Most of the time I drove in good Southern states. But every once and a while, I would be out on the road, maybe in Texas or in North Carolina, I would get orders to take a load to Camden New Jersey.
I knew that I could get into more trouble than imaginable if I got stopped and a cop found the gun in New Jersey. I evaluated the risks and decided just to stick with the hammer and the knife.
As it turned out, in 8 years on the road I never got into a confrontation where I needed a weapon.