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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 06.22.2008
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I guess that's just the way things are anymore, people just don't care. In our own yard they have a guy pick up trash in the lot about once a week and there's a large trash can beside the door that hardly gets used.
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Speaking of proof - how do you know it was pee? Sniff or taste test? Definitely not an investigation worth of CSI.

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I'm sure what happened is true, but please don't accuse others of things you cant prove. How do we really know who did what you claim? I think your story is just as important by saying that a driver threw out a pee bottle. It doesn't matter what company he drives for, it is still nasty.
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I saw a driver once in Salt Lake City. Description, white, slightly over weight, wearing a cowboy hat about mid 50's get out of his truck with his coffee cup. Walk to the back of the cab and take a leak. Then picked up his coffee cup and walk the 150 foot or so into the truck stop.

Would you consider this a new third world truck driver. Incident happened in 2000. I just plain don't even look or try to keep up with them anymore. Nothing surprises me.



I've seen it too, utterly disgusting.
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Unless that Schneider driver was there all night long and pulled in after you noticed the spot by their door where they dumped their trash (I dont know about you, but I always make a mental note of every spot around me and if there is junk on the ground, at a rest stop), then its really hard to tell who it was.

Im not just saying this because Im a Schneider driver, but its really silly to point out a company. EVERY single trucking company out there has drivers who do the exact same thing. Go to the POE in WY at the WY / UT border and you will see what I mean...piles of bottles in the far corner.

Its not the truck or the company, but specifically the driver and the driver only. As a fact, I know that Schneider does not allow portable toilets or urine bottles in their trucks at all.
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I swear this is the truth!, i was at a Wyoming rest stop


on I-80 last week and there was a Schneider



truck parked next too me at night, and there was nothing on the ground on the drivers side of it facing my passenger side. now as it pulled away in the morning, i woke up and notice a full pee bottle


I have seen drivers throw their trash under and around other trucks, so just because you saw it next to a pumpkin truck does not necessarily mean it was theirs.

Unless you see them doing it you can't assume that because it was not there before, it must have been them.
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yeah i saw a truck last sunday cruising down I-40 heading to Memphis the passenger in this guys big truck threw out a bottle of something in broad daylight and truck drivers wonder why they are discriminated against so harshly
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Unless that Schneider driver was there all night long and pulled in after you noticed the spot by their door where they dumped their trash (I dont know about you, but I always make a mental note of every spot around me and if there is junk on the ground, at a rest stop), then its really hard to tell who it was.

Im not just saying this because Im a Schneider driver, but its really silly to point out a company. EVERY single trucking company out there has drivers who do the exact same thing. Go to the POE in WY at the WY / UT border and you will see what I mean...piles of bottles in the far corner.

Its not the truck or the company, but specifically the driver and the driver only. As a fact, I know that Schneider does not allow portable toilets or urine bottles in their trucks at all.
SNI does a good job of screening drivers in the hiring process. There's a certain amount of pride I feel working for Schneider. While there are SNI pigs out there, overall I like my fellow drivers and feel a certain solidarity with them. I'm convinced that you're much less likely to find an SNI driver tossing a pee bottle than most other companies but with a company so large, you are bound to have some bad apples.
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yeah i saw a truck last sunday cruising down I-40 heading to Memphis the passenger in this guys big truck threw out a bottle of something in broad daylight and truck drivers wonder why they are discriminated against so harshly

It is amazing. But tell me, have you ever seen a 4 wheeler throw out trash too?
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