people climbing on my truck....

ncstang · Aug 16, 2016

MNdriver said: ↑

I am going to break this apart a little bit.....

So he pulled on your window. Start the engine up and LEAVE. There IS a this called REASONABLE use of force that, as a John Q. Public, you have to maintain. And just because someone pulled on your window, does not entitle you to put a 45 in his skull. I have said it before, and I will say it again.

You had best KNOW and fully understand your self-defense laws and how they affect you or you will look at manslaughter instead.

Care to provide a link or confirmation of this. Otherwise, I consider this nothing but a BS embellishment and dramatization.

About the only thing I will agree with and even then, it's over-dramatized IMO.
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This isn't the one mentioned in the previous post but is an example of a trucker protecting himself and his property.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/local/...-west-knox-county-ep-410275644-359534551.html
I don't "want" to kill anyone, but I do not see any problem with protecting yourself, your family, and your property with any means necessary.

If you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.

JReding · Aug 16, 2016

Technically, pepper spray is in fact legal in all fifty states. However, in certain states there are restrictions. Some classify it as ammunition, requiring a permit. Others require that you purchase from a licensed firearms dealer. Still others have a limit on how much you can carry at one time.

CallMeArty · Aug 17, 2016

The people I encounter climbing on the truck or skiddishly asking me for money in a truck stop get the following response. "I ain't got no money! Spent it all on dope and hookers.. and I ain't got no more dope, done did it all!" The conversation ends abruptly and they walk away in shock... true stuff.

Jack Smithton · Aug 18, 2016

soon2betrucking said: ↑

drivers. i need to no what to do when people climb up on my truck...
here is what has happened, its only happened 2 times so far.
I have been driving 4 months now, and about 2 months ago i was pulling out of a parking lot after making a delivery. while slowly driving through the parking lot, which was full of people. kids, and cars this guy came up to me and climbed up on my steps, driver side, and started to offer me directions, i did not ask anyone for directions to anywhere, he just started telling me how to get someplace. i didnt come to a complete stop, but i did keep rolling, and was yelling for him to get off of my truck, and that i will not stop!!! after some yelling, and screaming from me, and by the time i got out to the street and started to make the turn he finally jumped off.
2nd.
just this past week i was down in MD, at the TA in baltimore. and i was sitting there in my seat, doing my paper work, saw this guy who did not appear to have a " truck driver look " to him, so i just locked my door, and had my window down only half way.
my truck was running, so he helped himself up onto my step, on the driver side, and started to explain to me that he was " cool, and not a bad person " and went on to explain that he was stuck there, and needed a ride out to Tennessee and he was waiting for a driver, and wanted to no if he would use my radio to call him and see when he would be ready, i told him that i never use it and that its not tuned properly. and he asked if he could at lease give it a shot.
i no i should not have done this, but i started to hand him my mic, through the window, still halfway up. and as i was handing him the mic, he started to pull rather hard on my window. i told him to stop pulling on it, and then he decided to pull a lil harded. then asked me if he could come up on the pass side, i told him no. and he asked again, and again i said no, he can stay where he is, and then began pullin on the window again, and after really yelling at him again and he would still not let go of the window, i flipped down to chan. 9 and said " any troppers got their ears on please come down to the TA truck stop in balitmore, iv got a guy trying to rip my window out. released the mic, and to my disbelief i got a response, once he heard someone respond he took off running. i did not hear what the responce was, but after he took off running, i heard the mic que in again, annouced the name on my truck, and then realized it was still on chan 9. turns out there was a driver wacthing what was taken place. and happen to be on chan 9 for what ever reason. he told me that was a good idea going to chan 9,
but i wanna no from the experienced driver if someone has ever climbed up on your truck what you did, or what you wish you should have done.??? cause i dont see me hitting someone, having them call the police, having me arrested and loosing my job.....
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Only read the first post, but "Get off of my truck", without a smile, seems to work.

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