Our last day has arrived because we want to get to Nashville to spend Easter weekend with Duffey and Katie. Mike and Curls drove us to town and the Mi Pueblito restaurant where we ate lunch and then on to our RV.
LPYM Trucking
You have a driver that has a serious problem that puts all other drives at risk. He stopped Knoxville rush hour traffic on Highway 40 twice on March 24, 2016. Once he stopped all traffic in the right lane and once he blocked all lanes by driving his semi across the entire highway! Both times he got out of his cab and assaulted our motorhome.
The rear of his semi had LPYM 31070 on it which should help you identify the driver.
The incident began in the rain on March 24, 2016 around 6:30 PM before exit 395 where the far right lane ends.
This was our first time on this highway and we were following a semi and there were cars and semis behind us. The semi ahead of us put on his blinker to merge and was let in immediately by a car and that is the first time we saw a sign indicating that the lane was soon ending. Your driver was moving slow and located behind our tow car, we were driving a motorhome. We put on the blinker to merge and began to merge and were 1/4 way into the lane when he sped up and came up to our side with his horn blaring. We immediately stopped and instead of doing a small swerve around us he kept his path and passed us. He was still on his horn. Once past us he stopped in the lane thus blocking all traffic in the lane and got out of his cab and ran back and began pounding on the front of our motorhome and yelling. A driver in the lane over stopped and motioned for us to get in front of him, we were unable to move because your driver would not move or quit pounding on the front of our motorhome and get out of our way so that we could continue driving and stop blocking traffic. Your driver finally headed for our door and when he was no longer where we would hit him when we moved we changed lanes and continued down the highway.
In just a short time we saw him speeding down the shoulder of the road heading for us. He got beside us and had his window down yelling at us. Then staying on the shoulder of the highway he sped ahead of us and drove his semi across the highway blocking all lanes,he jumped out and again ran to us and began yelling and banging on the front of our motorhome. Twice he ran back to his cab and we feared he had a gun, but each time he came back and pounded on the front of our motorhome. I was on the phone with 911 and they told us to get off at the next exit which would have been 395 when we could get past him. The car next to us tried to talk to the driver but he just yelled at them so they rolled their window up and motioned they were also calling 911.
After about 4 minutes of stalling all traffic and pounding on the front of our motorhome yelling at us he returned to his cab and started to drive. We got into the far left lane and tried to go slow and stay away from him but he came beside us and continued to yell and then he spotted a weight station and just cut across all lanes to get there, he almost hit cars with his abrupt maneuver to get to the weight station.
We exited the highway at 396 to avoid having him catch us again. This man has a real problem that needs to be dealt with. We are not asking for the damages he did to our $400,000. coach, our only request is that this driver stays off the road until he gets some help.
Scared to be on a highway with LPYM trucks.
This was a crazy incident!
After a bad driving day we were able to continue on to Nashville and find a camping spot at Yogi Bear Campground where we will stay until Monday.
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