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 cemetery. With no receiver listed, no signature required, and a caretaker who seems to belong more to the ground than the living, this Southern trucking story blurs the line between road legend and reality.

Tales from Trucker Dwane is an original horror podcast featuring true-feeling truck driving stories, urban legends from the American South, and eerie encounters experienced on long-haul routes across the United States. These stories are inspired by real trucking life, late-night deliveries, remote locations, and the psychological toll of life on the road.

Listeners who enjoy trucking stories, road horror, Southern folklore, ghost stories, and immersive audio storytelling will feel right at home.

🎧 Listen if you enjoy:

• Trucker horror stories

• Southern ghost stories

• Urban legends from the road

• True-feeling nighttime driving stories

• Atmospheric storytelling for long drives

New episodes of Tales from Trucker Dwane explore the darker side of trucking—where the road remembers, the ground keeps secrets, and not every delivery should be completed

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 drift on invisible ice, Dwane learns the hardest lesson on the road: sometimes the only way to survive is to let go of the wheel.

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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.

Rooted in real roads, real distance, and the old legends of West Texas, this story explores what happens when the land itself seems aware of you—and when turning away might be the only reason you make it through.

Some warnings aren’t meant to scare you.

They’re meant to stop you.

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 Monday comes, the road has already decided how this ends.

This is a Trucker Dwane story—

where the freight isn’t the most dangerous thing you carry,

and some loads don’t need the doors opened to leave

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 constant tracking.

This isn’t jump-scare horror. It’s slow, atmospheric, and grounded in reality. Empty highways. Dead CB channels. Logbooks that don’t make sense. Stories that surface late at night when the road is quiet and nobody wants to admit they’ve seen the same thing twice.

Some episodes are personal. Others are old legends of the road. All of them carry the same message: the road remembers, and it doesn’t care how experienced you are.

Best listened to on long drives.

Headphones recommended.

And whatever you do… don’t stop when something doesn’t feel right.

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, when drivers relied on road atlases, pay phones, and muscle memory to get through the night.

Highway patrol reports describe a truck that drifted in and out of lanes, corrected itself, and never left the road. A logbook that continued to be written after the driver should have been gone. And notes describing shadows in the cab… and two figures sitting on the sleeper behind the driver, arguing about which route would be best for the delivery.

This isn’t a story about answers.

It’s about momentum.

Habit.

And what happens when the road keeps going after the driver can’t.

If you’re listening during a long night drive, pay attention to your mirrors.

Some legends don’t end.

They just keep rolling.

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-night messages, uneasy gut feelings, and a decision that had to be made before the road decided for me.

This isn’t a ghost story.

It’s something more uncomfortable.

A reminder that not every danger on the road wears headlights — and sometimes the most important safety system is the one you can’t see.

Listen closely.

Trust your instincts.

And remember: the road always reveals the truth… eventually.