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The Idling Rig: Warm Coffee, Vanished Driver, Secret Dispatcher
The Idling Rig: Warm Coffee, Vanished Driver, Secret Dispatcher
A steaming 16-ounce coffee cup sat in the center console of an idling Peterbilt at 7:52 AM on January 9, 2014 - still curling steam in 14°F air while the driver was nowhere to be found. Two clocks were running: the coffee’s heat and Curtis Gallagher’s phone, which went dark eighteen minutes before that coffee was spotted; who turned the phone off, and why did the truck stay warm and unlocked?
In this episode, we lay out the sequence of concrete evidence found at the rest stop and on Curtis’s last recorded minutes, following the…
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