July 21, 2025 • 57 mins
In this episode of Julia's Trucking Cafe- Trucking News Hour, I discuss what happened that 5 people perished in an horrific accident. I also discuss other news that has made the headlines in the trucking industry. Check out my new book: Power of Perseverance: Achieving Goals Despite The Odds at Amazon: Click Here Music by: Heyday Highway @ Epidemic Sound.com Also check out Where Else To Find The Podcast page.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (01:30):
Hello, and welcome to Julia's truck a Cafe Trucking News Hour.
I don't know why my mic keeps muting. Thank you
so much for joining me this week. We have lots
of news to get to as always, from North Carolina
banning booting commercial vehicles for parking, to bad accidents to
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a windmill turbine blade getting loose and deciding to go
the other way on the inner State. So as always,
let's get right to it. Our first story is the
wind windmill turbine blade comes loose during transport, injuring one person.
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A windmill turbine blade came loose during transport on Interstate
seventy in Maryland. Incident happened the end of June around
five in the morning. According to the local news, attractor
trailer was hauling the windmill turbine blade along I seventy
going westbound when it came loose during transport. The blade
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then ended up crossing the center median and into the
eastbound lanes while blocking them, and the truck itself, as
you could see in the photo here, was blocking the
westbound lanes. Now, how that happened. If people are viewing
this and aren't familiar, you see those large turbine blades
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going down the road. Well, the back part of it,
the very tip of it, the tail is attached to
a steering mechanism that is steered from.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I believe maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The escort, because the semi driver would have too much
to do with with driving and everything, so I'm thinking
I'm not one hundred percent sure on that. But anyways,
that's clamped down and it's steered remotely, so it's a
you know, should follow along with the with the semi,
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but a lot of times it'll come those clamps will
come loose around that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I call it a fin.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But that turbine the blade, and this is what happened.
It veered over crossed it to the median and they
went into the eastbound lanes of Interstate seventy, which is
a pretty by stretch of road right there. So they
it took several hours to have to make a cross
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back over behind the semi to straighten it out. And
you know, following along and clamp it down again.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And it took quite a while.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So I'm sure seventy was backed up for quite a
while with this whole mess. In our next story, North
Carolina seeks to ban booting for commercial vehicles. And here
you see the boot right there. It's just a claw
and a stand that they put around the rim. They
clamp it on both sides, locking, and it comes together
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and locks and you can't move. North Carolina bill will
forbid the use of boot devices on commercial vehicles as
a parking enforcement tool.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The State Senate.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Builty eleven, also known as the Law and Order Act,
hit the desk of the Governor Josh Stein after passing
through the House and the Senate of North Carolina. Among
the wide ranging provisions in the bill is a prohibition
of commercial booting.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
A commercial vehicle shall not be mobilized using a device,
such as a boot or any other device for the
purposes of parking enforcement. Using an mobilization device on a
commercial vehicle is a violation of this section and is
a Class two misdemeanor, and a Class two misdemeanor in
the state of North Carolina is punishable by sixty days
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in jail and one thousand dollars fine. The bill also
includes a provision that we require tow companies to quote
promptly return any commercial cargo towed by the tow company
to the owner of the commercial cargo or to a
designee of the owner upon request following a non consensual
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tow it's signed into law. Well, if signed into law,
both visions were going to effect on December first of
this year. Several other states have recently passed similar legislation
to crack down on predatory tow companies, and these states
are Mississippi, Florida.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Three vehicle pile up in this article in construction zone
merge leaves two people unalived. Can't say the D word
on the YouTube. Three vehicle pile up involving a semi
in a construction zone merge left two people unlived in
Michigan on.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
July first.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'm kind of skipping around with the news as far
as dates go. This happened on Interstate ninety six going westbound.
According to the local news, a semi was stopped for
traffic at a construction zone Merge when a pickup truck
pulled up behind it. A box truck was unable to
stop in time and crashed into the pickup, pushing it
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into the semi The box truck then ended up nearly
on top of the pickup truck, and both vehicles burst
into flames. Both the box truck driver and the pickup
driver were pronounced unlived at the scene. The local county
Sheriff's office says that the heavy traffic at the entrance
of the construction zoning drivers not maintaining appropriate distance was
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the cause of the accident. Following too close. I ninety
six westbound was shut down for about seven hours. It
was reopened about ten thirty that night, and truckers are
to pay more as a Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls increase next year.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission announced a toll increase that will
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go into effect at the start of twenty twenty six.
At a July meeting, members approved a four percent total
increase that will go into effect on January fourth of
twenty twenty six, and the mainline Pennsylvania Turnpike and on
the Northeast Extension, where tolls are calculated per segment and
distance traveled, the per mile rate increases from seven cents
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to seven to a third cents, so it's point zero
seven to point zero seven to three, and the segment
fee from a dollar nine to a dollar thirteen, so
four cents per segment. Turnpike officials notated that the increase
of four percent is the lowest rate increase since twenty fourteen.
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They point out to legislation passed to two thousand and
seven that requires them to fund state transportation projects. Since
two thousand and eight, they have contributed eight billion dollars
to Pennsylvania transportation and infrastructure. In June, Cruise started work
to remove tollboos from the turnpike as part of the
system's transportation to open road tolling. There again, that's where
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easy pass comes in. End up next to truck driver
sentenced to federal prison for transporting twenty five people in
a tanker. A Texas truck driver was sentenced to years
in federal prison after he was caught transporting more than
two dozen people inside a tanker. San Antonio resident Richard Redcadicas,
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forty four, was sentenced to ten years in prison on
one kind of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens. According to
the US Attorney's Office, he pled guilty to the conspiracy
to transport illegal aliens charge back in February. Officials say
that on November eighteenth, last year, twenty twenty four, he
was operating a truck hauling a tanker trailer when he
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was inspected at US Border Patrol checkpoint in Carrizo Springs.
He claimed the tanker was empty, and when he couldn't
locate his driver's license, was referred to secondary inspec action.
The agents observed that the hatches on top of the
trailer were closed they completely secured. When they opened the hatchets,
they discovered numerous people sitting inside the tanker. Twenty five
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people from Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico were
removed from the tanker and the driver was Redekis was arrested.
This district has seen far too many instances of human smuggling,
the human trafficking like this one in try ending tragedy.
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If not for the excellent work by the Border Patrol
in this case, we may have seen another, said the
US Attorney General for the Western District of Texas. My
office will continue to pursue prosecuting and seek to punish
those who selfishly value profit over human life. Sentencing is
a grim reminder of the extreme measures smugglers will take
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for profit and endangering the lives of vulnerable, vulderable individuals
in the process, said ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, Sorry Antonio,
special agent to in charge. And then you know they
go on, So yeah, because the hatches were closed, their
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oxygen would have ran out. That tankers aluminum and it
was even though it was November, it was either freezing
cold or luckily it wasn't this time when it was
ninety five degree heat. So twenty five people in there,
that oxygen would not last.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Very long at all.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And here again in another story, another truck driver is
facing federal charges for after Border patrol finds twelve people
hidden in the flatbed trailer. Compartments a truck driver's facing
serious charges related to human smuggling after a dozen people
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were discovered to hid an inside his flatbed trailer during
a traffic stop in New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This happened around.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Twelve thirty in the morning back in June. The Border
Patrol agents were conducting a late night surveillance operation on
I ten near Deming, New Mexico, when they spot a
suspicious semi truck hauling an unloaded flatbed trailer empty, a
known tactic used by trans national criminal organizations to smuggle
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contraband and illegal aliens into United States. Border patrol followed
the truck because it took an illegal route commonly used
to bypass border patrol checkpoint. After witnessing the truck slowed
down drastically and begin to swerve, as if the driver
was paying more attention to the Border patrol agents behind
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him than the road in front of him, A traffic
stop was conducted on New Mexico State Road thirty twenty
six at mile marker eleven. A search of the vehicle
uncovered twelve people from Guatemala, Ecuadora, Mexico hidden in the
compartments within the flatbed trailer and one person hiding in
the cab. Truck driver with the Maryland resident, forty years old,
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was arrested and admitted to repeatedly transporting illegal aliens for
financial compensation, instructing them to hide under the flatbed. According
to the complaint, this driver openly admitted they was approached
by a known associate at a truck stop in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, and was offered a job to transport contraband
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with his commercial vehicle, to which he later agreed to
transport illegal aliens and admitted to transporting illegal aliens for
the known associate multiple times prior and stated he would
be financially compensated per illegal alien so he got paid
by the head. He was charged of a conspiracy to
illegally bring, transport, hideer encourage unauthorized immigrants to enter or
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stay in the US. If convicted, he he faces up
to ten years in prison. He will remain in police
custody until his trial. And a truck driver is killed
in a wreck when a driver illegally re enters ICE
seventy after taking a wrong exit. A truck driver passed
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after colliding with a semi truck re entering I seventy
in Utah after taking a wrong exit. The fatal accident
happened on Sunday, July sixth, at around eight thirty at
night on Interstate seventy at Cressit Junction, Utah, near mile
post one to eighty one. According to the local news,
a freightliner was heading east on I seventy when the
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driver began to take an exit towards a scenic overlook
the truck driver that apparently changed his mind and drove
into the striped area of the exit, where he attempted
to re enter I seventy. As a truck driver cut
across that dripped area and attempted to get back onto
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the interstate, he was re ended by an upcoming semi truck.
The driver in the second truck died instantly, so wasn't
looking in his mirrors, expected the second truck to get over.
It doesn't really say if the second truck had somebody
and to his left that he couldn't get over. The
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lower of blueberries in the freight liner was destroyed, but
the driver and his passenger were not hurt. No other
injuries have been reported. Clean Up of the incident took
approximately six hours. The second driver passed away. The second
driver that hit him hit him so hard that he died,
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But all they could say it was about the cleanup.
So our thoughts that prayers are with that second driver.
You know, why didn't he move over? Was there somebody
on his left hand side that he couldn't move over?
Those things happen if you got a car coming up
beside you and you can't move over, And this guy
is crawling out because you know he expects you to
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move over instead of just waiting a few minutes. I've
had that done so many times, where they'll come out
from sleeping, there'll be half awake, and they'll turn around
and crawl out right in front of you. You have
nowhere to go but to lock him up, and if
he could lock him up to avoid hitting him, and
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then he ends up dying.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And he was just minding his own business driving down
the road. Just unreal on reel and fighter.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Firefighters battle explosions after four semi trucks catch fire at
a Colorado truck stop. Several semi trucks were heavily damaged
by fire at a truck stop in Colorado. This happened
around nine point thirty at night, and Mountain View Fire
Rescue responded to a report of commercial vehicle fire at
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a truck stop located along Colorado Highway one nineteen, just
west of I twenty five.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
When the crews arrived on seed.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
They found four semi trucks on fire, with three of
the trucks fully engulfed in flames. It took firefighters about
ten minutes to knock down the vehicle fires battling explosions
from the fuel tanks and tires as they went up
and smoked. The cause of the or what up in flames,
I should say, the cause of the fire is still
under investigation by the Fire Marshal and also the Sheriff's office.
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You wonder if sometimes.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
If that's arson. You don't know. Now, this is not
the truck that was involved. I got bugs.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
This is not the truck that was involved in this
upcoming story. This is just a picture of just a
semi but a truck driver rams another truck into the
Jersey wall or concrete barrier and laughs about it. Police
say that a truck driver was laughing about it as
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he drove away from the sight of a fatal road
rage incident with another semi truck. The incident happened on
the evening of June twenty second. The truck driver surrendered
to police on the first of New Jersey Turnpike incident. So,
from doing some research, and I'm going to get away
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from the article a little bit. From doing some research
on this, this article doesn't explain everything. Like I said,
from doing some research, I got some more facts on
this story. Apparently the driver that was pushed into the
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concrete barrier slash Jersey Wall was Osmond Aiden from Minnesota.
He was trying to pass the first truck that pushed
him into the wall. And every time he tried this
first guy Naiden Duaro Aiden duol something like that, it's
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an unusual name. Joseph wouldn't let him pass. He was
playing like a cat and mouse game, according to witnesses.
So you're driving down the interstate, you come up on
a truck. I'll send you vera's out in front of you,
doesn't let you pass, think it it's funny. Then he
gets back over. You back off, try to pass him again,
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you know, and if it's most most trucks are regulated
at sixty five miles an hour, so if you're you know,
going downhill or something like that, he'll speed up, slow down.
I've had that happen to me too, and thinking it's
funny when you're trying to pass and nail slow down
and speed up and all this kind of crap and
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laughing and thinking it's funny. Well, finally he about ninety
minutes later.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well no excuse me.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
After he tried to pass him on the left several times,
this Nomado steers his truck right into Aiden's truck and
pushes him into the median, the concrete Jersey wall.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
He then into the barrier. Well, he hit so hard
he went up and over the barrier.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
This Aidan crossed the other side of the interstate and
crashed into the trees and died. This is how you're
thinking you're funny, could end up killing somebody. You're not
funny when you.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Do this crap.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
We're supposed to be professionals out here and this is bullshit.
So after all this accident and everything, he left the
It was on New Jersey Turnpike. He left it in
the second exit and must have wearing down two ninety
five and then got back on about ninety minutes later,
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and they obtained dashcam footage from the semi confirming the
series of events. He also left the interstate. He used
duct tape to try to cover up the accident along
with cleaning up a cleaning solution, and he's since been arrested.
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He doesn't the officers at the time didn't know if
he knew that the second driver was killed in the accident,
and he's charged with second secondary count of vehicular homicide
leaving the scene of an accident and also tampering with
evidence because they still found some of the paint from
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Aiden's truck on this guy's truck, Nora's truck and definitely
knew that he did it, along with dash cam footage
and everything else.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
So from what he said, they said here was that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
The company that he worked for was involved in multiple
crashes in the last three or four years. And the
owner of course denied any comment or anything, but also
took her LinkedIn profile down.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Like I said, I did further research. So he's, you know,
waiting his try in jail.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
And I believe, unless I'm I might be miss dake no,
that that company was from from a different story.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So I misspoke on that.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That that owner of the company is in a different
story that I'm going to get to. And in this
next story, de seeses seven hundred pounds of meth from
a semi truck at a Georgia warehouse. Now, if I'm
squinting a little bit, I have my contacts in and
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without putting my glasses on, so I either don't look
like an old granny, but I have to have the
it's hard to see. I really need to have glasses
on as far as UH seeing, but then you get
the glare from the screen and everything, so uh.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Two people were arrested after.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Federal authorities found hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs stashed
inside a semi truck loaded with produce at a warehouse
in Georgia. Officials say that the DEA agents learned that
a semi parked at a warehouse they gainsful of Georgia
possibly contained a large shipment of drugs, so they were
tipped off. Agents spotted a sedan next to the semi
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with Andreas YAsO Junior thirty seven the driver's seat and
Perez fifty nine in the passenger seat. When the semi
was searched, agents discovered twenty palats of boxes containing cucumbers.
Within the boxes of DA and covered thousands of individually
wrapped packages of meth. Yazo Junior and Perez were allegedly
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tasked with offloading the shipment from the semi and separating
the drugs from the cucumbers. After DA agents arrested the
Yazo Junior and Perez, the agents learned that the total
quantity of the meth seized seated seven hundred pounds. Junior
and Prez charged with possession of intended to distribute meth
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and was additionally charged with illegal re entry by a
removed alien.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So he was already booted from this country and he
came back across.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Perez is allegedly a citizen in national of Mexico with
no legal status in the US. In two thousand and one,
Perez was deported and removed from the US following a
felony conviction in Arizona for transporting pot. He allegedly re
entered the US thereafter and was encountered by FEDS in
March of twenty fourteen while transporting nearly one kilo of
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coke in the Atlanta area. August of twenty fifteen, a
federal judge sentenced him to six and a half years
in the pokey. Upon completion of his sentence, Perez was
deported for a second time.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
He just doesn't learn. He's like a cockroach. He keeps
coming back.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
The case is under investigation by the DEA with assistance
from the Georgia State Police. In the EU of investigation
an Apartment of Homeland Security. So and they go on
to thank the officer's bloody, bloody block. I don't usually
get into all that mess and in this story, forty
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truck drivers are now out of service for a lack
of English proficiency since enforcement began last week, say Mexican officials,
forty truckers from Mexico. And that's it, only forty in
a week. I'm figured there'd be more than that have
been placed out of service since enforcement of English proficiency
standards began.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The end of June.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The executive order requiring all truck drivers to effectively communicate
with law enforcement in English and thoroughly understand highway signs
officially went into effect on the twenty sixth of June.
Since then, forty truck drivers have been placed out of
service for their inability to comply with these standards. Vice
President of the Northwest Chapter of the Chamber of Freight
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Transportation and Mexico Vallejo says that the drivers placed out
of service for driving through Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The enforcement.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Let's see, the enforcement had been primarily in these states,
but no one has lost their license in California, he said.
Vallejo says that there was likely more than eighty thousand
truck drivers, eighty thousand truck drivers from Mexico in this
country that crossed it to the US on a daily basis,
and around seventy percent of them would be unable to
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meet English proficiency standards. That means close to sixty thousand
of them. Back in the day when we didn't have
all this, if done everything, you had to crosstock stuff.
So you took your trailer down to Mexico. They would
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either shag the trailer down into Mexico or Laredo. I
mean they would either or they would bring their Mexican
trailer up to Laredo. You would meet at a dock
that the building looked like a t had a roof
on it. It was opened, and then you backed up
to the docks on both sides. And then you'd back
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up the two trailers side by side, and they take
it off the Mexican trailer and put it on your trailer.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
No big deal. You know, you have to have an appointment, this, that,
and the other.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, then they started letting them come across.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, now that you have to have English proficiency, Now
we got a mess with eighty thousand.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Trucks come from Mexico coming in. That's why they drive
like they do.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
They drive like idiots and get the hell out of
their way, along with Russians and Armenians too. Twenty to
thirty percent can easily manage, but the remaining seventy percent
can't hold a conversation to know basic English to get by.
But if you take them all off the road, it
will severely implicate, have severe implications in the supply chain,
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and cripple the economy both countries.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
He said, I don't think so. We got along just fine.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Years ago before any Mexican drivers were even allowed.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
In this country.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
An attempt to solve the booming issue, multiple truck company
groups and trucket companies are now offering English language classes
to drivers in hopes to bring them up to the
new standard. Yeah see Dick Janie run with dog kind
of thing. The forty truck drivers placed out of service
for English proficiency reasons may face between ten thousand and
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fifty thousand dollars fined if found driving again without improved
English proficiency. So if they go back to Mexico and
they come back across the border and still can't speak English,
they'll get fined between ten and fifty thousand dollars. Good ONNYA,
if you're in this country. You live here, you need
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to speak the damn language.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
If I go to Italy or Mexico or Germany or something,
I better get an interpreter or be able to at
least get by and speak the language so people can
understand me and in this story. USDOT unveils blockbuster pro
trucker package that promises to halt speed limit or mandate
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expand truck parking and much more. US Transportation Secretary Sean P.
Duffy rolled out a wide ranging plan designed to support
the truck and industry by cutting resigulations, crack it down
on bad actors, and increasing truck parking. On June twenty seventh,
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Duffy publicly debuted pro Trucker Package, consisting of regulatory changes
and initiatives designed to improve the lives of American truck drivers.
Duffy's package was issued in response to an April twenty
twenty five EO from the White House at mandate enforcement
and English language requirements for truck drivers, but also called
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for the Secretary of Transportation to identify, quote identify, and
begin carrying out additional administrative, regulatory or enforcement actions to
improve working conditions of America's truck drivers within sixty days.
We all know truckers keep America running while the country sleeps. Body, bloody,
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bloody blood. The package calls for withdrawal of speed limitter
rule making, prioritizes funding for truck parking, and announces the
launch of two hours of servit pilot programs that could
open the door to increase flexibility for commercial drivers. And
it goes through all of the details. This is pages,
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so I'm not going to read all that. But we've
been fighting the speed limitter deal for decades and since
they limited.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Them to begin with. And why should you know in
a chorus, sad, mad, dad, glad, all.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Of these groups are gonna be up at arms, you know.
But if my big thing why I hesitate is my
big gripe is when they took driver's head out of
high schools that was taught by a certified instructor and
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left the parents to teach a sixteen year old how
to drive when they don't listen to you anyway, that
was the downfall of driving in my opinion. I just
they people are running stop signs now. They don't even
look to the left and let alone use that little
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wand on the left hand side of your steering wheel.
That's called a turn signal. They don't even stop at
stop signs anymore. I live in a small town North Mississippi,
and I'll be damned if they stop at a stop
four way stop sign. They're like, you know, oh, there
ain't nobody coming an here. I'm coming up to the
stop sign. If if my brake's failed or something, I
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were a table um, they don't even stop.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
And it's just God, I don't have to. It's just
freaking ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Posing the myth that success is all about talent or luck.
You need to watch this if you've ever wanted to
give up on your dreams. The real secret ingredient perseverance.
Let's be real. Everyone hits a wall at some point.
Maybe you've failed to test, been rejected from a job,
or watched a dream slip through your fingers.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Everyone fails. What matters is what you do next. Did
you know Thomas Edison failed over a thousand times before
inventing the light bulb, or that JK. Rowling was rejected
by twelve publishers before Harry Potter became a global phenomenon.
The truth is Perseverance is the common thread in every
great success story. Think of persevere as your superpower. It's
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what keeps you moving when things get tough, what helps
you learn from mistakes, and what turns setbacks into comebacks.
The best part perseverance isn't something you're born with. You
build it moment by moment, every time you refuse to quit.
So next time life knocks you down, remember this. It's
not about how many times you fall, It's about getting
back up again and again. Because the power of perseverance
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isn't just about reaching your goals. It's about becoming the
kind of person who never gives up on themselves. So
whatever you're facing today, don't quit. Keep going. Your breakthrough
might be just around the corner.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Five people perish in a horrific accident. Five people passed
after truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and crashed
into stop traffic on I twenty over the weekend. This
accident happened back the end of June around two thirty
in the afternoon on Interstate twenty and Dallas. According to
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the local news, this twenty seven year old Alexis Gonzalez Compennoni,
fell asleep as he was driving near Hreham road Bridge.
You see him, he's the guy there in the T shirt. Yeah,
he's the guy right here in the T shirt. And
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he gets out of the truck unscathed. It looks like
really he he fell asleep. He was driving near the
Urim road bridge, causing him to crash it to stop
traffic on I twenty for a previous crash.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
He crashed into a Ford F one fifty before slamming
into two other tractor trailers. One of the secondary tractor
trailers then jackknife and struck a Jeep, a Mustang and
a Honda. The chain reaction crashes involved a total of
seven vehicles. Four people inside the F one fifty were
pronounced dead at the scene. The fifth person was flown
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to a nearby hospital in critical condition. One person in
the cheap hit by the jackknife semi truck was also pronounced.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Dead at the scene.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
All you could see was one eighteen wheeler, half of
the back end was missing, according to this witness who
was working at a nearby business, and then another eighteen
wheeler and the cab was completely gone. There's a lot
of truck drivers that go through here, so it's pretty bad.
They don't know how to pull over whenever they're getting
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tired or they.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Pushed the limit. This witness said.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Gonzales Compioni is currently in custody on five counts of
manslaughter and one kind of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
And then update on this story. One point five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Of bail was set.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
As a six person passed after that crash involving seven vehicles.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
And then still yet another update.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Oops, hold on, bear with me that some more details
were released.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
On this crash.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Safety investigation surrounding this drowsy driving crash revealed some dubious
details regarding the trucket company involved. And this is the
lady that I was talking about. The National Transportation Safety
Board and the Texas Department of Public Safety opened an
investigation into the pilot crash on Interstate twenty in Terrell,
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Texas that left five people passed away. The truck driver
in the incident was twenty seven year old Alexis Assomni
Gonzales Capioni.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
What a name.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
You're currently being held on one point five million dollars
bond for the accident after allegedly falling asleep at the
wheel and like I said, gets out of the truck
unskate the cut. He was driving for Hope Trans LLC
at the time of the crash. The company has been
in operation since twenty twenty one, so not that long,
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only about four years.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
It employs eighty drivers but operates sixty five trucks. How
is that possible?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
According to the FMCSA, in the last year, five percent
of the company's drivers underwent inspection were placed out of
service and nearly thirty four percent of their trucks were
placed out of service the same time frame. A national
average for drivers and trucks placed out of service is
six point sixty seven percent that's the national average and
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twenty two point twenty six percent, respectively. In the past
two years, Hope Trans Llc has been involved in three
crashes resulting in injuries, but none were fatal until the
I twenty accident. Despite seemingly reasonable inspection rates, the investigation
revealed other dubious details regarding ownership and business address this
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WFAA reports that the Orlando address listed was recently changed
from Tacoma, Washington address, which was linked to a co
working space. It's unclear whether Hope Trans actually maintained an
office at that address in Orlando. In addition to potential
FMCSA violations related to the company address, the listed owner
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of Hope Trans did not respond to requests for comment
by news outlets. And this is a lady that deleted
her LinkedIn profile. The owner I shot Mega Medova reportedly
once owned fr Rito Trucking, which no longer is authorized
to operate as an interstate carrier. Fier Rito Trucking listed
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address was linked back to a church building that is
also used as an event venue. So they just pull
aad address out of the thin air and say, yeah,
I'm I'm working there. And the Governor of Texas says
publicly instructed the Texas Department of Public Safety to expand.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Its investigation into this accident. So she closes down one business.
Now this is just my opinion. She closes down one business,
opens up a second.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Transportation LC and then turns around and has three wrecks
in those four years, and now it's a fatality, and yeah,
there goes your insurance rates sky high. And now for
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this one, let's get some better news. Going Loves opens
a store on a truck stop on I forty in Arizona,
adding eighty one truck parking places.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
So yeah, Winslow.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
So it's Winslow Arizona. Anyway, I don't want to get
it for copyright now. You may find this story funny.
An armed woman blocking I forty five in a lawn
chair after a crash with a semi truck and armed
dorman to currently block the Interstate forty five in Houston
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in a lawnchair after apparently crashing with a semi truck.
This happened on I forty five near Cypress Would Drive
in Houston. The crash occurred and stand up began at
one about two o'clock in the afternoon at the end
of June. According to the local news outlet, the woman
was initially involved in an accident with a semi After
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the accident, she exited her car with a handgun and
set up a lawn chair in the middle.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Of the freeway.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
She ignored alliveruble commands given to her to drop the weapon.
The woman soon engaged at a standoff with police. As
of three pm, negotiators had contacted a family members see
if they could help talk her down. Southbound traffic was
being detoured, while northbound traffics were being re routed on
Cyprus Drive. I'm sure they got her in custody after
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a while. And video shows which I'm sorry I can't
show because of U two algorithm and copyright and everything else.
Video shows a moment where a worker was knocked from
a bucket by a semi passing in underneath him and
smacking the bottom of the bucket. So the guy is
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working on a traffic light. Okay, you see that all
the time unless there's somebody in the left turn lane
and you can't really see it because of the skirts
of the semi that's called skirting underneath the trailer. And
he was making a left hand turn as you could
see where normally you would miss that bucket the bucket truck,
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and I don't know why they didn't block off the
lane or something that you had to go around him.
So a dash cam video recorded by motorists shows a
moment an electrical worker was knocked over by a passing
semi truck while working in a bucket truck. This happened
in Massachusetts. The worker suspended in a bucket truck while
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repairing out the traffic light at an intersection in the
right lane when a semi truck tries to pass the
work site. As it passes, the semi truck's trailer strikes
the bucket and knocks it over, causing the worker to
be suspended in the air upside down, just held on
by his harness. Luckily he was wearing the harness I
mean it's OSHA. But while not seen in the video,
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the harness reportedly broke before the man could be rescued,
and the man suffered multiple broken bones, but he's expected
to recover. So he fell, he hit the ground, he
hit the paid concrete because the harness didn't hold him.
So there again, some damn stupidity that should have never happened.
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And here a super load weighing nearly one point five
million pounds.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Crosses I eighty in Wyoming. This is the end of June.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Cruise will begin transporting a large transformer from Laramie to
Medicine Bowl. The super load will leave a rail yard
in Laramie, UH and it left their thirtieth of June
and expected to reach I eighty it's snowy range on
ramp about ten thirty that morning. The slow moving superload
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will then move west along I eighty to the truck
parking area. At mark er mile marker three oh seven
and at five o'clock in the morning and the next
day is expected to leave the truck parking area and
travel for about two hours on I eighty to Arlington
at the.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
Two seventy two.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Then the super load will take Wyoming Highway thirteen to
US Highway thirty to eighty seven, reaching its destination in
Medicine Bow. The transfer transport dimensions of the load seventeen
feet three inches tall, twenty six feet wide, three hundred
and eighty five feet.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Long and weighs.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
One point almost one point five million pounds. Due to
the side of the superload, both lanes of travel will
be used not to cause damn much to the interstate.
The transport will be traveling only twenty five to thirty
miles an hour, dropping to ten miles an hour over bridges.
Stoppages and travel delays.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Were expected at that time. And I will be right back.
Thank you so much for your patients. End up next.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
New York City DOT now issuing six hundred and fifty
dollars citations to overweight trucks headed towards Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Using the BQE.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Way in Motion system. New York City Department of Transportation
announced expansion of enforcement on overweight trucks using weighing and
motion technology. This started on the end of June. Around
the twenty second, the DOT began issuing six hundred and
fifty dollars violations to overweight Staten Island bound trucks on
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the Brooklyn Queen's Expressway.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Or the BQE.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Overweight trucks are tire using weighing in motion technology or
sensors in the roadway in conjunction with the adjacent cameras
to capture identifying information your US DOOT number, name of
the truck, at company address, et cetera. To gear up
for the increased enforcement, officials began a ninety day warning
period and March. Back in March, owners of the overweight
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trucks caught on BQE headed towards Staten Island received notices
but no fines, as well as information on the June
twenty second enforcement date. So they usually do that, they'll
give you a few months, you know, to find alternate
routes or something like that before they start issuing tickets.
Within the first seventy five days of the warning period,
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more than three thousand warnings were issued. The Weighing Emotion
Overweight Truck Enforcement system has been in use on the
BQE for Queens for more than a year since New
York City DOT began the weigh in Motion enforcement in
twenty twenty three. The system has proven to be incredibly
effective tool ad deterring overweight trucks from using the BQE
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in downtown Brooklyn. As of November twenty twenty four, overweight
trucks detected on the Triple can't delever spans decrease by
sixty percent, So, in other words, you know, this is
really tearing up those bridges. And I've been all over
New York City. Overweight trucks cause wear and tear on
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our roadways, and we all pay the price to expansive
expensive repairs for our infratructure. That is why we are
expanding our role as a nationwide leader by cracking down
on overweight vehicles on the BQE, now deploying State of
the Road weight censors from Staten Island bound traffic may have.
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Twenty twenty three, the announced that the state's twenty twenty
six budget includes authorization to expand the use of whim
or weighing emotion technology to an additional fourteen more locations
in New York State, including nine city owned bridges and
highways managed by the New York City DOT.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
The ones that.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
DOT owned are the bt BQE excuse me, Route I
two seventy eight, Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, Metropolitan Avenue Bridge, Hamilton
Avenue Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, ed Kotch Queensboro Bridge, Third Avenue Bridge,
Manhattan Bridge, Long Island Expressway, Interstate Route four ninety five
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over wood Haven. Non New York DOT owned in New
York City is the RFK Bridge in the GW Bridge
or George Washington Bridge. Outside of the city is the
Bear Mountain, Newburgh Beacon mid Hudson. I've been across Newburg
Beacon and the New York State Thruway interchange near Syracuse,
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and this gentleman is arrested for terroristic threats after pointing
a handgun at a trucker as they drove. He was
arrested for terroristic threats after pointing a handgun at a
trucker as they drove. This happened in Lincoln, Nebraska, according
to the local news people. Police were called excuse me
in the area of Highway II and Highway seventy seven
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on reports of a road rage incident. Truck driver involved
in the incident told police they was driving south on
Highway seventy seven when a man in a black Ford
F one point fifty pointed a black handgun at him
as they drove side by side. Deputies later spotted to
pick up matching the description provided by the semi driver
and was able to contact a motorist, thirty nine year
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old Jacob Gum. Gum agreed to be interviewed by police.
Gum explained to officers, while he was driving on Highway
seventy seven, semi truck attempted to cut him off multiple times.
Gum says he pointed his handgun at the trucker rolled
down his window in response to the driver's actions. Gum
was arrested and booked into the County jail, where he's
facing a charge of terroristic threats. His bond was then
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been set at three thousand dollars. His next carrying is
scheduled for July twenty fourth. Ooops and firefighters battle a
daytime truck at company fire for over six hours. Firefighters
battling a trucket company of fire for about six hours
in Illinois. The end of June incident occouraged just after
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noon on the twenty fifth in Lincoln, Illinois. According to
the local news, a fire at Lincoln Tranfoat and Processing
started the basement level and traveled through the duckwork to
the upper levels of the building. Firefighters used multiple tanker trucks,
ladder trucks, a very large fan truck to extinguish the
fire and clear the smoke from the truck and company.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
Building crew spent six hours.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Battling the flames and ensuring no remaining ember has existed
in the duckwork. All truck and company employees were able
to evacuate the building without injury, Thank goodness. One firefighter
was hospitalized with heat exhaustion. No other injuries were reported,
so that's good.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Nobody was hurt on that fire. Wonder how that started?
Speaker 2 (52:12):
And in North Carolina, town honors the sacrifice of a
dump truck driver who steered away from others when his
brakes failed on Interstate forty. Officials in the town of
Old Fort, North Carolina shared a touching tribute to a
dump truck driver who lost his life when his brakes failed.
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The crash took place earlier in June, as sixty five
year old Georgia resident Ralph Hibbert was making the six
mile descent on eastbound I forty into old Fort, North
Carolina as a part of Hurricane Helene relief efforts.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
I believe that's Black Mountain. I believe.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Witnesses told police that Hibbert tried to apply his brakes
but not slow and was traveling at it estimated seventy
five to eighty miles an hour when he took Exit
seventy three after reportedly bypassing a truck escape ramp on
the interstate. The dump truck crashed into a building under
construction in the five hundred block up Back Cave Road,
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and Hibbert was ejected. He passed away at the scene.
Police confirmed to the outlet that the dump truck's breaks
did fail, no other vehicles were involved, and no.
Speaker 3 (53:28):
One else was injured.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
The town of old Ford shared a message in honor
of hibbert'stributions to the community and hero action to save
others quote in loving memory of Ralph Hibbert. Our community
is heartbroken over the tragic loss of Ralph Hibbert, a
skilled and respected truck driver with over thirty years of experience.
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Ralph lost his life this past Tuesday and a crash
caused by break failure and his final moments, he acted
with incredible courage, steering away from others and preventing what
could have been a far greater tragedy. His selfish actions
were nothing short of roic. Ralph wasn't just passing through.
He has been here helping us recover and rebuild after
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the recent storms. He became a part of our town
in the most meaningful way through service, generosity, and heart.
Over the past few days, several community members have reached
out to town Hall asking how they might pay their respects.
In response, we want everyone to know that you're welcome
to leave a token of remembrance, whether flowers, notes, or memories,
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at the Arrowhead Fountain. This space will serve as a
place for reflection and gratitude for Ralph's life and bravery.
At this time, we have not yet been able to
locate an official obituary or details about funeral services, but
we will share any updates as we receive them. Please
continue to keep Ralph's family and loved ones in your
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thoughts and during this difficult time. The town of Old Fort, North.
Speaker 3 (55:01):
Carolina, and as always.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
I want to thank you so much for joining me
and keeping listening to this podcast. I apologize for not
really keeping up with when I say I'm going to
live stream it, but things happen, storms just a bad day,
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and if my mind isn't right, I just can't record it.
I want to give all of you a good show,
So thank you so much for your patience and returning
to listen to me report on the news, and I
will continue to do you so. I will also keep
bringing you updates as the stories also unfold. So keep
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the Shiny Sight up and have a blessed week.
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Speaker 2 (01:30):
Hello, and welcome to Julia's truck a Cafe Trucking News Hour.
I don't know why my mic keeps muting. Thank you
so much for joining me this week. We have lots
of news to get to as always, from North Carolina
banning booting commercial vehicles for parking, to bad accidents to
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a windmill turbine blade getting loose and deciding to go
the other way on the inner State. So as always,
let's get right to it. Our first story is the
wind windmill turbine blade comes loose during transport, injuring one person.
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A windmill turbine blade came loose during transport on Interstate
seventy in Maryland. Incident happened the end of June around
five in the morning. According to the local news, attractor
trailer was hauling the windmill turbine blade along I seventy
going westbound when it came loose during transport. The blade
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then ended up crossing the center median and into the
eastbound lanes while blocking them, and the truck itself, as
you could see in the photo here, was blocking the
westbound lanes. Now, how that happened. If people are viewing
this and aren't familiar, you see those large turbine blades
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going down the road. Well, the back part of it,
the very tip of it, the tail is attached to
a steering mechanism that is steered from.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
I believe maybe.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
The escort, because the semi driver would have too much
to do with with driving and everything, so I'm thinking
I'm not one hundred percent sure on that. But anyways,
that's clamped down and it's steered remotely, so it's a
you know, should follow along with the with the semi,
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but a lot of times it'll come those clamps will
come loose around that.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I call it a fin.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
But that turbine the blade, and this is what happened.
It veered over crossed it to the median and they
went into the eastbound lanes of Interstate seventy, which is
a pretty by stretch of road right there. So they
it took several hours to have to make a cross
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back over behind the semi to straighten it out. And
you know, following along and clamp it down again.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
And it took quite a while.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So I'm sure seventy was backed up for quite a
while with this whole mess. In our next story, North
Carolina seeks to ban booting for commercial vehicles. And here
you see the boot right there. It's just a claw
and a stand that they put around the rim. They
clamp it on both sides, locking, and it comes together
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and locks and you can't move. North Carolina bill will
forbid the use of boot devices on commercial vehicles as
a parking enforcement tool.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
The State Senate.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Builty eleven, also known as the Law and Order Act,
hit the desk of the Governor Josh Stein after passing
through the House and the Senate of North Carolina. Among
the wide ranging provisions in the bill is a prohibition
of commercial booting.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
A commercial vehicle shall not be mobilized using a device,
such as a boot or any other device for the
purposes of parking enforcement. Using an mobilization device on a
commercial vehicle is a violation of this section and is
a Class two misdemeanor, and a Class two misdemeanor in
the state of North Carolina is punishable by sixty days
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in jail and one thousand dollars fine. The bill also
includes a provision that we require tow companies to quote
promptly return any commercial cargo towed by the tow company
to the owner of the commercial cargo or to a
designee of the owner upon request following a non consensual
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tow it's signed into law. Well, if signed into law,
both visions were going to effect on December first of
this year. Several other states have recently passed similar legislation
to crack down on predatory tow companies, and these states
are Mississippi, Florida.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
And Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Three vehicle pile up in this article in construction zone
merge leaves two people unalived. Can't say the D word
on the YouTube. Three vehicle pile up involving a semi
in a construction zone merge left two people unlived in
Michigan on.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
July first.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'm kind of skipping around with the news as far
as dates go. This happened on Interstate ninety six going westbound.
According to the local news, a semi was stopped for
traffic at a construction zone Merge when a pickup truck
pulled up behind it. A box truck was unable to
stop in time and crashed into the pickup, pushing it
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into the semi The box truck then ended up nearly
on top of the pickup truck, and both vehicles burst
into flames. Both the box truck driver and the pickup
driver were pronounced unlived at the scene. The local county
Sheriff's office says that the heavy traffic at the entrance
of the construction zoning drivers not maintaining appropriate distance was
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the cause of the accident. Following too close. I ninety
six westbound was shut down for about seven hours. It
was reopened about ten thirty that night, and truckers are
to pay more as a Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls increase next year.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission announced a toll increase that will
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go into effect at the start of twenty twenty six.
At a July meeting, members approved a four percent total
increase that will go into effect on January fourth of
twenty twenty six, and the mainline Pennsylvania Turnpike and on
the Northeast Extension, where tolls are calculated per segment and
distance traveled, the per mile rate increases from seven cents
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to seven to a third cents, so it's point zero
seven to point zero seven to three, and the segment
fee from a dollar nine to a dollar thirteen, so
four cents per segment. Turnpike officials notated that the increase
of four percent is the lowest rate increase since twenty fourteen.
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They point out to legislation passed to two thousand and
seven that requires them to fund state transportation projects. Since
two thousand and eight, they have contributed eight billion dollars
to Pennsylvania transportation and infrastructure. In June, Cruise started work
to remove tollboos from the turnpike as part of the
system's transportation to open road tolling. There again, that's where
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easy pass comes in. End up next to truck driver
sentenced to federal prison for transporting twenty five people in
a tanker. A Texas truck driver was sentenced to years
in federal prison after he was caught transporting more than
two dozen people inside a tanker. San Antonio resident Richard Redcadicas,
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forty four, was sentenced to ten years in prison on
one kind of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens. According to
the US Attorney's Office, he pled guilty to the conspiracy
to transport illegal aliens charge back in February. Officials say
that on November eighteenth, last year, twenty twenty four, he
was operating a truck hauling a tanker trailer when he
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was inspected at US Border Patrol checkpoint in Carrizo Springs.
He claimed the tanker was empty, and when he couldn't
locate his driver's license, was referred to secondary inspec action.
The agents observed that the hatches on top of the
trailer were closed they completely secured. When they opened the hatchets,
they discovered numerous people sitting inside the tanker. Twenty five
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people from Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico were
removed from the tanker and the driver was Redekis was arrested.
This district has seen far too many instances of human smuggling,
the human trafficking like this one in try ending tragedy.
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If not for the excellent work by the Border Patrol
in this case, we may have seen another, said the
US Attorney General for the Western District of Texas. My
office will continue to pursue prosecuting and seek to punish
those who selfishly value profit over human life. Sentencing is
a grim reminder of the extreme measures smugglers will take
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for profit and endangering the lives of vulnerable, vulderable individuals
in the process, said ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, Sorry Antonio,
special agent to in charge. And then you know they
go on, So yeah, because the hatches were closed, their
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oxygen would have ran out. That tankers aluminum and it
was even though it was November, it was either freezing
cold or luckily it wasn't this time when it was
ninety five degree heat. So twenty five people in there,
that oxygen would not last.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Very long at all.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And here again in another story, another truck driver is
facing federal charges for after Border patrol finds twelve people
hidden in the flatbed trailer. Compartments a truck driver's facing
serious charges related to human smuggling after a dozen people
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were discovered to hid an inside his flatbed trailer during
a traffic stop in New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
This happened around.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Twelve thirty in the morning back in June. The Border
Patrol agents were conducting a late night surveillance operation on
I ten near Deming, New Mexico, when they spot a
suspicious semi truck hauling an unloaded flatbed trailer empty, a
known tactic used by trans national criminal organizations to smuggle
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contraband and illegal aliens into United States. Border patrol followed
the truck because it took an illegal route commonly used
to bypass border patrol checkpoint. After witnessing the truck slowed
down drastically and begin to swerve, as if the driver
was paying more attention to the Border patrol agents behind
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him than the road in front of him, A traffic
stop was conducted on New Mexico State Road thirty twenty
six at mile marker eleven. A search of the vehicle
uncovered twelve people from Guatemala, Ecuadora, Mexico hidden in the
compartments within the flatbed trailer and one person hiding in
the cab. Truck driver with the Maryland resident, forty years old,
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was arrested and admitted to repeatedly transporting illegal aliens for
financial compensation, instructing them to hide under the flatbed. According
to the complaint, this driver openly admitted they was approached
by a known associate at a truck stop in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, and was offered a job to transport contraband
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with his commercial vehicle, to which he later agreed to
transport illegal aliens and admitted to transporting illegal aliens for
the known associate multiple times prior and stated he would
be financially compensated per illegal alien so he got paid
by the head. He was charged of a conspiracy to
illegally bring, transport, hideer encourage unauthorized immigrants to enter or
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stay in the US. If convicted, he he faces up
to ten years in prison. He will remain in police
custody until his trial. And a truck driver is killed
in a wreck when a driver illegally re enters ICE
seventy after taking a wrong exit. A truck driver passed
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after colliding with a semi truck re entering I seventy
in Utah after taking a wrong exit. The fatal accident
happened on Sunday, July sixth, at around eight thirty at
night on Interstate seventy at Cressit Junction, Utah, near mile
post one to eighty one. According to the local news,
a freightliner was heading east on I seventy when the
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driver began to take an exit towards a scenic overlook
the truck driver that apparently changed his mind and drove
into the striped area of the exit, where he attempted
to re enter I seventy. As a truck driver cut
across that dripped area and attempted to get back onto
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the interstate, he was re ended by an upcoming semi truck.
The driver in the second truck died instantly, so wasn't
looking in his mirrors, expected the second truck to get over.
It doesn't really say if the second truck had somebody
and to his left that he couldn't get over. The
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lower of blueberries in the freight liner was destroyed, but
the driver and his passenger were not hurt. No other
injuries have been reported. Clean Up of the incident took
approximately six hours. The second driver passed away. The second
driver that hit him hit him so hard that he died,
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But all they could say it was about the cleanup.
So our thoughts that prayers are with that second driver.
You know, why didn't he move over? Was there somebody
on his left hand side that he couldn't move over?
Those things happen if you got a car coming up
beside you and you can't move over, And this guy
is crawling out because you know he expects you to
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move over instead of just waiting a few minutes. I've
had that done so many times, where they'll come out
from sleeping, there'll be half awake, and they'll turn around
and crawl out right in front of you. You have
nowhere to go but to lock him up, and if
he could lock him up to avoid hitting him, and
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then he ends up dying.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And he was just minding his own business driving down
the road. Just unreal on reel and fighter.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Firefighters battle explosions after four semi trucks catch fire at
a Colorado truck stop. Several semi trucks were heavily damaged
by fire at a truck stop in Colorado. This happened
around nine point thirty at night, and Mountain View Fire
Rescue responded to a report of commercial vehicle fire at
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a truck stop located along Colorado Highway one nineteen, just
west of I twenty five.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
When the crews arrived on seed.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
They found four semi trucks on fire, with three of
the trucks fully engulfed in flames. It took firefighters about
ten minutes to knock down the vehicle fires battling explosions
from the fuel tanks and tires as they went up
and smoked. The cause of the or what up in flames,
I should say, the cause of the fire is still
under investigation by the Fire Marshal and also the Sheriff's office.
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You wonder if sometimes.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
If that's arson. You don't know. Now, this is not
the truck that was involved. I got bugs.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
This is not the truck that was involved in this
upcoming story. This is just a picture of just a
semi but a truck driver rams another truck into the
Jersey wall or concrete barrier and laughs about it. Police
say that a truck driver was laughing about it as
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he drove away from the sight of a fatal road
rage incident with another semi truck. The incident happened on
the evening of June twenty second. The truck driver surrendered
to police on the first of New Jersey Turnpike incident. So,
from doing some research, and I'm going to get away
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from the article a little bit. From doing some research
on this, this article doesn't explain everything. Like I said,
from doing some research, I got some more facts on
this story. Apparently the driver that was pushed into the
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concrete barrier slash Jersey Wall was Osmond Aiden from Minnesota.
He was trying to pass the first truck that pushed
him into the wall. And every time he tried this
first guy Naiden Duaro Aiden duol something like that, it's
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an unusual name. Joseph wouldn't let him pass. He was
playing like a cat and mouse game, according to witnesses.
So you're driving down the interstate, you come up on
a truck. I'll send you vera's out in front of you,
doesn't let you pass, think it it's funny. Then he
gets back over. You back off, try to pass him again,
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you know, and if it's most most trucks are regulated
at sixty five miles an hour, so if you're you know,
going downhill or something like that, he'll speed up, slow down.
I've had that happen to me too, and thinking it's
funny when you're trying to pass and nail slow down
and speed up and all this kind of crap and
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laughing and thinking it's funny. Well, finally he about ninety
minutes later.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Well no excuse me.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
After he tried to pass him on the left several times,
this Nomado steers his truck right into Aiden's truck and
pushes him into the median, the concrete Jersey wall.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
He then into the barrier. Well, he hit so hard
he went up and over the barrier.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
This Aidan crossed the other side of the interstate and
crashed into the trees and died. This is how you're
thinking you're funny, could end up killing somebody. You're not
funny when you.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Do this crap.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
We're supposed to be professionals out here and this is bullshit.
So after all this accident and everything, he left the
It was on New Jersey Turnpike. He left it in
the second exit and must have wearing down two ninety
five and then got back on about ninety minutes later,
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and they obtained dashcam footage from the semi confirming the
series of events. He also left the interstate. He used
duct tape to try to cover up the accident along
with cleaning up a cleaning solution, and he's since been arrested.
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He doesn't the officers at the time didn't know if
he knew that the second driver was killed in the accident,
and he's charged with second secondary count of vehicular homicide
leaving the scene of an accident and also tampering with
evidence because they still found some of the paint from
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Aiden's truck on this guy's truck, Nora's truck and definitely
knew that he did it, along with dash cam footage
and everything else.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
So from what he said, they said here was that.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
The company that he worked for was involved in multiple
crashes in the last three or four years. And the
owner of course denied any comment or anything, but also
took her LinkedIn profile down.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Like I said, I did further research. So he's, you know,
waiting his try in jail.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
And I believe, unless I'm I might be miss dake no,
that that company was from from a different story.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
So I misspoke on that.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
That that owner of the company is in a different
story that I'm going to get to. And in this
next story, de seeses seven hundred pounds of meth from
a semi truck at a Georgia warehouse. Now, if I'm
squinting a little bit, I have my contacts in and
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without putting my glasses on, so I either don't look
like an old granny, but I have to have the
it's hard to see. I really need to have glasses
on as far as UH seeing, but then you get
the glare from the screen and everything, so uh.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
Two people were arrested after.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Federal authorities found hundreds of pounds of illegal drugs stashed
inside a semi truck loaded with produce at a warehouse
in Georgia. Officials say that the DEA agents learned that
a semi parked at a warehouse they gainsful of Georgia
possibly contained a large shipment of drugs, so they were
tipped off. Agents spotted a sedan next to the semi
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with Andreas YAsO Junior thirty seven the driver's seat and
Perez fifty nine in the passenger seat. When the semi
was searched, agents discovered twenty palats of boxes containing cucumbers.
Within the boxes of DA and covered thousands of individually
wrapped packages of meth. Yazo Junior and Perez were allegedly
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tasked with offloading the shipment from the semi and separating
the drugs from the cucumbers. After DA agents arrested the
Yazo Junior and Perez, the agents learned that the total
quantity of the meth seized seated seven hundred pounds. Junior
and Prez charged with possession of intended to distribute meth
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and was additionally charged with illegal re entry by a
removed alien.
Speaker 3 (25:09):
So he was already booted from this country and he
came back across.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
Perez is allegedly a citizen in national of Mexico with
no legal status in the US. In two thousand and one,
Perez was deported and removed from the US following a
felony conviction in Arizona for transporting pot. He allegedly re
entered the US thereafter and was encountered by FEDS in
March of twenty fourteen while transporting nearly one kilo of
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coke in the Atlanta area. August of twenty fifteen, a
federal judge sentenced him to six and a half years
in the pokey. Upon completion of his sentence, Perez was
deported for a second time.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
He just doesn't learn. He's like a cockroach. He keeps
coming back.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
The case is under investigation by the DEA with assistance
from the Georgia State Police. In the EU of investigation
an Apartment of Homeland Security. So and they go on
to thank the officer's bloody, bloody block. I don't usually
get into all that mess and in this story, forty
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truck drivers are now out of service for a lack
of English proficiency since enforcement began last week, say Mexican officials,
forty truckers from Mexico. And that's it, only forty in
a week. I'm figured there'd be more than that have
been placed out of service since enforcement of English proficiency
standards began.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
The end of June.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
The executive order requiring all truck drivers to effectively communicate
with law enforcement in English and thoroughly understand highway signs
officially went into effect on the twenty sixth of June.
Since then, forty truck drivers have been placed out of
service for their inability to comply with these standards. Vice
President of the Northwest Chapter of the Chamber of Freight
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Transportation and Mexico Vallejo says that the drivers placed out
of service for driving through Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
The enforcement.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Let's see, the enforcement had been primarily in these states,
but no one has lost their license in California, he said.
Vallejo says that there was likely more than eighty thousand
truck drivers, eighty thousand truck drivers from Mexico in this
country that crossed it to the US on a daily basis,
and around seventy percent of them would be unable to
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meet English proficiency standards. That means close to sixty thousand
of them. Back in the day when we didn't have
all this, if done everything, you had to crosstock stuff.
So you took your trailer down to Mexico. They would
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either shag the trailer down into Mexico or Laredo. I
mean they would either or they would bring their Mexican
trailer up to Laredo. You would meet at a dock
that the building looked like a t had a roof
on it. It was opened, and then you backed up
to the docks on both sides. And then you'd back
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up the two trailers side by side, and they take
it off the Mexican trailer and put it on your trailer.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
No big deal. You know, you have to have an appointment, this, that,
and the other.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
Well, then they started letting them come across.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Well, now that you have to have English proficiency, Now
we got a mess with eighty thousand.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Trucks come from Mexico coming in. That's why they drive
like they do.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
They drive like idiots and get the hell out of
their way, along with Russians and Armenians too. Twenty to
thirty percent can easily manage, but the remaining seventy percent
can't hold a conversation to know basic English to get by.
But if you take them all off the road, it
will severely implicate, have severe implications in the supply chain,
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and cripple the economy both countries.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
He said, I don't think so. We got along just fine.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Years ago before any Mexican drivers were even allowed.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
In this country.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
An attempt to solve the booming issue, multiple truck company
groups and trucket companies are now offering English language classes
to drivers in hopes to bring them up to the
new standard. Yeah see Dick Janie run with dog kind
of thing. The forty truck drivers placed out of service
for English proficiency reasons may face between ten thousand and
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fifty thousand dollars fined if found driving again without improved
English proficiency. So if they go back to Mexico and
they come back across the border and still can't speak English,
they'll get fined between ten and fifty thousand dollars. Good ONNYA,
if you're in this country. You live here, you need
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to speak the damn language.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
I don't you know.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
If I go to Italy or Mexico or Germany or something,
I better get an interpreter or be able to at
least get by and speak the language so people can
understand me and in this story. USDOT unveils blockbuster pro
trucker package that promises to halt speed limit or mandate
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expand truck parking and much more. US Transportation Secretary Sean P.
Duffy rolled out a wide ranging plan designed to support
the truck and industry by cutting resigulations, crack it down
on bad actors, and increasing truck parking. On June twenty seventh,
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Duffy publicly debuted pro Trucker Package, consisting of regulatory changes
and initiatives designed to improve the lives of American truck drivers.
Duffy's package was issued in response to an April twenty
twenty five EO from the White House at mandate enforcement
and English language requirements for truck drivers, but also called
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for the Secretary of Transportation to identify, quote identify, and
begin carrying out additional administrative, regulatory or enforcement actions to
improve working conditions of America's truck drivers within sixty days.
We all know truckers keep America running while the country sleeps. Body, bloody,
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bloody blood. The package calls for withdrawal of speed limitter
rule making, prioritizes funding for truck parking, and announces the
launch of two hours of servit pilot programs that could
open the door to increase flexibility for commercial drivers. And
it goes through all of the details. This is pages,
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so I'm not going to read all that. But we've
been fighting the speed limitter deal for decades and since
they limited.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
Them to begin with. And why should you know in
a chorus, sad, mad, dad, glad, all.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Of these groups are gonna be up at arms, you know.
But if my big thing why I hesitate is my
big gripe is when they took driver's head out of
high schools that was taught by a certified instructor and
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left the parents to teach a sixteen year old how
to drive when they don't listen to you anyway, that
was the downfall of driving in my opinion. I just
they people are running stop signs now. They don't even
look to the left and let alone use that little
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wand on the left hand side of your steering wheel.
That's called a turn signal. They don't even stop at
stop signs anymore. I live in a small town North Mississippi,
and I'll be damned if they stop at a stop
four way stop sign. They're like, you know, oh, there
ain't nobody coming an here. I'm coming up to the
stop sign. If if my brake's failed or something, I
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were a table um, they don't even stop.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
And it's just God, I don't have to. It's just
freaking ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Posing the myth that success is all about talent or luck.
You need to watch this if you've ever wanted to
give up on your dreams. The real secret ingredient perseverance.
Let's be real. Everyone hits a wall at some point.
Maybe you've failed to test, been rejected from a job,
or watched a dream slip through your fingers.
Speaker 3 (33:39):
Here's the thing.
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Everyone fails. What matters is what you do next. Did
you know Thomas Edison failed over a thousand times before
inventing the light bulb, or that JK. Rowling was rejected
by twelve publishers before Harry Potter became a global phenomenon.
The truth is Perseverance is the common thread in every
great success story. Think of persevere as your superpower. It's
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what keeps you moving when things get tough, what helps
you learn from mistakes, and what turns setbacks into comebacks.
The best part perseverance isn't something you're born with. You
build it moment by moment, every time you refuse to quit.
So next time life knocks you down, remember this. It's
not about how many times you fall, It's about getting
back up again and again. Because the power of perseverance
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isn't just about reaching your goals. It's about becoming the
kind of person who never gives up on themselves. So
whatever you're facing today, don't quit. Keep going. Your breakthrough
might be just around the corner.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Five people perish in a horrific accident. Five people passed
after truck driver fell asleep at the wheel and crashed
into stop traffic on I twenty over the weekend. This
accident happened back the end of June around two thirty
in the afternoon on Interstate twenty and Dallas. According to
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the local news, this twenty seven year old Alexis Gonzalez Compennoni,
fell asleep as he was driving near Hreham road Bridge.
You see him, he's the guy there in the T shirt. Yeah,
he's the guy right here in the T shirt. And
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he gets out of the truck unscathed. It looks like
really he he fell asleep. He was driving near the
Urim road bridge, causing him to crash it to stop
traffic on I twenty for a previous crash.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
Excuse me.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
He crashed into a Ford F one fifty before slamming
into two other tractor trailers. One of the secondary tractor
trailers then jackknife and struck a Jeep, a Mustang and
a Honda. The chain reaction crashes involved a total of
seven vehicles. Four people inside the F one fifty were
pronounced dead at the scene. The fifth person was flown
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to a nearby hospital in critical condition. One person in
the cheap hit by the jackknife semi truck was also pronounced.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
Dead at the scene.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
All you could see was one eighteen wheeler, half of
the back end was missing, according to this witness who
was working at a nearby business, and then another eighteen
wheeler and the cab was completely gone. There's a lot
of truck drivers that go through here, so it's pretty bad.
They don't know how to pull over whenever they're getting
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tired or they.
Speaker 3 (36:35):
Pushed the limit. This witness said.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Gonzales Compioni is currently in custody on five counts of
manslaughter and one kind of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
And then update on this story. One point five million dollars.
Speaker 3 (36:57):
Of bail was set.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
As a six person passed after that crash involving seven vehicles.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
And then still yet another update.
Speaker 2 (37:19):
Oops, hold on, bear with me that some more details
were released.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
On this crash.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Safety investigation surrounding this drowsy driving crash revealed some dubious
details regarding the trucket company involved. And this is the
lady that I was talking about. The National Transportation Safety
Board and the Texas Department of Public Safety opened an
investigation into the pilot crash on Interstate twenty in Terrell,
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Texas that left five people passed away. The truck driver
in the incident was twenty seven year old Alexis Assomni
Gonzales Capioni.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
What a name.
Speaker 2 (38:04):
You're currently being held on one point five million dollars
bond for the accident after allegedly falling asleep at the
wheel and like I said, gets out of the truck
unskate the cut. He was driving for Hope Trans LLC
at the time of the crash. The company has been
in operation since twenty twenty one, so not that long,
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only about four years.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
It employs eighty drivers but operates sixty five trucks. How
is that possible?
Speaker 2 (38:33):
According to the FMCSA, in the last year, five percent
of the company's drivers underwent inspection were placed out of
service and nearly thirty four percent of their trucks were
placed out of service the same time frame. A national
average for drivers and trucks placed out of service is
six point sixty seven percent that's the national average and
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twenty two point twenty six percent, respectively. In the past
two years, Hope Trans Llc has been involved in three
crashes resulting in injuries, but none were fatal until the
I twenty accident. Despite seemingly reasonable inspection rates, the investigation
revealed other dubious details regarding ownership and business address this
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WFAA reports that the Orlando address listed was recently changed
from Tacoma, Washington address, which was linked to a co
working space. It's unclear whether Hope Trans actually maintained an
office at that address in Orlando. In addition to potential
FMCSA violations related to the company address, the listed owner
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of Hope Trans did not respond to requests for comment
by news outlets. And this is a lady that deleted
her LinkedIn profile. The owner I shot Mega Medova reportedly
once owned fr Rito Trucking, which no longer is authorized
to operate as an interstate carrier. Fier Rito Trucking listed
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address was linked back to a church building that is
also used as an event venue. So they just pull
aad address out of the thin air and say, yeah,
I'm I'm working there. And the Governor of Texas says
publicly instructed the Texas Department of Public Safety to expand.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
Its investigation into this accident. So she closes down one business.
Now this is just my opinion. She closes down one business,
opens up a second.
Speaker 2 (40:40):
Transportation LC and then turns around and has three wrecks
in those four years, and now it's a fatality, and yeah,
there goes your insurance rates sky high. And now for
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this one, let's get some better news. Going Loves opens
a store on a truck stop on I forty in Arizona,
adding eighty one truck parking places.
Speaker 3 (41:13):
So yeah, Winslow.
Speaker 2 (41:19):
So it's Winslow Arizona. Anyway, I don't want to get
it for copyright now. You may find this story funny.
An armed woman blocking I forty five in a lawn
chair after a crash with a semi truck and armed
dorman to currently block the Interstate forty five in Houston
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in a lawnchair after apparently crashing with a semi truck.
This happened on I forty five near Cypress Would Drive
in Houston. The crash occurred and stand up began at
one about two o'clock in the afternoon at the end
of June. According to the local news outlet, the woman
was initially involved in an accident with a semi After
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the accident, she exited her car with a handgun and
set up a lawn chair in the middle.
Speaker 3 (42:05):
Of the freeway.
Speaker 2 (42:07):
She ignored alliveruble commands given to her to drop the weapon.
The woman soon engaged at a standoff with police. As
of three pm, negotiators had contacted a family members see
if they could help talk her down. Southbound traffic was
being detoured, while northbound traffics were being re routed on
Cyprus Drive. I'm sure they got her in custody after
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a while. And video shows which I'm sorry I can't
show because of U two algorithm and copyright and everything else.
Video shows a moment where a worker was knocked from
a bucket by a semi passing in underneath him and
smacking the bottom of the bucket. So the guy is
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working on a traffic light. Okay, you see that all
the time unless there's somebody in the left turn lane
and you can't really see it because of the skirts
of the semi that's called skirting underneath the trailer. And
he was making a left hand turn as you could
see where normally you would miss that bucket the bucket truck,
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and I don't know why they didn't block off the
lane or something that you had to go around him.
So a dash cam video recorded by motorists shows a
moment an electrical worker was knocked over by a passing
semi truck while working in a bucket truck. This happened
in Massachusetts. The worker suspended in a bucket truck while
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repairing out the traffic light at an intersection in the
right lane when a semi truck tries to pass the
work site. As it passes, the semi truck's trailer strikes
the bucket and knocks it over, causing the worker to
be suspended in the air upside down, just held on
by his harness. Luckily he was wearing the harness I
mean it's OSHA. But while not seen in the video,
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the harness reportedly broke before the man could be rescued,
and the man suffered multiple broken bones, but he's expected
to recover. So he fell, he hit the ground, he
hit the paid concrete because the harness didn't hold him.
So there again, some damn stupidity that should have never happened.
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And here a super load weighing nearly one point five
million pounds.
Speaker 3 (44:39):
Crosses I eighty in Wyoming. This is the end of June.
Speaker 2 (44:48):
Cruise will begin transporting a large transformer from Laramie to
Medicine Bowl. The super load will leave a rail yard
in Laramie, UH and it left their thirtieth of June
and expected to reach I eighty it's snowy range on
ramp about ten thirty that morning. The slow moving superload
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will then move west along I eighty to the truck
parking area. At mark er mile marker three oh seven
and at five o'clock in the morning and the next
day is expected to leave the truck parking area and
travel for about two hours on I eighty to Arlington
at the.
Speaker 3 (45:26):
Two seventy two.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
Then the super load will take Wyoming Highway thirteen to
US Highway thirty to eighty seven, reaching its destination in
Medicine Bow. The transfer transport dimensions of the load seventeen
feet three inches tall, twenty six feet wide, three hundred
and eighty five feet.
Speaker 3 (45:47):
Long and weighs.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
One point almost one point five million pounds. Due to
the side of the superload, both lanes of travel will
be used not to cause damn much to the interstate.
The transport will be traveling only twenty five to thirty
miles an hour, dropping to ten miles an hour over bridges.
Stoppages and travel delays.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
Were expected at that time. And I will be right back.
Thank you so much for your patients. End up next.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
New York City DOT now issuing six hundred and fifty
dollars citations to overweight trucks headed towards Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
Using the BQE.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Way in Motion system. New York City Department of Transportation
announced expansion of enforcement on overweight trucks using weighing and
motion technology. This started on the end of June. Around
the twenty second, the DOT began issuing six hundred and
fifty dollars violations to overweight Staten Island bound trucks on
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the Brooklyn Queen's Expressway.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
Or the BQE.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Overweight trucks are tire using weighing in motion technology or
sensors in the roadway in conjunction with the adjacent cameras
to capture identifying information your US DOOT number, name of
the truck, at company address, et cetera. To gear up
for the increased enforcement, officials began a ninety day warning
period and March. Back in March, owners of the overweight
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trucks caught on BQE headed towards Staten Island received notices
but no fines, as well as information on the June
twenty second enforcement date. So they usually do that, they'll
give you a few months, you know, to find alternate
routes or something like that before they start issuing tickets.
Within the first seventy five days of the warning period,
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more than three thousand warnings were issued. The Weighing Emotion
Overweight Truck Enforcement system has been in use on the
BQE for Queens for more than a year since New
York City DOT began the weigh in Motion enforcement in
twenty twenty three. The system has proven to be incredibly
effective tool ad deterring overweight trucks from using the BQE
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in downtown Brooklyn. As of November twenty twenty four, overweight
trucks detected on the Triple can't delever spans decrease by
sixty percent, So, in other words, you know, this is
really tearing up those bridges. And I've been all over
New York City. Overweight trucks cause wear and tear on
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our roadways, and we all pay the price to expansive
expensive repairs for our infratructure. That is why we are
expanding our role as a nationwide leader by cracking down
on overweight vehicles on the BQE, now deploying State of
the Road weight censors from Staten Island bound traffic may have.
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Twenty twenty three, the announced that the state's twenty twenty
six budget includes authorization to expand the use of whim
or weighing emotion technology to an additional fourteen more locations
in New York State, including nine city owned bridges and
highways managed by the New York City DOT.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
The ones that.
Speaker 2 (49:09):
DOT owned are the bt BQE excuse me, Route I
two seventy eight, Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, Metropolitan Avenue Bridge, Hamilton
Avenue Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, ed Kotch Queensboro Bridge, Third Avenue Bridge,
Manhattan Bridge, Long Island Expressway, Interstate Route four ninety five
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over wood Haven. Non New York DOT owned in New
York City is the RFK Bridge in the GW Bridge
or George Washington Bridge. Outside of the city is the
Bear Mountain, Newburgh Beacon mid Hudson. I've been across Newburg
Beacon and the New York State Thruway interchange near Syracuse,
(49:52):
and this gentleman is arrested for terroristic threats after pointing
a handgun at a trucker as they drove. He was
arrested for terroristic threats after pointing a handgun at a
trucker as they drove. This happened in Lincoln, Nebraska, according
to the local news people. Police were called excuse me
in the area of Highway II and Highway seventy seven
(50:14):
on reports of a road rage incident. Truck driver involved
in the incident told police they was driving south on
Highway seventy seven when a man in a black Ford
F one point fifty pointed a black handgun at him
as they drove side by side. Deputies later spotted to
pick up matching the description provided by the semi driver
and was able to contact a motorist, thirty nine year
(50:36):
old Jacob Gum. Gum agreed to be interviewed by police.
Gum explained to officers, while he was driving on Highway
seventy seven, semi truck attempted to cut him off multiple times.
Gum says he pointed his handgun at the trucker rolled
down his window in response to the driver's actions. Gum
was arrested and booked into the County jail, where he's
facing a charge of terroristic threats. His bond was then
(51:00):
been set at three thousand dollars. His next carrying is
scheduled for July twenty fourth. Ooops and firefighters battle a
daytime truck at company fire for over six hours. Firefighters
battling a trucket company of fire for about six hours
in Illinois. The end of June incident occouraged just after
(51:24):
noon on the twenty fifth in Lincoln, Illinois. According to
the local news, a fire at Lincoln Tranfoat and Processing
started the basement level and traveled through the duckwork to
the upper levels of the building. Firefighters used multiple tanker trucks,
ladder trucks, a very large fan truck to extinguish the
fire and clear the smoke from the truck and company.
Speaker 3 (51:46):
Building crew spent six hours.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Battling the flames and ensuring no remaining ember has existed
in the duckwork. All truck and company employees were able
to evacuate the building without injury, Thank goodness. One firefighter
was hospitalized with heat exhaustion. No other injuries were reported,
so that's good.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
Nobody was hurt on that fire. Wonder how that started?
Speaker 2 (52:12):
And in North Carolina, town honors the sacrifice of a
dump truck driver who steered away from others when his
brakes failed on Interstate forty. Officials in the town of
Old Fort, North Carolina shared a touching tribute to a
dump truck driver who lost his life when his brakes failed.
(52:32):
The crash took place earlier in June, as sixty five
year old Georgia resident Ralph Hibbert was making the six
mile descent on eastbound I forty into old Fort, North
Carolina as a part of Hurricane Helene relief efforts.
Speaker 3 (52:52):
I believe that's Black Mountain. I believe.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Witnesses told police that Hibbert tried to apply his brakes
but not slow and was traveling at it estimated seventy
five to eighty miles an hour when he took Exit
seventy three after reportedly bypassing a truck escape ramp on
the interstate. The dump truck crashed into a building under
construction in the five hundred block up Back Cave Road,
(53:17):
and Hibbert was ejected. He passed away at the scene.
Police confirmed to the outlet that the dump truck's breaks
did fail, no other vehicles were involved, and no.
Speaker 3 (53:28):
One else was injured.
Speaker 2 (53:30):
The town of old Ford shared a message in honor
of hibbert'stributions to the community and hero action to save
others quote in loving memory of Ralph Hibbert. Our community
is heartbroken over the tragic loss of Ralph Hibbert, a
skilled and respected truck driver with over thirty years of experience.
(53:50):
Ralph lost his life this past Tuesday and a crash
caused by break failure and his final moments, he acted
with incredible courage, steering away from others and preventing what
could have been a far greater tragedy. His selfish actions
were nothing short of roic. Ralph wasn't just passing through.
He has been here helping us recover and rebuild after
(54:13):
the recent storms. He became a part of our town
in the most meaningful way through service, generosity, and heart.
Over the past few days, several community members have reached
out to town Hall asking how they might pay their respects.
In response, we want everyone to know that you're welcome
to leave a token of remembrance, whether flowers, notes, or memories,
(54:34):
at the Arrowhead Fountain. This space will serve as a
place for reflection and gratitude for Ralph's life and bravery.
At this time, we have not yet been able to
locate an official obituary or details about funeral services, but
we will share any updates as we receive them. Please
continue to keep Ralph's family and loved ones in your
(54:56):
thoughts and during this difficult time. The town of Old Fort, North.
Speaker 3 (55:01):
Carolina, and as always.
Speaker 2 (55:08):
I want to thank you so much for joining me
and keeping listening to this podcast. I apologize for not
really keeping up with when I say I'm going to
live stream it, but things happen, storms just a bad day,
(55:29):
and if my mind isn't right, I just can't record it.
I want to give all of you a good show,
So thank you so much for your patience and returning
to listen to me report on the news, and I
will continue to do you so. I will also keep
bringing you updates as the stories also unfold. So keep
(55:52):
the Shiny Sight up and have a blessed week.
Speaker 1 (56:00):
That out Snap back now Nap, Snap, Nap up, naught
(56:30):
now that up, Snap Nap Nap Snap, Nap Now Nap
Snap Napa Na Na, Nap Dot Nap dub dump napau
(57:14):
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