 Upon his return to Arlington he enrolled in the Northern Virginia Trucking Academy and spent the next several years as a big rig truck driver.To earn extra money he moonlighted as a modern-day bounty hunter for Arlington-area bail bondsmen.A turning point for Tanner came one day while he was inching his way along Interstate 95 in the cab of his 18-wheeler, singing the Giacomo Puccini aria "E lucevan le stelle" from Act III of "Tosca" to pass the time, when a woman in a convertible in the next lane called up to him