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Josh Vaughn

Investigative reporter at PennLive and host of the Wondery podcast "Death County, PA," known for exposing deaths and abuse at Dauphin County Prison.

Sep 18, 2026

46:40
Set aside time to really thank them and maybe recognize what is a pretty difficult job.
46:47
Sure.
46:47
Well, truck drivers are, I should say, the trucking industry is the backbone of our economy.
46:52
Well, truck drivers are the backbone of that industry.
46:55
There are 37,000 truck drivers in the state of Alabama.
46:59
There's 130,000 people in the trucking industry in Alabama, one in 13 jobs.
47:06
3.5 million truck drivers across the country.

7 MINS LATER

53:42
Do you think that's gonna, is that effort gonna produce something that we might see in the legislative session?
10:07
Hm.
10:07
And it's just, his encapsulates so much of what's going on there because it isn't just a...
10:14
You can't point and be like, "This was just one bad accident.
10:17
This is one person who didn't do their job." There were several people along the chain that, like, clearly you, you could've caught this earlier.
10:23
You could've fixed it.
10:24
We could've done something about it, and we didn't.
10:27
Um, i- i- and you hear from two COs i- in that episode about how they tried to get help for Jamal, that, that he was there, he was, you know, unconscious and the medical staff did nothing for him, um, and they had to go in and basically fight to get him out to the hospital the next day.

6 MINS LATER

16:17
But what needs to be done in order to fix this?

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