Dump truck driver arrested outside porta-potty after chase

The driver of a dump truck who didn’t stop for a Minnesota State Patrol commercial vehicle inspection outside Duluth at about 10am on Wednesday was arrested after he eventually stopped to use a portable toilet at a gravel pit.

The truck driver apparently refused to stop for an inspection and then led troopers on what appeared to be a chase. The driver eventually pulled into a gravel pit, drove to a distant area of the pit and left his truck to run into a portable toilet.



Troopers made cell phone contact with the driver while he was inside the porta-potty. The man eventually came out and was apprehended.

“Charges will be pending against the driver. And yes, he was arrested after he came out of a porta-potty,” said Sgt. Neil Dickenson, State Patrol spokesman in Duluth.