A trucker who drove team has been convicted of attempted murder after he stabbed his co-driver during an argument. The dispute was allegedly over the cleanliness of the truck.
Forty-two year old trucker Christopher Teeter was at the Petro Truck Stop in Bordentown Township in New Jersey late last year. According to the Burlington County prosecutor’s office, Teeter got in an argument with his unnamed co-driver about how messy their truck was. When the argument escalated, Teeter pulled out a knife and stabbed his co-driver in the abdomen.
The wound was serious, but the co-driver survived after being transported to a local hospital to undergo emergency surgery. Police arrested Teeter at the truck stop without incident.
Teeter pled not guilty to charges including attempted murder and two counts of aggrivated assault. A jury deliberated for two and a half hours before finding him guilty on all counts. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for September 27th.
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Samuel Gallezzo says
And this is why I don’t team
Tony says
Is that the reason why you carrying that huge knife in your cab?
John Lambert says
amen to that!
Stephen Tatasciore says
I teamed for a year and never had any problems like this. This guy obviously has some anger as well as mental issues!
Steve
John Hanks says
I ran team for 11 years and never had an issue. People nowadays are much more prone to be violent.
Joe says
Yeah “nowadays” that’s why we’re experiencing record lows for violent crime, war, and murder.
Gioni says
Did you miss the 90’s?
Mack Tingstrom Jr. says
Your right about that!!!
Brian Bear Mcgee says
Amen brother.
J.C. Walker says
That’s one reason you don’t “team drive”.
gail morra says
Lol
Dan Gesegnet says
But did the truck get cleaned ?
Kowboyfan says
Hard to get blood out.
Jay Pressley says
I guess that’s one way to get rid of an unwanted 2nd seat.
jeff kail says
Yeah but now he’s going to prison to meet BIG BUBBA. he’s gonna get stabbed in the BUTT.
Shawn gherity says
It got a lot messier when the codriver bled all over it
Steve says
Lamo that’s funny did the truck get clean.
Kathleen says
Probably, not. Blood now
M says
Which one was the slob and which was the neat freak?
cesar gonzalez says
nunca me gusto manejar en team porque te salen a veces compañeros muy agresivos, sucios, flojos que solo quieren estar en el camarote y otras cosas desagradables.
Davee Jones says
The last time I teamed, I had a student who was the son of owner of truck company. Woke up and seen him drinking beer, smoking a joint while driving. Told him to pull into a rest area. While he was inside, I drove away. Called his Daddy and told him where his boy was. I was fired but it was worth it
Mark Scheuermann says
Hope he doesn’t have kids w messy rooms.
Michael Griffith says
Wonder how he’s gonna feel when his new roommate BUBBA wants him to keep their cell clean
sonny Pruitt says
You can probably bounce a quarter off their bed,shoes shined,and not a hair out of place.
bruce says
I’m willing to bet that his kids are happy they won’t be seeing this tyrant for a long time. I do not have the personality to put up with anyone 24/7 in the confines of a tractor regardless of how roomy it is. There are certain habits many of us are not aware of that others find EXTREMELY irritating and may the lord help you if your stuck with someone like this who has serious mental issues.
Daniel says
Wow I’m glad I don’t team but stabbing someone really why not just kick him off the truck
James says
I was a trainer with a trucking company a few years ago and I tell you I wanted to cut off my trainee feet and throw them out the window because his feet smelled like ASS and dumpster water.
Jason says
I would’ve just got off the truck now your fucked bro and going to prison in a state where your not from
Alberto Castro says
You got that right!!!.
BK says
I do not team drive because they never take their duties serious. They never drive immediately after their shift starts and when you wake up, they stopped to eat or stopped early because they are tire.
James White says
Well that wry team driving is not for everyone. If you want to team choose your partner wisely.
Robin Manning says
I am a trainer and I can relate to the frustrations that he was experiencing. Being asked once should be sufficient, although it never is enough. Resorting to violence is not the solution. Would hate to be his cell mate in prison.
SCOTT A GUYNE says
Driving as a team isnt bad it just depends on who u get as a co driver
Jamie says
Dream team, steam team, mean team, no team for me! Thank you.
David says
Its a sham that we trucks drivers have to go through this suffering by teaming up with a nasty person so corporation makes more money on our back because of the suffering that a team goes though in that little space
Anthony Gleicher says
I drove solo with USX, it was nice run for 250k miles. Me and the truck got to rest every 12 hours, miss you 8509.
Mike says
Forced team team driving should be banned as bad roads cause lack of sleep and some people stink
William says
If every driver stabbed another driver over a messy truck, there wouldn’t be many drivers left. Unfortunately I work for a company that slips eats drivers. Most of these guys have no idea what a garbage can is.
gail morra says
Blame that on bad parenting! I’ve seen some disgusting trucks garbage strew al km the way up to the front seats. Plastic bottles, food, you name it.
Kathleen says
👍🏾
Joe says
I wont work for a slip seating company cause I would be the next guy stabbing someone over a dirty truck …………
Rawdog says
Same here !
Big Booblyboo says
There is a driver shortage I hear.
Maybe they haven’t found the bodies yet.
Robert says
Your company slip eats their drivers…. that’s rather harsh
Matt says
Yet another reason I’d never team drive!
Dick says
Let’s see how he does when he teams up again with a cellmate and his cellmate is messy!!
M Balderas says
Hey, that’s a bit much. When i started back 22 years ago drivers would just wait till the partner would get off the truck to go to the bathroom and they would bail on them leaving them stranded. But no one would go to jail or left near dead.🤦♀️
Kurt says
How dirty was the truck
Daniel says
How dirty is your rear end? It doesn’t matter – if there is crap, you clean it. I can imagine that pig was throwing twinkie wrappers and whatnot on the floor and the other driver was sick of cleaning up after him. Be a pair of underwear for a day – you will quickly get tired of the sh*t. Lol.
sonny Pruitt says
That’s why we need gun control!
Daniel says
Haha. Some might say he should have had a gun for self defense. I’m sure the company wouldn’t be happy about cleaning brains out of the inside of their truck though. =D
bruce says
I think you meant to say thats why we need expansion of conceal carry. lol
sonny Pruitt says
I hate when that happens.
Daniel says
I think attempted murder was a little bit much. One stab is a reaction, not an attempt.
When that slob gets out of the hospital maybe he will keep his bloody truck clean from now on. Hah.
Mark Harrison says
I teamed with my wife,she now owns my truck, my home,my soul,as well as my balls,she has them pickled in a Mason jar.
Gary says
What’s he going to do in prison if has has a messy cell mate or one who likes to spoon with him lol
Rick Smith says
Driver told me a great story once up in PA. He tried Team Driving and his partner showed up with a bicycle. He said he wanted to “see the sights” all around the country when he got a chance. The guy told him he’d never get that chance, because truck drivers aren’t TOURISTS.
He took the guy out and the time came for them to switch, and he went over the route with him, and hopped in the sleeper. He said he woke up and looked at his watch and figured they were in a loading dock, because the truck was shut down. They SHOULD have been at their destination. He got up front and looked out the window and they were at recreational area, and his “teammate” was sitting at a picnic table reading a book. They were HOURS from their destination! LOL! He said he NEVER tried team driving again.
Experienced Trucker says
Jury deliberated 2 1/2 hrs. on an attempted murder? What, they didn’t get it the guy stabbed the other guy. I’ve rolled teams & some drivers ARE just stupid & nasty or lazy don’t know how to hook anything or what to do as they say I’ve done this or that. Not taking a shower on their 30 minute break for a 4 day coast – coast run, ALWAYS talking non stop on their phone, texting always running on the warning grooves, music blasting, farting & not opening the vents in the sleeper etc. Had a 1 run temp female as my co driver for the 1st of 2 trips actually SCREAM at me while waiting our numbers to take a shower “I sleep naked and you woke me up for THIS”? So everyone looks at her as she FREAKS OUT, only to have her SCREAM again @ me at shift change “GET OUT OF MY TRUCK” as she called the cops, who as well said she’s a little off. And O’m on the phone with the boss as she’s trippin. Needles to say SHE never worked again there. Only to have her file charges I tried to rape her’ but everything was recorded with body cams and she was asked at leadt 3x if I touched her & she said NO, she was just MAD. The stabber must have been in jail a few years too long or the stabbee, a complete slob.
Mark Harrison says
Truck is so dirty I have to stab you bro!
Angel Morales says
You invite someone to team up with you than you refuse to clean up after yourself. They make extra money and your so dense as to make the working environment a pig stole, and some how your Co-driver has to remain emotional stable when. You refuse to address the problem. Hmmmm I would have worked away from that situation. Unfortunately this young man didn’t and now has to spend all his natural life in jail, while you walk free to continue being a slob. To bad the Co-driver did not claim he snapped and pleaded temporary insanity. This here is a good case that might merit that!
Erol says
it was probably teeter who would not clean up truck
Matt says
Here’s an idea. Quit! Take a bus home, better than taking a bus to prison.
Terry Barron says
I always drove solo because of LTL line driver. I would have other drivers using my truck during the day time husking city work or if I was on vacation. One time when I got back from vacation and a driver that was using my truck left it a mess with coffee cups, coke bottles and wrappers all over the floor. I went into my supervisors office and got his trash can and filled it up with trash! I then went back into the supervisors office and poured out trash onto his floor and desk! He started yelling at me asked what I doing? I told him that the driver who was using my truck while I was on vacation left all this trash in MY OFFICE!! That the driver was number one on the sinew already board with 13 years on the job should know better and as the supervisor he should be checking the trucks once a week to make sure they are clean!! The supervisor and myself go back many years before he was a Dock & Drivers supervisor and he totally understood my point and laughed how I made my point that my office was just as important as his office!
Ken says
Hope his new cell mate using messy
Shifter says
They say you dont know a person until you live with them. Guess that is true.
Tlm says
I would only drive team with so many craziness in and around the truck stops. however my first co driver was abig jerk. It got to the point I called dispatch and told them to get me off the truck or i was going to have a battery charge against me. I had 2 other codrivers after that and both were clean respectible guys. I would never allow the company to put me with another barely english speaking disrespectful turd.
Fala Faafiti says
Maybe that truck driver must have told that other driver many time about being messy, I hate dirty drivers, that tells you how he live as “A PIG”,
Jeffrey says
Drove team for sometime. Became a habit to clean at pick-up and drop-off points. By going off the edge like that tell’s the kind of person who allowed this escalation of a violent situation.
Cleaning blood is messy.
Gdaddy says
Teaming isn’t easy. I have teamed with my wife now for 12 years. I am going to miss her!😋
Eddie says
…..one driver said if you don’t clean up the truck I’ll stab you….. the other driver said okay….. who’s going to clean up the blood?
Danielle Brooks says
I was team and it was days I wanted to stab her
WT says
This guy thought to himself – I have a right to stick this knife in this slobs gut( because he leaves the truck messy? )
Unbelievable!
Jose says
I am a OTR trainer with 22yrs experience, and I have one rule, printed and ready to be signed by the ( team, co-driver, student ) This is my house, you will show me respect by keep it clean, if not I will leave you where ever I may be 2500 miles from HQ,
Nathan Dawson says
Professional Drivers are already Crazy you have to be to do this lifestyle…that said most people are not cut out for this lifestyle not a job or occupation…trucking is different…from everything else …and it is still the most dangerous way to make a living…dont believe me run the insurance data it will make want to reconsider your choice….
And honestly we have all been in this situation…with some one in the industry this particular driver had had enough…
It could have been me …or you…
You say “well thats an over the top reaction”
Is it…?
We really dont know what that driver had gone through to get him to ignite!
House rules are to be followed if you cant follow them them …
Then you leave the
House!
Kathleen says
I read that it was a female co-driver, some people are real slobs, that truck isn’t big enough for 2 people and messy. I hate a messy truck, but he snapped. 😢
Sara says
Does this mean all drivers will be tested for their mental evaluation? I once had a team member for a day. He criticized my every moment as a driver. Lucky for him since I’m a woman we came to an understanding. He was yet but a newby at the wheel of some other rig. Going for a ride in my rig. I’m so glad he came around to my way of thinking. After I offered to drop him off, somewhere out there I forget the desert looks all the same to me.
Ann Walter says
Lol!
Lynne Palmer says
I resent That! I team drive with my husband and believe me…he cuts me no slack. I’m good at what I do. I see plenty of men out here who cant pop it in a parking spot or dock without pull ups…sometimes multiple! I’m also a respectful and courteous driver, can’t say that about a lot of the aggressive males on the road!
Eric L Williams says
If you don’t like co driver cleanliness keep them off truck simple.
Tasha says
That’s scary
Big k says
I have been teaming with the same co-driver for 20 years.
Sara says
My assigned truck was given to a slob to use for a week. I drove a different truck . By the end of the week. I was told to take my truck back. Peanut butter spread on seats bed floor. Molded food old banana peelings wrappers of all kinds bottles of urine. Urine and blood stains on mattress. On and on the worst was the used condoms everywhere including the dash. The entire inside had to be torn out fumigated and replaced new. He never worked for the company again.
Gracie says
To much 5 hour energy drink !!!! Lol!!
Rawdog says
I can’t imagine a situation where I would team drive! When I started my current job a couple months ago they put me in with a driver who had worked here for a while to “show me this company’s way of doing things . First of all I’ve been trucking 20 years and he’s been trucking 8-9 years, but ok it’s just for him to give me the low down on this company, at first they told me it would be a couple weeks, by the second day I called and said when we get back to the office I’m either getting in my truck or I’m going home ! They obviously put me in my truck since I still work here ! This guy knew everything about everything, was completely unsafe , never shut the fucup, his truck was gross and I certainly didn’t learn anything from him! In fact most of the stuff he did tell me was completely wrong! There just isn’t enough room in a truck for 2 men ! Unless one is putting his kingpin in the other guys fifth wheel at night! And I’m all set on that
Rawdog says
I spent 3 days with that clown , we got back to the office the next day after I called them
Dicky Hert says
The co-driver should have defended himself with a truckers bomb, you can’t have enough trucker 💣 onboard!
JC says
Off subject.. Can anyone explain to me why it clearly states in FMCS handbook that to get a CDL you MUST speak, read and write ENGLISH. YET, there are SO MANY steering wheel holders out there that do not!?!?! I got my CDL back in 87 and that’s when trucking was AWESOME!! Now it’s more like dodging the idiots!
JAC says
And don’t forget about the large amounts of road rage towards trucks.
Keshawn says
Exactly why Im not willing to team.People are crazy these days.Just to think,so many companies are encouraging teams.They’re willing to pair you with anybody.I dont even like having roomates for orientation anymore.
JPW says
I wonder if it was a CR England team? I met some crazies driving team with them.
Frank says
He seems nice
Randy says
Thank God this stabbing didn’t occur while they were in heavy traffic.