How do you guys drive over 200 miles without a break?

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  1. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    And a Grand Slam too... Tis good to laugh!!!
     
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  3. BostonTanker

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    I stop when i gotta stop. I used to hold it all the time in my towing days. One day i got stuck in major traffic for 6 hrs with no where to go in a day cab. Had no cup or bottle. By the time i made it to a bathroom, i couldn't even walk. Had a lot of problems since then. I stop when i have to go and that'sit. I leave a few hrs window in my eta for that and traffic. Don't like it? Fire me.
     
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  4. ajohnson

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    A lesson I have learned ALWAYS have a bottle
     
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  5. pallet breakdown

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    multi vitamins with trace minerals and a coke or dr pepper to sip on. . energy drinks mess me up so I use those Bee Caps or truckers choice nutritionals turbo power that some TA and Petro truck stops sell
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  6. BostonTanker

    BostonTanker Road Train Member

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    Na, I've learned to stop. If you as a company can not give me enough time in my 14 to go piss after i sat at some slummy dirty shipper for 3 hrs...
    Fire me. I'm human. I put 3400 miles on the truck this week for you in the northeast. I'll stop and take a piss.
     
  7. MidWest_MacDaddy

    MidWest_MacDaddy Road Train Member

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    Thinking he meant it as a "Be Prepared" thing not "they won't allow me to take a piss" thing... LOL ... Say like when one might get stuck in traffic for like six hours... Might be a good thing to have options... ;-)
     
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  8. ajohnson

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    I'm with you. But being a city driver in chicago, sometimes it is a lot easier to use the bottle then find someware with a public bathroom and someware to park the truck. Plus when traffic on the expressway crawls and it takes an hour to go 10 miles, I need the bottle
     
  9. aussiejosh

    aussiejosh Road Train Member

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    You're both right, its like how can a person run for 26 miles in a marathon it just takes alot of hard work and practice, when you first start driving you probably will have to stop every 200 miles at the end of the day what counts is that you get to your destination on time.
     
  10. dca

    dca Road Train Member

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    just do the best you can do, a jug helps when held up in traffic if it's a.must but doesn't mean yah have too. if you use a jug please dispose of the contents properly. dump it in a portable before throwing the jugbout or something of the like..
     
  11. Stone Express

    Stone Express Medium Load Member

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    In the years gone by, one could pull over and take a whiz along the right side of the rig almost any where.

    Most auto drivers can not use the tube down the shifter boot, as they have to squat....
     
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