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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here’s a clip of the title cut of my upcoming release Hard Times On The Way (The Dogbowl Session). Pre-save link in the comments. #truckerlife #indiemusic #singersongwriter

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Farm trucking gets you off the big roads all the time. It’s a nice break from the insanity of the expressways.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This was a week ago when I first opened up my new mandolin. I’ve never played one before, so I googled some chord shapes and went for it. I love learning new instruments!

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Good morning! It’s wash day! Truck and trailer here, then up to Juda, Wisconsin to get the inside of the tanker washed out. Then tomorrow, I load soy milk heading to Bakersfield.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It’s been a minute. How’ve y’all been? I picked this up while I was out. Hope you don’t mind.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Drove across OR-58 from US-97, up from Klamath Falls, OR, heading to Lynden, WA, for tomorrow evening delivery. Beautiful scenery, easiest mountain crossing I’ve done in a long time. Had 50k lbs of raw milk in a tanker. Here’s some obligatory truck porn:

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

My favorite thing about stopping in Weed is that there’s a grocery store across the street. They do ~30% of their business from the truck stop. Other chains should take a hint.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Heading back to our main terminal to get a different tank. Currently in Lubbock. This one has a steady drip, drip, drip… can’t haul milk in a leaky tank.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I remember when a night at a truckstop involved honky tonks, whiskey and forgetting which truck was yours… he says as he drinks his chocolate milk. Alone. In Subway. We are doomed.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Into the heart of the sunrise. With bugs.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Pulling into the milk rack to get unloaded.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sure, park at a desert truck stop he says. Death Valley isn’t that far away…

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

When my cell provider sends me texts I delete them and choose “report junk” every time.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Heavy traffic today on I-80 westbound in eastern Utah.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Chicagoland I-80 eastbound this morning.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I’m delivering cream in Shippensburg, PA, this morning. Tractors pulling wagons full of “natural fertilizer” keep driving by. The truck smells like a dairy farm. It’s not me - I checked.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Dashcam video of the Kittatinny and Blue Mountain tunnels on the PA Turnpike eastbound.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Dash cam vid of some typical scenery through the thumb of Michigan, across M-81 west of Cass city.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Almost loaded up here in Cass City, Michigan. Fuel and a shower on the way out and then down to Shippensburg, PA.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Tonight I’m in Vandaia, Ohio, just north of Dayton. Tomorrow I head up to Cass City, Michigan, up in the thumb, and load for southeastern PA.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A stop in Michigan requires a particular purchase every trip.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Tonight I sleep in the parking lot of the Blue Bell ice cream plant in Sylacauga, Alabama. Drove down here today from Grand Rapids, Michigan. 782 miles. 0500 delivery time in the morning. Good night! 😴

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Ok, Bluesky, here’s a pic of the blue skies over Lansing, Michigan, today.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Stumbled across somebody’s trail cam from Humboldt County, California - my home 20: @auntiekristy.bsky.social

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

How was your work day? Mine went like this: -Drove from Myrtle Point OR to the Missoula MT area -Heavy traffic Salem to Portland -Insane thunderstorm between The Dalles and Arlington, OR along the Columbia River -Drove through heavy smoke from lightning strike wild fires -Damn near hit an elk

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

First leg of my run to Londonderry, New Hampshire - a stop in Caledonia MN to get the load of cream chilled back down before heading east. Taking the left fork at Billings MT so I can run across North Dakota? Why? Because ND is the last state I need to drive through to have trucked in all lower 48.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Myrtle Point, Oregon: In the loading rack 8 hours early, alarm set for 0700, load time at 0800 when the crew comes in to work. Sleeping in three… two…

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Max gross weight is 80,000 lbs. Cuttin’ her close! Loaded in north central Illinois, delivered this morning in Sacramento. Today it’s up to the southwest corner of Oregon to load in the morning for New Hampshire. Wanna tag along?

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Blue Dot in Red State @bluedotin.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Who is having more fun?

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Medusa, eat your heart out. Windy in Utah.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

It was a little windy on the western salt flats in Utah this afternoon.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A nice wide bay to back into for once. Usually they’re just wider than the mirrors…

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you’ve seen live Iggy Pop, Santana, Rolling Stones (at the same show) Eddy Money, The Clash, The Who (same show) Krishna Das Grateful Dead Neil Young Rush

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Had a young driver in his thirties try to tell me that he had as much bad weather driving experience as I do. I just looked at him. He asked when I started driving. I told him before he was born. He said …oh and walked away. #getoffmylawn

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

And it was sold yesterday. The seller didn’t take it down. Disappointment is palpable.

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James Allen Spencer @leftytrucker.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

So this thing on my local FB Marketplace: 1889 pump organ, guts removed, converted into a pull out desk. I neeeeed it. I’m going to buy it when I get home off the road.