SHANDONG, China -- A trucker in China was so determined to deliver his load on time that he drove for about 400 miles with a piece of cardboard where his windshield’s supposed to be.

Then the cops stopped him.

The driver, named Mr. Li, said he had been in an accident in Hubei province a few days earlier but was under such time constraints that he didn’t have time to do a proper repair job.

According to the China News Network, Li was almost blue from cold when they pulled him over. He told officials that he had to stick his head out the window to see where he was going.

"I would drive like that," police quoted Li as saying "until my neck got too sore and numb when I would drive by looking through the little holes in the cardboard."

Another man, with the same surname, Li, and whose first name is Li, emigrated from China to Canada in 2003 and works at todaystrucking.com in web content management.

Li (no relation to the driver) graduated from the University of Toronto’s School of Industrial Engineering earlier this year.

His opinion on the cardboard windscreen: "It is possible that somebody would do that in China. When you are poor you have to be resourceful."

Adds Li Li: "And although it would prevent dust from entering the cab, as far as I know, you can’t see through cardboard."