Hidden health hazards in the truck.

My body is very sensitive, so I can sense any unhealthy, toxic drain on my system, and these are the hidden health hazards about driving that I have discovered.

1 First, the absolute worst hidden health hazard in trucks has to be the solvents, spare oil, left-over deisel treatment, half empty bottles, and spills of such, that are often located under our bed. Anything that has a smell to it should not be in our breathing space. I have had severe headaches from just a few hours breathing such things in. Sleep time is when the body does some serious detoxing and recuperation, and the air during this time should be the freshest and cleanest. It must be a terrible strain on anyone's immune system who subjects their body to breathing near such chemicals, and this must be a big reason so many truckers are overweight and out of shape. I cannot stand a few hours of it cause my body is sensitive, but even if it does not make you sick, throwing that crap out and cleaning up the floor with a good degreaser and plenty of water will go a long way to allowing the body to be healthy enough to want to exersize and start getting healthier.

2 The foam insulation/padding under the rubber mat that is our floor can become a monstrously toxic breeding ground for toxic mold. If you spill some oil or water onto the floor, somehow it works its way into the foam, which has a layer of plastic on both sides of the foam. It keeps fresh air out and moisture, dirt and heat in, and horrible strains of very sickening mold, fungi, & yeast grow in such an environment. Plus, the foam makes it impossible to degrease and wipe clean any oil spills. I don't know how much noise insulation that foam layer provides, but it cannot be worth the toxic load placed on the body. That foam layer should be thrown out. It cannot be properly cleaned and dried out. I've had blinding headaches from a simple roof leak going in to the foam. The rubber mat can be done away w/ too. Just pure fiberglass would make a great floor. Easy to sweep, blow out, and mop. Easy to get rid of dust, and no toxic molds, because nothing is preventing the dirt that collects from getting fresh air, or preventing it from evaporating fast.


3 Exhaust. About 2% of trucks have exhaust that is very sickening. The body knows which exhaust is worse and will indicate it with the sense of smell. If it smells strong and bad, it should be avoided. I will not park downwind from a jerk who has horrible smelling exhaust and idles all night. If I do, I could wake up sick, easily. I hate it when one of those 2%ers passes me, only to go my maximum speed, direction in front of me. I always will slow down fast to let their sickening air get dispersed and that always works. 2% of reefers have sickening exhaust too. About half of the tri-paks out there smell awful. I suspect such engines are not combusting completely.
If you drive such a beast, please be considerate and don't idle all night. Less idling means less smoke. You breath it in too. If I get some bad-smelling air in my cab, it will remain for a long time unless I roll down the windows and drive in fresh air.

4 Foods. Our selection is so pathetic. GMO foods are in around 90% of the foods at the grocery store. I've seen about 2 products at all the truck-stops that say "no-gmo's", and you better bet that's important. If you don't think so, you've got a lot to catch up on. The only way I know of to get any real semblance of truly healthy food is either 1 find a grocery store near your truck-stop which has a 3% chance, or 2 road-kill, with ideal conditions for harvesting that, cold weather, no traffic, room to pull over, fresh bright red blood indicating a fresh kill, and no contamination from the guts, give it a near-zero chance. We are all in trouble here, unless you can go home once a week and replenish your fridge with fresh goodies.

5 Noise pollution. Studies have shown that simply subjecting the hearing to the noise of a weed-whacker turns off the immune system for hours. I don't care how tough a man is, un-natural, random, noise can be a strain on the body. I wear earplugs when I sleep and drive and it helps tremendously. I feel less fatigued. "Noise fatigue", google that. It's a real strain and burden on the whole system. Earplugs make a world of difference to me. Avoid the bright orange colored ear-plugs, cause they are sterilized w/ *snip*. Certain birth-control aids are too. *snip* is some very toxic stuff. If I put new orange plugs in my ears, my ears ache like heck after a few hours. There are beige colored plugs that never cause my ears to ache. As for the spermicidal lube in condoms, it all needs to be organic, and best bought from a health-food store, which are never near the truck stops - so-far.

6 ######. I know it gets lonely on the road, but this is the sad truth about ######. Easy sex: makes people shallow, makes people hate the opposite sex, makes people value things that are vanishing and worthless, things like appearances over substance, makes people feel betrayed, used, and sad, and makes people turn to dangerous habits to block the pain, to harden the heart from feeling - anything. Read "Unhooked", a book about the modern hook-up culture for more evidence about these assertions. Intelligence, sensitivity of heart, passion for the things that are truly worthwhile, truthfulness, integrity, depth, empathy... these things make a man truly valuable, not the sicknesses that our modern culture embodies. Shun them. I suspect that the truckstop ###### have a lot to do with why so many truckers are liars. You cannot trust a liar. A man has nothing to build on, and is nothing if he is not truthful. I'll admit, it's one thing to say the trailer is clean, so you don't have to do a half-hour of unpaid sweeping, and so you're not late... but it's a whole nother thing to lie about the stupid, trivial crap so many pathetic lying truckers lie about. It's really pathetic and sad to lie. It's an insult to be lied to. Don't think that everyone you lie to doesn't know it's a lie. Most people are just being nice and don't want to hurt your feelings by calling you a ###### liar. If you lie, face it, you're NOT that smart to begin with, and you're really not fooling anyone.

I could tell my DM was a liar the first time he spoke to me, by simply listening to the phrases he chose. It's that obvious. It's so easy to tell the truth!

Best of luck to all the drivers in keeping healthy.