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The Truckers' Image Under The Driver's Hat. Discuss ways for truckers to improve their image. Urine bottles, trashy truck stops and no truck parking signs abound. How do we change our image and earn respect back?
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Old 06.05.2008
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One drizzley snowy icy day in February I had to chain up and chain off 4 times while going through Washington and Idaho. At the end of this I looked like a drowned rat that had fallen into a grease pit. Anyone looking at me at that moment probably wondered where I had escaped from. The thing was though that the rest of the truckers looked about the same. Trucking isn't always the cleanest of jobs.
Very true. My first trucking job was with a flatbed company and at the end of the first week, I picked up a load in Savannah, Georgia. The rain was pouring in buckets and had transformed the shipper's yard into a huge mud pit.
By the time I had tarped and strapped my load in this veritable pigpen, I probably looked like a creature that had emerged from Scape Ore Swamp in South Carolina. I was covered in mud and muck, my feet were wet, and I had sprouted a world-class blister on my right hand. One of the bungee cords had popped off and snapped me in the forehead so, I supposed that I was wearing an impressive knot too.

However, there's a big difference between this, and a driver who refuses to shower regularly and does not care how he/she is perceived by the public. No one expects a truck driver to look like the CEO of a fortune 500 company, but it isn't asking too much for a driver to take a shower and throw on a fresh pair of jeans and a tee shirt on a regular basis.
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Very true. My first trucking job was with a flatbed company and at the end of the first week, I picked up a load in Savannah, Georgia. The rain was pouring in buckets and had transformed the shipper's yard into a huge mud pit.
By the time I had tarped and strapped my load in this veritable pigpen, I probably looked like a creature that had emerged from Scape Ore Swamp in South Carolina. I was covered in mud and muck, my feet were wet, and I had sprouted a world-class blister on my right hand. One of the bungee cords had popped off and snapped me in the forehead so, I supposed that I was wearing an impressive knot too.

However, there's a big difference between this, and a driver who refuses to shower regularly and does not care how he/she is perceived by the public. No one expects a truck driver to look like the CEO of a fortune 500 company, but it isn't asking too much for a driver to take a shower and throw on a fresh pair of jeans and a tee shirt on a regular basis.
EXACTLY!!!

I normally wear jeans with a Polo that says my company name, logo, my name and even owner on it. I also attempt to shower daily (occasionaly i miss a day). Anyways I unload my trailers from time to time when I haul office furniture and I was in Omaha, NE unloading my trailer and I was drenched in sweat from top to bottom. When I went to pick up my next load the guys had to have smelt me a mile away but I always try to look and smell good out there. After all I am a business man running my own wannabe fortune 500 company.. hahahaha

I wonder how many drivers actually use deodrant or cologne? You would be amazed how better you can smell after sweating all day with slapping some deodrant and colgone on.
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EXACTLY!!!

I normally wear jeans with a Polo that says my company name, logo, my name and even owner on it. I also attempt to shower daily (occasionaly i miss a day). Anyways I unload my trailers from time to time when I haul office furniture and I was in Omaha, NE unloading my trailer and I was drenched in sweat from top to bottom. When I went to pick up my next load the guys had to have smelt me a mile away but I always try to look and smell good out there. After all I am a business man running my own wannabe fortune 500 company.. hahahaha

I wonder how many drivers actually use deodrant or cologne? You would be amazed how better you can smell after sweating all day with slapping some deodrant and colgone on.
Not enough drivers use either to begin with!!
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