Truck driver arrested for firing shotgun at one other trucker on Virginia freeway

A Texas-based truck driver was arrested in Virginia final week for an alleged highway rage incident involving a shotgun.

The incident occurred on Thursday, March 30, 2023, in Caroline County, Virginia.

The Caroline County Sheriff’s Workplace, VA (CCSO), acquired a 911 name concerning an obvious altercation between two semi truck drivers touring on Ruther Glen Street.

The caller informed police that “one tractor-trailer driver was firing a shotgun out of his window.”

“Deputies consider each drivers engaged in an altercation over driving conduct on Interstate 95, which resulted in photographs being fired on Ruther Glen Street,” CCSO stated.

Deputies responded to the scene and located one tractor trailer stopped on Signboard Street, close to Harmony Street. Police say this driver was unarmed.

Officers then positioned the second semi truck close to the intersection of Harmony Street and Richmond Turnpike.

CCSO stories discovering a loaded shotgun within the possession of the second truck driver, who was later recognized as 27 yr outdated Daniel Skobic, of San Angelo, Texas.

Skobic was booked into the Pamunkey Regional Jail with out bond.

CCSO says he faces a cost of Reckless Dealing with of A Firearm.