I'm taking it as, the Orange coat that Sarah said should be tossed, is David's loading coat. The plaid jacket that Sarah said she gave him last Christmas is David's clean coat he would wear when "not loading"
If they saw David was scrolling on his phone, was he out of his truck? What was he doing there? It doesn’t say he was fueling? Why stop there?
If a prearranged ride for a disappearance was waiting, I would think they would minimize any chance of being seen by leaving as quickly as possible, which isn't done with him walking at least 400 ft north on the road to a waiting car. One article noted that there were high winds in that area, but even without high winds, that many hours of delay in tracking, with other cars known to have been driven on the road that morning, it shouldn't be assumed that a track should continue for any distance or that the victim left in a car. Moo, but I have been at the scene of K9 trackings.
I also can’t picture a prearranged ride within eyesight of a house/farm. As we’ve all seen in Google Street View, the farms are spaced far apart on that stretch of N14 between 20 and 190th St, and there are other more remote spots on that route, with greater distances between buildings and with gravel side streets one could pull over onto.
In a earlier interview they said he checked the load which is command in hauling stuff and he would need a lighted place.
Apparently, he wasn't even wearing a jacket, it would not take long for hypothermia to incapacitate him either way. He could go quite a way if he stayed dry and moving. But how long could he do that?
I suffered a PE after a surgery in 2000. I was so short of breath I couldn’t really stand or walk, but I had zero chest pain through the entire thing. I’d called my surgeon’s office and the nurse told me it wasn’t a PE, but a panic attack and to call my psychiatrist. I called my psychiatrist (even though I’d had a million panic attacks over the past three decades and this was nothing like one) - luckily my psychiatrist told me to get to the ER asap! Needless to say, my surgeon wasn’t too happy with his nurse after this. I was lucky to get the help I needed. I was told in another couple of hours, I’d have been dead.Truckers and blood clots: What you don't know can kill you
Potential 'blind spot' among drivers and their doctors regarding riskwww.fleetowner.com
Pure speculation, but I wonder if DS might’ve suffered a PE from a DVT. The occupation fits. The age fits. And at least one symptom he described to his wife seems to fit.
It might also fit a scenario where a truck driver felt they needed to somehow immediately stop their truck to get out, possibly even ripping off their jacket to try to either relieve the discomfort or walk it off or call somebody or do something, anything, to get relief. Would likely be panicked and confused. The truck could’ve been left in the road and the phone left in the truck in a frantic rush to get out of the truck. Again, all speculation.
And none of that explains why he has not yet been found. I wonder though how far someone could walk while disoriented and experiencing acute PE symptoms such as shortness of breath and chest pain which perhaps didn’t immediately cause collapse.
Did his wife report that DS had mentioned any other physical problems / symptoms besides the severe (sounded like really severe) fatigue - such as lower (often left) leg swelling, lower leg warmth, lower leg pain, or discomfort in legs or chest after recent trips?
Just one possibility. Very sad. I hope they find DS soon.
All jmo
Thanks for sharing your story! And I’m so glad you got the right help despite the initial incorrect guidance… yikes. I also agree he should have been found. They did say somewhere recently the immediate area has been re-searched three times but I do hope it was a grid search at arm’s length and not people zooming around on ATVs like 20’ apart.
Agreed to all you said.
I followed the case of the escaped convict Danelo Cavalcante, who broke out of a Chester County, PA prison, several months ago. He had been hiding toward the end of his stint in a log pile, right behind an active tractor business. Someone could embed themselves into a pile of hay or climb into a gray silo or crawl under a junk pile on an old farm, or shimmy under some old shed. There’s no way all of those and more could have been searched without any immense effort.
I agree that he'd likely be found close by.
My uncle was a short haul drive like DS. Only my uncle hauled construction materials. He made it a point to be in line early in the morning for the first load because without fail things got behind on the loading or receiving ends of the trip, the trucks stacked up, and he made no money sitting and waiting. He tried to make three trips per day as well, sometimes going home with a loaded truck at the day's end (not an option for DS and livestock).
