Should You Be Scared Or Concerned?

Something happened to me about a month ago and I am still trying to get my head wrapped around it.

I overnighted in a Flying J on I 70 east of Denver a few weeks ago. I had already closed my curtains and was watching some TV before bed.

I hear a gentle slap on my drivers door. Nothing serious so I really wasn't concerned. Something like maybe someone tripped and caught themselves on my step.

Then all of the sudden my truck starts rocking. I am thinking what the h....

I get up and pull back my drivers curtain. Here is a guy jumping all over my steps and a flatbed trailer maybe 3 inches from my fender. A cargo container touching my drivers mirror.

He has tried to pull in and didn't have the right angle. Why he pulled in is beyond me. There was tons of room to do a straight line back.

The slap I heard was the binding strap when he pulled past my mirror. Now he couldn't back up and he couldn't go forward.

I asked him how in the world he got into this mess. With a very heavy accent, and I won't say what kind. I don't want to be labled a racist, he said, "I am sorry, I am just learning."

We all have to learn, I am still learning.

I asked him where his trainer was. What he said next is what has me scared or at least very concerned.

He said, "I don't have a trainer, I am teaching myself."

I am sure some of the "Old Timmers" around taught themselves way back when. But those were different times.

Less traffic. Lighter loads. Several differences.

I just scares me to think the driver passing me in that truck might be teaching himself.

I looked the truck over. Plain, older Freightliner. No markings. No markings on the load. Just a red cargo box.

Keep it safe out here. And keep a closer eye on that truck passing you. The Blue Angel.

It's difficult but certainly not impossible to get your license without going to school and find someone that will put you in a truck. Foreigners tend to team up together on business ventures so it wouldn't surprise me if he had family or friends that helped get him into that position. And of course oversees the safety regulations, when there are any at all, are very lax compared with the U.S. (to say the least!) So they probably don't think anything of it. They're probably doing it the way they would in their home country.

Scary but probably legal.

100% he was a Russian.

Nope, not Russian.

Let's just say. He was from a lot closer home.

Keep it safe out here, the life you save might be your own. The Blue Angel.

I think Joe is gently trying to tell us the driver was Canadian.

If you have met a Canadian driver with that kind of an attitude, he is not true Canadian. LOL

While I hate crossing into and out of Canada, once there, I would much rather drive there than even here in the states.

It is rare in Canada to find the rudeness you find here in the states everywhere.

Keep it safe out here. The life you save might be your own. The Blue Angel.

I think Joe is gently trying to tell us the driver was Canadian.

LMAO!!! I told my buddy that i am teamibg with that we should expand our marketability by learning a foreign language. I offered to learn to speak canadian if he would learn spanish.........