Does your cab get any more messy than this?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by A Bug, Dec 24, 2014.

  1. A Bug

    A Bug Heavy Load Member

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    A few days ago I went to the company yard to finish off a half delivered multi stop load and there was still a truck attached to it. So I wander into the maintenance building and ask to get the truck moved so I can attach myself to the trailer. The guy was kind of busy so he gave me the keys to go move it myself.

    When I open the cab door I had to hold my breath. This guy has got to be the worst slob I have seen since I started driving. And yes I know it is a guy because of all those yellow bottles in the picture there.

    I had a sudden urge to sweep out my own cab once I was hooked up.
     

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  3. Florida Playboy

    Florida Playboy Road Train Member

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    That is pretty bad but I have seen worse. Like when they 100 pounds of garbage on the dashboard.
     
  4. Chaps

    Chaps Light Load Member

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    There should be NO excuse for being that nasty!!!
     
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  5. FLATBED

    FLATBED Road Train Member

    Seen a lot worse over the years , cannot stand a dirty vehicle , house , office , shop
     
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  6. flyingmusician

    flyingmusician Road Train Member

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    yeah that's pretty bad but it's just trash other than the piss bottles from what we can see. still no excuse for being that trashed though

    previous company tried to give me another truck after they moved me out of mine over the weekend when I was home to give my nice well kept almost new one to a newbie fresh out of school

    the one they wanted to put me in looked like it had been stored in a chicken barn with the windows open for a year. the crud was literally so thick over the entire dash you couldn't even read the writing over the switches or see the needles in the gauges. I can only guess what the stains in the seat were from lol

    of course I refused to drive it.

    the one they eventually gave me was a former trainer truck and about to fall apart but I knew the previous driver and it was clean.....i'll take a ragged out worn out POS that's clean over that nasty crud truck any day but that was kinda the last straw with that company and part of a long list of things that happened like that. I left within a couple weeks after that.

    how people can live and work in a nasty mess like that is beyond me. mine gets cleaned every day. it's just not that hard to do to keep one spotless unless you're just working in an environment that is constant mud or oil or dust other type of industrial environment that makes it impossible. if nothing else you can at least keep the trash off the floors and dash if you can't keep the mud and dust out. it just isn't that #### hard.
     
  7. The Admiral

    The Admiral Heavy Load Member

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    That is the companies fault for not straightening the guy out. I had a Co. owner complaining to me that his drivers would not take care of the inside of his trucks. I told him the same thing, it is your fault. Set up some rules and enforce them. And while I am telling him this he is drilling holes in a brand new chrome bumper so his drivers could hang their oversize load signs. The blind leading the blind. I knew I would never be able to work for that guy.
     
  8. Jonrulerofearth

    Jonrulerofearth Light Load Member

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    That tractor should be burned
     
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  9. Nukem

    Nukem Road Train Member

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    The truck is fine... It's the driver who should be shot and pissed on (not in that order) for not giving 2 cents about it or himself...

    "Not my truck, not my problem"
     
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  10. nikmirbre

    nikmirbre Road Train Member

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    Im so clean….if i spill something going down the road..ill find the next rest area and wipe it up and clean the floor!!!

    Sweep my floor every night…every time i get in the truck my my shoes never go past the drivers seat floor!!
     
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  11. Big Don

    Big Don "Old Fart"

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    So they "punished" you for taking a weekend off! I think I would have told them bye bye right then.:biggrin_25510:
     
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