OTR must haves for new drivers?

A caged squirrel, three feet of yarn, a tin of toenail clippings, and a jar of expired pickles.

 

Helps pull fifth wheel handles and tandem slide handles. Very helpful if your truck has half-fenders or full fenders. Also easier on your back.

 

And you can pull with both hands, which lessens the possibility of a shoulder injury when the fifth wheel decides it doesn't want to release.

 

Fresh fruits/veggies (walmart?). 5+ days of water. Baby wipes!

Everything else I think is personal preference. I keep a bottle of peroxide and rubbing alcohol sine I dont bathe everyday. Sometimes you get cuts and scratched on nasty equipment and no soap and water for hours....

 

Always keep a paper map. Rand McNally or whatever the latest map for CDL is. 2023.

2020 Hazmat ERG

 

Can opener.
Fridge if it isn't supplied. I was always on here bragging how I'd spend like $20 a month on groceries. (Basically living off soup and nuts/raisins)

Fast food has gotten more expensive than ever. Save your money.

 

Excellent idea, I learned this in the U.S. Navy many years ago, never knew when one was going to be transferred to another command at a moments notice.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

The absolute sheer driving force of our national economy - without truck drivers, our entire national economy would come to an absolute standstill - if not outright be dead.

Over the mountains, through the woods, into the valleys, coast to coast, from sea to shining sea - truck drivers can and do go anywhere and everywhere, every day, every night, all year round.