The weirdest reason you've been woken up and your 10 interrupted?

YES!!! Used to catch a 15 minute nap at the brake check at Knyack. Did that exact thing. Never again. Sleep happens only in the sleeper after that night.

 

Another trucker,.a Marten driver by the way,.banging on my door at around 230 in the morning and asking me if I could move over a few feet so he could back in. He said he had nowhere to park. This was in the very back of the parking lot where there were no lines separating parking spaces and it was a get what you could type of scenario.
Also someone trying to get in my door at small rest area outside of Denton Texas. Never could see who it was and got the feeling they were hiding between the cab and trailer when I got up. Was parked there with a couple of other trucks so went back to sleep. Had heard a car pull through the parking lot a little bit before and assumed someone had been dropped off for nefarious reasons.

 

Last August I moved my brother's household goods across country when he moved from CA to SC. My son was moving at the same time to OK, and I took his items on my trailer too and dropped him off along the way. He was the first and only passenger I'd had in my truck before I retired in October. The first night we slept on the truck, I fell asleep in my bunk and I guess he got up to go into the store at the truck stop without waking me. When he cam back to the truck, I was awoken by the sound of somebody opening my door and climbing into my truck. It freaked me out so bad, I grabbed my gun out of the seat pocket before I woke up enough to realize it was him.

 

Manager woke me up at yard as dispatch forgot to send me a switch. 7 hours paid waiting time

 

My alarm clock going off waking me up to go to a job working for somebody else. What was I thinking?

 

For years I have slept somewhere other than a truck stop 99.9% of the nights I've spent in the truck. When I was hauling fuel I often stayed at gas stations I delivered that I really had no business parking a truck to sleep. Or I'd sleep at some other customer like a trucking company and tell them I couldn't deliver without running out of hours on their property, even though it was rarely true. No one ever bothered me once about it, but I was always expecting it at a gas station. We had a smaller truck stop that's not one of the huge chains that I delivered a lot. Every single Sunday morning for years it was my first load of the morning setting me up for this 2 day, 10 gas station loop I made every Sunday/Monday. Every Sunday morning, this lovely 80 year old lady that only worked one day a week, 6 hours every Sunday from 1am to 7am was in there and I'd chat with her for a half hour wasting time as us truck drivers do.

Things get all messed up one Saturday and I'm going to have to stay in the truck. So I decide I'll just take the load down to that truck stop early, drop it and sleep on the fuel drops. I'm the fuel truck so I don't care about the no parking signs because I'm the reason they're there. All a sudden I have a loud bang on my door and a police officer is announcing himself as such. Waking up after 2 hours of sleep I'm not functioning at all. My first thought was "Didn't I fall asleep at a truck stop for once?" and why a police officer would bother me. Peek my head through the curtain and sure enough there's an officer there. I have a 36 inch bunk so my clothes and a gun are sitting right there on the driver seat and I'm hoping he doesn't hop up on the step. Completely legal but that doesn't matter much when they get scared.

Anyways, turns out the old lady that works one day a week came to work and saw my truck there, and stay there for a long time. She had never seen me sleep in the truck and 99% of fuel haulers in my area never did. She tells an officer that comes in that she's worried about me and thinks something might have happened because I'm always going to my next stop. Has the officer do a welfare check on me.

At least someone cared about me.

 

I pulled over one night on some 2 lane in Ohio on the way to a well site to take a piss. Long straight road you could see a long ways off in both directions. Next thing I know I got flashing lights behind me. Cop came out of nowhere. Just wanted to make sure I was ok. Never saw headlights or anything

 

Chupacabra’s are real.

 

At least once a day. The best ones are when you catch in your peripheral the vehicle next to you in the mirror moving up.