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Go eat this post with......Ketchup.

Yay Dujo! You win in the scarcastic ba#$%!rd post award!

Sad. Is that all you have to contribute?

Probably.

 

Instead of making fun of the newby, some of you explain what you buy and eat each week. I actually believe some of you don't know what you spend.

You're a student, you have no choice but to eat out of a truck stop where you pay double. You get to buying $8 lunches and $15 dinners along with $5 cigarettes and $1.79 drinks... throw in a phone card, some snacks, maybe some gloves and miscellaneous items, it adds up pretty quick.

I know, some of you split a $5 sub in half and that's all you eat everyday. That or the 2 for 1 hotdogs. But somehow you can't get rid of that extra 80 pounds.

Newbies don't have the time or resources to do the Walmart thing and eat in the truck.

As there are many students that shouldn't be students, there are plenty of trainers that have no business training. A good trainer has patience and can hold his cool. Students have hard enough time concentrating on the task at hand, they don't need some clown yelling and compounding matters. It serves no purpose.

 

Originally, this post was blaming Stevens for his lack of money, hometime and other general OTR troubles. While a couple were specific to the trainer, it seems we've began focusing on the cost of being on the road (eating) while on a trainer's truck.
Each trainer is different.
I have a refrigerator and micro which I encourage all my students to take advantage. The first day on the truck usually involves a stop at Wally World where I encourage them to buy things like fruit, sandwich supplies and easy (and cheap) quick fix foods such as soup, oatmeal and dry microwave meals.
Not all trainers do this, I realize, but as a consciencious trainer, I spend a fair amount of time covering things like budgeting, eating properly and taking care of oneself.
The original poster blamed Stevens for his lack of money. If a student is trapped on a truck with a trainer that doesn't care or give help in this area, there isn't a lot he can do except be careful.
But even then, many truckstops sell fruit, some prepackaged foods and lessor expensive foods such as hotdogs, allowing the individual to be frugal.
The solution? Hurry up and get your training over and get your own truck where you can run your own life.

 

What did he say? Uh... My head wont stop spinning and my brain is in overload and can no longer compute.

 

Yep! At the given moment it was all I had.
But,
good
job
Pointing
out
the
Obvious...... and posting like a 14 year old school girl in heat.

 

One of my classmates was tossed out of the truck at a truck stop. Twice. By two different mentors.


This was the same guy who had a bird and told the school administrator I was "doing drugs" and "popping pills" in the beginner's truck. I suppose, technically, he was right...but not in the way he was trying to insinuate. I took two Tylenol for a headache, a Luden's (cherry, of course) for a dry cough and two Tums because it seemed (for some odd reason) to be a good idea to eat a Bacon McGriddle for breakfast that morning. Also, he had this hand truck that he took everywhere with him and he would shove the foot part of it under the door at the motel so nobody could get in and "GIT him." (I have this last bit of information from his last roomy.)

I don't know what the O/P's friend's issue was, but most trainers do not make it a habit to abandon students at a truck stop. Some students, however, appear to make a habit of being abandoned. Paradox, perhaps? Curious.....

 

I personally think shopping at walmart is a little expensive as well. I am totally cheap and usually find a discount store to buy food. If I'm not feeding myself for $3 a day, I feel as if I'm doing it wrong. Maybe being in a truck is different, but seeing as the discount store I shop at currently is right across from a grocery store where all the local OTR guys park their rigs overnight, I don't think so...

My instructors in school made it quite clear that your ability to prevent the road from eating your money is the difference between being successful at this and failing miserably. If that's true, I applaud all you trainers who spend the time to teach people this. The credit card climate has destroyed the average ability to manage funds in this country, and instruction on budgeting and managing resources is great information.

 

I cant find the rule your talking about ... where is it?

 

http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...formation-center/154304-spelling-and-ttr.html

 

What did you call me?