148. Trucking – Trucker And Family Rear Ended

In this episode of Julia's Trucking Cafe - Trucking News Hour, I discuss what happened to cause this trucker and his family to be rear ended in their semi truck. 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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Welcome to Julia's truck a Cafe Trucking News Hour. Another
week of lots and lots and lots of news going
on in the truck and industry like normal. Thank you
so much for joining me again. Sorry, it's been a
little bit lots of stuff going on personally as well

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as in the industry. As always, I have lots of
news to get to, so let's get right to it.
A trucker and his family is sent to the hospital
by rear end crash with an unlicensed truck driver. A
truck driver and his family retreated at a hospital after
a rear end crash was an unlicensed truck driver. This

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crash happened May eighteenth in Nash County, North Carolina, on
Interstate ninety five going south. According to the local news,
semi truck driven by twenty seven year old Marlin Patterson
crashed into the back of a mac semi truck with
a driver and his family inside on Interstate ninety five

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just before the rest stop in Dorches. The collision caused
vold the jackknife and separated the cab from the trailer quote.
Both vehicles came to rest to the southbound lanes of
I ninety five, blocking both lanes completely, says the North
Carolina Highway Patrol. Patterson was transported to a nearby hospital

(02:43):
with non life threatening injuries maining probably just you know,
cut scratch as bruises, this kind of thing. The truck
driver in the rear ended tractor trailer was taken to
the hospital as a precaution. His wife and three year
old child were also taken to the hospital for precautionary
medical evaluation. Possibly what I'm thinking could be whiplash, It

(03:07):
could be contusions, you know, bumps, bruises, scratches. It could
also make sure that they don't suffer from and my
brain went blank on what I'm thinking about as far
as you know, their head getting knocked around. As somebody
has to let me know what I'm the word I'm

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trying to use. It's just been a day, Patterson was
cighters for failure to reduce speed driving while license was revoked,
and not wearing a seatbelt. I ninety five were shut
down for about ten hours as the crews worked clean
up the wreckage. No further information was released as far
as the any kind of life threatening but precautionary. The

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word I was trying to think of it just came
to me is concussion. Make sure they didn't have a cancussion,
especially a three year old, little baby like that. And
in this story, a trucker is hauling honeybees. He calls
on a local fire department to calm the insects down
while he's changing a flat tire on the side of

(04:17):
the road. A truck driver hauling honeybees calls on firefighters
to help him with the insects as he tries to
change a flat tire. This happened May sixteenth, again in
North Carolina on Interstate ninety five again. According to the
local news, the truck, the Semi, was hauling one hundred
and thirty pallets. That's a lot of bee hives when

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the rig got a flat tire in about eighty degree weather.
As the trucker went to change the tire. He realizes
the honey bees were becoming agitated in the heat and
called firefighters to help cool the insects down. Quote. In
order for the flat tire to re replace, the bees
had to be calmed down, and that is where our

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park came in, said the Gaston Fired Rescue, who wrote
a post on social media. We burst. We use bursts
of water in a fog pattern to help cool the hives,
which in turn calmed down the bees. The truck driver
was able to change the flat tire on the semi
once the bees were calmer and cooler. No one was

(05:22):
hurt in this incident, and the bees were able to
complete their journey to New York for the summer. Talk
about migrating one hundred and thirty palace of bees across country, well,
at least up the Eastern seaboard anyway, that's very unusual.
I have been at a truck stop after a semi

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has been done fueling in the fuel islands and bees
that have gotten away and there you would think that
they would be in their own bee hive, you know,
come back to the hive. Oh no, no, no, no,
they turn around and sliding. This is my microphone, so No,

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it's not what you think it is. This is my
my Yetti microphone here, so keep your mind clean. I'm
just adjusting it. Anyway. You would think back to the bees,
you would think that they would, you know, go back
to their hive. No, they were, you know, buzzing around.

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They were, you know, the truck took off. They're like, yeah,
I'm sure the bees were the go oh crap, you know,
where's my hive, where's my home? It's gone, well, you know,
and come back here kind of thing. And they stayed.
They stayed at the truck stop and ended up making
hives up underneath the awning at the fuel islands. This

(06:47):
was in Oklahoma. I saw that. So that was really unique.
And in this story, our two were accused of stealing
two hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars worth of apple
products from a truck in motion on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Two people have been charged a connection with an alleged

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cargo heist that recently took place on what I call
the PA Pike. Lorenzo twenty four and Gabriel thirty eight
are facing charges of theft and conspiracy and reckless endangerment
and connection with the theft of two hundred and eighty
seven thousand, seven and thirty seven dollars worth of Apple merchandise,

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according to the Pennsylvania State Police charging documents obtained by
the local news, driver picked up a load of Apple
watches and MacBooks in Carlisle. The load was secured with
a bolt seal and GPS tracker was installed in the load.
That's pretty normal. Truck driver made his way to the
PA Pike. After getting onto the turnpike, a box truck

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and a sedan went in front of the semi and
forced the driver to break hard. Another vehicle following closely
behind the semi with his headlights off even though it
was dark. When the truck driver pulled off at the
travel plaza in Taylor Township, he noticed that the trailer's
seal was broken and that the GPS tracker was unsecured.

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He said, the end not stops is picking up the
load in Carlisle. The truck driver contacted the Pennsylvania Police.
State Police troopers observed the open palace inside the trailer
were able to obtain dash cam footage from a stationary
patrol car showing the victim's semi driving on the turnpike
with the doors open and items falling out of the trailer.

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The video also showed the vehicle with no headlights following
closely behind, as well as a white van driving next
to the victim's truck. Why didn't the driver see all this?
I understand that it's dark out, and again I mean this.
They must have sat at that apple warehouse. They must

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have schemed all this out to have four vehicles, two
in the front, one beside, one in the back. The
two in the front were making him break hard. The
van had somebody had to climb, you know, while he's moving,
because he didn't pull over while he's moving on the turnpike.

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They use bolt cutters to cut the bolt, and those
are encased in rubber, and it's pretty hard. You gotta
have some muscles, because I've tried to pull a you know,
cut them seals myself, and even with long handled bolt cutters,
they're really hard to cut.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
Or or.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
A grinder would have been another thing. Electric grinder not
in so much of bolt cutters and cut off that seal.
Open the door, Get inside, unless it's a roll up door.
Get inside the trailer. Know what palets to go through
to find you know, the tablets or watches or whatever.

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You know, they were hunting and then start throwing them
out all why the semi is moving. You can't make
this stuff up. It's better than the movies. Anyways, back
to the article. UM troopers were able to identify the
suspect vehicles and tracked them down to a store in
Perry County where they had been abandoned. By using surveillance

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video from the business as well as social media, phone records,
and with the assistance from US Immigration and Customs informants,
troopers were able to identify the two suspects. The two
men were taking into custody and they're awaiting a hearing,
which I'm sure they had their hearing by the time
I'm recording this video, so at least, you know, he

(10:47):
had to wear withal to you know, check his load
and everything and turn around and call state police. Just crazy.
This is the stuff people that This is why I
report on the news. This is the crazy stuff that's
happening in the truck and industry. You cannot make this
stuff up. You really can't. So in this story, a

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Cape Coral cops seeking a semi truck and driver responsible
for four hundred thousand dollars worth of property damage. Cape
Coral Police Department is asking for public help and locating
a semi truck drive and driver responsible for downing several
power lines and dragging parked cars on May eighteenth. This

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happened about eight thirty in the morning. Responded to Tropicana
Parkway and Northeast Fifth Avenue, and I believe Tropicana is
right there, if I'm not mistaken the Orange Juice Company.
After receiving reports of a loud collision followed by power outage,

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police discovered significant property damage, including six down six now
one to six down power poles and power lines affecting
multiple blocks in the area. Several park vehicles were dragged
across yards and numerous fences were damaged. Again, you can't

(12:22):
make this up. The Traffic Homicide investigator of Property times
to detectives responded to the scene at Cape Coral quote.
Preliminary investigation indicates that a large commercial semi trucks druck
a utility line and continue continued traveling westbound. I'll talk

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right in a second on traffic on up Parkway, dragging
the lines behind him. The damage extended across multiple homes
and vehicles, and the driver of the semi truck fled,
of course, fled the scene. The cost of the property
damage they estimate four hundred thousand dollars. That's just an estimation.

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The suspect vehicles described as a semi truck with a
yellow cab and a white refrigerated reefer trailer. The portion
of the trailer's roof was torn off and recovered on
Tropicanic Parkway just west of the initial crash site. The
truck was lastly traveling northbound on Burnt Store Road. Anyone

(13:24):
with the information is asked to call the local police. Hopefully,
by my next episode they have found the guy. But
the picture that you see here is the truck that
you know before all this happened. That's a similar truck
to that kind of a Freightliner's the old style freightliner conventional.

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Any information, you're asked to call the Coral Police Department.
You can call them at two three nine five seven
four three two two three Again. That number is two
three nine five seven four two three or excuse excuse
me five seven. Let's do that again. Two three nine
five seven four three two two three. Reference case number

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twenty five DASH zero zero nine six four five. The
case number again two five dash zero zero nine six
four five if you were in Cape Coral anytime around
the morning of May eighteenth, around eight thirty in the
morning on Tropicana Parkway or Northeast Fifth Avenue. Any information

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and South Carolina County bans semis parking in any residential areas.
Officials in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, recently passed in ordinance
prohibiting drivers from parking their rigs in neighborhoods late April
twenty twenty five. And remember, if you're a listener too

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much that I have talked about it. Then the Orangeburg
City Council County Council passed in organs to prohibit truck
parking in residential areas after receiving complaints from the residents.
The prohibit parking vehicles used for commercial purposes in a
residential district within the unincorporated boundaries of Orangeburg County for

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more than an hour. In all residential, single family districts,
any vehicle over two tons used for commercial construction or
industrial purposes is prohibited for parking, and less of vehicles
actively involved in its intended purpose, meaning you're delivering you're
picking up a load this kind of thing. Officials say
that the Residential Truck Parking Band was inactive for the

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following purposes. Now it doesn't matter if you live there.
If you live in Orangeburg area, you still can't park
your rig there. You have to a lot of time.
In South Carolina, they have paid for parking truck stops
where you could pay by the day, pay by the week,

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pay by the month, and reserve spots that you can
reserve a spot for parking. So the officials say the
reason why they enacted this is oneing to protect children
from unnecessary high potential of being subject to injuries caused
by the blind spots. Two to protect property values and

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character of the property within residential areas, meaning because the
trucks are so heavy, they ride away and they don't
use the best asphalt. They don't use a real good
quality asphalt. It's not really thick. So that's where you
get the ruts and you get the sinkholes and everything,
because when asphalt gets hot and with that weight, it
come packs and you get your rout cever in this

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kind of thing. Three to minimize physical damage. To publicly
maintain rights of way, to reduce parking congestions. Another one
to eliminate visual blight created by large commercial vehicles being
indiscriminately parked the residential areas. Visual blight. What they're talking
about you can't see around them. Well, you're trying to

(17:10):
back out of a driveway and you've got a semi
parked right next to your driveway. You can't see around
them that there's somebody's coming down the street if you
want to back out, drive out of your driveway. You
know this this type of thing, So you know a
lot of it's just safety purposes. And a heavy wrecord

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towing big rig causes eleven vehicle pile up, killing one
and injuring eight. Now this story, I don't know how
I missed it, but this happened, and I'll pass all.
And this happened back early part of May. Heavy wreckers

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toying a big rig and crap into a line of cars,
causing a mash casualty event in El Paso. This happened
before six point thirty in the morning, and according to
the local news, a heavy wrecker was towing a semi
truck when the record driver was unable to stop for traffic,

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causing a collision with multiple other vehicles. The heavy wrecker
then caught on fire. A total of eleven vehicles were
involved in this accident. One person was killed of the
crash and eight others were transported to the hospital. There again,
I can't it says. Video of the accident shows multiple

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cars severely damaged and a large fiery blaze that could
be seen from behind a nearby building. The l Passo
Fire was called to the accident a mass casually incident.
The cause of the crash was still under investigation at
the time of the writing of that article. Now update

(18:58):
to this is that a son, sure, I got it

(19:19):
right now, A son is filing a lawsuit after his
dad was burned alive in the cab of this wreckor
so the son of the driver who was burned alive

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in the cab of this heavy wrecker as his own
rig was being told, has filed a lawsuit against the
wrecker company. That it happened, and that accident happened on
May eighth, and like I said, Il Passel, the truck driver,
sixty five year old Aldo Jenkins, was riding in the
passenger seat of a nineteen ninety four Kenworth wrecker as

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it towed his mister Jenkins, disabled semi twenty eight year
old record driver allegedly did not break as he approached
the intersection of Loop three seventy five in North Desert Boulevard,
causing the heavy wrecker and the toad semi to smash
into eleven other vehicles. The heavy wrecker then caught fire

(20:24):
and Jenkins was burned alive, as reported by the law
firm that the son hired. Seven other people were injured
in the crash. Now I don't understand was he trapped inside?
He doesn't really say in the article. You know, he
refused to break, so that was definitely ahead on collision,

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but that wrecker sits up high so and with towing
the other vehicle, I don't. I just don't know. The
suit of legends that the driver's negligen it's a careless
disregard for his duty as a safe driver to profit
led to the death of Jenkins. The suit accuses the
driver of speeding, failing to maintain a safe distance, allow

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himself to be distracted, probably by on the phone electronic device,
and consciously disregarding the serious risks in doing those things.
The suit holds Sheffield Towing Service responsible for the rectree
by failing to develop, implement, and enforce safety policies regarding
operating a tow truck, as well as policies regarding driver

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distraction through the use of electronic devices. So that's why
when you're a driver and your company has these safety
videos and this kind of thing about distracted driving, and
how do you have to watch them? And this is
the reason why. So it covers their butts in case

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they ever get sued. Pree gotta flyway here. And this
truck got stuck, and he faced a fine of tw
three and forty seven dollars for getting stuck in smuggler's notch.
Now where snugglers Snugglers Smugglers notch? Do you say? It's

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in Cambridge, Vermont, So it's way up in the woods.
State Police responded to a stuck truck if I could
talk that blocked Smugglers notch, not snugglers, not Snuggy, Smugglers notch.
Shortly after eleven am on the nineteenth of May, troopers
responded to a smuggler's notch at the town of Cambridge,

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Vermont for a reported stuck truck. Quote investigating the investigation
revealed the operator Moosa Boima, thirty six, of Maryland, was
traveling from Waterbury to Ensburg when he chose to disregard
several signs stating semis were prohibited and decided to drive

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around the barricades that were installed at the entrance of
Notch Road. He claimed he saw a sign telling him
he could drive through bs. That's just to keep his
butt out of trouble. Local news reports excuse me that
the first semi truck to get stuck in Smugglers Notch

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since the roadway reopened for the season, this guy was
the first one. It was closed for approximately three hours
while a tow truck operator worked to recover the semi.
He was issued a traffic ticket for driving on lanes
for traffic. The trucking company that this guy works for
was cited for a tractive trailer in the notch, which

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carries a fine of two thousand, three hundred and forty
seven dollars. Has stated stuck trucks in Smuggler's Notch have
become such a problem that last year the Vermont Agency
of Transportation Department of Transportation because system a consisting of
orange barrels and curves designed to stop semis and other
oversized vehicles and force them to turn around and thus

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prevent any attempt to continue driving. Well, you know when
you go around the barricades and everything, you know it
this is so yeah, so he was, and as you
can see here, he is so stuck trying to get
around this curve that that's marshy kind of shoulder and

(24:32):
the shoulders really soft. So with the weight of the
reefer and the contents of the trailer and everything, that
he just got bogged down and he could move and
if you try to rock yourself out, you're just sinking
further and further. And that marshy kind of swampy foresty

(24:52):
stuff because you know, it's moss and everything is real soft.
And up next a truck driver is a trucker is
found impaled on rebar under I thirty five bridge after
police impound his rig. Now, for younger people that don't

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know what rebar is, it is steel rod that is
almost twisted on the outside that they used as a
foundation in concrete. So it could be like greenbar made
out a screen, or it could be you know, for
bridge pillars. That's what they encased the concrete in for

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being sturdy. And this driver was impaled one went through
him on in a construction zone on I thirty five.
A truck driver was rushed to the hospital after his
was found impaid on reebar at a construction site under

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Interstate thirty five. This happened in Houston. Truck driver was
found by a construction worker about four in the afternoon
on the nineteenth of May at a work site under
I thirty five northbound and Second Street. According to the
local news, the truck driver had been stopped by Oklahoma
Highway Patrol trooper. Oh, I'm sorry, my bad. Pick that

(26:26):
back was in Houston. It was Oklahoma. It doesn't say
here in the article where exactly it was. My bad,
I misspoke. It was Oklahoma, Edmund Oklahoma. During that stop,
the driver had forgotten the parking brick on a semi truck,

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causing the rig to roll into the patrol car. The
trooper then impounded the driver's semi and it had it
towed away. Does it give any reason why? Does not
give any reason why besides forgeting to set the parking brake.
If the driver was inebriated, they just impounded it rigged.
They didn't arrest him and let him walk this. This

(27:10):
doesn't make any sense. I tried to investigate it further
and couldn't find anything else out about it. The truck
driver left the scene on foot. Huh does this make
any sense to you? Doesn't make any sense to me.
Later that day, a construction worker found a driver impaled
on the rebar at the work site and called nine

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to one one. Edmund Fire Department cut the rebar and
transported him to the hospital, where he was brought into surgery.
Truck driver was not public identified, his current condition was
not released. He didn't not known if he fell off
I thirty five or he jumped. But that's why I

(27:58):
don't the story doesn't make any sense. I've reported been
doing news now seven years. I've been doing this podcast,
and all of the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
stories that I've reported on, this one makes the least
amount of sense. It really does. I'm sorry. I just

(28:24):
I'll try to investigate it further, time permitting, and if
I get any kind of update or anything, I'll definitely
let you know. But this story just doesn't make any
sense at all. Why would Oklahoma impound the guy's truck
just for not setting his parking break and then let
the guy walk. I don't get it. Usually they'll impound

(28:51):
the truck because you know, drugs or the guy was drinking,
or they found drugs in the back or something like that.
That they would also arrest the driver, not let the
driver walk. So I don't get it. And in this story,

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a police arrested driver who knocked out a homeowner who
was yelling at him for using the homeowner's property as
a turnaround. A truck driver is facing assault charge just
after he knocked out a homeowner yelling at him for
using his property to turn his semi truck around. This
happened May fourteenth as Suskaona Trail in Pennsylvania. According to

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witnesses at the scene, thirty one year old truck driver
Brandon Hargraves was using private property as a turnaround with
his semi truck when the property owner came out to
yell at him. The property owner then went back inside
returned to the yard with a firearm in his waistband. Well,
you know, if the guy saying, you know, get out

(29:57):
of my way, I'm going to do this anyway, and
this kind of thing, you know, you get hot headed.
He never brandished the weapon or anything. He kept it
in his waistband property did not A property owner, like
I said, did not draw the weapon, but he did
engage in a verbal argument. Hargraves eventually punched the owner
in the face. You're trespassing. You're using somebody's private property

(30:23):
as a turnaround because your buck got lost following a
GPS probably Google maps on your dog on phone, and
you're gonna punch somebody in the face. Really. After the knockout,
Hargraves got back into his rig and he drove off.
He was eventually stopped by troopers on Interstate eighty three.
You're you know, doesn't matter the mile marker, He told troopers.

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He did not recall punching me the man in the
face and did not know he had the guy had
been knocked out, but did admit to backhanding him. He
said he felt scared, so he laughed. Please. Hargroves told
police he was being followed by an SUV after the incident,
and that stated that the STUV tried to run into
him and disable his rig. Motorists in the SCUV later

(31:09):
told police that he editors try to stop the truck
driver because he thought he was fleeing the scene of
a crime. Good for the SUV guy. Hargraves was arrested
in charge with aggravated assault. This is all of times
I get so angry that I have to walk away
so I don't do the same thing to somebody acting
stupid and giving me attitude and everything. You just get

(31:31):
so angry that they won't listen to you. That the
only thing stopping me is getting charged with assault, because
a lot of times I just want to bitch slap somebody.
Hargrave was arrested in charge with aggravated assault, simple salt,
reckless endangerment, and accident involving a damaged attended vehicle. He's
since posted an eighty thousand dollars bound which you only

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get ten percent about a grand. He's scheduled for a
preliminary hearing on June thirtieth. I will keep you apprized
of that situation. It's ongoing situation, and up next, USDOT
vows to take action to uphold English language requirements for

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truck drivers. Secretary of Transportation Shawn Duffy promised to support
the trucking industry by acting to enforce English Language Proficiency
ELP that I've been talking about for the last few
episodes requirements for commercial vehicle drivers at the direction of
President Trump's administration. During a pressive event in Austin, Texas

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on May twentieth, Duffy was joined by trucking industry stakeholders,
INCLUDINGIDA and the Texas Trucking Association to emphasize the US
Department of Transportations commitment in upholding in April twenty eighth
White House Executive order requiring increased enforcement of existing regulations
requiring that commercial drivers speak and read English, Duffy announce

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official rescinding of twenty sixteen policy that removed that requirement
to place drivers out of service for those violations. Duffy
stated that in twenty fifteen, before the Obama era ELP
policy was issued, approximately ninety nine thousand English language proficiency
violations were issued, and that a thousand of those drivers

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were taken out of service, meaning you couldn't drive, can't
talk English, can't drive in this country. Duffy said that
in twenty twenty four, only ten thousand dollars ten thousand
ELP violations were issued and zero drivers were placed out
of service for so in nine years, the difference from
ninety nine thousand and one thousand drivers were taken out

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of service to ten thousand and no drivers were taken
out of service, Thanks Daddy Joel. Quote that's not going
to happen anymore. We're going to put safety first, Duffy said.
Allowing drivers who couldnot read stop signs or understand police
officers instructions to operate an eighty thousand pound rig threatens

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the safety of every American on our road ways. I
completely concur Duffy announced the USDOT should issue new guidance
to ensure quote, a driver who can't understand English will
not drive a commercial vehicle in this country, period full stop.
Duffy highlighted other actions that USDOT is undertaking in order

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to comply with the executive order, including a review of
non domicile commercial driver's licenses issued by relevant state agencies
and an investigation into the security procedures of how CDLs
are given out. Duffy like, we were talking about the
officer in Massachusetts that was bribed with all this kind

(34:49):
of stuff for passing people that couldn't even pass the
dog on written exam, highway test or anything else. And
he was bribing. Yeah, he go so Duffy also noted
the Executive Orders directive to improve working conditions for truckers
and mentioned increasing truck parking availability as a pobossible action

(35:13):
in that direction. Oh IDA President Todd Spencer also spoke
at the event and support of the increased ELP enforcement, quote,
this is a good day for truck drivers. I'm sorry,
I just don't believe in oh Ida. I really don't.
They haven't done crap for me. You know, they're all
big in this legislation and this kind of thing. Had

(35:35):
an interview with them, you know, several minute interview they
did like ten seconds. They only aired like ten seconds
of my interview with Landline magazine. Yeah, I look that up.
But that's been a year ago, two years ago. And
it's and he also says, and it's a good day

(35:56):
for common sense out on the road. There's no margin
for error. Truckers drive at eighty thousand pounds vehicle through
all kinds of terrains, steep mountain passes, narrow turns, busy streets.
The only thing separating safe trips from deadly ones can
be a simple road sign like low bridges, or don't
go on this mountain pass, or stay out of smugglers

(36:18):
not okay, or use a dog on runaway ramp, or
you know, you need to be down shifting, and this
kind of thing when you're going down the step mountain
grade like out of Denver that killed you know, four
people because he couldn't understand English either and couldn't read

(36:40):
the road signs and never been out of the state
of Texas. And they threw them out. And now one
Colorado would veil and all the heavy mountain ranges. And
that was a twenty seven year old Mexican. And back
to the story. These signs are suggestions, they're warnings. They
save lives, but only if they're understood. That's why English

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proficiency behind the wheel isn't some bureaucratic equipment or requirement.
It's life a death safety standard. Truckers must be able
to read road signs, communicate with law enforcement, and respond
in emergencies. When that doesn't happen, people get hurt. But
for nearly a decade, enforcement of this requirement was gutted.

(37:23):
The result safety violations didn't go away, they just stopped
being tracked so and hilacious accidents occur, killing a bunch
of people that probably didn't even need to happen at
all to begin with. So anyway, let's go on a

(37:44):
funnier thing. Check it out Ford tough. Ford driver issued
five citations for moving a mobile home with his Ford
Explorer I think a motors attempt to haul a mobile
home in jop Li, Missouri resulted in state police issuing
multiple citations. According to the local news outlet, this happened

(38:07):
on May sixteenth. Oh, I'm sorry, Ford expedition bigger than
explorer pulling a full size mobile home in the Joplin area. Well,
it doesn't look like it's the best condition. The out
reports of the mobile home Hall was sidelined by a
tire issue. After the tire issue was fixed and the
mobile home was back on the road, the Ford broke down.

(38:29):
It was at this point that's the commercial Vehicle inspectors
with the Missouri State Patrol arrived on the scene. Of course,
driver couldn't get away with it. Then the driver of
the Ford was reportedly issued five citations for various issues,
including width and length violations. And you didn't have overside

(38:50):
load signs, and your expedition isn't a gross vehicle wait
heavy enough to pull that mobile home? Or were you
under the impression that it was an RB that would
pull behind RV. You see how it's squatting. So yeah,

(39:15):
that's that's redneck hillbilly thinking for you. You have to chuckle,
you have to chuckle into his industry. And let's see.
Dash cam shows a dump truck driver crashes into the

(39:37):
home while he has having a seizure. I'm not gonna
show that video. It's just you see what happened. A
dump truck driver lost control and collided with a home
in accident in New Jersey shortly after one thirty in
the afternoon. Police were dispatched to the residential area in
Woodbury Heights in New Jersey. Excuse me, I knows it

(40:00):
after a commercial dump truck loader was sand left the roadway,
struck a telephone pole, and then crashed into the house.
Dumb truck came to rest embedded inside the home, and
it took rescue crews about two hours to free the driver.
Residents in the home was transported to the hospital for evaluation.
Woodberry Police Department said that the truck driver was believed

(40:21):
to have suffered a medical emergency. Charles Zilov told the
local news that the truck driver suffered a Grandma seizure
behind the wheel. So yeah, I'm not going to I
hope that driver is okay, you know, I hope he
didn't pass there. Again, it does not state if he

(40:44):
did or did not pass, And fed say that the
truck truck parking shortage is what led to this triple
fatality crash on I seventy of this Greyhound. So again,
if you remember from last episode, if you happen to

(41:05):
watch it on YouTube, thank you so much. And that
a this Greyhound bus left I seventy to pull into
a rest area. He side swiped three different trucks that
were parked on the shoulder. He crashed into the back
of one kind of like bounced off and you could

(41:28):
see the damage here. The passengers were inside this bus
was not empty, and then hit two other vehicles. So
the National Transportation Safety Board released findings from their investigation
into this. This happened at twenty twenty three, involving the
semi trucks parked along the exit ramp. This report was

(41:52):
released the twentieth of May. They appointed to the driver fatigue,
inadequate company oversight, and a lack of safe safe truck
parking causes of a high profile multi vehicle crash on
I seventy in Highland, Illinois. This happened in July. The
accident happened in July of twenty twenty three as the Greyhound,

(42:13):
as I mentioned, left the roadway. I'm not going to
go into that. Safety issues raised by the investigation their
conclusions were motor coach driver fatigue, deficient driver overside by Greyhound,
including lack of a progressive discipline policy, lack of adequate
record keeping, and lack of policies for implementing driver monitoring

(42:37):
systems meaning they didn't have onboard driver facing camera that
he was getting drowsy or possibly weaving, we don't know,
Insufficient federal guidance on safety management, driver coaching and fatigue mitigation,
lack of seatbelt use by the passengers. Crash rists from
lack of truck parking availability along that stretch of road.

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As a result of the investigation, Transportation Board plans to
issue eleven new recommendations and two reiterated recommendations to the
US Department of Transportation and the FMCSA, Greyhound Lines, the
National Coalition on Truck Parking, American Bus Association, and United
Motor Coach Association. Yeah, think you got enough red tape

(43:23):
in there. The Transportation Board will also reiterate two safety
recommendations previously issued to the FMCSA, which, of course is
the government, and they take forever to do anything about
just my personal opinion, but we all know it's true.
And here we just got done talking about commercial drivers

(43:49):
having to know English and be able to read signs
and be able to understand the English language. So the
FMCSA is introducing a two step process to determine truck
drivers English language proficiency. Okay, now I've heard rumor that
if you can't read Dick and Jane, Dick throws ball

(44:13):
to Jane this simple, simple, simple second grade English language
book that yeah, you're not driving a truck. That's just rumor.
The Federal FMCSA Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shared updated
guidance for law enforcement on how do you evaluate whether

(44:34):
a commercial driver semi driver is sufficiently fluent in English
to avoid a citation or being put out of service?
President Trump there again, So I'm going to skip down
to we know about the executive order, bloody, bloody blah.
And the FMCSA released an internal memo that provided guidance

(44:54):
to law enforcement personnel and how to evaluate weather. Drivers
meet this English l language proficiency requirement while conducting inspections,
establishing the following two step language assessment process, which is
effective immediately. Driver interview, Highway traffic sign recognition assessment. Okay,

(45:16):
So the driver interview is determining a driver's ability to
respond sufficiently to official inquiries. Okay. Quote. The inspector should
evaluate the driver's ability to respond sufficiently to official inquiries
and directions in English as required by forty nine CFR.

(45:38):
Because the driver interview is a means of establishing the
driver's ability to respond to officer inquiries by speaking English sufficiently,
the inspector should inform the driver that the driver should
respond to the inspector in English, not me no no English,
me no, me only Espanol or whatever language it has

(46:01):
to be in English. Tools to facilitate this communication, such
as interpreters, I speak cards, QUE cards, smartphone applications, and
on call telephone interpretation service should not be used during
this driver interview. So you can't go to your phone
and immen and have a translate for you. You have

(46:23):
to say it, as those tools may mask a driver's
in ability to communicate in English. If the inspector officer
determines the drivers unable to respond to official inquiries in
English sufficiently, it is the policy of Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration that the inspector cite the driver for violation

(46:46):
of forty nine CFR. There is no need to progress
to step two. Okay, interview, you can't speak English, You're
put out a service. If the inspector determines that the
driver is unable to respond sufficiently to official inquiries, allutline,
it's step one of the English Language proficiency assessment. If

(47:11):
he can okay, if he can broken English, this kind
of thing, this is just just me speculating here, then
you could go on to step two of this assessment.
Step two is the highway traffic sign recognition meaning, you know,
show them stop sign, yield sign, left turn, no turn,

(47:32):
no U turn, you know, like we did when we
were taking our written tests for getting our driver's license. Okay,
And this determines the driver's ability to understand sufficiently United
States highway traffic signs, including changeable signs in the English language.
The inspector should evaluate the driver's ability to understand sufficiently

(47:56):
US highway traffic signs by conducting a highway traffic sign
assessment to include highway traffic signs that conform to the
Federal Highway Administration Manual. Like I said, like we learned,
or electronic display changeable or dynamic message signs the driver
may encounter while operating a commercial motor vehicle. Now, what

(48:16):
that means is those big lighted highway signs road closed ahead,
one lane, traffic ahead, wind blowing ahead, possible snowstorm, you
know tonight, icy road conditions, you know, fogg aler, this
kind of thing in the lit up overhead highway signs.

(48:38):
What they're speaking about there. Memo requires that officers document
evidence to support this English language proficiency violation, including the
driver's responses or lack of responses, place the driver immediately,
as I said, out of service for violation of English
language requirements, and, when warranted, initiating an action to disqualify

(49:01):
the driver from operating a motor vehicle, putting them out
of service and jerking his license or permit or whatever.
The MEMBI provides an exemption for drivers operating commercial motor
vehicles in commercial zones along the US Mexico border, noting
that these drivers should be cited for English language proficiency violations,

(49:21):
but not placed out of service or disqualified from operating
a commercial vehicle. So if they're on the US Mexico border, Okay,
they're coming up from Mexico, let's say, and you're Laredo,
l Paso, someplace like that. They're just bringing in a
trailer to take it to one of these places that

(49:44):
is at what it called a crosstock. So it's just
a building with an awning with a bunch of docks.
It looks like almost like a l or a t.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
So.

Speaker 2 (49:54):
And then you'd have you know, they come in and
there's there's docks along here. They're just gonna drop the
trailer to pick it up and empty. They're going right
back to Mexico. That's not who they're talking about. They're
talking about drivers that work here in this country, okay,
have been working in this country, or like out of California,

(50:16):
out of Arizona, out of New Mexico, wherever. All right, Texas,
and they come into the country and they're going to
New York, or they're going to Michigan or up north
or you know, Washington State. They're traveling more than just
hopping across the border just into El Paso on them
back excuse me, ugh and uh tickling. So they're they're

(50:49):
those are the ones that are after that are driving
cross country like that. So those are the ones that
they're after with this, as I mentioned. So enough about that.
I took home quite a few minutes. Sorry, that's quite
so longyeops and up next to truck driver is sentenced

(51:18):
to four years in prison for shooting at a second
truck driver on the Ohio Turnpike in a road rage incident.
A truck driver will end up in four years in
prison for a road rage shooting involving another driver on
the Ohio Turnpike. This road rage incident happened back in
July last year on the Ohio Turnpike near Interstate seventy

(51:42):
six near Austin Town, Ohio. The twenty eight year old
truck driver, Curtis Brooks of Dallas, Georgia, was sentenced on Wednesday,
the twenty first. According to the local news, Brooks is
driving doesn't matter. I was driving a semi when he
fired shots and another truck driver and another No one
was heard in this incident, but Brooks was charge of

(52:03):
felonious assault tampering with evidence and discharging a firearm on
the open highway. March of twenty twenty five, he pled
guilty to assault and was sentenced three to four years
in prison for the road rage incident. This so was
sentencing was just in May. He was pled guilty at
his hearing in March, and then he wasn't sentenced till

(52:24):
two months later. And it was also part of a
plea deal. So he pled guilty and part of the
plea deal, then he got four years. And a truck
driver is killed after crashing into the Death Valley National
Park building and they're saying that it is a break malfunction.

(52:48):
Officials say that a break issue is the likely cause
of a fatal semi truck crash that occurred in the
California National Park on May twentieth, and Death Valley semi
truck traveling on California one ninety between Stovepipe Wells and
Town Pass veered off the roadway and collided with the
Immigrant Ranger station. Show you a picture that here there

(53:15):
it is. Sorry, you're not supposed to see the red lines. Uh,
you didn't see that. The driver the truck died as
a result of the crash man. He must have been flying.
And that is a rock building and that's you know,
quite old, as you know, back in the early eight

(53:36):
late eighteen hundreds, nineteen hundreds, those kind of buildings were built.
The National Park Service stated that the brake malfunction was suspected.
California one ninety has steep grades and semi trucked brakes
were were on fire or I'm sorry. The National Park

(53:56):
Service is saying that this highway has steep grades and
that semi truck breaks have caught fire. Let me rephrase
that frequently in that area. They remind truck drivers that
commercial trucks are not advised to go on CAA one
ninety two to those steep grades, and that commercial trucks
are prohibited on other roads within the Death Valley National Park.

(54:19):
Immigrant Ranger Station was built, like I said, back in
the nineteen thirties and has historical significance for being the
location where rangers. Stan Jones wrote Ghost Riders in the
Sky in nineteen forty seven, the song that the Highwaymen recorded.
Highwayman men being Chris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Whaling, Jennings, Uh,

(54:44):
there was another guy. I can't think who else was
in the highwayman, So if you want to leave that
in the comments, it was Chris krostofficer and Johnny Cash
Whaling Jennings, Willie Nelson, Willy Nelson. Sorry, my brain, senior moment.
My brain has parts from time to again. The crash

(55:05):
closed a roadway for twenty two hours as a sodium
sulfate cargo and diesel fuel spill necessitated a hazmat team
to respond. So the Stan Jones, who I didn't know,
wrote that song Ghostwriters in the Sky back in nineteen
forty seven that, like I said that the highwaymen did

(55:25):
re record you can. I'm sure you could find that
on YouTube and up next. The roadside check results in
twelve truck inspections and forty one violations. Troopers of the

(55:46):
California Highway Patrol found dozens of violations during this two
day blitz. The inspection checkpoint was held on May twentieth
at Tenant Avenue and Murphy Avenue in Morgan Hill, California.
Troopers from the Gilroy Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Facility Mobile Unit

(56:07):
manned the inspection checkpoint, yielding to following results. Okay, before
I get to that, got in by coffee and see
my cup's invisible. You hold it up so high and
then it goes invisible in it cale and what it
says to my cup is a fun thing to do
in the morning, is not talk to me till I
had to least a cup. So twelve commercial vehicles or

(56:34):
some of the results forty one violations. Four commercial vehicles
were placed out of service, two commercial vehicles with multiple
out of service violations. Seven fix it tickets issued for
equipment defects. You know, a light being out, brake light's
not working, it could possibly be a fuse. Change the fuse,

(56:54):
You're good to go. Tire being low, you know this
kind of thing. Out of service violations include plat tires,
unsecured heavy construction equipment. Was it chained down properly? Not
enough chains used on it? Unsecured hazardous materials they weren't
load locked down, massive air loss in the brake system.
You got a valve leaking, they're going those auto inflators

(57:18):
could be leaking on tires, and improper securement of a trailer.
That's just some of the violations that were found. And
up next to Arkansas trooper finds eighty six pounds of
cocaine thirty six pounds of fentanyl during an I forty

(57:39):
tractor trailer semi stop. The Arkansas State Police sees more
than one hundred pounds of illegal drugs as the result
of a traffic stop a semi trailer on I forty
shortly before two pm on May nineteenth, and Arkansas State
Patrol troopers stopped the commercial truck on I forty eastbound

(58:00):
at mile mark or seventy five. During the traffic stop,
the troop were located and seized four boxes from the
cab of the truck that contained fifteen kilos equivalent to
thirty six pounds of fentanyl and thirty five kilos equivalent
to eighty six pounds of cocaine. Course based out of California,

(58:22):
and he was fifty six years old, mister Bell was
arrested in charge with twenty one council possession with intent
to distribute cocaine and twenty one council possession to intent
to distribute fentanyl. He remains in the US Drugget Enforcement
Administration custody. According to Bell, was traveling from Los Angeles

(58:45):
to Memphis excuse me when the traffic stop occurred, removing
over thirty six pounds of fentanyl from our communities will
save an untold number of lives because just just get this,
just a little bit, like the head of a pin
of fentanyl can kill you. It is like cocaine that

(59:10):
is high. It's so addicting that just the head of
a pin can kill you. And they cut it. They
cut the coke. Now, oh they moved up from rat poison,
they moved up to fentanyl to make it so damn addicting.
They just need just a little little bit. Where's the

(59:33):
ConA from? Where do you think China? Our top priority,
according to Arkansas, is protected lives. Seizures like this should
serve as a worry to anyone transporting. They don't care
because the one truck that you catch, you got ten
more right behind him. Honestly, I mean, like I said,

(59:55):
for eight seven years, I've been seven and a half years,
I've been reporting every week. Every week, truck's getting pulled
in and everything with you know, getting busted for drugs
at cocaine and all this kind of stuff. And it's
still coming in, still coming in. So there you go,

(01:00:20):
glad it's off the streets, but still coming in. And
now troopers in Nebraska find seventy three violations during their
vehicle inspection operation in Lancaster County. The inspection took place
back May twenty first. The operation targeted commercial vehicles. I'm
kind of skipping down through because the show's already an

(01:00:41):
hour long. I still have more to go. Yeah, I
still have another six, five seven articles do yet, So
I'm kind of blowing through these a little bit fast.
The operation targeted commercial vehicles have you might not travel
outside the city or pass through way stations as part

(01:01:03):
of their regular routes. In other words, they were getting
them on the side roads. So they did twenty six
commercial vehicle inspections, seventy three violations of FMCSA REGs and
state laws. Seven vehicles were put out of service meaning
you can't drive. Zero drivers though were put out of service.
Thirteen citations were issued and twelve details were issued meaning

(01:01:27):
no immediate safety issues. So you get your little sticker
on the window that you know you're oki, dookie, you're fine.
So not only Arkansas, but Nebraska and this kind of thing.
Now you're gonna love this. Next story, A trucker criticizes
police response but applauds his wife's truck driving in face

(01:01:49):
of murder suspects attempting truck jacking. Okay, there again not
making this up. You can only only in the movies.
A truck driver's criticizing the police response by applauding his
wife's driving skills after a murder suspect attempted to steal

(01:02:10):
their semi as they drove past multiple squad cars. Truck
driver Matthew Acevedo, I'm sorry, Matthew if I'm butchering your name.
Was riding in the passenger seat as him and his
wife team drive on Sunday, May eighteenth, when a man
suddenly jumped on to the side of their truck while

(01:02:33):
they're going. We had no idea what was going on,
but it was not law enforcement. He said he had
a flashlight. He was trying to slow us down. It
wasn't until about fifteen to twenty feet away she realized
that he had a gun and he was waving it
at her. Mike Thomas was on the run from police

(01:02:58):
along Interstate sixty five and hours Obama after committing crimes
connected to a murder in Georgia. Officers were chasing him down,
but Acevedo says that the police response was not enough
to prevent his wife from being hurt by this. Thomas
he repeatedly was hitting the window with his gun. When

(01:03:19):
he tried to aim at either one of us. She
would do hard breaking maneuver to keep him off balance,
and I was getting slammed into the dashboard. Well, you know,
she was doing evasive maneuvers. Where's your seatbelt? I finally
got to her pirs where we kept their weapon, and
she rolled down the window and I fired outside of
the vehicle because I didn't want to hit his wife.

(01:03:41):
Once I ran out around, he popped back up out
of nowhere. He was holding with one hand onto the mirror,
and he pistoled with her several times across her body.
Because she had the window rolled out. I would have
rolled up the damn window. Acevedo said that Thomas also
fired a few shots before giving up and running into
the woods, where he was eventually caught by SWAT using

(01:04:03):
tracker dots and air units. Despite the eventual capture, as
Veda believes the police response should have been better managed. Quote,
even with him on the side of the truck wearing
a highlighter T shirt and our truck is white, none
of the law enforcement. I don't know what agencies were
involved in this man hund to capture him, but nobody

(01:04:24):
saw him on the side of the truck, and my
wife was blaring the horn as we passed by all
these cop cards Asveda's wife had to get several stitches
after the incident and their semi truck is now filled
with bulletholes from the encounter. Talk about a conversation starter.
I wish I could have been one in the seat
dealing with the situation, but it's just luck of the draw.

(01:04:45):
He said, Well, don't take any credit away from your wife.
You know, she saved your lives. She may have gotten
a few stitches, but y'all could have been dead. So
and I know you're not, you know, mister Esvedo. So
I'd like to have you all on the podcast. If
you ever happen to listen to this sometime, you can

(01:05:06):
always email me at Julia's Chuck Acafe at gmail dot
com and we could definitely set something up and have
my y'a'll be my first interview in Ohio dot to close,
I seventy five rest areas until summer of twenty twenty six,

(01:05:27):
so not only do accidents do this kind of you know,
things going on in the truck and industry, or you know,
somebody gets pistol up, almost gets truck jacked and everything.
But I also report on bad weather. I also report
on rest areas being closed, and when we are going

(01:05:47):
to have another blitz, I will be getting it up
on the website on the homepage of the website. The
next blitz will be in July. I'm not one hundred
percent sure on the dates, but I definitely will pull
it up on the website. Julia'struckatcafe dot com, so please
check out. I'm always having new stuff. Also, I want

(01:06:07):
to take a quick second and check out our store.
I will be making slides of some of the merchandiet
merch that I have for sale on the store, so
you'd like to check that out as well. That's also
tab on Julia's Truck Atcafe dot com. I try to
have the website be a one stop shop also for

(01:06:29):
bad weather. Let me put a plug into a YouTube channel.
Young man by the name of max Velocity WX. You
can find him at YouTube dot com slash at max
velocity WX. He gives live real time weather forecasting and

(01:06:50):
any kind of We had a lot of tornaders in Texas,
Oklahoma going in moving east. So if you need to
know where the bad weather is in your check out
max Velocity on YouTube at max velocity Wx. He's also
on x and Facebook. He just graduated college and is

(01:07:16):
a true meteorologist young man. So he just graduated college
in Florida. So back to this dot announcing rest areas
will be closed down starting in July seventh. I seventy
five north and southbound rest areas in Butler County, just

(01:07:37):
south of State Route sixty three at Monroe Exit will
be closed. Both rest area facilities will be upgraded to
include larger restrooms, a lobby area with vending and regional
tourism information, and outdoor picnic areas. The rest areas will
be demolished to rebuilt after July seventh closure, and the
facilities or schedule to reopen next year in twenty twenty

(01:08:00):
six sometime that summer. The nearest facilities southbound motors are
located near Florence, Kentucky off I seventy one in Ohio.
The closest that's in Kentucky then in Ohio. Let me
rephrase that the close up facilities for northbound motors will
be those located in Hancock County south of Findlay as

(01:08:22):
the rest areas in Algays County north of Wapa Canetta
are also scheduled to be closed in July four. Replacement
the DOT is the process of updating thirty six of
the state's rest areas with all new facilities. So that'll
be cool once they're all upgraded and fixed. And they
didn't say about adding any additional perking though I did

(01:08:45):
see that. And a truck drivers nabbed in Sacramento for
excessive speed and his blood at alcohol content is zero
point one four, where the before you're gonna get pulled
over for DUI, you need alcohol blood alcohol content of

(01:09:10):
point zero four. So point zero four compared to point
one four, Yeah, you're trashed. So a truck driver is
accused of speeding and being under the influence, according to
the California Highway Patrol. According to the speed enforcement detail
that took place May twenty second, on northbound State Route

(01:09:33):
ninety nine at Elk Girl Boulevard, a trooper parked on
the right side shoulder of the roadway spotted a semi
traveling and the number one lane of traffic at a
high rate of speed end quote. The trucker was reported
to get locked in at seventy four miles per hour
on light AAR, but it's only fifty five. The trooper

(01:09:53):
conducted a traffic stop during which the driver exhibited objective
signs of being under the influence. Preliminary alcohol screening showed
blood alcohol contact breathalyzer of zero point one five. A
subsequent chemical breath test showed BAC a point one four.

(01:10:20):
I don't know a preliminary alcohol screening, I'm not familiar.
How can that show point one five? But then the
breath test shows zero point one four. Commercial drivers are
held to a stricter standard and must maintain a blood
alcohol content like I said, of zero point zero four
or less. Driving out of the influence, especially in a semi,

(01:10:43):
puts lives at serious risks. Bloody blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:10:45):
We know that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:47):
So we're not talking to children here, but some of
you guys at got kids, so you know. And a
national park is closed overnight as crews work to remove
another wayward semi. You all need to quit following Google Maps.
It's not made for semis. It's only made for cars. Okay,

(01:11:11):
you trucker path is a good one. There is another
GPS app. I had a different phone and I don't
have it anymore. But there's a lot of trucker GPS
apps out there that you can use. Don't be relying
on Google Maps, Apple Maps, anything like that. It just

(01:11:32):
this is why. This is what happens when you follow
Google Maps A roads through Nevada. This time National Park
was closed overnight after a wayward semi truck got stuck
under unclear circumstances. This happened on May twentieth on Snake

(01:11:53):
Creek Road in the Great Basin National Park in Nevada.
The semi got stuck on narrow winding dirt road one
mile from the dead end of the road. How the
hell was he gonna get out the wayward semi truck? Fourth,
the enclosure of the roadway is cruise work to remove
the truck while damaging the road and nature's scenery as

(01:12:15):
little as possible. So they're trying not to and they're
saying too. You know, do not blind the trust your
GPS navigation system. Park roads are narrow winding and not
designed for commercial vehicles. You know, don't go into National parks.
There's signs everywhere. You know, share a quick story that

(01:12:39):
I wanted to see Mount Rushmore in the worst way.
I got all the way out there. I dropped my
trailer at the truck stop, bob tailed up, and in
the front entrance of this of the park for the
Mount Rushmore says big sign no commercial vehicles allowed. I

(01:13:06):
was so disheartened because as you're coming up to the
park entrance, you look through the trees and there you
could see it. I was this close to finally seeing
after forty years, finally seeing Mount Rushmore. Couldn't get there.
And as I turned around, here comes a tanker truck

(01:13:27):
right blowing right through the park and Will who was
on his ass park ranger, so hopefully he got a
hell of a ticket, big sign no commercial vehicle alone.
I'm like, ah, So, you know, when I retire twenty
one months accounting, then I can do more episodes of

(01:13:50):
the show. I can schedule interviews in this kind of
thing of the show twenty one months, people hang on
and the show will definitely get better. You could see
that I'm tweaking my screen right here. I got all
the bottom in the top, you know, borders and everything
off of it and trying to tweak it and make
it look better for y'all. But anyway, I'm gonna go

(01:14:11):
and start traveling and seeing and maybe even doing lives.
You know, as I travel and say look here I'm at.
You know, I finally made it to Mount Rushmore or
the Grand I've never seen any of the places around
this country, you know, and I would love to. I mean,
I've been down Highway, I've been all over. I've been
all over forty eight states. Never was able to stop

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to any of the historic sites Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse,
Devil's Tower, Grand Canyon, all all the big sites, waterfalls, whatever.
So anyway, sorry I digress, but you know, so excited
to see Mount Rushbourne, I couldn't couldn't get there, dog

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gone it. So thirty eight percent of it expected commercial
vehicles are placed out of service during this road check
operation in Perium Basin. Now remember now I'm reporting on
all these road checks. This happened between the thirteenth and
fifteenth and May. So now I was on vacation that week.

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I was in New Mexico. So this other results of
these road checks that happened that middle of May, the
Texas Department of Public Safety released its results from this
international road check and on May twenty second, from the
road Check campaign andrews ecdor Howard martin Midland and Ward Counties.

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Total amount of inspections semi inspections four hundred and forty
three total violations check this one three and nine total
vehicles placed out of service one hundred and sixty eight
thirty eight percent of that four one hundred and forty
three total drivers placed out of service, nineteen total details

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issued sixty They're among the earliest road check results yet released.
The total overall vehicle out of service rate was twenty
three percent and the driver out of service at rate
was four point eight percent. So that's just some of
the results that are coming in from that road check.
If I you know, in the upcoming episodes, I will

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have some more. And Oklahoma lawmakers passed a bill cracking
down on non domicile commercial vehicle drivers that I just
mentioned back when that mister Duffy, Secretary of Transportation was
talking about this, this is what he's talking about. So

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Oklahoma lawmakers they passed a bill that titans requirements for
non domicile commercial vehicles operating in their state. SB twenty,
or the Oklahoma Secure Roads and Say Trucking Act of
twenty twenty five, was passed by Oklahoma House of Representatives
by a vote of seventy one to thirteen. SB twenty

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is headed to the desk of the Governor, Kevin Stitt,
where it is expected to be cited to law. The
bill forbids any non domicile commercial driver from operating in
Oklahoma if they do not possess a valid work visa
or meet identification of requirements. Now the requirements include the
president presentation a proof of citizenship documents from the country

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that issued their commercial driver's license, like Mexico, such as
a birth certificate, valid passport, or naturalization certificate. If a
non domicile commercial driver violates this driving restriction, they could
face a misdemeanor charge and up to ninety days in
jail and one thousand dollars fine quote. The bill also
includes enforcement provisions for commercial drivers and carriers and cargo owners,

(01:17:57):
ensuring that no one escapes respondibility when Oklahoma laws are broken.
All finds collected under the SB twenty will be directed
toward waystation infrastructure and trauma care, helping protect communities across
the state blody, bloody, bloody blah blah. And of course
this bill directly aligns with President Trump's executive order bloody

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bloody blahodah blah.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:18:21):
And this bill additionally imposes English language requirements for commercial drivers.
So this is Oklahoma's version of it. Motor carriers face
to find a three thousand dollars for each violation of
this provision of s B twenty So that could be
quite a hefty fine. And just reading through, they're dan.

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So a lot of the states are coming cracking down
on drivers that cannot specifically speak and read English and
cannot understand English. So a bill to seek to ban
some from the left lane. In Michigan, remember traveling through
Michigan quite a bit going to Detroit. Michigan lawmakers are

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considering a bill that would restrict truck traffic from using
the far left lane of the roadway. House Bill forty
five twenty two was introduced. The bill seeks to prohibit
trucks from using the left lane on any roadway with
three or more lanes. Mainly was Interstate thirty five. How
you had your regular traveler lane, your passing lane, and
then car passing lane way over on the left well,

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which is backwards on the screen, but so it'd be
you know, see I'm saying left, and it's exactly backwards
on the screen. Anyway, you get my meaning. So now
it's any roadway in Michigan, construction closing one of more
lanes of the three rail roadway resulting in only two

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usable lanes, the bill would require that truck's remain in
the right lane. So if you're the construction zone and
they close the left lane of a three lane highway,
you are required to stay in the right lane. Left
lane restriction will apply to drivers of a truck with
a gross weight of more than ten thousand pounds. So
most semis a truck, a semi or a combination of vehicle,

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trailer or semi trailer. So a car notither just semis,
not just commercial vehicles, but car haulers. The three car
car haulers with the duley, it's a truck, truck and
a trailer. That's a combination vehicle. You have to stay

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in the right lane as well, if you're in construction
or right to middle lane. So these are hotshots. Another
word I was thinking of, same thing. You're not permitted
in the left lane either, so they proposed it as

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it needs to be signed into law right now. It
hasn't been signed as of yet. So I want to
thank you so much for joining me. I hope that
you have a great week. I'm always working on more shows.

(01:21:26):
I'm also looking at starting I have started my own channel,
not just the trucking podcast channel. I started my own
Julia's Just Bitching channel. So if you need to rant
about you're getting sick and tired of how people drive
like I am. You're don't want to take it out

(01:21:51):
on your spouse or your significant other or anything like that,
coming over to Julia's Just Bitching channel, have a conversation,
you know, I don't like like a coffee coffee room
and sit down, have something to drink. Hey, I got
an invisible cup again, have something to drink and we'll

(01:22:13):
just rant and I need it. People are getting tired
of listening to me, so I'm like, hell, I'll go
ahead and do just a ranting channel. So it's on YouTube,
it's Julia's and also Twitch. I'm on Twitch. I don't
know about starting a uh Facebook page, it could just

(01:22:36):
be under my name, but definitely a Julia's you know,
just just bitching and my mic keeps going in and no, uh,
just bitch a channel just to rant and talk about anything.
You know. It doesn't have to be trucking news, be
talking about cats, if you could talk about you know,

(01:22:58):
what's going on. It can be talking about you know,
the drivers, how stupid people drive, you know, but I
don't know. I'm not gonna get into it. Check out
that channel when I you know. Now, my another thing
real quickly is my days off today. I have to

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go into work here in about hour and a half. So,
like I said, I just hopped on to get the
show out. But some weeks my days off our Wednesday Thursday,
and then I have to work the weekend. Then the
following week I work, Like next week, I'll work Monday Tuesday,
and then I'll have the weekend off. So it just depends.

(01:23:40):
When I'm gonna have you know, the ramp live stream
up and going, I'll definitely let you know. But there again,
check out you know the Facebook page. I'll probably post it. Hey,
I'm gonna have a ramp stream tonight or something like that.
You know, enjoy me and cracking jokes whatever, you know whatever.

(01:24:06):
Everybody has all these podcasts. You know, I watched Savanna
Chris Lee with Unlocked her show, and she talks to
just anybody and everybody about what she's doing. So I just,
you know, want to go ahead and have just a
rant channel. You know, I think I need it. It

(01:24:26):
would be a great I think it would be a
great stress reliever. So check out. Please, you know, like follow,
subscribe this channel again. I greatly appreciate it, and take care,
have a blessed day and see you next time.

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