About July I started working for Amstan through Best Drivers.It was not the choice job but it got me back on the road.It took about a week before the things started happening again.I worked hard and tried to keep my mind on my job and when I would talk to my son I would feel comforted and loved.And he was doing good in his job in New York and I was very proud of him.I knew how much he had overcome himself.
About my fourth month working there,I was sent with a load to Chicago,where all the low overpasses are.The directions that was given in the Qual-Com,the computer in the truck,was taking me right under a low overpass.
It took about fifteen minutes but I found my way around it and was at the receiver waiting for them to open.I started getting calls from dispatch asking how I got around the low overpass,the other three drivers were lost,then I started getting calls from each driver,so I told them how to get around it and even though they were late and I was there before they opened,I had to wait because I was the last appointment of the day.It was five o'clock by the time I got out of receiving and there was a rush hour.I got lost coming out,trying to remember the way I came in because as you remember the directions in the Qual-Com went under the low overpass.Well,it wasn't the same low overpass but I had made a left turn,with traffic behind me,and I had just watched another truck go under,the over pass was 13'5,I was 13'6 which meant I was an inch too high,there was no way I could back up and no place to turn around so I had to go under,I dropped my air bag and slowly went under and just as I did,a train went across,lowering it more.I held my breath and went under snugging the right lane as tight as I could,if I had been a foot over to the right more it would not have touched but as it turned out ,for the first time in thirteen years of driving I topped a trailer.The damage was less than 1,200.dollars,so it was not that bad. I called safety and reported it ,talked to dispatch but the one thing I had forgot to do was call Best Drivers and let them know,I was not used to having two offices to report to and it was Friday,and offices were closed.
So anyways because I forgot to call Best Drivers and I was still on the probationary period,when I got in I was fired.It was I believe a week before Christmas 2007.
But to back up a little ,earlier in the year I had met a lady on the Internet,her name was Linda Johnson or Johnston.She was a Christian also and we chatted alot and we had made plans for me to come up to Mo. for Thanksgiving.Daniel was up in New York and I did not have enough money to go up there,and I had no place for him to come to to come to me except going to a hotel.Nashville,to Saint Louis,only costed about a tank and half of gas.So I had spent Thanksgiving with her and her son and daughter.And returned back to work after the
holiday.It was a nice visit,she was Guatemalan.And I didn't see anything that gave me alarm.When I lost my job
she told me to come up there and maybe I can find a job there.I was there from about a week before Christmas ,and I was terribly missing my son .I felt so sad about missing Thanksgiving with him and now I was going to miss Christmas.Moving in with a total stranger is always a very difficult situation,because when your just visiting every one gives their best personality,but you soon find who the real person is after a while.
Linda was generous to let me stay there but soon she was speaking things to me that really started shaking me up,after all do you not remember that the drivers about a year before was saying someone needs to tell her ,her son is already dead?She started speaking things about all I needed to do was (and this was after I tried to explain to her what had been happening to me)sacrifice my son the way Moses did and it would all be over .She was crazy.There was more,she had a son his name was John and her daughter was Wendy.Wendy attended a Church of Christ University and John was still in high school.While I was there Linda and Wendy both smoked cigarettes as I did also.The two of them would smoke in the house Linda made me smoke out in the cold weather.I slept in the downstairs basement and there was a computer down there I asked if I could use the computer and she let me use it,she said yes.I tried to go to a chat room off the Christian chat room and I met another christian ,David Dole.We exchanged pone numbers and began to talk.He was into the TV evangelist so I told him a little of what had been going on.Linda had cable and she got other Christian channels,The Church Channel,etc.and they were all doing the same thing.Linda had gone to Texas with Wendy for Christmas where her family was.John had stayed with a friend and I stayed there as I had no other place to go.I got on the computer and John had all kinds of porno on it,I told Linda and she asked me to delete it .I tried to but all it was doing was repeating the nasty so I didn't want to go on again.My computer skills were limited as the last time I had done anything on a computer was data entry.There was something else Linda's ex-husband 's name was John or Mike Ross.Linda talked a little about what he had done to her.She talked about subliminal messages on licence plates.She talked about how he threatened to kill her.Linda was obsessed with the woman that had gone on line and tormented a teenage girl to commit suicide.She said the women lived down the street from her.I can't remember her address but I know Linda's phone number is in my phone records.Linda would pray for me but the way she was praying it was almost like she was asking God to never let me see my son again.She truly scared me .And I had to get out of there but the weather was so bad I had to wait till it got better,which was about a month later.About the last week of Jan or the beginning of Feb.I had no other place to go but to go back to Savannah,Tn.There was something else about Linda,I had a strange feeling she knew little more about my situation than I did.I was back inn Savannah,Tn at Aunt Elma's for 25.00 a piece a week cleaning and cooking.Not enough money to get enough gas to get out of there.
About my fourth month working there,I was sent with a load to Chicago,where all the low overpasses are.The directions that was given in the Qual-Com,the computer in the truck,was taking me right under a low overpass.
It took about fifteen minutes but I found my way around it and was at the receiver waiting for them to open.I started getting calls from dispatch asking how I got around the low overpass,the other three drivers were lost,then I started getting calls from each driver,so I told them how to get around it and even though they were late and I was there before they opened,I had to wait because I was the last appointment of the day.It was five o'clock by the time I got out of receiving and there was a rush hour.I got lost coming out,trying to remember the way I came in because as you remember the directions in the Qual-Com went under the low overpass.Well,it wasn't the same low overpass but I had made a left turn,with traffic behind me,and I had just watched another truck go under,the over pass was 13'5,I was 13'6 which meant I was an inch too high,there was no way I could back up and no place to turn around so I had to go under,I dropped my air bag and slowly went under and just as I did,a train went across,lowering it more.I held my breath and went under snugging the right lane as tight as I could,if I had been a foot over to the right more it would not have touched but as it turned out ,for the first time in thirteen years of driving I topped a trailer.The damage was less than 1,200.dollars,so it was not that bad. I called safety and reported it ,talked to dispatch but the one thing I had forgot to do was call Best Drivers and let them know,I was not used to having two offices to report to and it was Friday,and offices were closed.
So anyways because I forgot to call Best Drivers and I was still on the probationary period,when I got in I was fired.It was I believe a week before Christmas 2007.
But to back up a little ,earlier in the year I had met a lady on the Internet,her name was Linda Johnson or Johnston.She was a Christian also and we chatted alot and we had made plans for me to come up to Mo. for Thanksgiving.Daniel was up in New York and I did not have enough money to go up there,and I had no place for him to come to to come to me except going to a hotel.Nashville,to Saint Louis,only costed about a tank and half of gas.So I had spent Thanksgiving with her and her son and daughter.And returned back to work after the
holiday.It was a nice visit,she was Guatemalan.And I didn't see anything that gave me alarm.When I lost my job
she told me to come up there and maybe I can find a job there.I was there from about a week before Christmas ,and I was terribly missing my son .I felt so sad about missing Thanksgiving with him and now I was going to miss Christmas.Moving in with a total stranger is always a very difficult situation,because when your just visiting every one gives their best personality,but you soon find who the real person is after a while.
Linda was generous to let me stay there but soon she was speaking things to me that really started shaking me up,after all do you not remember that the drivers about a year before was saying someone needs to tell her ,her son is already dead?She started speaking things about all I needed to do was (and this was after I tried to explain to her what had been happening to me)sacrifice my son the way Moses did and it would all be over .She was crazy.There was more,she had a son his name was John and her daughter was Wendy.Wendy attended a Church of Christ University and John was still in high school.While I was there Linda and Wendy both smoked cigarettes as I did also.The two of them would smoke in the house Linda made me smoke out in the cold weather.I slept in the downstairs basement and there was a computer down there I asked if I could use the computer and she let me use it,she said yes.I tried to go to a chat room off the Christian chat room and I met another christian ,David Dole.We exchanged pone numbers and began to talk.He was into the TV evangelist so I told him a little of what had been going on.Linda had cable and she got other Christian channels,The Church Channel,etc.and they were all doing the same thing.Linda had gone to Texas with Wendy for Christmas where her family was.John had stayed with a friend and I stayed there as I had no other place to go.I got on the computer and John had all kinds of porno on it,I told Linda and she asked me to delete it .I tried to but all it was doing was repeating the nasty so I didn't want to go on again.My computer skills were limited as the last time I had done anything on a computer was data entry.There was something else Linda's ex-husband 's name was John or Mike Ross.Linda talked a little about what he had done to her.She talked about subliminal messages on licence plates.She talked about how he threatened to kill her.Linda was obsessed with the woman that had gone on line and tormented a teenage girl to commit suicide.She said the women lived down the street from her.I can't remember her address but I know Linda's phone number is in my phone records.Linda would pray for me but the way she was praying it was almost like she was asking God to never let me see my son again.She truly scared me .And I had to get out of there but the weather was so bad I had to wait till it got better,which was about a month later.About the last week of Jan or the beginning of Feb.I had no other place to go but to go back to Savannah,Tn.There was something else about Linda,I had a strange feeling she knew little more about my situation than I did.I was back inn Savannah,Tn at Aunt Elma's for 25.00 a piece a week cleaning and cooking.Not enough money to get enough gas to get out of there.
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