He has always driven truck.
He started out driving log truck many years ago and now works for a company that offers good retirement and benefits.
He is the best truck driver in the whole world.
Seriously, he is.
Thursady night he left the yard around midnight and headed to Central Oregon in this terrible weather, but he is smart and safety minded, so I don't worry to much about him.
The only trouble he has is when other drivers don't bother to use the brains Jesus so generously gave them.
Like Friday morning.
He was driving down a two lane highway in blizzard like conditions just as it was turnung daylight.
He looked in his rear view mirror to see a small truck passing him half way up the length of his trailer.
He looked forward just in time to see another semi coming straight at them from the opposite direction.
Mike took one ditch and the other semi driver took the other ditch as the truck in the middle slammed on his brakes and went careening between them and down an embankment.
If it hadn't been for split second thinking on behalf of Mike and the other semi driver all three of them would have likely been dead.
The other driver called 911 as Mike ran down the embankment to help the man who had tried to pass. As he was helping him out of his beaten and battered pick-up, Mike asked the guy what the hell was he thinking.
His response.....
He couldn't see, so he thought it was safe to pass.
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