Tales from Trucker Dwane

In this episode of Tales from Trucker Dwane, professional truck driver and storyteller Trucker Dwane shares a haunting late-night delivery deep inside New Orleans—a run that may have been real, or may have been a dream born from exhaustion, humidity, and too much truck stop food. What starts as a routine freight delivery turns into something far stranger when the destination pin drops inside a cem...

Title: Black Ice at Mile Marker 113 "The road pretends it’s fine right up until the moment physics decides you’re no longer part of the conversation." Join Trucker Dwane for a haunting account of Western Pennsylvania in late January. At 2 a.m., Mile Marker 113 isn't just a point on a map—it’s a graveyard of close calls and yellow caution tape. When 42,000 pounds of freight begins to...

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Episode 5: On his first long haul from Laredo to California, Trucker Dwane crosses the Chihuahuan Desert—340 miles of silence, heat, and a mountain that refuses to move. No signal. No radio. No landmarks that behave the way they should. For six hours, the same mountain sits in the west, unmoving, hypnotic, watching. And slowly, impossibly, it begins to feel like the mountain is looking back. Roote...

A last-minute swap load. A 53-foot dry van. A freight broker who doesn’t exist anymore. What should have been a routine overnight run turns into days of delays, unanswered calls, and a delivery that never happens. Fires, storms, locked gates—and a growing sense that the load was never just freight. Every night the dreams get stronger. Every morning the situation makes less sense. By the time Monda...

Tales from Trucker Dwane is a first-person storytelling podcast about life on the road and the strange, unsettling things that happen when you spend too many nights driving alone. Told by a long-haul trucker with nearly a decade behind the wheel, these stories blend real road experience, old trucking legends, and the quiet rules passed down by truckers who drove before GPS, smartphones, and consta...

Episode 2: The Mitchell Run In 1987, a long-haul trucker named Thomas Mitchell suffered a massive heart attack behind the wheel. He was clinically dead for nearly six hours. During that time, his truck traveled almost 400 miles. In this episode of Tales from Trucker Dwane, we revisit one of the most unsettling old legends ever passed down in trucking circles. A time before GPS and cell phones, whe...

Episode 1: First Week, First Rule Trucker Dwane talks about when he became a new long-haul trucker, and how first solo run turns unsettling after midnight. A warning on the CB, strange headlights, and a late-night stop that almost becomes a fatal mistake. A first-person trucker horror story about isolation, exhaustion, and the unspoken rules of the road.

Two huskies. One truck. And a deal that never felt right. What started as a simple rehoming turned into a series of strange messages, shifting stories, and instincts screaming to walk away. Somewhere between good intentions and bad timing, the road delivered an intercept I didn’t see coming. In this episode of Tales from Trucker Dwane, I break down a real-world encounter that unfolded through late...