Just some random thoughts as this really perplexes me.
All of our company drivers, everybody in the industry who hauls livestock that knows Dave are pretty confident that he made it down to the place he was supposed to go and that things, whatever happened to Dave, went on there.
I absolutely do not believe Dave made it to his destination. It doesn't add up.
Cell phone records show Dave’s phone arrived at the intersection of Highway 20 and U.S. 71 at around 12:18 a.m.
Travel time from the Marker 126 Truck Stop to the intersection of Highway 20 and U.S. 71 is 40 mins per Google. Assuming he drove directly from Point A to Point B, that would imply he left the truck stop at approximately 11:38pm.
Volunteers have searched over 100,000 acres of land while the Sac County Sheriff's Office and the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation investigate his disappearance.
www.kcci.com
Investigators obtained video footage showing Dave at 11:15 p.m. on Nov. 21, 2023, at the Marker 126 Travel Center east of Fort Dodge, Iowa, on U.S. Highway 20. According to the press release, Dave was there for 16 minutes before leaving the truck stop.
And that implies he left at approximately 11:31pm. There's a 7 minute discrepancy there, but that's absolutely not enough time to get to his destination and back to this intersection that's at least 5 minutes away. It's far more plausible to explain those 7 minutes as the time it takes to get that big rig turned around, out of the parking lot, turn onto Highway 20, and get up to speed. I would be certain that he drove that stretch with no interruption.
Nothing is weird about that drive until he turns North on U.S. 71 - to get to his destination he should have turned South.
But I note that had he turned south, he would have arrived at his destination about 5 minutes after turning onto US 71 south. He would have arrived at approximately 12:23 am. He was running 23 minutes behind schedule already. I'm wondering if perhaps his route was right on schedule for the midnight eta until he stopped at the Marker 126 Truck Stop. If that stop wasn't planned or allotted for, that would explain why he was running behind.
But this...
Cell phone records show Dave’s phone arrived at the intersection of Highway 20 and U.S. 71 at around 12:18 a.m. The data shows the phone traveling north to where the truck was found and that it may have been there since 12:40 a.m., according to McClure.
And this...
Cell phone data shows Schultz's phone traveling to the location where the semi-truck was found — the intersection of D-15 and N-14. Data suggests the semi-truck may have been there since 12:40 a.m. on Nov. 21.
From the intersection of Highway 20 and U.S. 71 to the location where his truck was found is roughly 4.4 miles, approximately a 5 minute drive putting him there at approximately 12:23am. If he didn't reach the point where his truck was found until 12:40am, it took him 22 minutes.
I've got to speculate that something went very wrong
before the point where his truck ended up. Somewhere shortly after turning North on US 71. At some point did he realize he was going the wrong direction? If so, there's not a lot of opportunity to get a big rig pulled over or turn around. It would make sense to turn off on one of those cross roads and loop back around. The roads there are laid out in 1 mile grids, so maybe he tried that?
I don't know, I've got nothing.
