Strange or bizarre tips for drivers

just my .02, but with summer comming up, I would have to recamend that you always carry a few extra pairs of socks and foot powder.

I know that I have a hard time with my feet during the hot weather and had to change my socks several times a day to prevent foot rot.

 

Techman - y' could always drive barefoot. I don't see anything in the FMCSR about footware, and there are (contrary to popular myth) no state laws requiring shoes while driving.

 

Just drive with your feet up on the dash.

 

Better yet hang them out the window that will keep most of the smell out of the cab.

 

Eh, I don't know if I would go that far ... however, I do have my "inside" shoes and my outside shoes. My inside shoes are sandals, but they are the strap-on kind so there is no possibility of them slipping off my feet while driving. They never get used outside the cab and I usually wear them sans socks in the summer. I keep my outside shoes under my seat, so when I stop it's a simple matter of slip the sandals off and the outside shoes (or boots in the winter) on, and away I go.

 

I drive barefoot 90% of the time. I only slip on shoes to fuel, go into a TS or at a shipper/consignee.

A few times I've been backing into a tight space at a truck stop and get out and look and people give me some looks when I hop out of the cab in barefeet.

 

roadkill, im with ya! flip-flops all the time, even fueling or going in a T/S. shoes and socks go on when going in a shipper/receiver.... most of the time

 

O.K you got me, there's no Reg in the FMCSR about footwear, But I know there is at least a reg in the Washington state code and I had assumed that all states had at least some such reg on the books that had stated no open toed sandels or barefoot driving.
Am I wrong in assuming that other states had such a provision?

I know it's a stupid thing but just trying to reduce the odds some dot bear is looking for an excuse to write a ticket.