19: Why Some Truckers Prefer To Go Solo
Here we had a trucker who was working on a team rig and got a nasty surprise. “The driver here turned to me and said, ‘Hey can you pull over for a sec? I need to ward off the snake people.’ This is where my brain didn’t quite process this, and I said, “What?” He repeated the same line and here’s where my Spidey Sense told me if this guy didn’t ward off his snake people, I was going to have a bigger problem than this guy’s cookie getting flipped. So I pulled over and he got out. Now here comes the weird part. He did this dance in front of my headlights.”
While it’s not uncommon for semi-truck drivers to be paired up in a team, this time it turned out very awkward. Needless to say, the driver who was featured in this story has been driving solo ever since.