Hello, Again After A Long Hiatus!

I took a round trip by automobile to Richmond, Kentucky (via Illinois, Indiana and Ohio) to pick up my new little boy there named Gustav. Whelped 4/10/2025. There is a lady there who breeds German Shepherd Dogs. Gustav is a purebred and AKC registered. I have seen a photo with Brett here with a German Shepherd sometime ago as well. Gustav is one little devil but he is so darn cute to boot. That's me in my Army Veteran hat doing a selfie with my little fur baby at home. Anyway, I digress.

I was returning home with Gustav yesterday afternoon on I-80 west toward Des Moines, Iowa. I live in nearby Pleasant Hill in Polk County. It was sometime between 5 and 6 PM central time when I noticed a trailer truck in front of me was weaving all over like he was drunk, stoned or mad as a hatter. I had just passed Davenport, Iowa. He was in the right hand land and suddenly veered completely into the left hand lane and then immediately swerved back into the right hand lane with no turn signal. It was a flatbed with an Oklahoma plate on the back of the trailer. The back of the cab was navy blue. I immediately reported this idiot in to 911 using my mobile telephone. I followed this weird cat at a safe distance. I stayed behind him for about 45 minutes afraid to pass him in my little '95 Toyota Corolla DX sedan. He kept on driving stupid.

A while later, there was an Iowa State Trooper parked on the side of the highway with his flashing lights on while the idiot in the truck drove right by him. There was a car parked in front of him so he was dealing with another motorist he had stopped. No police ever stopped this guy after 45 minutes. So, just as I was entering Jaspar County, I called back 911 again. I complained that he was still a menace to the highway and that the cops had not yet caught him. The operator this time took my name and telephone number and claimed there would be an APB on this truck. I did take down his plate number and gave it to the 911 operator. After that, I stopped at the rest stop to give Gustav a potty break and never saw or heard of this character again.

They will send three cops out to Walmart to deal with a kid stealing a candy bar, but when some joker menaces the highway with a deadly 80-ton machine on 18 wheels, they seem to pay no mind. Your tax dollars hard at work to keep down the price of Walmart merchandise through broken-windows policing while some idiot (even one with a CDL) on the highway murders you and your family.

Is there a better number than 911 to call whenever vehicles are menacing public roads?

I hope I'm not taken here as an evil bad man for concern for public highway safety. Some small-vehicle drivers have disdain for large commercial trucks. Stereotypically, truckers in America are dimly viewed by the public as anti-social, violent, criminal, dope-addicted and cowboy reckless. They have had a bad public perception like Hells Angels motorcycle riders.

I would just as soon report an automobile driving recklessly as any big rig's doing the same. Any conscientious, law-abiding truck driver would just as soon jump on his CB radio or other communications device to report some idiot driving any vehicle dangerously regardless of size class. If you drive a trailer truck "with a halo over your head" you would want your negative public image to be cleaned up.

'Reckless' sounds self-contradictory. It sounds like "driving a vehicle without the event of any wrecks". Ironically, it means dangerous, haphazard and actually prone to, or courting, wrecks. Also, don't be fooled by thinking "inflammable" means "fire safe" or "not prone to burning".