RogueHK
06-14-2010, 03:31 AM
I was in training for my trucking job at the start of the year and had got on unpaid training leave from my first trainer then came back.
The next guy I meant was from Africa and a NIGERIAN.
I meant this guy at the terminal where the trucks are parked. He was VERY VERY exuberant and happy to meet me. I was cool with that. I've met a ton of nice people from Africa and most are pretty smart to boot. This guy once I was in his truck I saw a christian cross hanging in front of where the drivers face would be. I'm not a religious person so I was sort of offended but I didn't say anything. Company policy for trainers is NO religious things at all.
So to start out the trainee normally sleeps on the top bunk but this guy told me NO NO NO I want you to have the bottom bunk because you need to be comfy. So I took it but later asked again why and he said the real reason was so that he wasn't strangled in his sleep by the trainee :eek:
Ok so far sorta odd but I guess normal concerned right..
I then hear this guy above me chanting in his native language and praying with his wife. I heard him say god and other stuff while doing it and prays jesus ect but then back to his african tongue.
Ok so i'm laying there and YEAH this sorta freaked me out a bit started giving me flash backs to black hawk down movie and the skinnys ect...
So I decided I'd let it go but be cautious and hopefully he would be cool.
I went to sleep after a 11 hour drive (we drove 11 / 11 shifts team)
and woke up to something VERY wrong and disturbing!
He was yelling when I was woke up VERY loud and it startled me awake so I wake up and become FULLY alert (he doesn't know I am yet) but I hear him plain as day "DON'T THEY KNOW TERROR DOESN'T JUST COME FROM PLANES IN THE SKY!!!!!"
I'm like : :eek: (did he say? ) yeah he did!! WTF !! :eek:
So at this point I'm on my feet and I ask in a very loud authoritative voice
"IS EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT!???"
His response:
"Yes everything is fine, YOUR DREAMING!! go back to sleep"
I'm like: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I'm dreaming? WTF I'm TOTALLY AWAKE!!!
So he's talking to someone on the phone I have no idea who.
I decide I can't stand for ever and we aren't hauling hazmat so I'm going to sit down on the bunk. Then I deicide hell i'll lay down because I still have to drive in the morning IF I didn't wake up to him shouting ALAH AKBAR . I had my knife handy .
I went back to sleep after 2 hours after laying there with this terrifying feeling my truck driving trainer was a terrorist after I called and talked to the company REP to report it. The brushed it off and didn't think I was serious because I was a trainee.
So then I'm like OMG they don't think I'm for real and just said well either i'm going to DIE in the morning or I'll be ok. I called my wife told her the above so she and my folks / sis can sue them and get college money for our kids.
So anyways after that night which I tossed and turned then had to drive 600 + miles across the country. So while I drove he slept and I was trying to think of what to do. How to report this ect and worried be might cut my throat while I drove.
So a week goes by (yeah I couldn't get out of the truck the company rep didn't think I was telling the truth) everything is friendly again and he's always talking about god is good and talking about god and I'm like uh ok I don't care too much about that right now..
we get to a truck stop in the evening to shut the truck down and go to sleep it's some where in new jersey I think this time and I lay down because I've been driving and lay there with my eyes open.
I can tell he's sorta up to something but not sure he's sitting in the passenger front seat and I pretend to be asleep and close my eyes so in the dark I can see but he can't tell my eyes are open from the front to the bunk.
I'm just laying there watching him seeing what he's doing everything was sorta normal we joked around the days before pretty nice and always respectful. I'm laying there and it's been 15 minutes he looks back sorta a glance then he turns and looks at me and does the peering thing people do when they want to see if someone is asleep in the dark ect.
I tense up a little bit then I see him shift his body so it's slanted in the seat and he starts bowing like Muslims do when they prey and quietly chanting.
:eek: :eek: :eek:
This whole time he had been telling me how he went to barrack obama' church in Chicago. He literally even has a picture of the president on his wall!! Showed me pic's of his house and asked if I knew whom the man was in the picture frame on the main wall in his living room. He kept saying I'm a soldier too like you and that he once was in the army back in africa
This is all that happened besides the international phone calls at all hours and the chanting and telling me he had to meet a lady to pick up some money and she came from africa. Said she was giving him money for clothes to take back there.
Being ex military I swore an oath to protect and defend but I'm not SURE if this guy was just pissed off at our dispatch / complained to his wife in a very crazy manner or if he actually IS a terrorist!
I get pretty nutty after hours of dealing with "four wheelers" ie people that car drive in car's and trucks. Had people do some VERY stupid stuff including pulling out in front of me. The little man in the back of my head says this guy is a bad guy and I want to listen to him but I still don't want to do the wrong thing and get a MAYBE ok guy sent to gitmo.
It's been months since I've seen Richard O ( o )
who works for W Transportation.
W trucks don't get pulled over at scales because of the pre pass in the high way scales they have installed.
What do you guys think?
The next guy I meant was from Africa and a NIGERIAN.
I meant this guy at the terminal where the trucks are parked. He was VERY VERY exuberant and happy to meet me. I was cool with that. I've met a ton of nice people from Africa and most are pretty smart to boot. This guy once I was in his truck I saw a christian cross hanging in front of where the drivers face would be. I'm not a religious person so I was sort of offended but I didn't say anything. Company policy for trainers is NO religious things at all.
So to start out the trainee normally sleeps on the top bunk but this guy told me NO NO NO I want you to have the bottom bunk because you need to be comfy. So I took it but later asked again why and he said the real reason was so that he wasn't strangled in his sleep by the trainee :eek:
Ok so far sorta odd but I guess normal concerned right..
I then hear this guy above me chanting in his native language and praying with his wife. I heard him say god and other stuff while doing it and prays jesus ect but then back to his african tongue.
Ok so i'm laying there and YEAH this sorta freaked me out a bit started giving me flash backs to black hawk down movie and the skinnys ect...
So I decided I'd let it go but be cautious and hopefully he would be cool.
I went to sleep after a 11 hour drive (we drove 11 / 11 shifts team)
and woke up to something VERY wrong and disturbing!
He was yelling when I was woke up VERY loud and it startled me awake so I wake up and become FULLY alert (he doesn't know I am yet) but I hear him plain as day "DON'T THEY KNOW TERROR DOESN'T JUST COME FROM PLANES IN THE SKY!!!!!"
I'm like : :eek: (did he say? ) yeah he did!! WTF !! :eek:
So at this point I'm on my feet and I ask in a very loud authoritative voice
"IS EVERYTHING ALL RIGHT!???"
His response:
"Yes everything is fine, YOUR DREAMING!! go back to sleep"
I'm like: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I'm dreaming? WTF I'm TOTALLY AWAKE!!!
So he's talking to someone on the phone I have no idea who.
I decide I can't stand for ever and we aren't hauling hazmat so I'm going to sit down on the bunk. Then I deicide hell i'll lay down because I still have to drive in the morning IF I didn't wake up to him shouting ALAH AKBAR . I had my knife handy .
I went back to sleep after 2 hours after laying there with this terrifying feeling my truck driving trainer was a terrorist after I called and talked to the company REP to report it. The brushed it off and didn't think I was serious because I was a trainee.
So then I'm like OMG they don't think I'm for real and just said well either i'm going to DIE in the morning or I'll be ok. I called my wife told her the above so she and my folks / sis can sue them and get college money for our kids.
So anyways after that night which I tossed and turned then had to drive 600 + miles across the country. So while I drove he slept and I was trying to think of what to do. How to report this ect and worried be might cut my throat while I drove.
So a week goes by (yeah I couldn't get out of the truck the company rep didn't think I was telling the truth) everything is friendly again and he's always talking about god is good and talking about god and I'm like uh ok I don't care too much about that right now..
we get to a truck stop in the evening to shut the truck down and go to sleep it's some where in new jersey I think this time and I lay down because I've been driving and lay there with my eyes open.
I can tell he's sorta up to something but not sure he's sitting in the passenger front seat and I pretend to be asleep and close my eyes so in the dark I can see but he can't tell my eyes are open from the front to the bunk.
I'm just laying there watching him seeing what he's doing everything was sorta normal we joked around the days before pretty nice and always respectful. I'm laying there and it's been 15 minutes he looks back sorta a glance then he turns and looks at me and does the peering thing people do when they want to see if someone is asleep in the dark ect.
I tense up a little bit then I see him shift his body so it's slanted in the seat and he starts bowing like Muslims do when they prey and quietly chanting.
:eek: :eek: :eek:
This whole time he had been telling me how he went to barrack obama' church in Chicago. He literally even has a picture of the president on his wall!! Showed me pic's of his house and asked if I knew whom the man was in the picture frame on the main wall in his living room. He kept saying I'm a soldier too like you and that he once was in the army back in africa
This is all that happened besides the international phone calls at all hours and the chanting and telling me he had to meet a lady to pick up some money and she came from africa. Said she was giving him money for clothes to take back there.
Being ex military I swore an oath to protect and defend but I'm not SURE if this guy was just pissed off at our dispatch / complained to his wife in a very crazy manner or if he actually IS a terrorist!
I get pretty nutty after hours of dealing with "four wheelers" ie people that car drive in car's and trucks. Had people do some VERY stupid stuff including pulling out in front of me. The little man in the back of my head says this guy is a bad guy and I want to listen to him but I still don't want to do the wrong thing and get a MAYBE ok guy sent to gitmo.
It's been months since I've seen Richard O ( o )
who works for W Transportation.
W trucks don't get pulled over at scales because of the pre pass in the high way scales they have installed.
What do you guys think?