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Have you ever felt like the highway patrol was out to get you?

Normally I would say “Driver your just being pessimistic that officer was just doing his job”, Or are they? Now former Wyoming highway patrol officer Franklin Ryle Jr. definitely wasn’t “just doing his job”. Franklin Ryle Jr. dreamed up a scheme that he thought would make him rich over night!

Franklin Ryle Jr.

His plan: To arrest a Wal-Mart truck driver under bogus claims that he had a warrant in Colorado,  murder him and stage a crash in order to collect a settlement from the company. On top of that he had planned to throw his wife into the mix and collect on her life insurance.

The investigation of Ryle began in mid-January after his brother-in-law - a Casper police officer - contacted Highway Patrol officials in Cheyenne to report that Ryle had planned to collect a settlement from Wal-Mart by staging an accident involving his patrol car and a company truck, according to the affidavit, which was signed by FBI Special Agent Richard Fanelli.

On Jan. 15, Wal-Mart truck driver Richard Smidt showed up at a Highway Patrol office in Cheyenne and told an official he’d been stopped by Ryle a week earlier while driving on Interstate 25 near Douglas. Smidt said Ryle arrested him on a Colorado warrant and drove him to Douglas in his patrol car.

Smidt told the Highway Patrol that Ryle stopped at a home in Douglas and went inside for 10 minutes, leaving him handcuffed in the car. Ryle eventually returned and drove Smidt back to his truck and released him, claiming there had been a mistake about the warrant.

The Highway Patrol asked the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation to look into the matter on Jan. 16. Two state agents spoke with Ryle the same day, and according to the affidavit, the trooper admitted to stopping a Wal-Mart truck and arresting the driver on Jan. 8 near Douglas. He claimed a radio check revealed there was a warrant for the driver, but after driving to Douglas, a second check indicated the warrant information was incorrect.

The agents also questioned Ryle about why the traffic stop hadn’t been recorded by his patrol car’s camera. Ryle said he must have forgotten to insert a hard drive into the new camera, according to the affidavit. In the same interview, Ryle denied planning to use the Wal-Mart truck to stage an accident.

I call BS I can smell a lie like a fart in a car and this “claim of his” has stank all over it.

Ryle pleaded guilty to felony charges for depriving a trucker of his rights and using a firearm in a violent crime. Ryle faces up to 19 years in prison for the murder scheme. Ryle is scheduled to be sentenced on Oct. 29 by U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer in Wyoming.

A psychiatrist has concluded the former state trooper suffered from “reduced mental capacity” when he kidnapped the trucker while on duty in January, federal court documents show.

However, the prosecutor in the case claims the psychiatrist’s report on Franklin Ryle Jr. is unreliable because the doctor failed to consider a pattern of criminal activity beyond Ryle’s money-making scheme to murder the trucker.

Read the full story on trib.com

What do you think about this, is this officer crazy? How would you as a driver deal with a lunatic like this? That I’m not even sure about.

A German trucker flipped his rig in western Sweden last week and admitted to police to pleasuring himself at the time of the accident, a Swedish newspaper reports.The unbelievably unsatisfied trucker proceeded to continue to masturbate while discussing the accident with police, the paper reported.

“He was masturbating while the police interrogated him,” police prosecutor Åsa Askenbäck told the newspaper. “He has admitted that he was not paying full attention at the time of the accident. He was playing with himself instead of focusing on the road.”

The crash closed lanes of the highway in both directions as the debris was cleared from the roadway. According to the paper, “The man remained in the vehicle with his hands apparently still clasped around his own gear stick and was subsequently arrested for reckless driving and driving while under the influence of drugs.” The trucker admitted to all charges levied against him, including sexual molestation, the paper reported.  It is not clear what penalty the man may face, but a stiff fine is possible.

I had always wondered what happen to Pee Wee Herman after they canceled his show for his masturbating escapades in Sarasota, FL. Looks like he followed in the path of Large Marge and did what many other people do who feel sh!t on in there current profession, quit and start driving trucks.

When was the last time you got your head cracked open for doing your job?

Clayton Agostini started off September 15, 2009 like it was any other day however this day would end with a beating and eating bad food at the hospital, which just totally disgust me! He just finished up a delivery in the Union Industrial Estate, which leads to the Trinidad Generation Unlimited (TGU) power plant being built to supply the Alutrint aluminum smelter stalled by a court order.

You see earlier last week some 350 workers downed tools to demand better terms and conditions of work. The company responded by locking out workers last Friday. Work on the $708 million power plant has been stalled since. I could see how this would piss off a group of workers who just wanted what was right for them

Clayton Agostini had just finished his delivery and was on his way out of the park when a angry group of protesters started to slam his truck with rocks, being blinded by glass he stepped out of his truck and was smashed in the head with a rock. Which sounds similar to the Reginald Denny beating during the Los Angeles riots back in the ninety’s. It is total fu#ked in both cases.

One of the protesters said “We were meeting in front of the gate and the truck wanted to go in, so we asked the driver to wait a bit but he just drove by, bouncing the man, and didn’t even stop.” No one could confirm if this even happened, no police reports where filed. Even if it did happen how about calling the fu@king cops and deal with the situation in a rational way. Yes you motherfuc^er$ are out of work, that sucks, I understand but damn. One thing is for sure, if this was my truck, in this situation the report would have been more like “trucker kills thirty protesters trying to save his life”

What would you do in this situation, would you take a as$whipping or roll a son of a b!tch over?

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Sheila Grothe a employee of the pilot car side of their family run business passed away on April 17th 2009 due to cancer. Jasmine who was training for the 2012 summer Olympics at the time decided that there are things in life more important then a shot at Olympic gold. She put her plans on hold to help raise awareness and funds by being the youngest at 16 years old to run across America to help support those truckers who are not insured or are under insured, so that they could get much needed treatments.

Jasmine sought out a way to help through a non profit organization started by Dave Nemo called The St. Christopher Fund which provides financial assistance to professional truck drivers who have medical problems and can not otherwise afford health care. I must say, I have listened to most all of the trucking industry commentators through out my career. Not to belittle anyone else but Dave Nemo is a genuine fella who really cares about truckers, he is not in this to get rich and it is more then just a job, he is truly one of the few that I enjoy listening too.

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Hard times bring out the worst in people.

Some would say that “hard times bring out the worst in people”. I can agree that there is some truth in that statement however it is slightly optimistic. Lets face it, some people are just a$$holes. As the saying goes the one percent ruin it for the other ninety nine percent, that holds true to most things in life and trucking is no exception. Most men and women in the trucking industry are hard working people trying to take care of their families and financial responsibilities. Then there are those who are such f#ck ups they make everyone else look bad. For example, you could go about your life for weeks and not so much as notice a big rig but when one cuts you off or nearly kills your family making a lane change that kind of fear sticks with you right? You’re probably thinking about the last time it happened, can you remember what the last truck looked like that did the job the right way, probably not?!?

The media is always looking for a juicy story, one that will strike fear and conversation, one that your sure to remember just long enough till the next story is dumped on you. Recently in the desert sun there was a article about a stupid pr!ck (Angel Guillen-Raya) that got busted hauling 14 tons of marijuana, a street value of 25 million dollars and Riverside counties sheriffs biggest bust.

weed bust

This f#cking ass clown even went on to brag about how he got away with it just last week. Which makes me wonder why law enforcement officials didn’t use him as a guinea big to get to the bigger boss, after all he did admit to having a history of doing this, or does that just happen in the movies?

This guy maybe trying to bargain his way out of some jail time but one thing is for sure, he will be grabbing his ankles daily and suck!ng more cock then that chick from the Houston 500 gang bang video. No inmate likes a rat,  a snitch, a softer then butter b!tch! This dude has reached a whole new level of douche’dom.

I do have to give Angel Guillen-Raya some credit for at least being honest enough to admit that he was guilty of the crime the same can’t be said for Lazaro Merino, 42, of Miami.

Trucker busted

Who was busted in Florida for having one hundred thousand dollars stored in a make shift fuel tank as reported on the Gainesville sun. What kind of a f#cking idiot would try to run drug money(or whatever) in a big rig? I thought the drugs went by truck or plane and money on small water craft and cars separate from one another? If your going to pick a life of crime sh!t at least be good at it. Please keep in mind these morons are a rare occurrence don’t let these douche bags be the ones you remember but instead next time wave hi to the trucker who is doing it the right way!