Packing for training with a trainer?

Just bring one of those giant office water coolers onboard.

 

In all fairness to the OP, you are asking your question of seasoned OTR drivers. OTR driving is, in my uneducated opinion, a job that requires a lot of sacrifices that many people (myself included) aren't willing to accept. These guys have. So to tell them you are a special case that can't survive through a short training cycle without your "necessities" is going to ruffle their feathers.

That said, I think a couple people gave you really great advice when they say pack a duffle with the necessities of life and then ask your trainer what else he'll allow and what has to stay behind, and be ready to accept that. In my case it would be how many cases of Mtn Dew I'm allowed to bring onboard.

 

Do yourself and the potential trainer a favor and rethink doing this. No offense but you sound like you pontificate. A LOT. No one wants to hear a zealot go on and on. I am not saying that you will do this but I doubt the trainer would put up with it. I would not for a second.

If however, you are the type to keep it private and not pontificate, then by all means go for it. Just realize you will have to adjust as you will be living in someone else's house for a little while.

Good luck.

 

Not when you are stuck in Hooterville or Bugtussle cus the clock says stop... lmao

 

Oh my...

I see you're still young enough to know it all.

Best of luck, go easy on your trainer.

 

WesternPlains. Everyone is just having fun.

It’s my opinion that all truckers have idiosyncrasies and strange things they do. Some are downright weird. Your health and supplements thing isn’t a big deal. Trainer trucks can be very messy. I had hardly any room. My trainer never picked up. He refused to pick up laundry, junk, papers, etc. so no way did I get space I was used to.

All you have to is figure out how to do and get what you need in a relatively compact way.

Try shopping at Walmart and see if there is any way you can get your nutritional supplies there. Walmart is unfortunately one of the only retailers with truck parking. Anyways good luck.

 

I will give you some advice. It's free and worth everything you have paid for it:

Look at the training period as what it is. It is not your time to live as you would like, not your time to call shots and not your time to be comfortable.

It is your time to demonstrate that you can safely and competently do the job you have been hired to do. It is just like basic training, officer candidate school or deploying to Afghanistan.

You have to defer to the environment that you are entering. That means that you have to focus on your mission at the expense of your preferences. It is only a short time. You are not going to die if you can't have all the things that you have discovered help you feel good and function at your best.

You lived a long time ingesting all the crap that you now eschew. You will survive a few weeks living off the toxic environment if you have to. Make the best choices for food available to you and get through your training. Then you can resume your preferred regimen.

How much do you want this? Are you willing to put up with inconvenience to get your own truck? Are you willing to sacrifice for a while to achieve your goal? That is all this is. Do the calculations, make up your mind and execute.

You are going to be way more run down and exhausted than you understand right now just from the process of acclimating to the OTR lifestyle. Even if you have everything you think you need to feel healthy, you won't have the energy to do more than shove something in your belly and sleep for the first couple of weeks, at least. Trying to maintain your regimen on top of that is a bridge too far.

Strip down and go with essentials only. When they give you your own truck you can get back on track.

 

Depending on schedule you may not get a 34 reset, but only a daily 10 hr for days and or weeks at a time.