August 7, 2025 • 56 mins
In this week's episode of Julia's Trucking Cafe - Trucking News Hour, I discuss what happened that caused a double fatality crash which involved 7 semis and 9 cars. I also discuss other stories that have made the news in the trucking industry. If you are enjoying the show, please consider making a donation to keep the show going. You can make a one-time donation here: Paypal.Me
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Speaker 2 (01:35):
Good evening, everybody, Welcome to another episode of Julia's Truck
at Cafe truck A news hour had a little bit
of technical difficulties, so I had to start the stream again.
I'm always forgetting to unmute my microphone, so I forget
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my head sometimes if I wasn't half ass attacked. So
I just thank you for still tuning in. Let's try
this again. Take two. Truck driver dies. Now you can
hear what I'm saying instead of just watching my mouth
move in. No audio coming out. So truck driver dies
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after passing out behind the wheel, sparking chain reaction crash.
In this article, a truck driver passed away after passing
out behind the wheel during a medical emergency and causing
a chain reaction crash. This accident happened in northeast Dallas, Texas,
around the twenty first of July. According to the local news,
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the truck driver was operating a flatbed hauling pipe when
he passed out behind the wheel. Flatbed semi then crashed
into a second semi truck a car, a bus, and
a box truck. Total of seven people were injured in
the crash. Five of those victims sustained non life threatening
injuries and one was determined to be critical but in
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stable condition. The truck driver passed away at Or he
was taken to the hospital. The crash is still under investigation,
but police officers believed that the driver suffered a medical
emergency leading to his passing out behind the wheel, which
then did cause to crash and eighteen Eastern States to
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partner for campaign to stop or They did partner for
a campaign to stop bridge strikes on the East Coast.
According to a coalition of eighteen states. They came together
for a campaign to stop vehicles of hitting low clearance bridges.
This happened July twenty second through July twenty six. Eighteen
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member states of the Eastern Transportation Coalition took part in
a check Your Height, No It's Right educational campaign intended
to curb bridge strikes. The campaign reminds drivers to know
the height of their vehicles and to comply with posted
bridge clearance signs. Don't be tunnel vision and not watching
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out for signs and know the height of your vehicle.
Most semis are thirteen feet six inches, so you're definitely
not gonna fit under a ten foot nine inch bridge.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
You got.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Three inches three foot excuse me, three foot almost that
you know you're too tall, and don't be following Google Maps.
Don't be following GPS. Learn how to get yourself a
paper atlas, a truck and atlas. They list every route
in the front of the atlas. Open it up, list
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every route, every low bridge, especially around Chicago. It's notorious
for having low bridges or building up the road and
then not changing the signs on the bridge, and you're
just gonna creep under like this gentleman just started to
creep under the bridge and it's a low train trestle.
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But back to the article, the campaign targeted all types
of drivers and also, let's not forget people pulling r vs.
These big motor coaches. Know the height of your vehicle
before you you know gonna go out on your trip.
Kentucky Transportation provided the following tips to help drivers avoid
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bridge strikes. Measure the vehicle if hauling equipment or livestock,
check the trailer and load height. Don't rely like I
said on GPS, and ensure dump truck beds are lowered
before going under a bridge. There is a bunch of
states that are in this coalition that I'm not gonna
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read because the list is quite lengthy. And in this story,
a trucker's buried underneath bails of paper that broke through
the front of a trailer during a crash. Now, these
bales of shredded paper don't look very big, but the
bails themselves are huge, and they're about one thousand to
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two thousand pounds apiece. So he's lucky he's still alive.
Truck drivers buried under bales of paper that broke through
after the load broke through the front of his trailer
during an early morning crash. The accident happened July twenty
third in Fond Delac County on Highway at one fifty
one know that highway Well. Police were called by a
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passing motorist who saw the semi leave northbound Highway one
fifty one near the ramp to South Main Street and
go on into a roadside ditch. Caller told emergency services
that they were unable to check on the driver because
the truck cab was so severely damaged. When police officer
arrived at the scene. Two Good Samaritans were attempting to
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help the trucker who was buried under bales of paper
after they broke through the front of his trailer. First
responders helped them move the cargo in order to reach
the driver, and sixty year old truck driver was then
transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital, where then he
was flown to a secondary hospital with serious injuries. Yeah,
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he could have got crushed or did get crushed. The
police investigation revealed that he was attempting to exit Highway
one fifty one at South Main Street and he overshot
the turn. He was going too fast, just plain and simple.
And when you come to a sudden stop, all the
cargo slides forward, and that trailer is just made out
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of aluminum. You got several thousand pounds of paper and
that much force, nothing's going to hold it back, really,
and it broke through and he's lucky to be alive.
And in this story are one hundred and thirty truckers
and mechanics to be laid off in Arizona. One hundred
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and thirty drivers and mechanics will lose their jobs by
the end of summer. After failed teamstersgotiations with Kroger led
to a canceled contract. Vice president of the Teamsters Local
one four, Josh Graves, says that the Teamsters had a
contract with the Ruined Transport, which contracted with Kroger to
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hire truck drivers and decent mechanics at a Kroger warehouse
at Tollis and Arizona been there. A three year contract
between Ruin and Kroger was signed back at twenty twenty three,
which included a clause allowing Kroger to exit the contract
with a ninety day notice. In July last month, Teamster's
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union was notified that Kroger had chosen to cancel the
contract with Ruin and soon we'll be working with Swift instead.
I'm sure now my personal opinion, I'm sure that Swift
came in, saw that the contract was, you know, only
got another year left really and went ahead and underbid
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the Ruin and then went ahead and got the contract.
Teams has a Ruined It since offered concessions to Kroger
an attempt to keep the contract, but their offers were
not accepted. The notice filed by Ruin lists a total
of one hundred and forty four people that will soon
lose their jobs. Uh Arizona Senator said that I'm concerned
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with your recent decision to terminate your long standing relationship
with Ruin Transportation and action that puts good paying jobs
at risk and impacts the community stability. Kroger had previously
attempted to displace union workers, but ultimately failed under the
scrutiny of workers and the public alike. The latest decision
appears to be another attempt to undermine Teamster's Local one
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oh four and circum the collective bargaining process. They don't
want to Swift isn't union, so apparently Kroger didn't want
the union in there anymore. Can't really play them up,
but that's just my personal opinion, and after careful consideration,
we've decided to transition to a portion of our transportation
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services to Swift. They're a space come carrier, helped minimize
disruption for all parties and maintain the high standards our
associates and customers expect. We've identified a tiered transition plan.
They're saying that some of the employees that were affected
that by this that worked at the distribution center at
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Kroger for twenty six years or more so time to retire.
I mentioned that at my age of sixty one, it's
hard for me to go ahead and find new employment.
I have four years left before my retirement and you
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know minimum retirement, and I've applied a bunch of different places.
They won't even give me the courtesy to turn around
and respond saying thank you received your application. We'll keep
it on file. Should we be hiring in the future,
just something and not even a word, not one word
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about you know anything. So that's you know, the hiring
processes nowadays. And in this story, over two thousand violations
uncovered by Arizona commercial vehicle enforcement. The Arizona Public Safety
and Highway Patrol released the results of their Commercial Vehicle
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Safety Alliance Operation Safe Driver Week that took place excuse
me July thirteenth through the nineteenth, targeting commercial vehicle and
passion vehicles, and we're looking for violations like speeding, distracted driving,
and commercial motor vehicle violations. The total contacts for six
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hundred and thirty three total inspections, six hundred and nineteen
total dveer violations, two thousand, ninety eight drivers placed out
of service, one hundred vehicles were placed out of service
one hundred and fifty. So you have one hundred drivers
placed out of service, but you had one hundred and
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fifty vehicles placed out of service. How come the numbers
don't compute? So if you could compute the numbers, leave
a comment in the comment section blow or you can
even comment in the chat if you're watching this on
YouTube or on Twitch. I'm also on there. And what's
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the fifty driver discreptancy compared to the You know, one
hundred and fifty vehicles placed out of service, but you
had one hundred drivers. So then what did fifty drivers
do because their vehicles placed out of service unless they
had to get repairs done. That could have been if
they had a flat tire or something. What's your comment?
Leave a comment, boll. Anyways, back has Man inspections are
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forty one restraint citations not warrant seatbelt nineteen and citations
overall one hundred and fourteen. End up. Next, FMCSA officially
withdraws speed limitter rules for heavy trucks. About time. We've
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been in the truck in industry has been fighting speed
limitters for decades and finally somebody's in that office that
got smart that said, look, we're not going to be
doing it, because really, the youngster that were born after
the nineties, you don't remember when speed limits like California
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had fifty five miles an hour, Ohio and Illinois the
same thing, fifty five miles an hour for trucks, but
everybody else could go sixty five sixty sixty five speed
limvers there, You being in cars just because the speed
limit is eighty miles an hour out West New Mexico, Arizona,
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out in the Dakota's doesn't mean you have to go
one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty do that
on a track someplace. My opinion, cars need to have
speed limitters on them, not semice semis. You got a
heck of a time pulling a hill as it is.
You need to turn around and work the hills that
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you got to get a good run in there. Again,
you don't have to be doing one hundred downhill to
get up the other side because of the weight shift
and everything. So oh yeah, the FMCSA, let's get to
the article officially withdraw speed limitters has withdraw a proposed
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rule that would require speed limited devices on heavy trucks.
This was a notice. A notice is always published in
the Federal Register anytime. This agency, which is Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, is an agency of the government. That
they were going to propose to do something. Okay, they
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withdrew twenty sixteen notice of proposed rule making to require
heavy duty trucks be equipped with speed limited advice that
would have governed the truck at a speed determined by
federal officials sixty five. So you're all four wheelers cars,
people at drive cars are always complaining and being aggravated
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when two trucks are going down on the road at
both sixty five miles an hour and nobody's passing anybody,
and they're kind of pasting each other, so you know
it just everybody gets aggravated. So if you could imagine
if that's mandatory, that all trucks were sixty five and
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nobody could pass anybody, what a line of bull hockey.
The rule withdrawal follows up on efforts made under the
Trump administration to degregulate trucking and to improve the lives
of America truck drivers. In late June of this year,
Transportation Secretary of Sean pe Duffy rolled out the pro
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truck or package that I discussed in episode of Initiatives
designed to support the truck and industry with includes a
promise to withdraw speed limitter rule making. It can explaining
the decision to withdraw the speed limited rule. FBCSA pointed
to a twenty twenty two advanced Notice of supplemental proposed
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rule making that indicated the agency's intention to move forward
with speedlimited rule making. It's also called for public comment
on a plan to require motor carriers to limit speeds
for certain motor vehicles operated into interstate commerce that were
already equipped with electronic engine Control Unit ECU capable of
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setting the speed limits. The maximum speed of affected CMVs
was to be determined by the rule making, and motor
carriers would have been required to maintain that maximum speed
in that electronic ECU computer unit for the service life
of the vehicle like forever, you could never shut it off.
Of the fifteen thousand, six hundred and thirty eight comments received,
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approximately three hundred supported moving ahead with speedlimited rule making,
while over fifteen thousand comments opposed the speed living a rule.
Several commenters included the owner, operator, and Independent eight Drivers
Association indicated that limiting a truck speed would have adverse
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impacts on driver's incomes because reducing travel speeds would reduce
the number of miles traveled as well as the number
of pickups and deliveries, and you're always going to be
late for an appointment. Other commentary issues included higher fuel costs,
impact to driver well being, and ease of parking due
to additional hours a driver must have to spend driving
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to complete that task and having to start early in
the morning and drive it until you could find a
place to park. Because of course, anybody that drove over
the road you know now that truck stops are filling
up at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, no
matter what part of the country you're in. Where before
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it was like seven eight o'clock at night. So officials
ultimately conducted that there was no compelling data showing that
the speed limit or rule would have increased highway safety.
So after all these studies since twenty sixteen, almost ten
years of studying this issue, they finally figured out that
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it wasn't gonna promote highway safety, you know, So it's
about time. So the article goes on. I'm not gonna
continue on it. But thank goodness, they finally somebody finally
came to their senses on this issue again my opinion,
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And a Florida man is guilty of interstates came to
steal big rigs loaded with millions of dollars in electronics
from southern Indiana and other states. Two brothers were indicted
following the seizure of a historical amount of illegal drugs
from a semi truck operating in South Carolina. Oh wait,
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a second, grab the wrong one. Sorry, let me redact
that all right. So, Florida man guilty of interstate scheme
the one I just got talking about. But the two brothers,
that's the next story. Federal jury in Indiana found a
Florida man guilty of taking part in a wide ranging
interstate cargo theft scheme targeting truckers hauling goods for national
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companies like Meta, Microsoft and l Brands. Wan Deepres Gonzales
fifty one has been found guilty on charges of conspiracy,
possession of a good stolen from interstate commerce, interstate transportation
of stolen property. According to a July twenty third statement,
five co conspirators previously pled guilty to participating in the
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same cargo theft scheme. Official say that between December of
twenty twenty one and May of twenty twenty three, Gonzales
and his co conspirators conspired to steal semi trucks loaded
with high end electronics and other items in southern Indiana
and other states. Transported the stolen cargo to Florida, which
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was then sold at a discounted rate. Let me read
from the Attorney Office. US Attorney's Office describes as Cargo
Staff Operation. I'll try to make this brief. The co
conspirators traveled for various locations, including Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio,
to target various distribution facilities used by national companies such
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as Meta, Microsoft, and l Brands. The group surveiled these facilities,
followed semi trailers as they departed. When a driver stopped
to rest, refuel, or park, the conspirators stoled the entire semi.
In many instances, the group abandoned the stolen semi nearby
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and reattached the tractor part and then reattached it with
a front truck to the same trailer they operated. To
evade law enforcement, they painted over logos and identifying numbers,
and used different license plates on the stolen trailers, so
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this was a pretty well thought out scheme. They transported
stolen cargo to Miami, Florida, where it was then sold
to buyers, including this co defendant Richard Alameda, for a
fraction of the inventory's retail value. The group carried out
at least fourteen separate cargo thefts, resulting in the theft
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of over two million and virtual reality headsets from Meta Facility, Oculus,
nine hundred and forty thousand dollars in Microsoft products, one
million dollars in bath Bodyworks and Victoria's Secret merchandise, and
six hundred and sixty nine thousand and harming JBL Audio products,
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one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in Logitech products, four
hundred and eighty thousand dollars worth of bows audio speakers,
among others stolen items. Offici will say that this is
the third time that Gonzalez has been convicted on a
federal charge of carolla theft. Do you think he's ever
gonna learn I'm curious if he's a US citizen or not,
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if he's not de pored his ass. Hey, he's just
gonna turn around a crawl back over to the border. Anyway,
this case was in investigated you excuse me by the FBI.
Can't talk uh, Indiana State Police and Kentucky State Police.
Now the oh hold on a second, one second, please,
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here we go. I had to change I put the
wrong dog on screen up on this one, so I
had to change that real quick. So sorry about that.
And in this story of DA NABS, this is what
happens with live you know. So sorry. Thanks for your patients, everybody.
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So DA nabs two brothers using a big rig to
haul the largest amount of fentanyl ever seized in South
Carolina history. Two brothers have been dieted following the seizure
of an historic amount of illegal drugs from a semi
truck operating in South Carolina. This happened July twenty second.
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They were both from California. They were indicted on charges
of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and meth.
According to the US Attorney's Office, the charges stem from
a pair of coordinated traffic stops in Lexington and Richland
Counties conducted on July first by DA agents. They report,
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quote in side of tractor trailer that was transporting products
with a legitimate business purpose. Law enforcement also found large
practices packages of illegal narcotics. The two brothers operating as
a semi were arrested following the traffic stop. Law enforcement
seized one hundred and fifty six pounds of fentanyl and
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forty four pounds of meth in total from the semi.
The drugs are believed to have been sourced from Mexico.
US Attorney's office said that this is believed to be
the largest seizure of fentanyl in state South Carolina history.
He said, this isn't just a drug bust, it's life
saving intervention on an unprecedented scale. For their state. Law
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enforcement has been working together at every level to keep
South Carolina safe and were committed to dismantling the criminal
networks that bring this poison into our communities. And they
go on and on and on how they well, can
I say, their press people like to talk about what
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Now let's get back to the news. A trucker reports
seeing a body floating in Missouri River. A trucker called
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police after noticing a body in the Missouri River while
riding as a passenger. Kansas City Police Department was called
just after one thirty in the afternoon near Kansas City, Missouri,
on July twenty second. According to the local news, a
truck driver told or passenger told officers that he spotted
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a body floating in the Missouri River from the passenger
seat of a semi cab as a rig headed north
on Interstate four thirty five. You have to have damn
good eyes, because I've been around four thirty five. You
have to have damn good eyes in order to see
a body floating in the river. Police responded to the
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call and discovered they on the riverbank near the I
four thirty five bridge, missing persons. Unique crime scene investigators,
and a medical examiner were all called to the scene.
At the time of the writing of the article. The
identity of the person has not yet been released. The
cause of death that was not determined at the time,
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and this investigation is on going and troopers are investigating
a cause of a double fatality pile up on I
ninety five in South Carolina, involving seven commercial vehicles and
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nine cars. This is our top story. As you see here,
I mean, you're gonna see my I don't know if
you could see my cursor, possibly not, but you see
the load king. I'll try to describe it for people
that are listening to this via audio. There is a
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semi truck load king. There is a pickup truck inside
the back doors of the semi truck in mid air
on the driver's side. In their sideways. There's another pickup
truck calling a rocking chair that crashed behind the pickup truck,
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and a looks like a flat bed truck that crashed
into the back of that same load king Semi. This
happened to South Carolina and investigating a multiple fatality pile
up crash that happened July the twenty second on I
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ninety five. The initial collision involved three vehicles, including one semi.
A short time later, a second collision occurred at the
same location, involving thirteen vehicles, six of those being semis.
Two people passed away in the crash and nine others
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were hospitalized, all with various injuries. Yeah, the blue that
you see there, Oops, that's the second part of the crash.
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That's the second part of the crash. That's all that
pile up. According to the Agency Fire Rescue, the crash
occurred amid a heavy rainstorm and motors reported near zero visibility.
The accident involved several vehicles that were piled on top
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of each other. One semi truck was hauling sheets of
glass plate glass, which was expelled onto the highway. Responders
had to work hard a workaround broke a glass in
some areas two feet deep. One victim was trapped at
a small passenger car underneath the pile of vehicles. A
truck driver whose cab was completely demolished was trapped in
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the remnants of his cab, and two victims were trapped
in a pickup truck that was ten feet in the air.
That was that first this first picture that I showed
you that was ten feet in the air, crashed into
the rear of the semi trailer. A victim of one
vehicle on the bridge fell off the bridge and into
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the river below trying to escape his car. He suffered
non life threatening injuries and was able to swim to
the bank before rescuers arrived. And of course, this crash
is under investigation. And in this story, a family wants
answers after a woman's body was found severely decomposed behind
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the Tennessee truck Stop and Motel. This motel is off
of Interstate twenty four. Family seeking answers after a woman
was found decomposed behind the Tennessee truck Stop and Motel.
Alicia Wolfe's body this lady here was found behind the
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I twenty four truck and autoplaza, which connects the truckers
in off I Interstate twenty four in Manchester, Tennessee. They
found her July fourteenth, According to the local news. Emily
Wolfe's mother last heard from her on the eleventh. The
following Monday, as Emily was working to file a missing
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persons report, police notified Wolfe's daughter Aliyah, that wolf have
been found to cease behind the truck stop and Motel. Tennessee.
Location is approximately six hundred miles from Orlando, Florida, where
she was last seen. Quote. Someone says they saw her
get into a black car, and then the second person
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said they got her. They saw her get into a
white semi truck. Emily said her mother. Authorities say they
are investigating a death as a homicide, but are awaiting
to report from the medical examiner to determine the cause
of death. Investigators say the decomposition of the bodies making
the cause of death difficult to determine. Eliah says that
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we'll struggled with addiction and worked as a street worker,
but she was a good person. She said, I want
to know what happened, like who did this to my
mom and why? And this is Alicia with her grandbaby.
If you happen to know or have any information about this,
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I'm sure you could call the Tennessee State Police there
around Manchester, Tennessee. That's another thing about this show. I
don't necessarily just talk about regulations and about what's going
on as far as drugs being seized or human trafficking
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or anything like that. I also talk about missing persons
as well and try to help the families get closure
for their loved one. If they're missing. I try to
keep things current on the homepage of our website at
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tuning in as much as I could get this done
there Again, as I retire, I will be able to
do the show more of a consistent basis and pick
a day, probably a Saturday night. I'm thinking seven eight
o'clock on a Saturday night to do live streams and
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that'll be like every Saturday night. So right now, with working,
I only have every other weekend off, so like today
is my day off, so I figured I'd jump on
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work this weekend, so it can't be this Saturday. But anyway,
thank you so much for all of your support, and
let's get back to the news. Twenty three point four
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million in cocaine discovered in semi truck crossing from US
into Canada. Border authorities stopped a commercial vehicle driver from
hauling a large shipment of cocaine over the Canadian US border.
The drug seizure took place back in May at the
Ambassador Bridge. Officers accounted a commercial truck coming into Canada
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from the US and referred the vehicle first secondary inspection.
While searching the trailer, the officers uncovered two suitcases and
five garbage maids containing one hundred and sixty one bricks
of suspected cocaine. The estimated street value of it is
twenty three point four million dollars. The truck driver was
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Ontario resident fifty five years old, was arrested in charge
by Royal Canadian Mounted Police with importation of cocaine and possession.
The incident was under investigation at the time, and there again,
you know, with the ongoing communication between the two countries,
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et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and FMC is saying
this story says that no to teens restricted with K
restricted licenses attending out of state trucking schools. Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration has denied a rural exemption request from
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a commercial driver's license school related to training truck driving
students under twenty one years of age who have restricted licenses.
They announced it a notice to be published in the
Register that I just got done talking about in the
previous story, that it will deny an exemption request from
Michigan based Beyonco Trucking Services, which is a registered entry
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level driver training provider beyond co asphederal authorities for an
exemption to allow students between the ages of eighteen and
twenty holding a K restricted in trust state only commercial
licensed learner permit issued by another state to attend their
driving training facility in Michigan. So, for example, let me
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break this down. If you're in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, surrounding
states of Michigan, or any other and you're between eighteen
and twenty, and you have a regular car license and
you study for the written exam for a CDL and
you get a larner permit, but it's only a k
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K level and you want to go to Michigan to
their truck driving school. They want an exemption for you
to attend under Motor Carrier Safety Administration is saying no,
we're not going to allow that, and explaining why the
request was not approved. FMCSA said that a similar exemption
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request from three North LLCA was denied in December of
twenty twenty four. The agency agreed with the American Association
of Motor Vehicle Administrators that allowing drivers with a quote
K restriction to operate in states other than their home
state or their domicile that would disrupt and confuse each
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state's use of the K restriction. They're trying to get
around it, is what they're trying to do. And you
have to go through a driving school in the state
where you have your license through. So I couldn't go
up to Wisconsin. I got a Mississippi license. I couldn't
go up to Wisconsin and go to their driving school.
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I'd have to take one in Mississippi, is what they're
trying to say. The same reasoning applies to Biaco's request
for an exemption. Furthermore, based on information provided by the
applicant FMCSA is unable to determine that the applicant would
likely achieve a level of safety equivalent to or greater
than the level obtained by complying with the said regulations,
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So it may not be strict enough. In other words,
And if you look at this photo and on the
screen you will see a the interstate, and look to
the right of the interstate, you will see where it's
like a trench. Well, look in the trees. That's a
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semi and Semi made that trench. The semi truck blazed
a trail through the woods on I five in a
wreck and only had minor injuries. A semi truck blazed
its own trail through the woods off of Eye five
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on Friday morning in a wreck that left the driver
excuse me, with minor injuries. This happened in Washington State.
According to state trooper, the semi was heading salt on
I five when it veered off the interstate and skidded
around two hundred feet through the woods. The semi's trailer
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broke open in the process, spilling a load of pink
soda cans. The State Patrol says that the truck driver
sustained only minor injuries, and officials shut down two lanes
of the roadway as they worked to recover the semi
from the newly blazed trail through the woods. I'm sure
it got buried up to the axles as well. No
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further information regarding the wreck was released at the time,
and six passed away after wreck sent two cars beneath
the semi and prompted a five hour rescue. Six people
passed away after two cars went underneath the semi, prompting
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a five hour rescue. In North Carolina. This happen, of course,
back in July. The crash happened on Interstate four eighty
five around Charlotte. According to the local news, sixteen year
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old Paul Sorry was driving a Honda when he moved
into the right lane and collided with a Chrysler van
driven by twenty seven year old Samuel Holmes. Initial impact
sent both cars crashing into the side of a semi trailer,
where they became stuck. Five to six people inside the
van were killed in the crash, including Holmes, a twenty
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three year old woman, and three children. Eight and younger
was also killed in the crash. A sixteen year old
girl was the sole surviving passenger of the van. She
was transported to the hospital and treated for injuries. The
truck driver was not hurt in the incident. First responders
worked in dangerous heat conditioned to connect the five hour rescue.
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The rescue involved lifting the semi trailer in order to
remove both trapped vehicles. The outer loop of four to
eighty five was closed for several hours during this time.
No charges are expected to be filed because both of
the people that were driving the cars died and nothing
that the truck driver could do. When the eye this
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mister Sawyer driving the Honda, didn't look to the right,
didn't turn his head to the right, just worried about
looking in the mirror, moved over. There was a car
right there, pushed him into the underneath the semi well
or this way because I keep forgetting the cameras backwards,
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and so I mean, you're not gonna blame the semi
truck driver over that. And a motorcyclist is killed after
trying to pass between two semi trucks on a New
York interstate. New York State Police are investigating a fatal
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crash involving a motorcycle and two commercial vehicles that occurred
on July twenty sixth. Troopers say that forty two year
old New York resident was operating a two thousand and
one Peterbilt semi in the driving lane when a truck
tire blowout occurred. He slowed while looking for a safe
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place to pull off of I eighty one as air slowed.
Iowa based truck driver Barbara L. Armstrong was driving a
twenty twenty four Peterbilt in the passing lane overtaking errors.
As the two semis occupied both lanes. A motorcycle operated
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by Austin Leonard of twenty eight years of age, approached
from behind an attempted to pass between the two trucks.
So you got a truck over here and a truck
over here, and here comes the motorcycle. Try to pass
it between the two. After passing the trucks, he lost
control of the bike, struck the guard rail along the
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west shoulder, and was ejected from the bike. He later
succumbed to his injuries and passed away. So he was
going at a high rate of speed the semi had
to blowout. He was slowing down trying to move over
to get off the road safely the truck. As he
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was slowing down, another truck tried to pass them, and
here comes the motorcycle. Instead of slowing down, figure out
what's going on. No, I'm going to go right down
and read the two of them. How stupid can you be?
I ride motorcycles. How dumb can you be? I'm sorry
the guy passed away, but it was his own fault.
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And in this story, two motorists are pinned in two
separate vehicles after crash underneath the semi. Two people were
pinned inside of two separate vehicles after crash that set
one underneath the semi trailer in New Mexico. This happened
July twentieth, according to Albuquerque Fire and Rescue. The cause
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of the crash has not been determined at the time
of the writing of the article, but firefighters arrived to
find a vehicle on fire that was pinned underneath the semi.
One person was pinned inside and what was extricated in
twelve minutes as crews worked to extinguish the fire. That
person sustained potentially life threatening injuries. A third vehicle was
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also involved in the crash and came to a stop
fifty yards away from the other crash site. Percido also
had to be extricated from that vehicle was serious but
not life threatening injuries. It's unclear if the truck driver
was injured, but no other injuries were reported but those
two people, and at the time of the writing of
the article, the cause of the wreck was not known.
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I was looking at the chat for just a second.
There we go here, I'm atten sorry, I lost my place.
It's just been a live stream. I haven't been doing
this that long. It has just been a heck of
a live stream. And in this story and I circled
you could see in the red circle on the screen,
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I mean that this is where the accident happened. Because
there's so much going on in the in the picture,
in the photograph, as you could see where the accident happened.
Suspects flee armed with an AK. They don't say if
it's a forty seven or not. I'm sure it is.
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After a fatal crash with a bus on I thirty five.
Interstate thirty five were shut down overnight after suspects armed
with an AK style rifle fled a crash into a bus.
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This happened July seventeenth thirty five, near San Antonio, Texas.
According to the local news, men in the camaro led
police at a high speed chase along the interstate, where
they eventually crashed into the bus. Traffic cam and news
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footage of the scene show at least one semi was
affected by the crash. The four suspects quickly fled the
fatal crash scene. One of the men was reportedly armed
with a AK style rifle, so they don't know for sure.
Four people were killed in the crash. Two died at
the scene, while two succumbed to their injuries later at
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the hospital. Thirteen other patients were taken to a nearby
hospital off the bus. Two of those patients are in
critical condition. As of a couple of days later, or
that night, people were still actively searching for the forest suspects,
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and as of a few days later, a fifth person
died as police continued search for the small group of
men who fled this crash scene. And that was yeah,
almost five days later. So this happened on Thursday day.
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The following Tuesday, the men still were not found. Remaining
two patients left at the hospital are in good and
fair condition, respectively, and another Safety Week is coming the
end of this month. I also have that on the
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homepage of Julia's Truck at Cafe website. The Commercial Vehicle
Safety Alliance Driver Week enforcement effort is officially in the books,
but the next major truck blitz is already right around
the corner. It's the end of this month, August twenty
fourth through the thirtieth, so mark your calendars. August twenty
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fourth through August thirtieth, last week of the month there
breaks Safety Week inspection. The purpose of the inspection the
enforcement to reduce commercial vehicle crashes caused by faulty brakes.
The area emphasis will be drums and rots, like this
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officer is crawling around underneath this peter belt. They'll be
checking for cracks and how thin your shoes are, Cracks
in the drum, cracks and the shoes and the lining
cracks and pads, how thin the pads are. They can
also check that now they never used to be able to,
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but now drums also, excuse me, semi trucks also have
disc brakes now that they never used to. And they
can check your pad, lining and stuff as well. They'll
be conducting these inspections. Canada Mexico and US. There was
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an unannounced brake safety day on a back in April
and they conducted four five hundred and sixty nine inspections
and placed three almost four hundred of them out of
service due to break related violations. So remember that. I
will have it posted on the website August twenty first,
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each article will be a clip on YouTube, so look
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a little bit of a short amender too short, and
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Good evening, everybody, Welcome to another episode of Julia's Truck
at Cafe truck A news hour had a little bit
of technical difficulties, so I had to start the stream again.
I'm always forgetting to unmute my microphone, so I forget
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my head sometimes if I wasn't half ass attacked. So
I just thank you for still tuning in. Let's try
this again. Take two. Truck driver dies. Now you can
hear what I'm saying instead of just watching my mouth
move in. No audio coming out. So truck driver dies
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after passing out behind the wheel, sparking chain reaction crash.
In this article, a truck driver passed away after passing
out behind the wheel during a medical emergency and causing
a chain reaction crash. This accident happened in northeast Dallas, Texas,
around the twenty first of July. According to the local news,
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the truck driver was operating a flatbed hauling pipe when
he passed out behind the wheel. Flatbed semi then crashed
into a second semi truck a car, a bus, and
a box truck. Total of seven people were injured in
the crash. Five of those victims sustained non life threatening
injuries and one was determined to be critical but in
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stable condition. The truck driver passed away at Or he
was taken to the hospital. The crash is still under investigation,
but police officers believed that the driver suffered a medical
emergency leading to his passing out behind the wheel, which
then did cause to crash and eighteen Eastern States to
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partner for campaign to stop or They did partner for
a campaign to stop bridge strikes on the East Coast.
According to a coalition of eighteen states. They came together
for a campaign to stop vehicles of hitting low clearance bridges.
This happened July twenty second through July twenty six. Eighteen
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member states of the Eastern Transportation Coalition took part in
a check Your Height, No It's Right educational campaign intended
to curb bridge strikes. The campaign reminds drivers to know
the height of their vehicles and to comply with posted
bridge clearance signs. Don't be tunnel vision and not watching
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out for signs and know the height of your vehicle.
Most semis are thirteen feet six inches, so you're definitely
not gonna fit under a ten foot nine inch bridge.
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You got.
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Three inches three foot excuse me, three foot almost that
you know you're too tall, and don't be following Google Maps.
Don't be following GPS. Learn how to get yourself a
paper atlas, a truck and atlas. They list every route
in the front of the atlas. Open it up, list
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every route, every low bridge, especially around Chicago. It's notorious
for having low bridges or building up the road and
then not changing the signs on the bridge, and you're
just gonna creep under like this gentleman just started to
creep under the bridge and it's a low train trestle.
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But back to the article, the campaign targeted all types
of drivers and also, let's not forget people pulling r vs.
These big motor coaches. Know the height of your vehicle
before you you know gonna go out on your trip.
Kentucky Transportation provided the following tips to help drivers avoid
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bridge strikes. Measure the vehicle if hauling equipment or livestock,
check the trailer and load height. Don't rely like I
said on GPS, and ensure dump truck beds are lowered
before going under a bridge. There is a bunch of
states that are in this coalition that I'm not gonna
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read because the list is quite lengthy. And in this story,
a trucker's buried underneath bails of paper that broke through
the front of a trailer during a crash. Now, these
bales of shredded paper don't look very big, but the
bails themselves are huge, and they're about one thousand to
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two thousand pounds apiece. So he's lucky he's still alive.
Truck drivers buried under bales of paper that broke through
after the load broke through the front of his trailer
during an early morning crash. The accident happened July twenty
third in Fond Delac County on Highway at one fifty
one know that highway Well. Police were called by a
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passing motorist who saw the semi leave northbound Highway one
fifty one near the ramp to South Main Street and
go on into a roadside ditch. Caller told emergency services
that they were unable to check on the driver because
the truck cab was so severely damaged. When police officer
arrived at the scene. Two Good Samaritans were attempting to
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help the trucker who was buried under bales of paper
after they broke through the front of his trailer. First
responders helped them move the cargo in order to reach
the driver, and sixty year old truck driver was then
transported by ambulance to a nearby hospital, where then he
was flown to a secondary hospital with serious injuries. Yeah,
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he could have got crushed or did get crushed. The
police investigation revealed that he was attempting to exit Highway
one fifty one at South Main Street and he overshot
the turn. He was going too fast, just plain and simple.
And when you come to a sudden stop, all the
cargo slides forward, and that trailer is just made out
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of aluminum. You got several thousand pounds of paper and
that much force, nothing's going to hold it back, really,
and it broke through and he's lucky to be alive.
And in this story are one hundred and thirty truckers
and mechanics to be laid off in Arizona. One hundred
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and thirty drivers and mechanics will lose their jobs by
the end of summer. After failed teamstersgotiations with Kroger led
to a canceled contract. Vice president of the Teamsters Local
one four, Josh Graves, says that the Teamsters had a
contract with the Ruined Transport, which contracted with Kroger to
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hire truck drivers and decent mechanics at a Kroger warehouse
at Tollis and Arizona been there. A three year contract
between Ruin and Kroger was signed back at twenty twenty three,
which included a clause allowing Kroger to exit the contract
with a ninety day notice. In July last month, Teamster's
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union was notified that Kroger had chosen to cancel the
contract with Ruin and soon we'll be working with Swift instead.
I'm sure now my personal opinion, I'm sure that Swift
came in, saw that the contract was, you know, only
got another year left really and went ahead and underbid
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the Ruin and then went ahead and got the contract.
Teams has a Ruined It since offered concessions to Kroger
an attempt to keep the contract, but their offers were
not accepted. The notice filed by Ruin lists a total
of one hundred and forty four people that will soon
lose their jobs. Uh Arizona Senator said that I'm concerned
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with your recent decision to terminate your long standing relationship
with Ruin Transportation and action that puts good paying jobs
at risk and impacts the community stability. Kroger had previously
attempted to displace union workers, but ultimately failed under the
scrutiny of workers and the public alike. The latest decision
appears to be another attempt to undermine Teamster's Local one
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oh four and circum the collective bargaining process. They don't
want to Swift isn't union, so apparently Kroger didn't want
the union in there anymore. Can't really play them up,
but that's just my personal opinion, and after careful consideration,
we've decided to transition to a portion of our transportation
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services to Swift. They're a space come carrier, helped minimize
disruption for all parties and maintain the high standards our
associates and customers expect. We've identified a tiered transition plan.
They're saying that some of the employees that were affected
that by this that worked at the distribution center at
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Kroger for twenty six years or more so time to retire.
I mentioned that at my age of sixty one, it's
hard for me to go ahead and find new employment.
I have four years left before my retirement and you
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know minimum retirement, and I've applied a bunch of different places.
They won't even give me the courtesy to turn around
and respond saying thank you received your application. We'll keep
it on file. Should we be hiring in the future,
just something and not even a word, not one word
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about you know anything. So that's you know, the hiring
processes nowadays. And in this story, over two thousand violations
uncovered by Arizona commercial vehicle enforcement. The Arizona Public Safety
and Highway Patrol released the results of their Commercial Vehicle
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Safety Alliance Operation Safe Driver Week that took place excuse
me July thirteenth through the nineteenth, targeting commercial vehicle and
passion vehicles, and we're looking for violations like speeding, distracted driving,
and commercial motor vehicle violations. The total contacts for six
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hundred and thirty three total inspections, six hundred and nineteen
total dveer violations, two thousand, ninety eight drivers placed out
of service, one hundred vehicles were placed out of service
one hundred and fifty. So you have one hundred drivers
placed out of service, but you had one hundred and
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fifty vehicles placed out of service. How come the numbers
don't compute? So if you could compute the numbers, leave
a comment in the comment section blow or you can
even comment in the chat if you're watching this on
YouTube or on Twitch. I'm also on there. And what's
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the fifty driver discreptancy compared to the You know, one
hundred and fifty vehicles placed out of service, but you
had one hundred drivers. So then what did fifty drivers
do because their vehicles placed out of service unless they
had to get repairs done. That could have been if
they had a flat tire or something. What's your comment?
Leave a comment, boll. Anyways, back has Man inspections are
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forty one restraint citations not warrant seatbelt nineteen and citations
overall one hundred and fourteen. End up. Next, FMCSA officially
withdraws speed limitter rules for heavy trucks. About time. We've
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been in the truck in industry has been fighting speed
limitters for decades and finally somebody's in that office that
got smart that said, look, we're not going to be
doing it, because really, the youngster that were born after
the nineties, you don't remember when speed limits like California
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had fifty five miles an hour, Ohio and Illinois the
same thing, fifty five miles an hour for trucks, but
everybody else could go sixty five sixty sixty five speed
limvers there, You being in cars just because the speed
limit is eighty miles an hour out West New Mexico, Arizona,
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out in the Dakota's doesn't mean you have to go
one hundred and thirty one hundred and forty do that
on a track someplace. My opinion, cars need to have
speed limitters on them, not semice semis. You got a
heck of a time pulling a hill as it is.
You need to turn around and work the hills that
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you got to get a good run in there. Again,
you don't have to be doing one hundred downhill to
get up the other side because of the weight shift
and everything. So oh yeah, the FMCSA, let's get to
the article officially withdraw speed limitters has withdraw a proposed
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rule that would require speed limited devices on heavy trucks.
This was a notice. A notice is always published in
the Federal Register anytime. This agency, which is Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, is an agency of the government. That
they were going to propose to do something. Okay, they
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withdrew twenty sixteen notice of proposed rule making to require
heavy duty trucks be equipped with speed limited advice that
would have governed the truck at a speed determined by
federal officials sixty five. So you're all four wheelers cars,
people at drive cars are always complaining and being aggravated
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when two trucks are going down on the road at
both sixty five miles an hour and nobody's passing anybody,
and they're kind of pasting each other, so you know
it just everybody gets aggravated. So if you could imagine
if that's mandatory, that all trucks were sixty five and
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nobody could pass anybody, what a line of bull hockey.
The rule withdrawal follows up on efforts made under the
Trump administration to degregulate trucking and to improve the lives
of America truck drivers. In late June of this year,
Transportation Secretary of Sean pe Duffy rolled out the pro
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truck or package that I discussed in episode of Initiatives
designed to support the truck and industry with includes a
promise to withdraw speed limitter rule making. It can explaining
the decision to withdraw the speed limited rule. FBCSA pointed
to a twenty twenty two advanced Notice of supplemental proposed
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rule making that indicated the agency's intention to move forward
with speedlimited rule making. It's also called for public comment
on a plan to require motor carriers to limit speeds
for certain motor vehicles operated into interstate commerce that were
already equipped with electronic engine Control Unit ECU capable of
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setting the speed limits. The maximum speed of affected CMVs
was to be determined by the rule making, and motor
carriers would have been required to maintain that maximum speed
in that electronic ECU computer unit for the service life
of the vehicle like forever, you could never shut it off.
Of the fifteen thousand, six hundred and thirty eight comments received,
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approximately three hundred supported moving ahead with speedlimited rule making,
while over fifteen thousand comments opposed the speed living a rule.
Several commenters included the owner, operator, and Independent eight Drivers
Association indicated that limiting a truck speed would have adverse
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impacts on driver's incomes because reducing travel speeds would reduce
the number of miles traveled as well as the number
of pickups and deliveries, and you're always going to be
late for an appointment. Other commentary issues included higher fuel costs,
impact to driver well being, and ease of parking due
to additional hours a driver must have to spend driving
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to complete that task and having to start early in
the morning and drive it until you could find a
place to park. Because of course, anybody that drove over
the road you know now that truck stops are filling
up at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, no
matter what part of the country you're in. Where before
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it was like seven eight o'clock at night. So officials
ultimately conducted that there was no compelling data showing that
the speed limit or rule would have increased highway safety.
So after all these studies since twenty sixteen, almost ten
years of studying this issue, they finally figured out that
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it wasn't gonna promote highway safety, you know, So it's
about time. So the article goes on. I'm not gonna
continue on it. But thank goodness, they finally somebody finally
came to their senses on this issue again my opinion,
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And a Florida man is guilty of interstates came to
steal big rigs loaded with millions of dollars in electronics
from southern Indiana and other states. Two brothers were indicted
following the seizure of a historical amount of illegal drugs
from a semi truck operating in South Carolina. Oh wait,
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a second, grab the wrong one. Sorry, let me redact
that all right. So, Florida man guilty of interstate scheme
the one I just got talking about. But the two brothers,
that's the next story. Federal jury in Indiana found a
Florida man guilty of taking part in a wide ranging
interstate cargo theft scheme targeting truckers hauling goods for national
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companies like Meta, Microsoft and l Brands. Wan Deepres Gonzales
fifty one has been found guilty on charges of conspiracy,
possession of a good stolen from interstate commerce, interstate transportation
of stolen property. According to a July twenty third statement,
five co conspirators previously pled guilty to participating in the
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same cargo theft scheme. Official say that between December of
twenty twenty one and May of twenty twenty three, Gonzales
and his co conspirators conspired to steal semi trucks loaded
with high end electronics and other items in southern Indiana
and other states. Transported the stolen cargo to Florida, which
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was then sold at a discounted rate. Let me read
from the Attorney Office. US Attorney's Office describes as Cargo
Staff Operation. I'll try to make this brief. The co
conspirators traveled for various locations, including Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio,
to target various distribution facilities used by national companies such
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as Meta, Microsoft, and l Brands. The group surveiled these facilities,
followed semi trailers as they departed. When a driver stopped
to rest, refuel, or park, the conspirators stoled the entire semi.
In many instances, the group abandoned the stolen semi nearby
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and reattached the tractor part and then reattached it with
a front truck to the same trailer they operated. To
evade law enforcement, they painted over logos and identifying numbers,
and used different license plates on the stolen trailers, so
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this was a pretty well thought out scheme. They transported
stolen cargo to Miami, Florida, where it was then sold
to buyers, including this co defendant Richard Alameda, for a
fraction of the inventory's retail value. The group carried out
at least fourteen separate cargo thefts, resulting in the theft
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of over two million and virtual reality headsets from Meta Facility, Oculus,
nine hundred and forty thousand dollars in Microsoft products, one
million dollars in bath Bodyworks and Victoria's Secret merchandise, and
six hundred and sixty nine thousand and harming JBL Audio products,
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one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in Logitech products, four
hundred and eighty thousand dollars worth of bows audio speakers,
among others stolen items. Offici will say that this is
the third time that Gonzalez has been convicted on a
federal charge of carolla theft. Do you think he's ever
gonna learn I'm curious if he's a US citizen or not,
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if he's not de pored his ass. Hey, he's just
gonna turn around a crawl back over to the border. Anyway,
this case was in investigated you excuse me by the FBI.
Can't talk uh, Indiana State Police and Kentucky State Police.
Now the oh hold on a second, one second, please,
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here we go. I had to change I put the
wrong dog on screen up on this one, so I
had to change that real quick. So sorry about that.
And in this story of DA NABS, this is what
happens with live you know. So sorry. Thanks for your patients, everybody.
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So DA nabs two brothers using a big rig to
haul the largest amount of fentanyl ever seized in South
Carolina history. Two brothers have been dieted following the seizure
of an historic amount of illegal drugs from a semi
truck operating in South Carolina. This happened July twenty second.
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They were both from California. They were indicted on charges
of conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and meth.
According to the US Attorney's Office, the charges stem from
a pair of coordinated traffic stops in Lexington and Richland
Counties conducted on July first by DA agents. They report,
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quote in side of tractor trailer that was transporting products
with a legitimate business purpose. Law enforcement also found large
practices packages of illegal narcotics. The two brothers operating as
a semi were arrested following the traffic stop. Law enforcement
seized one hundred and fifty six pounds of fentanyl and
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forty four pounds of meth in total from the semi.
The drugs are believed to have been sourced from Mexico.
US Attorney's office said that this is believed to be
the largest seizure of fentanyl in state South Carolina history.
He said, this isn't just a drug bust, it's life
saving intervention on an unprecedented scale. For their state. Law
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enforcement has been working together at every level to keep
South Carolina safe and were committed to dismantling the criminal
networks that bring this poison into our communities. And they
go on and on and on how they well, can
I say, their press people like to talk about what
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Now let's get back to the news. A trucker reports
seeing a body floating in Missouri River. A trucker called
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police after noticing a body in the Missouri River while
riding as a passenger. Kansas City Police Department was called
just after one thirty in the afternoon near Kansas City, Missouri,
on July twenty second. According to the local news, a
truck driver told or passenger told officers that he spotted
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a body floating in the Missouri River from the passenger
seat of a semi cab as a rig headed north
on Interstate four thirty five. You have to have damn
good eyes, because I've been around four thirty five. You
have to have damn good eyes in order to see
a body floating in the river. Police responded to the
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call and discovered they on the riverbank near the I
four thirty five bridge, missing persons. Unique crime scene investigators,
and a medical examiner were all called to the scene.
At the time of the writing of the article. The
identity of the person has not yet been released. The
cause of death that was not determined at the time,
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and this investigation is on going and troopers are investigating
a cause of a double fatality pile up on I
ninety five in South Carolina, involving seven commercial vehicles and
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nine cars. This is our top story. As you see here,
I mean, you're gonna see my I don't know if
you could see my cursor, possibly not, but you see
the load king. I'll try to describe it for people
that are listening to this via audio. There is a
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semi truck load king. There is a pickup truck inside
the back doors of the semi truck in mid air
on the driver's side. In their sideways. There's another pickup
truck calling a rocking chair that crashed behind the pickup truck,
(30:28):
and a looks like a flat bed truck that crashed
into the back of that same load king Semi. This
happened to South Carolina and investigating a multiple fatality pile
up crash that happened July the twenty second on I
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ninety five. The initial collision involved three vehicles, including one semi.
A short time later, a second collision occurred at the
same location, involving thirteen vehicles, six of those being semis.
Two people passed away in the crash and nine others
(31:14):
were hospitalized, all with various injuries. Yeah, the blue that
you see there, Oops, that's the second part of the crash.
(31:39):
That's the second part of the crash. That's all that
pile up. According to the Agency Fire Rescue, the crash
occurred amid a heavy rainstorm and motors reported near zero visibility.
The accident involved several vehicles that were piled on top
(31:59):
of each other. One semi truck was hauling sheets of
glass plate glass, which was expelled onto the highway. Responders
had to work hard a workaround broke a glass in
some areas two feet deep. One victim was trapped at
a small passenger car underneath the pile of vehicles. A
truck driver whose cab was completely demolished was trapped in
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the remnants of his cab, and two victims were trapped
in a pickup truck that was ten feet in the air.
That was that first this first picture that I showed
you that was ten feet in the air, crashed into
the rear of the semi trailer. A victim of one
vehicle on the bridge fell off the bridge and into
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the river below trying to escape his car. He suffered
non life threatening injuries and was able to swim to
the bank before rescuers arrived. And of course, this crash
is under investigation. And in this story, a family wants
answers after a woman's body was found severely decomposed behind
(33:07):
the Tennessee truck Stop and Motel. This motel is off
of Interstate twenty four. Family seeking answers after a woman
was found decomposed behind the Tennessee truck Stop and Motel.
Alicia Wolfe's body this lady here was found behind the
(33:31):
I twenty four truck and autoplaza, which connects the truckers
in off I Interstate twenty four in Manchester, Tennessee. They
found her July fourteenth, According to the local news. Emily
Wolfe's mother last heard from her on the eleventh. The
following Monday, as Emily was working to file a missing
(33:52):
persons report, police notified Wolfe's daughter Aliyah, that wolf have
been found to cease behind the truck stop and Motel. Tennessee.
Location is approximately six hundred miles from Orlando, Florida, where
she was last seen. Quote. Someone says they saw her
get into a black car, and then the second person
(34:14):
said they got her. They saw her get into a
white semi truck. Emily said her mother. Authorities say they
are investigating a death as a homicide, but are awaiting
to report from the medical examiner to determine the cause
of death. Investigators say the decomposition of the bodies making
the cause of death difficult to determine. Eliah says that
(34:34):
we'll struggled with addiction and worked as a street worker,
but she was a good person. She said, I want
to know what happened, like who did this to my
mom and why? And this is Alicia with her grandbaby.
If you happen to know or have any information about this,
(34:55):
I'm sure you could call the Tennessee State Police there
around Manchester, Tennessee. That's another thing about this show. I
don't necessarily just talk about regulations and about what's going
on as far as drugs being seized or human trafficking
(35:18):
or anything like that. I also talk about missing persons
as well and try to help the families get closure
for their loved one. If they're missing. I try to
keep things current on the homepage of our website at
Julia's truck atcafe dot com. Also take a moment and
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please like, share, and subscribe this podcast and help me
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say that I greatly appreciate all my new subscribers. In
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the last a week or two, I have over one
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and sharing the podcast and any new listeners. On the
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for trucking podcast, so thank you so much for everyone
(36:26):
tuning in as much as I could get this done
there Again, as I retire, I will be able to
do the show more of a consistent basis and pick
a day, probably a Saturday night. I'm thinking seven eight
o'clock on a Saturday night to do live streams and
(36:49):
that'll be like every Saturday night. So right now, with working,
I only have every other weekend off, so like today
is my day off, so I figured I'd jump on
here to do the live stream, but I have to
work this weekend, so it can't be this Saturday. But anyway,
thank you so much for all of your support, and
let's get back to the news. Twenty three point four
(37:13):
million in cocaine discovered in semi truck crossing from US
into Canada. Border authorities stopped a commercial vehicle driver from
hauling a large shipment of cocaine over the Canadian US border.
The drug seizure took place back in May at the
Ambassador Bridge. Officers accounted a commercial truck coming into Canada
(37:35):
from the US and referred the vehicle first secondary inspection.
While searching the trailer, the officers uncovered two suitcases and
five garbage maids containing one hundred and sixty one bricks
of suspected cocaine. The estimated street value of it is
twenty three point four million dollars. The truck driver was
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Ontario resident fifty five years old, was arrested in charge
by Royal Canadian Mounted Police with importation of cocaine and possession.
The incident was under investigation at the time, and there again,
you know, with the ongoing communication between the two countries,
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et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and FMC is saying
this story says that no to teens restricted with K
restricted licenses attending out of state trucking schools. Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration has denied a rural exemption request from
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a commercial driver's license school related to training truck driving
students under twenty one years of age who have restricted licenses.
They announced it a notice to be published in the
Register that I just got done talking about in the
previous story, that it will deny an exemption request from
Michigan based Beyonco Trucking Services, which is a registered entry
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level driver training provider beyond co asphederal authorities for an
exemption to allow students between the ages of eighteen and
twenty holding a K restricted in trust state only commercial
licensed learner permit issued by another state to attend their
driving training facility in Michigan. So, for example, let me
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break this down. If you're in Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, surrounding
states of Michigan, or any other and you're between eighteen
and twenty, and you have a regular car license and
you study for the written exam for a CDL and
you get a larner permit, but it's only a k
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K level and you want to go to Michigan to
their truck driving school. They want an exemption for you
to attend under Motor Carrier Safety Administration is saying no,
we're not going to allow that, and explaining why the
request was not approved. FMCSA said that a similar exemption
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request from three North LLCA was denied in December of
twenty twenty four. The agency agreed with the American Association
of Motor Vehicle Administrators that allowing drivers with a quote
K restriction to operate in states other than their home
state or their domicile that would disrupt and confuse each
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state's use of the K restriction. They're trying to get
around it, is what they're trying to do. And you
have to go through a driving school in the state
where you have your license through. So I couldn't go
up to Wisconsin. I got a Mississippi license. I couldn't
go up to Wisconsin and go to their driving school.
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I'd have to take one in Mississippi, is what they're
trying to say. The same reasoning applies to Biaco's request
for an exemption. Furthermore, based on information provided by the
applicant FMCSA is unable to determine that the applicant would
likely achieve a level of safety equivalent to or greater
than the level obtained by complying with the said regulations,
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So it may not be strict enough. In other words,
And if you look at this photo and on the
screen you will see a the interstate, and look to
the right of the interstate, you will see where it's
like a trench. Well, look in the trees. That's a
(41:45):
semi and Semi made that trench. The semi truck blazed
a trail through the woods on I five in a
wreck and only had minor injuries. A semi truck blazed
its own trail through the woods off of Eye five
(42:06):
on Friday morning in a wreck that left the driver
excuse me, with minor injuries. This happened in Washington State.
According to state trooper, the semi was heading salt on
I five when it veered off the interstate and skidded
around two hundred feet through the woods. The semi's trailer
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broke open in the process, spilling a load of pink
soda cans. The State Patrol says that the truck driver
sustained only minor injuries, and officials shut down two lanes
of the roadway as they worked to recover the semi
from the newly blazed trail through the woods. I'm sure
it got buried up to the axles as well. No
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further information regarding the wreck was released at the time,
and six passed away after wreck sent two cars beneath
the semi and prompted a five hour rescue. Six people
passed away after two cars went underneath the semi, prompting
(43:12):
a five hour rescue. In North Carolina. This happen, of course,
back in July. The crash happened on Interstate four eighty
five around Charlotte. According to the local news, sixteen year
(43:32):
old Paul Sorry was driving a Honda when he moved
into the right lane and collided with a Chrysler van
driven by twenty seven year old Samuel Holmes. Initial impact
sent both cars crashing into the side of a semi trailer,
where they became stuck. Five to six people inside the
van were killed in the crash, including Holmes, a twenty
(43:55):
three year old woman, and three children. Eight and younger
was also killed in the crash. A sixteen year old
girl was the sole surviving passenger of the van. She
was transported to the hospital and treated for injuries. The
truck driver was not hurt in the incident. First responders
worked in dangerous heat conditioned to connect the five hour rescue.
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The rescue involved lifting the semi trailer in order to
remove both trapped vehicles. The outer loop of four to
eighty five was closed for several hours during this time.
No charges are expected to be filed because both of
the people that were driving the cars died and nothing
that the truck driver could do. When the eye this
(44:40):
mister Sawyer driving the Honda, didn't look to the right,
didn't turn his head to the right, just worried about
looking in the mirror, moved over. There was a car
right there, pushed him into the underneath the semi well
or this way because I keep forgetting the cameras backwards,
(45:01):
and so I mean, you're not gonna blame the semi
truck driver over that. And a motorcyclist is killed after
trying to pass between two semi trucks on a New
York interstate. New York State Police are investigating a fatal
(45:23):
crash involving a motorcycle and two commercial vehicles that occurred
on July twenty sixth. Troopers say that forty two year
old New York resident was operating a two thousand and
one Peterbilt semi in the driving lane when a truck
tire blowout occurred. He slowed while looking for a safe
(45:43):
place to pull off of I eighty one as air slowed.
Iowa based truck driver Barbara L. Armstrong was driving a
twenty twenty four Peterbilt in the passing lane overtaking errors.
As the two semis occupied both lanes. A motorcycle operated
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by Austin Leonard of twenty eight years of age, approached
from behind an attempted to pass between the two trucks.
So you got a truck over here and a truck
over here, and here comes the motorcycle. Try to pass
it between the two. After passing the trucks, he lost
control of the bike, struck the guard rail along the
(46:28):
west shoulder, and was ejected from the bike. He later
succumbed to his injuries and passed away. So he was
going at a high rate of speed the semi had
to blowout. He was slowing down trying to move over
to get off the road safely the truck. As he
(46:51):
was slowing down, another truck tried to pass them, and
here comes the motorcycle. Instead of slowing down, figure out
what's going on. No, I'm going to go right down
and read the two of them. How stupid can you be?
I ride motorcycles. How dumb can you be? I'm sorry
the guy passed away, but it was his own fault.
(47:17):
And in this story, two motorists are pinned in two
separate vehicles after crash underneath the semi. Two people were
pinned inside of two separate vehicles after crash that set
one underneath the semi trailer in New Mexico. This happened
July twentieth, according to Albuquerque Fire and Rescue. The cause
(47:39):
of the crash has not been determined at the time
of the writing of the article, but firefighters arrived to
find a vehicle on fire that was pinned underneath the semi.
One person was pinned inside and what was extricated in
twelve minutes as crews worked to extinguish the fire. That
person sustained potentially life threatening injuries. A third vehicle was
(48:03):
also involved in the crash and came to a stop
fifty yards away from the other crash site. Percido also
had to be extricated from that vehicle was serious but
not life threatening injuries. It's unclear if the truck driver
was injured, but no other injuries were reported but those
two people, and at the time of the writing of
the article, the cause of the wreck was not known.
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I was looking at the chat for just a second.
There we go here, I'm atten sorry, I lost my place.
It's just been a live stream. I haven't been doing
this that long. It has just been a heck of
a live stream. And in this story and I circled
you could see in the red circle on the screen,
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I mean that this is where the accident happened. Because
there's so much going on in the in the picture,
in the photograph, as you could see where the accident happened.
Suspects flee armed with an AK. They don't say if
it's a forty seven or not. I'm sure it is.
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After a fatal crash with a bus on I thirty five.
Interstate thirty five were shut down overnight after suspects armed
with an AK style rifle fled a crash into a bus.
(49:33):
This happened July seventeenth thirty five, near San Antonio, Texas.
According to the local news, men in the camaro led
police at a high speed chase along the interstate, where
they eventually crashed into the bus. Traffic cam and news
(49:54):
footage of the scene show at least one semi was
affected by the crash. The four suspects quickly fled the
fatal crash scene. One of the men was reportedly armed
with a AK style rifle, so they don't know for sure.
Four people were killed in the crash. Two died at
the scene, while two succumbed to their injuries later at
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the hospital. Thirteen other patients were taken to a nearby
hospital off the bus. Two of those patients are in
critical condition. As of a couple of days later, or
that night, people were still actively searching for the forest suspects,
(50:36):
and as of a few days later, a fifth person
died as police continued search for the small group of
men who fled this crash scene. And that was yeah,
almost five days later. So this happened on Thursday day.
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The following Tuesday, the men still were not found. Remaining
two patients left at the hospital are in good and
fair condition, respectively, and another Safety Week is coming the
end of this month. I also have that on the
(51:26):
homepage of Julia's Truck at Cafe website. The Commercial Vehicle
Safety Alliance Driver Week enforcement effort is officially in the books,
but the next major truck blitz is already right around
the corner. It's the end of this month, August twenty
fourth through the thirtieth, so mark your calendars. August twenty
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fourth through August thirtieth, last week of the month there
breaks Safety Week inspection. The purpose of the inspection the
enforcement to reduce commercial vehicle crashes caused by faulty brakes.
The area emphasis will be drums and rots, like this
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officer is crawling around underneath this peter belt. They'll be
checking for cracks and how thin your shoes are, Cracks
in the drum, cracks and the shoes and the lining
cracks and pads, how thin the pads are. They can
also check that now they never used to be able to,
(52:33):
but now drums also, excuse me, semi trucks also have
disc brakes now that they never used to. And they
can check your pad, lining and stuff as well. They'll
be conducting these inspections. Canada Mexico and US. There was
(52:57):
an unannounced brake safety day on a back in April
and they conducted four five hundred and sixty nine inspections
and placed three almost four hundred of them out of
service due to break related violations. So remember that. I
will have it posted on the website August twenty first,
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August twenty fourth through the thirtieth. I want to thank
each and ever one of you for tuning in and
for subscribing. Please if you haven't done so. I have
over four thousand views on YouTube in the last month,
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And if you have a YouTube account, just please mash
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post a new episode. I'm also each one of these
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articles I'm turning into a clip. A lot of people
don't want to sit and watch and don't have the
time to watch the show for almost an hour, so
each article will be a clip on YouTube, so look
for those, and then I have every clip. I'm doing
a little bit of a short amender too short, and
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viewers are liking those as well, so I am trying
to do different types of versions or different types of
videos to apply to a bunch of different people, because
I know life is so busy and everybody's on the
go all the time, so I'm trying to get to
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a bunch of different types of audience. So thank you
so much again for tuning in. May you have a
great week, Keep the shiny side up, and until next.
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