Truck drivers of reddit, what's the most "WTF" moment you've experienced while on the road?

1. My father was a trucker for over 20 years. I remember him telling me that he had stopped to help a lady that rolled her car. He walked up to it and keeled down and looked in the window to see if she was alive. Her head was missing.. Apparently that messed him up for a couple years.
   — Du6e


2. This story has been around on the net for awhile now. Who knows if it actually happened or not, but it's an entertaining read. As a man that has reached the ripe old age of 48, I can promise you I have seen some shit go down. This one totally takes the cake for me though. I was waiting out front of a truck stop back in the mid 80s. Sitting on a park bench with a guy that had a big Rottweiler kinda dog on a leash with him. I tried to make small talk but he was quite a sourpuss. So we sat in silence for a few minutes until the most unexpected thing I have ever seen, happened right before my very eyes. While we were sitting there a big 18 wheeler pulls in without a trailer (bobtail) so he parks right up front like a normal car would. Inside the cab of the truck with the driver is a little monkey. The dance for the organ grinder kind. I think they are called Rhesus monkeys perhaps. Well the dog spots this lil monkey and proceeds to go apeshit over it. Lunging at the end of his leash and barking at the top of his lungs. Generally making a real spectacle of himself to say the least. The driver is obviously upset, but not nearly as much as the monkey is. Actually upset may be the wrong adjective to use for the monkey though. In retrospect I think eagerly aggressive may be a more appropriate description for his disposition. He was pacing the dashboard back and forth. Never taking his eyes off of this very aggravated dog. The driver opens his little triangle window that they don’t make on cars anymore. The ones made for smokers back in the day. He yells out to this douchebag to call his dog off because it is upsetting his monkey. The guy laughs and says no way (I told you he was a jerk didn’t I?). Says that his dog ain’t bothering nobody. The dog hasn’t shut up since he laid eyes on the monkey. I promise you he is bothering everybody for several blocks around. Now here’s where things start to get interesting. The driver says that if he doesn’t call his dog off he’s gonna let his monkey loose on that dog. Douchebag laughs and says that his dog would eat that monkey alive. Upon hearing this the driver leans over and reaches into his glove box I guess. Pulls out one of those tiny baseball bats like you used to get at Astroworld or carnivals, and places it in the monkey’s hand. The monkey obviously knows what’s about to go down because he is now trying to squeeze out of that little triangular window I mentioned earlier. This monkey has murder in his eyes if I have ever seen it. Driver hollers, “Last chance to save your dog’s ass man.” In response douchebag lets his dog off of the leash. Now we have a situation that has escalated to the point where we have a dog jumping up at the window and a monkey screaming profanities right back at him. Well, the driver finally rolls down the regular window and out leaps all kinds of miniature primate hell. The dog never knew what hit him. Quick as a flash, this monkey is riding on the back of this dog’s neck. His two back feet all wrapped up in his neck fur with one hand hanging onto an ear. The other hand as you may have guessed by now is steadily and mercilessly raining down blows about this dog’s head and face. I mean hard blows. You can hear them whap whap whap. Well, it only took a moment for the dog to realize he was in way over his head. He bolts yelping bloody murder as he runs away at full speed. I mean this dog is running so fuckin hard he’s throwing up tufts of grass and dirt as soon as he leaves pavement. The monkey still riding him and beating on him the whole time. Douchebag acts like he wants to fight now but several people including myself stepped in to stop that nonsense. In a couple of minutes or so the little monkey comes loping back with his little bat still in hand, and leaps up into the still open window of the truck to await his master who has gone on into the store. That wanker ran off to try to go find his dog, but I don’t know if he ever did. My ride showed up and I had to go. Never again in this lifetime will I see something so totally crazy and unexpected like that. I am both fortunate and humble to have been so privileged to be present for such an event.
   — TerminusVos


3. Saw people banging in the back of an old van I could see down into
   — icecreampopncereal






4. Not really WTF moments but good ones: At my previous job (53' dry vans) my boss gave me a lot of flexibility. I only wanted to do runs within California and Arizona, so I could be home (San Diego) at least every other night, and he was always OK with that. But I did do one run to North Dakota. It was late at night and on I-94, the area around Theodore Roosevelt National Park, I see some yellow lights off in the distance, and they're getting closer...it was the Northern Lights. Definitely made it worth the trip. Seeing women flash happens every now and then but there was one time I was driving on I-8 back to San Diego and I saw one of the most perfect looking girls I've ever seen in the car passing me. She kept looking up at me and held the stare, the car kept going and she turned around and we just kept gazing at each other. The sun was setting and the sky in the desert gets so beautiful at that time...it was intense.
   — XJ220RACER


5. My father was a truck driver back in the day. He said one day a jeep full of college age guys pulled out in front of him. They then slowed way down, since this was on a 2 lane highway my dad decided to pass. You have to realize in the midwest there are some stretches of highway that you can see forever so he knew he had a clear lane to pass in. Once he got up beside the jeep the driver speed up so he couldn't get ahead of them and then when he tried to slow down to get back behind the jeep the driver slowed down. This went om for a short time before my dad saw a car coming towards them in the lane he was in. The jeep still wouldn't let him over so he just turned on his blinker and pushed them off the highway.
   — IQ33


6. Back when I took the truck driving classes the instructor told us three stories that had happened to him. One is when he began his career he was driving in a fog and noticed a car passing him didn't think to much of it and let them pass. He said after the passed the disappeared into the fog and awhile later he saw back lights stopped so he came to a complete stop and check it out turns out it was the car that passed him and it had a head on collision with another car. He went to check if they we're ok and found a couple asking if their kid was ok when he checked he found nothing turns out the collision was so hard that it ejected the kid out of the car. Second was when he was sleeping on the side of the road he heard knocking on his door scared the shit out of him. And third while doing a inspection of the truck he went into the woods to take a leak and when he finished he saw mountain lion making it's way towards him said he never ran so fast.
   — themighty404






7. Related story On a school bus trip in middle school we saw a girl blowing a dude driving on the highway. Pretty awesome since the school bus windows were looking right down on them. I reckon a lot of us got a little jumpstart to puberty that day.
   — roryoglory


8. My father told me a corvette tempted a cop car to chase him, then around a bend a little farther ahead of cop, the corvette on the ramp but drove off and parked behind a bush. My father could see the corvette from the height of the truck but the cop zoomed right up the off-ramp and kept going totally missing the guy.
   — brainiac3397