The hazards of funk...

Some of the replies have me doing a mental "Icky, icky, EEW!!" but I get it...
First off, a truck that was issued to a (bunch of chain) smoker(s), been there, done that...I suppose I can grab a jug of vinegar, lysol wipes and have at 'er.
"Blue splash" worried me only a little...it's when it was GREEN splash or when there was NO splash that I worried more.
It would be nice if there were more OCD drivers. *sigh*
"Reality shows"...ugh...just what we need, some butt cheesey trainer/trainee (either combination works) trying to get through 90 days out on the road...only if it was on smell-o-vision...ick.
I thank you for the "speak up quick or hoof it home" thought...if it's that bad, I can avoid the headache, stomach ache, sinus burning, sniffling sneezing running bowel syndrome by simply telling management, "YOU ride in that crapwagon for a couple weeks, lemme know how it works for ya." Or something dainty and girly like that.
I also agree (I'm so agreeable tonight) that companies should screen/police those they put in charge of new putzes like me. Why show us the dregs of the company right off, when they can surprise us with 'em later on and say, "we didn't know TomShaunBillyBobGunterSue hasn't showered since 9/11...well, who'da thunk?" I like the surprise factor to be withheld til a later date.
If you're gonna swap grundies...count me out. I don't even want to see the video later on. I know what you're saying though...I recall MORE than one truck I drove with cloth seats that had a brown/black "crud" buildup right about the crack area as well as toward the edge of the seat...Now I always HOPED (and prayed to the Powers That Be) that it was just some driver that couldn't hit his pie hole with a Twinkie, and said Hostessy goodness got lost in the shuffle and creases..ok, eww. But I worried...and used a LOT of wipes, "just in case".
Clean trucks, good...piggy, icky, lot lizard-y crumblies, BAAA-AAAD.

 

Speaking of undercarriage...I heard a story of a team of low-class "drivers" that must've bought their own rig, cut a hole in the floor under the sleeper, and when mother nature's gentle touch was upon them, would unload out said hole straight into the underside of the truck and out onto the open road. I can understand that sometimes "when ya gotta go ya gotta GO"...but REALLY??? OMG what a service NIGHTMARE!
I recall working at a truck stop one year...boy, I tell ya, drivers have stories of their own, but you want more little tidbits? Ask a diesel counter gal...oh, the joys.

 

rikdev, I was behind the diesel counter, not in a trucker's lap. BIG dif. and yea, I got to see the "great unwashed" roll on through...and one cross dresser who made EVERYONE in the store stop what we were doing to watch with jaws dropped...ya wouldn't believe how many drivers suddenly decided to have coffee and wait for this guy to be done showering...heels and leather pants, BABY!!
I threatened a couple of 'em that wouldn't go away...one I offered to shove the squeegee handle on a shower key where the sun doesn't shine...another I got pulled back over the counter by a manager....yet somehow I was offered a management position by the GM who would only ask me "so now what did you do?" when I'd warn him he might hear complaints.
matt, I'm with you on all but the air freshener trees...my ex overabused them so much I got nosebleeds. that was just before they went OUT the window (I was on top of a landfill, how convenient!)...
Gashauler, I wish more companies were like yours...what does it show the public about the quality of what runs this expensive equipment down the road when they let it backslide so badly? Ugh...til then, I guess most I've run across haven't smelled as bad as the landfills or the port-a-johns, even in 100 degrees after a rain...