for some reason i thought the guy getting scammed was redlines_daily (i opened the links and didnt look at the op or anything until later on)
and i was like

this doesnt sound/seem like him at all (especially when he bitched out the truck driver)
now it all makes sense lol
everyone else said what i was thinking
the texts between the 3 of you sounded like 3 scammers met on the battlefield and neither was making sense like both sides were trying to pull the same scam (i guess it was just difficult to follow, for me)
luckily you didn't get screwed