TRUCKERS' BLACK WOLF LEGEND

"HEY! Where ya at?" Jon Williams asked Cole over the phone that night after they shut down their tractors.

"TEXAS." Cole kicked off his boots and hit his opti idle.

"Ohhh

TEXAS?! Well then; Have you seen the black wolf yet?" Jon decided to microwave a frozen ... whatever that one was which he grabbed in the front- prepared supper dishes his wife had wrapped up into unlabeled tin foil bundles. He peeked inside and rolled out the rice with beef & vegies onto a paper plate. Wished for a beer, but then thanked the LORD for his sobriety. He popped open a cold coke can.

"WHAT WOLF?" Cole knew his Uncle would unravel another one of his family's trucker legends with this one, but Jon seemed utterly serious and even a bit concerned. Cole kept silent about the shadowy dark wolf which had launched itself near the edge of the road and looked over its shoulder at him. Its eyes had gleamed yellow but Cole thought his high beams headlights must have been what startled the wild animal to leap so fast.

"Okay, so I know sometimes it's tough to get through Dallas and so many of us decide to go ahead and truck through the city in the night hours. Once you get behind that wheel, remain focussed on driving, and whatever you do! If you EVER see a black wolf like dog with yellow eyes PULL OVER and I do mean as soon as you find a safe, legal location.

"How Come?" asked Cole

"There is an old trucker's legend," Jon began, "and it goes like this...

there is a Spirit Guide who appears only to truckers. It was first seen in Texas but sometimes it runs up in Arkansas too; once it shows up and you see its yellow eyes look at you, then it is warning you. You are TOO TIRED. This wolf will appear only once more for the night, but it is the most extreme warning possible, because if the trucker is still driving, the wolf has foreseen an accident in the future. The wolf also directs that there is a rest area nearby to go to, so end the shift. Only once the trucker is asleep in his sleeper berth does the danger over the road dissolve."

"NO WAY!" Cole admitted, "last night I saw the wolf!" It was obvious to him now, that the wolf had indeed warned him since right after that Cole had rubbed his eyes and decided to pull over even though he had four more hours left on his clock.

Jon's voice grew deeper and even more dark than when he begun his tale,

"No trucker has ever lived to confirm the rest of this legend," he paused, stirred the steamy rice dish, took a hot bite, chewed. "Do you want to hear it?"

"OF COURSE" Cole said loud but casual. He was scrolling through his movies list and sipping the rest of his gas station favorite drink. Cole wrapped his blanket around his feet then plugged in and tossed his trip planning tablet onto the front passenger seat.

Jon Williams lit a cigarette. "Son, you better take this serious because once you know about the black wolf, if you see it anywhere when driving, you do NOT want it to look at you a third time since its eyes will be glowing RED."

LEGEND has it that if a trucker ignores this Spirit Guide in the form of a black wolf that warns by staring through the windshield with yellow eyes for the driver to pull over and rest, then there will be one final black wolf apparition. Once a trucker sees those red lights then it is TOO LATE, a fatal accident has occurred or will soon due to the driver's fatigue and error. Emergency response teams sometimes report that a trucker, in final last breaths before dying, will sometimes moan about red eyed wolf-like dogs lurching in front of them. No living truck driver will ever admit that he saw this black wolf with red eyes, because it is a sign that something he did when driving tired made it so he caused a death somewhere out there over the road."