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Driving Mr. Crazy
When Murvie Porter, a beautiful long-haul trucker; Rollie Mandel, an off-center inventor of sorts; and a turtle named Speedy headed west out of the New Jersey docks on that fateful fall day, they were long-hauling a tractor-trailer illegally loaded with what they thought was chlorine, an LA delivery to a pool supplier—not drums of chemicals laced with drugs—cocaine, heroin, LSD, and ecstasy with a street value in the millions.
Murvie and Rollie had stars in their eyes, aspirations of appearing on national TV shows— Shark Tank and Jimmy Kimmel Live —and were aware that the final "chlorine" drop in LA might be their last off-load as truckers. There would be national exposure on these TV programs—Murvie with Pedal to the Metal, a line of women's cosmetics and clothing to be featured in truck stop gift shops, and Rollie promoting his bizarre online dating service, CousinsOnly.com—which would kick-start new careers as entrepreneurs.
They were spot on about the national attention. But what they couldn’t have known was that their odyssey, with the emphasis on odd, would go Smoky and the Bandit meets the Keystone Cops, meets twin drug-tooting/killer stunt men, AKA, the Coke Brothers. And that their story, packed with life-threatening action, would set YouTube records, become trucking legend as drivers ten-four'd the heroic tale.
The odyssey had truckers’ CBs humming “Yeah, who could forget Driving Mr. Crazy , with that hot chick driver, the egghead inventor, their drug haul and that black ex-cop trucker Raven Brooks and his heroic posse!”
“Hey, Full Load. You know how a momma begins a fairy tale?”
“Yeah, Cargo Clown, ‘Once upon a time.’”
“Well, when a trucker like us tells one like Driving Mr. Crazy, we kick it off with, ‘Hey, you ain’t gonna believe this stuff!’”
And in the end the truckers rocking the interstates, like Full Load and Cargo Clown, had their doubts about the tale. Until Murvie and Rollie rolled out their story on Shark Tank and Live With Jimmy Kimmel.
Murvie and Rollie had stars in their eyes, aspirations of appearing on national TV shows— Shark Tank and Jimmy Kimmel Live —and were aware that the final "chlorine" drop in LA might be their last off-load as truckers. There would be national exposure on these TV programs—Murvie with Pedal to the Metal, a line of women's cosmetics and clothing to be featured in truck stop gift shops, and Rollie promoting his bizarre online dating service, CousinsOnly.com—which would kick-start new careers as entrepreneurs.
They were spot on about the national attention. But what they couldn’t have known was that their odyssey, with the emphasis on odd, would go Smoky and the Bandit meets the Keystone Cops, meets twin drug-tooting/killer stunt men, AKA, the Coke Brothers. And that their story, packed with life-threatening action, would set YouTube records, become trucking legend as drivers ten-four'd the heroic tale.
The odyssey had truckers’ CBs humming “Yeah, who could forget Driving Mr. Crazy , with that hot chick driver, the egghead inventor, their drug haul and that black ex-cop trucker Raven Brooks and his heroic posse!”
“Hey, Full Load. You know how a momma begins a fairy tale?”
“Yeah, Cargo Clown, ‘Once upon a time.’”
“Well, when a trucker like us tells one like Driving Mr. Crazy, we kick it off with, ‘Hey, you ain’t gonna believe this stuff!’”
And in the end the truckers rocking the interstates, like Full Load and Cargo Clown, had their doubts about the tale. Until Murvie and Rollie rolled out their story on Shark Tank and Live With Jimmy Kimmel.
348 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 21, 2024
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