Have You Ever Spotted Something Scary And/or Exciting While Driving At Night?

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mountain girl's Comment
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I-80, east-bound, middle of the night, Point of Rocks, Wyoming, 30-40 miles between towns in either direction, a woman was pushing a stroller on the right side of the road, westbound on my right. There was no vehicle or anything nearby, indicating how far she’d walked. I called Wyoming HP.

Peter M.'s Comment
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Believe me or not, makes no difference to me....

I had a "legendary ghost" experience in southern Georgia one time on my way to a Georgia Pacific.

Local legend in that area is that back in the 1940s or 50s a woman was on the way to the church for her wedding ceremony. Ended up as a pedestrian when the car she was in broke down. As she was walking, supposedly she was struck and killed by a big truck. Since then, she haunts that area of highway, in particular truck drivers passing through. She gets on the passenger side steps, beating on the door to get in as the truck is still rolling.

That's the legend.

My experience? Yes she does.

YIKES!!!

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Robert B. (The Dragon) ye's Comment
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I saw something so scary, I almost pooped myself and wrecked the truck.

Someone had a Ridin with Biden sign in their yard.

Stevo Reno's Comment
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Ridin with Biden/blockquote> hahaha funny stuff.

Seen in PA, this 1 neighborhood, houses had lots of Trump signs in their yards. every so often a yard would have a Biden sign in theirs. I thought "dayyyyum" must be some awkward neighborly convo's between the 2 lol, Biden neighbors musta had some Big Kahoona's LOL

2 weeks ago, I went to Vegas with buddies wife, to fix their daughters Camry, needed an alternator,(took me 30 minutes to fix) HA !

So I-15 SB, near Baker, Cal was an accident clean up. An Amazon truck had caught fire, and burnt up (truck gone). Trailer had a 1/3 of the front of it, burnt to hell.. NO landing gear left. right lane closed off, a dozer on the side of road scooping up product crates, loading onto 1 those U type end dump trailers. The CHP all over it, traffic was backed up 20+ miles !! This all started around 3 am, we past it around 2:30 pm, was about an 18+ hour mess

Ahead another 10 miles, was another crash, a pick up truck in the gulley. between the I-15 SB. It looked like it mighta rolled over a couple times, facing north. 100 yards ahead, a small cars front end was smashed back to the A pillar! all that was being handled by CHP / Fire Dept. Backed up for that, was another 8 miles !!

Luckily, by time we headed home, the delay kept getting shorter per cell's gps. Well ALL the mess from both accidents was cleared and gone, no remnants of either scene around 10 pm.

So we sailed on home free n clear....Hopefully no one was injured, especially that Amazon driver!!

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HOS refers to the logbook hours of service regulations.
Dan67's Comment
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This past spring I was on the south side of Atlanta GA on the outer loop of I-285. Between I-75 and I-675, about 1pm in the afternoon.

I saw a nekkid homeless man skipping alongside the jersey wall with a pair of black trash bags in each hand waving them like flags. He had to be on some high speed chicken feed to do some crap like that. My truck has a video camera mounted high center in windshield and I hit the record button to send it to my company. They all had a good laugh that day.

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Driving from Orlando Fl. to Kennedy Space Center one morning about 6AM across Route 528 and headed north on Route 407 to make my delivery and noticed a shadow lying on the road and slowed down. I stopped and saw a Florida panther stand, stretch and walk into the surrounding woods. Makes you glad I didn't have to check the tires.

PackRat's Comment
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The road leading to, and across the GW bridge scares me. Anytime I'm driving in that part of the country....

Anne A. (and sometimes To's Comment
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This past spring I was on the south side of Atlanta GA on the outer loop of I-285. Between I-75 and I-675, about 1pm in the afternoon.

I saw a nekkid homeless man skipping alongside the jersey wall with a pair of black trash bags in each hand waving them like flags. He had to be on some high speed chicken feed to do some crap like that. My truck has a video camera mounted high center in windshield and I hit the record button to send it to my company. They all had a good laugh that day.

This guy?? He's STILL at it, famously.

Atlanta Hitchhiker . . .

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