*attention this is long*
So my wife and I drive to Cleveland from the west side every day. She was in the fast lane with her cruise set to 70 in a 60. I will admit that she was speeding, however nobody was in front or behind her for a long ways, and she never does the whole weaving in and out of traffic thing. As soon as we passed an exit I noticed that a tractor trailer with about a 19' Dump bed was behind her.
It proceeded to accelerate and soon it was within a couple feet of her rear bumper. This got me concerned as there was nowhere for her to go, as cars were in the lanes to our right. First thing crosses my mind is why is this rig trying to go faster than 70 in a 60? Well as soon as it had the chance the guy whipped around us and then passed us. Which is completely fine by me.
However as it was passing us the driver CAME OVER INTO OUR LANE purposefully to send a message. I mean he was in our lane for a good 3-4 seconds. This scared the shit out of me and we just slowed down to let him by. Then he flashes some white lights on his trailer for some reason.
The only thing that I could think to do was write down his license plate and the company name. So we had to speed up to do this. Apparently he saw me writing it down and so he wrote my license plate down. I am completely confused as to why he would do this unless he plans on finding out where I live and trying to do something stupid.
Even more interesting is how he got off on the same exit as us and followed us to the intersection of W25st and Detroit. We were in the right hand turn lane to go downtown, and he was in the left lane. I looked back into his cab to make sure he wasn't going to pull out a gun or something ridiculous and he pointed at me and said something like he was going to get us. So at this point I'm actually very concerned. Luckily he just turned left and drove away.
Would you guys be worried that this nutso is going to try a home invasion? Both my uncle is, and father was a truck driver and they've told me that professional CDL holders do not want to violate traffic laws because of how hard it is to keep your CDL. The question I'd like to ask the LEO here is how easy is it for a civvy to obtain information with someone's plate number? Do they just need a friend in the force? Or is there a website they can go to. I'm not sure if I should just forget about the whole thing or if I should be concerned about what he may do.
Thanks,
Josh
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