How many days is acceptable to go without a shower?

I didn't realize he's in a day cab... they should be getting him a hotel for ####s sake

 

Yup i thought he was in a sleeper as well. This #### in a day cab is beyond the pale. OP you need a new job yesterday

 

I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure he mentioned being in day cab in another thread. I mean your suggestions could still work if he covered the windows but laying a board across the seats to stretch out or nap is no bueno for any length of time.

 

You are Captain of you. You don't need company permission to take a shower. Drop the trailer and bobtail on PC to a truck stop if necessary.
I started with an "emergency shower setup" when I brought my dog with me years ago. There are super cheap, pretty cheap, and WTF expensive ways to do this. Essentially, you just need water to make yourself wet, or parts of yourself one at a time, soap/shampoo, water to rinse, something to catch the water. 1 or 2 liters of water is enough to get the job done.
My cheapest, least cost way to do this involves
1 gallon of drinking water from a grocery store or Home Depot
two empty 1-liter bottles of tap water, filled with water from the 1 gallon jug above
1 or 2 Sterilite 8 QT dishpans to catch the water, depending on your ability to direct the run-off
1 or 2 bath towels
shampoo (use it as soap and/or shampoo)

spread a towel across your bunk.
place the 2 dishpans side by side on top of the towel on your bunk
lean your head over your 2 dishpans, face down
slowly pour some of the 1st 1 liter bottle of water over back of your head/hair and get all of your hair and face wet.
apply shampoo and wash your face and hair while leaning over the dishpans.
Use what water remains of the 1st liter of water to rinse, plus what water is necessary from 2nd bottle of water.
Wipe down the rest of your body with baby wipes.
Then take a wet paper towel liberally wetted by clean water and wipe down the areas where you just used the baby wipes to remove the baby wipe residue.
Dry off using the other towel. Use the 2 towels for 2 different function in alternating fashion.
You just took an emergency shower.
Now pour used wash/rinse water into the 1 gallon jug. Next time you visit a shower or bathroom pour that water down the drain and either keep the empty jug for next shower or throw in trash.

Another way to do this is use a 1-2 gallon pump-up garden sprayer for your water sources instead of the 2 1-liter bottles of water. That's what I used if my dog needed an emergency shower after walking through wet morning grass and dirt lots or discovered a dead animal to roll around it when I wasn't looking. They cost about $20 Home Deport, Walmart, Amazon sell them. Link above just so you can see what I'm describing, the water quantity isn't too important it only takes about 1-2 liters (quarts) to get clean.

 

You can do it, even if it's bad and they shouldn't ask you to do it. There are solutions and you will have better options if you don't quit right now.

P.S. I didn't know you were doing this in a day cab when I wrote the above.

 

If I were in your shoes and knew then what I know now, I’d tell them to pound sand. Run the account how you feel it should go in the sense of either get me a hotel room, or I go to a truck stop every night. You aren’t a local driver. It’s Schneider, it’s a huge company with very mid managers who don’t know and don’t care if you shower or get a decent meal. If they don’t like it then tell them to put someone else on the run and you either quit, or go back OTR. Losing a job at Schneider will never bar you from getting a good job down the road.

 

Did he choose to go on the local account? If so, why? And if not, why did he accept it?

 

I don’t think he did but I’m not positive.

 

If they are asking you to live in a day cab that's outrageous and I would say it's stopping one way or another. A sleeper truck is the minimum if they are not going to provide a hotel room at their cost. You can't get rest in a day cab, and I know all of the hacks to sleep in a day cab, I drove one for 18 years at night I did them. That's inhuman and intolerable. That's something I would find a way to bust the company's rear-end over and lose my job, probably. I'd talk to Safety Dept and not threaten or make demands, but ask them "since the company is asking me to sleep in a daycab, how do I log it and when are you sending a massage therapist to repair my back because I don't think I can walk anymore?" (That's a question not meant to get an answer but to put an issue on his desk with an implied threat of leaving in the next 5 minutes behind it, but not stated).

 

he's not in a day cab. This ain't the good old days where you sleep on a piece of wood laid across the seats.