
an hour and ignored a red light in the moments
just before hitting a bus full of Saint Ignatius College
prep hockey team players. The collision caused the bus to overturn,

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injuring twenty people, mostly students between the ages of fourteen
and seventeen. At least one student was ejected from the
bus and three people were considered critically injured. All of
the crash victims survived the incident, thank goodness. At the
time of the accident, Santos was then arrested and suspicion

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of driving while intoxicated, when it was later discovered his
blood of alcohol content was twice the league limit for Indiana.
I don't remember if it's for a commercial driver, it's
point oh four. He's driving a rig so it was
twice that leg a limit, So that meant to you
was about point oh eight. What does this describe him

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as it appearing emotionless with no remorse. Well, when you're
that screwed up and when you're that full of whatever
it is you took, nah, you don't even know what
the hell you did. Whendy Cook said, I stared him
straight in the eyes then and today, mother of the
one of the fifteen year olds, on the day of

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his sentencing, he showed no remorse, no recognition of the
pain he put everyone through that night. No, he's not
gonna be And it was the same look today. So
he did not accept responsibility for all this harm he
caused these young men and these families, said Attorney Tim
Kavanaugh is representing eighteen players, their parents, and two coaches,

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and a ninety eight count civil suit against Santos and
two trucking companies. The suit states that the truck driver
and company showed willful disregard for the safety of the
people on the bus, and this case is still pending.
That's the civil case that's still pending. Santo's initial hearing
was postponed in November twenty two due to language barriers

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and difficulties finding an interpreter. At the reschedule hearing, he
requested a reduction of his bond. He was previously convicted
of rape in nineteen ninety nine, so of course he's
not going to show any remorse and multiple FMCSA violations
dot He will now serve twenty two and a half

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years in prison as part of a plea deal been
credited with the two and a half years already served
since his arrest in November of twenty twenty two. It
wasn't a ginormous plea deal, but he did get it
for two years, you know, like time served and that

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portion of it. And do you know what happened to
Lilian Desiree discotil she was found dead? Have you happened
to know or have any information of what happened to her?

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There is a six thousand dollars reward and this reward
is being offered for any information on the death of
a lady trucker found on the side of East Texas Highway.
But this happened more than ten years ago. Fifty one
year old Lillian Desiree. This koto was found along an

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entrance ramp on I twenty off of FM four fifty
in Hallsville, Texas, on October seventh, twenty thirteen. According to
the local news. Two truck drivers were stopped on the
shoulder to inspect their tires when they noticed the body
of a woman lying on her back near the side
of the road. She was described as having short blonde hair,

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one stud earring, and a light blue hoodie. Officers arrived.
They determined that her body had only been there for
a few hours and that she had likely been sexually assaulted, beaten,
and strangled. Investigation reveals she had been living a transient lifestyle.
Places that she worked at or Alaska, Colorado, Ohio, Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana,

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and East Texas. Her last known residence was at Irving, Texas,
outside of Dallas. She worked as a truck driver before
being found on the side of the road on the
East Texas Highway. Investigators are now offering a six thousand
dollars reward for information leading to arrest related to her death.
Anyone with information on the case interested in collecting the

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reward must submit their information either by calling Crime Stoppers
hotline at one eight hundred two five two eight four
seven seven or sending a message online with the note
cold case is featured and cold case is a type
of crime and offense. So if you were in the
area of Hallsville, Texas around Nater State twenty off of

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FM four fifty October seventh, twenty thirteen and possibly have
seen anything about this person or if you have seen
this woman before, then go ahead and please contact that
crime Stoppers hotline again. The number is one eight hundred

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two five two eight four seven to seven. Who knows
you may have information that will gain you if it
checks out six grand and up. Next, Louisiana thirties investigating
after multiple trucks are destroyed by fire and you guys

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are gonna love the next story after this one. So
that's that's the trucks being blown up and burning. Authorities
respond to a major vehicle fire in Knda, Louisiana on
Wednesday morning. That's outside of Nollans. This happened May seven,
about five o'clock in the morning. It happened in business

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parking East Airline Drive. Firefighters reported multiple semi cabs on
fire at the scene. One firefighter was treated for smoking
full inhalation and the fire was under control an hour
later by six o'clock in the morning. Has Matt Cruz
respond to the scene to deal with the diesel fuel

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that's spilled that caused by the fire. They're also asking
the public at that time to avoid that area. But yeah,
when that that stuff goes, it's a hot ass fire,
trust me. And this driver got it for DUI and

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was reckless with her semi reckless driving and multiple altercations.
And it's a female driver, so I'm just going by
her name. Her name is spelled thhu ni ng Nellie

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n E l E. Dunnin Dunig, fifty three was indicted
in Clarksbury, West Virginia, on May sixth for her August
twenty twenty four reckless driving incident involving multiple altercations. She
initially struck a vehicle on I seventy nine and fled

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the scene before getting into an altercation with a customer
at a gas station. When confronted by police at the
gas station, she fled the scene in her semi, leading
officers on a chase across multiple counties. She then eventually
came to a stop after driving over some stop sticks
that were deployed by police, which caused her semi truck

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to roll over layover. Duning then kicked out the window
of the truck and engaged in a struggle with officers
until she was eventually arrested. After the police chase and
multiple altercation, Doning was incarcerated. She was indicted on one
count each of fleeing in a vehicle from law enforcement

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with reckless indifference, fleeing d UI with injury, operating a
commercial vehicle while driving under the influence, and leaving the scene. Yeah,
she's looking at some hard time for all that. And
you don't put up a fight. I don't care who
you are. You don't put up a fight. You know

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what do you think you're gonna get away? Yeah? All right,
excuse me, Well, I take a drink. Can't drink coke
fast and two sentenced in this story after polase find

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one hundred and ten pounds of cocaine in a rig
parked at Ohio Service Plaza for an unusually long time.
Whatever gave you the first clue that something could be
the matter, That's what I gotta love. How long were

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they staking out the vehicle? Two men without legal status
in the US have been sentenced to prison. And connect
you with the scheme to use a semitruck to transport
illegal drugs Indian nationals. It's a sigh how you pronounced

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that sing? Thirty years old and another thing twenty five
were each sense to ten years in prison after pleading
guilty to possession with the tempt to distribute of a
controlled substance. According to the US Attorney's Office, this happened
back in twenty twenty three. Ohio State Patrol troopers and
US Border Patrol noticed that a semi truck parked for

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an unusually extended amount of time at a travel plaza
in Wood County off of I Too eighty. Officers checked
the truck's DOT number and learned that I had a
previous association where drug trafficking was therefore not authorized to
haul interstate commerce. In other words, they pulled the dot number.

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Police began surveilling the truck. The next day, officers noticed
that the truck had been relocated to another service plaza
along EYE to eighty or remained parked for another extended
period of time quote because authorities of the two. Because
the authorities observed the truck being stationary for a total

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of over twenty four hours at two different travel plazas.
They proceeded to contact the DEA to Ledo Field Office
for assistance. Agents then had a consensual encounter. That doesn'
sun right, does it? With the two defendants associated with
the truck. During the encounter, Singhi denied being parked at
the previous location where the truck was observed the day before,

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said the US Attorney's Office a consensual just never mind.
A Border Patrol canine was then deployed. The dog alerted
to the presence of drugs on the passenger side of
the truck. Probable cost search was then conducted. Once they
alert their ear assis Grass officers found several Duffel bags
filled with forty nine point nine point nine killing kilos

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of cocaine quote. Upon further investigation, the agents discovered the
defendants lack legal status in the US. They will be
subject to removal from the US upon the completion of
their sentences. This case was investigated by the DA Task
Force Toledo Field Office, in partnership with the Ohios. The

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Patrol blah blah blah blah blah. They always got to
get their kudos in there. So yeah, almost fifty pounds
miles of round it up and say fifty pounds of
coke bikidos fifty kilos of coke. So yeah, and up
next to truck drivers charged after a loaded semi truck

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rear ended four vehicles at a stop light, killing two
of the people that were stopped at a stop light.
He didn't just rear end them, according to now there again,
I can't show the video because YouTube guidelines and you know,
I have to get special permission, and on and on
and on and on with all the algorithms and everything.

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If I don't get special permission from the person who
did the video, I can't use it, so to show y'all.
But he didn't just rear end him. He plowed into him.
According to the video, they were stopped at a red light,
four vehicles and he wasn't paying attention and he plowed

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right into the back of him. He was charged with
manslaughter following a double fatality crash in Thomasville, Alabama. This
crash occurred on May sixth on southbound Highway forty three
at South Industrial Park Drive intersection at Thomasville. According to

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the local news, a loaded semi truck struck four vehicles
from behind that were stopped at a red light. Ashley
Marie Springer MacDonald thirty seven, Woody Earl Black the third
fifty three, both passed at the scene passed away. Four
other people were hospitalized with non life threatening injuries. The

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semi truck involved as owned by Chicago based the Number
four US Transportation Company. There are two men inside the
truck at the time to crash. This driver andre I
cannot pronounce it in de meettercoll forty five and then

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Kutcher thirty one. According to the police department, both men
were in the US. Uh, we're here on work visas.
He was booked at Clark County Jail. This gentleman here
and issued two counts of vehicular manslaughter. The case remains
under investigation and additional charges could be issued. And that

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was as a May sixth so I'm sure you know
the charges were done issued by now. There again, any
updates to any of these stories, as you saw with
the West Virginia car crash that I will be up
posting and updating here. And a driver is trapped by

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an active electrical hazard after crashing into a Starbucks. No,
he did did have a caffeine fit and needed a coffee.
He was actually having a medical emergency, so he could
have been having chest pains, heart asthma, maybe asthma tech
who knows coughing fit. Who knows, but because of how

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he crashed and he crashed into the building through the wall,
he broke all the wires and then he had live
electrical wires. They had to shut down the power to
the Starbucks before they could remove him from the cab.
Tires are actually best insulator. So the accident happened at
the Starbucks along Coast Highway on May seventh. This is

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San Diego, California. Truck driver suffered a medical event behind
the wheel, causing him to run a red light before
crashing through the wall of the Starbucks. The building sustained
significant damage and one employee was injured. The driver was
initially trapped inside of the truck, prevent first responders from

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reaching him safely. Once the power was cut, like I said,
to the building, the rescue teams were able to pull
him out. Both the truck driver and the Starbucks employee
were not seriously injured, but both were transported to the
hospital for care.

Speaker 1 (01:15:17):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
They're very lucky and thankful that there was no you know,
major injuries or anything to either one. Thank goodness. And
our last story for this week's episode one. It passed
in an unexplained three rigged chain reaction crash that happened

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in Maryland, and again just as a reminder, anybody traveling
along forty in Oklahoma, Arkansas, UH Fayetteville on up into
southern Missouri please be whether aware. Velocity at YouTube dot

(01:16:02):
com has play by play with the tornadoes and everything
minute by minute, what's going on, does the radar, does
the towns and how long you have? What's going on?
So definitely check him out. Back to the news. One

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driver has passed after an explained chain reaction crash on
I seventy in Maryland. This happened around six point thirty
in the morning. According to the local news. All three
commercial vehicles were traveling east on I seventy when a

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macwork truck crashed into the back of a semi. That
crash forced the semi into the back of a flatbed
semi hauling wooden roofing trusses, which scattered the material across
the roadway. Thirty eight year old drive the Mac truck,
mister Wilson, passed passed away at the scene of the crash,

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and no other injuries were reported. Crash block DICE seventy
at Maryland Route thirty two in West friendship as cruise
work to clear the spill load from the road. Excuse me,
try not to sneeze again. I don't know why I
do this on live streams. Traffic was detour until the
reopening of the interstate around eleven o'clock that morning. The

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cause of the accident, involving multiple semis, was still unexplained
at the time of the writing of this article. So
I do want to thank you again for joining me.

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Welcome all everybody that's new to the live stream. I
greatly appreciate you tuning in if you're on rewind there again.
Thank you so much for viewing the video. I had
the day off last week was my birthday. Not bragging,

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just saying this is why the show was running late.
I spent the week in New Mexico with my son
and his family, my grandson and my daughter in law.
So had a really good time. Got to take a break.
It's about a thirteen hour run in a car one
way from where I live all the way out to

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New Mexico. So I really had a great time. Thank
you everybody for understanding and until next time, keep the
shining side up. We'll see you next time. The chap.

Speaker 1 (01:19:05):
Up chap back out, you know, don't don't know that

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outside a