Does your cab get any more messy than this?

Youre assuming that they have hygiene that's good enough tht they'd notice a restroom smell.

 

The only thing I've kind of given up on trying to keep out is the mud/dried mud dust. It's impossible. But other than that, man... I couldn't live with myself in a truck that bad. I've only seen one that might be comparable, and it was a KW with the floor so thick with garbage that you could lay down and make trash angels in it if you had the room. Cigarette butts in the cup holders, permeating smell of smoke in a truck that was supposed to be smoke-free, food wrappers, empty bottles (at least they weren't full... yet). Terrible.

You know what's just as bad? A truck that looks otherwise clean and tidy, but is driven by a person who is anything but. I've been in a truck or two that's served time under the rear end of a person who is afraid of showers, and a truck that just plain smells is probably worse than one that's trashed like that. At least when it's trashed, you can see it coming. But when you hop in a slip-seat daycab that looks nice and clean and it smells like someone just backed one out in a bucket between the seats, it just ruins the whole night. I've spent entire bottles of Febreeze on some of them.

 

Talk about a safety hazard.

 

Mental illness is a serious problem for long haul truckers.

(Recent Case Study)
Trucking organization and mental health disorders of truck drivers.

(Authors: Shattell M1, Apostolopoulos Y, Collins C, Sönmez S, Fehrenbacher C.)

Abstract
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]There are over 3 million truck drivers employed in the commercial transportation and material moving occupations, one of the largest occupational groups in the United States. Workers in this large and growing occupational segment are at risk for a range of occupational health-induced conditions, including mental health and psychiatric disorders due to high occupational stress, low access and use of health care, and limited social support. The purpose of this study was to explore male truck drivers' mental health risks and associated comorbidities, using a cross-sectional and quantitative design. Data were collected from a random sample of 316 male truckers between the ages of 23 and 76 at a large truck stop located within a 100-mile radius of Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, using a self-administered 82-item questionnaire. Surveyed truckers were found to have significant issues affecting their mental health, such as loneliness (27.9%), depression (26.9%), chronic sleep disturbances (20.6%), anxiety (14.5%), and other emotional problems (13%)[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Curious, what can any of you drivers chatting about how aggrieved your senses are do about mitigating depression in one of your co-workers...?[/FONT]:smt056[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]

myself, i eagerly will sit by my terminal and await your collective input about what you will do to strengthen another driver. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, sans-serif] [/FONT]

 

yeah how do you keep the crap from rolling around under the peddles and your feet etc.

 

Well, one way to deal with that, would be to take up cigar smoking! It won't make the truck smell any better, but after a few days (or nights) of you continually having a stogie going in the truck two things will happen. 1) Your sense of smell will have kind of lost it's sharpness. And 2) The cigars will sort of cover up the other unpleasant odors. Oh yeah, there might be another one, 3) the boss may can you for smoking in the truck, but who is going to sweat the small stuff like that. . .

Hmmm, I know it is the day before Christmas, and we are all supposed to be filled with loving kindness, etc. BUT I'm not the depressed driver's mommy, nor his spouse. If I'm doing my own job, I don't have the time to hold his hand. Perhaps pointing him in the direction of a doctor would be something you could do. First a good physical to eliminate any problem there, then a shrink to try to help him. There are a number of medications out there to help folks who are depressed. Not that they all work on everyone, in fact, I'm sure there are folks out there who no medication is going to help.

But something to seriously think about here. Do you have a driver who is seriously depressed? If so, and he does not get it mitigated some way, you are turning him loose with what could easily become an 80,000 pound weapon. Can you say CIVIL LIABILITY?

People play all kinds of mind games. And with some of them, the sicker they are, the better they play their games. Other than pointing the guy in the right direction, and limiting your own liability, there really isn't much you can do to help him. Sure, you can try to work with him, if he is in fact seeing a doc, by making sure he has the time off to do it. But the sad part is, that the more you give, the more he is likely to take.

I don't know that there really is a good solution to your question here.

 

and to think, my boss gets mad and threatens to dock our pay if the dash get's more than 4 days dust on it and the windows aren't cleaned weekly

 

It is obvious to me from your post that you have never run oversized.

 

Sounds like you know from experience. ???

I have only done it once while driving. I did get some on my pants. When I shut down, I sprayed some freebreeze on them before I put them in the laundry bag.

I use pee bottles alot. You could inspect my truck and you would never know. I keep them in the fridge with a bottle of frebreeze and a chlorine based cleaner. The fridge does not work and I do not use it for food. I have an Pelican cooler in the top buck for food and drinks.

 

Dude, be thankful you didn't find an empty pizza box with a deuce dropped in it, now that would have me gagging, just sayin'