Packing for Orientation

Actually Keopectate.

There is a (Here it comes...) active medicine called Loperamide Hydrocholoride in solution The Loperamide is a old retired Schedule 5 drug from the 70's era prescribed for opiate withdrawal and gut travel issues where your number two is really bad and messy.

This year it was described that the immodium and certain other similar OTC anti diarrheal liquids sales have increased way beyond reason as many pain patients who were cut off from their scripts have discovered they can buy this Loperamide in liquid form freely and drink a specific amount in MG to create a sort of a body high to counter act the problems of opiate medicine withdrawals.

The FDA and DEA is considering further action possibly to remove Loperamide from the market or add it to one of the four schedules to make it prescription only because the people risk a problem where the intestines die because they fail to gather oxygen from the blood vessals connected to it system wide in your gut and kills you slowly.

For the time being I have use Keopectate in trucking and even today when I need to. The main defense is to have your food cooked very well, do not drink the local water offered to you at the table and essentially do what you can to keep your hands, face etc clean with sanitizer liquid among other things like Lysol wipes etc.

Your best defense against diareheal is to have good cooked food, a constant sanitation of your mouth, nose, eyes and hands because believe it or not that would be the number one route where pathogens or hostile cells get into your body via that route. Your gut system is about 70% of your immune defense. It will try to eliminate anything bad for you rather quickly if possible. The rest lies in your white blood cells T cells and a host of other antibodies for which you possess either by previous infection as a child (Measles MMR immunization etc) or passed down to you by your mother by birth. There are people around the USA who carry infections either bacterial or viral and sometimes if your body cannot defend, it will cause you to get pretty sick fast as it tried to raise the temperature to kill the hostile material inside the blood etc.

 

A duffel bag and a backpack. Use the backpack as a shower bag.. maybe a backpack big enough to hold a small load of laundry would be good.

Beds in trucks are usually twin sized, and you might not have room in the truck to stow anything so you it will probably be on the bed with you when you sleep. and a duffel bag and backpack is manageable if worst comes to worst and you need to ride a bus/plane from a change of plans.

 

I use a small suitcase. It has two wheels and I can roll it right under the bunk. And I’m in probably the smallest truck out there - flat top Volvo 430

 

The heck with a checklist. What you take with you is between YOU and your Trainer. Great advice was offered here about a dufflebag. I recommend using one, a briefcase and a bed roll. I would also say take some rubber boots too. Make sure you have a flashlight!

 

I had one of these my first gig. well built
Vintage Marlboro Adventure Team Red Double Zip Duffle Bag | eBay
plus a smaller duffel bag, Back pack, sleeping bag, insulated coveralls and rubber boots -
Note - rubber boots aint worth a #### in snow. found that out in Iowa lol

 

No their not, however they are really nice when some dummy spots a loaded trailer in a mud hole and you need to get it out.

 

Great thread, will be going to an orientation in a week. I will definitely pack light, but adequately.

 

Three large tubes of KY.
Unless you prefer Astro Glide.

 

Guess I'll just bring plenty as I am driving to Carlisle, I'll road pack out of my truck.

 

Really nice hat.