*More tales from truck driving 20-years ago. New book should be out this summer.
Police Standoff in Michigan
One thing about trucking, you will see some crazy stuff on the road especially in the country and the rough parts of cities. While delivering parts to a large auto-manufacturing plant in Michigan, I find myself in a surreal situation.
As I am driving by this massive building I need to deliver auto-parts to, and wondering where all of the workers are at, I realize there is a group of squad cars parked down the road with their lights on in one of the four lanes of this city street.
I wonder what happened?
I slow down and maneuver over a lane to pass by the clustered squad cars. As I pass by the cruisers, I realize that all of the cops are behind their cars with guns pulled on a house.
Here I am. Just rolling by. With a front row seat of an armed stand-off.
One of the cops looks at me like I am crazy and gives me a hand signal to keep my head down. I do my best to duck-and-cover while driving. They didn’t teach this maneuver in truck driving school.
The day you got your Flint, MI endorsement
No, that would be ten-years later when I went to the murder capital of America of that year (Flint) to learn how to grow weed…that story happened after the military. It will be written and published.