Here's where discipline and precise trip planning comes into play. If I know I'm going to be delivering in Crackville, I stop well away from my destination to take my 8 hour break'sometimes as far as 300 miles away. I leave enough driving time to make my next pickup and get away from Crackville.
I like to get in and get out'I plan my available hours to make that happen. I arrive at my appointments no more than 45 minutes early. I certainly don't want to be waiting out in the street like the NFI driver who got killed sitting outside Clorox in Tampa.
Lot Lizards and Other Riff-Raff
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by jedi_tev, Oct 18, 2008.
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BUT... if I were to work for a company that didn't have the awesome load planner we have (the guy is worth his weight in gold), I would NOT wait overnight in crackville (Miami, south Dallas, New Orleans proper, etc.). My personal safety trumps OOR.
I remember one particular time in the City of Industry, waking up to crime scene tape where two cops had been shot to death in the intersection, not more than a few hundred feet from where I was parked. That changed my whole way of thinking on parking overnight in bad areas.Roadmedic Thanks this. -
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All the stories everyone has told is the precise reason I sleep at some pullout on the side of the road instead of at a truckstop.
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and - truth to tell, you don't have to spend the night in West Armpit to have your whole life go right down the swirly...
case in point: today in.. NY, I think, to members of rival gangs decided to have a gunfight. Not on the street. Not at a Bar...
In a Frelling TOYS R US.
Your life can turn to used dog food while you are stopped at one of them octagonal red signs... -
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I believe that everyone has the right to make a living in this world. Because credit is so tight right now, Just explain to the Lot Lizard that you would glady pay them Tuesday for a hand job today.
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never been approached sleepingin a porno store parking lot. guess they think I already took care of it.
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