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LIFE er until someone showed up
continued from page 5 with a CDL, to leave. He then
were going there. issued Jack three separate
A little suspicious, the po- tickets, and followed him to
liceman asked, “What are the truck stop.
those vials and syringes For the next two hours,
there in your console?” Jack was on the internet re-
Joe took the lead on this searching his problem, with
question and quickly an- all the gusto of someone
swered, “One is Draxxin studying for their bar exam.
and the other is Bantamine. Joe, in the meantime, was
They’re both for cattle. We’re snoozing away in the passen-
farmers.” ger’s seat. After all, it wasn’t
Joe didn’t know if the offi- his truck and trailer.
cer knew what the two drugs At 3:00 A.M., Jack woke up
were, but the policeman Joe and told him he’d better
quickly took Jack’s driver’s li- use the restroom. “Are they
cense and headed back to his letting you leave?” Joe in-
patrol car. About three min- quired.
utes later, four other police “Well, all the cops have
cars showed up, representing left, so we’re getting the hell
local, county, and state au- out of Illinois.” And they did.
thorities. The State Troop- They made it to Wisconsin
er asked Jack why he didn’t by mid-morning, loaded the
have a Commercial Driver’s tractor, and headed south—
License (CDL). Politely, Jack via the beautiful state of
told him that, in Missouri, Iowa.
farmers didn’t have to have I saw them the follow-
a CDL to transport livestock, ing Tuesday, just as Jack
produce, or farm machinery. returned from visiting his
“Well, boy, you’re not in attorney, where the lawyer
Missouri, are you? Accord- thought he could get him out
ing to the GVW of your truck of some of his trouble, but not
and trailer, you need a CDL all. The attorney told Jack to
to drive that rig in Illinois.” stay out of Illinois until he
Now, more than a little could get everything squared
worried, Jack asked, “What away with the authorities
do we do?” there.
Not so politely, the state “Good advice, but not need-
trooper told Jack that he ed,” Jack replied, “I’m never
would follow him to the truck setting foot in that state, ever
stop, where he would have again.”
to park his truck and trail-
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