Pilot car driver pulled a knife on me over a detour in Ohio

Last Tuesday I was hauling a 90,000 lb excavator near Youngstown and the pilot car ahead waved me off onto a dirt road that looked sketchy for my setup. I stopped to check the weight limit on my GPS and the driver jumped out screaming that I was wasting his hourly rate, then flashed a box cutter when I asked him to walk the turnaround first. Has anyone else dealt with pilot car tempers on tight rural routes, or is this guy just a rare level of crazy?

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elizabethmason1mo ago

I mean, the guy shouldn't have pulled anything on you, that's not cool. But if he was already hired and running ahead of you, stopping to read your GPS probably did feel like you were burning his day. Maybe he was just stressed about getting paid, not actually trying to rob you.

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