Road Rage: Hit and Run: Taxi Vs Punk
It started out as a typical day- twelve hours at the wheel of a Yellow Cab in Chicago. I leased it for twenty-four hours, but I usually worked about twelve. I was getting tired and heading in the...
View ArticleDriver Fatigue- How Truckers Deal with it
There’s only one cure for fatigue – sleep, of course. But, this isn’t about that. I think we all know when it’s time to park it and take a nap. This is about some of the crazy things drivers do, to...
View ArticleChicago Cops Beat Ambulance Chaser, Then Demand Money
Chicago 1981: I had been an ambulance chaser for a while and was already popular with most of the cops in 16th district. But this one incident will always stay etched on my mind because I was beaten...
View ArticleChicago Cops Enter Drug-Dealers House Without Warrant and Beat People
To people like me, that grew up in Chicago, this is nothing new. But to all the rest of the web, it might interest you to know the way justice is served in Chicago. Maybe one day things will turn...
View ArticleRestaurant Rage: Teen Goes Nuts on Cashier
This is a true story. I totally lost my temper one day at a Woolworth restaurant counter, threw my drink at the cashier and threatened the security guard too. I was about fifteen years-old, so this was...
View ArticleThe Toughest Guy I Ever Met in My Life: True Story: the Real-Life Road House
Growing up on the North-side of Chicago, I knew many men who had a lot of fights. In all my job-hopping (over 100 different jobs) I met a lot of outspoken, potato sack slingers who would stand up to...
View ArticleChicago Drivers Always Keep a Weapon Close at Hand
When I was about fifteen or sixteen, I learned to carry a weapon at all times while driving in Chicago. My dad came to visit us in those days. I hadn’t seen him in two years, so I was pretty excited...
View ArticleSome Fights I had in Audy Home Chicago
Audy home in Chicago is where juveniles are sent while they await court. If sentenced, they go to any one of several other juvenile penitentiaries. Although I was a bad kid and locked up in Audy Home...
View ArticleRural Legend: The Big Canadian Moose in the Road Story
In all my 30-years of trucking, I have heard this same story (below), told to me by several different drivers, as if it happened to them personally. Of course, I never believed any of them, because I...
View ArticleThe Latest Speed Camera Development
We are all aware that speed is one of the biggest factors in fatal road collisions and it is in everyone’s best interests to encourage all road users to avoid exceeding the speed limit. Even though...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....