How do you otr drivers sit away from home for your reset?

I had a TRS-80, sometimes called Trash 80. It had a built-in 300 baud modem. I had a Texas Instruments TI-58C and TI-59 scientific calculators and LED screen with mag stripe reader. I worked for an employer that received an original IBM-PC with two 5.25 inch floppy drives and a monochrome monitor and all it had was DOS and Lotus-123 spreadsheets. Later I bought a IBM Convertible "laptop" PC with two 3.5 inch floppy drives and an LCD display. I used it to learn how to navigate by radios in airplanes with that crappy screen and the keyboard. One of my friends in college had a PC with a 10 megabyte removable hard drive about the size of a personal pan pizza box.

 

Except for human interaction with us.

 

I spend most of my 34 hour breaks catching up on sleep deficits, waiting for laundry machines to become available, washing & drying laundry, and showering. With what little time is left over, I will pull out my laptop and surf the internet, including this message board. I would never dream of going fishing or touring a museum during a 34 hr break. There's just not enough time.

 

I enjoy those Oriental Massage Parlors with truck parking.

 

T-mobile home internet, 32" TV, XBOX, bobtail to cigar lounges, and choking the chicken sum up my layover activities.

 

Biggest focus of my 34’s is to enjoy no schedule. Kinda resetting from having to get here/there at a certain time. I’ll be up dining, showering or whatever at the oddest times. Catch up on sleep. Enjoy waking up when I feel like it.
I like to learn. Read, study things to learn about them. Take a foreign language course.
I do go fly fishing at the right places.
Spend too much time in politics section here.

 

I used to walk to the nearest liquor store for something to sip on while trashing around and enjoying the parking lot show. Not sure what I'd do now that there's cameras in the trucks. If I wasn't loaded maybe I'd Uber to a good restaurant and then to a neighborhood bar.

 

I thought they claim to not watch you when you aren't driving, though...

I'd cover it on my 34 (if I ever got in a truck with an inward camera) and see if they said anything. You know, just because they don't have a camera watching them when they are off duty (or on duty, for that matter).

 

Just because they aren't watching you doesn't mean that footage isn't being recorded onto a hard drive somewhere.

 

Which is why the curtain should be in front of the camera lens... or the visor... or a hat... or a piece of tape.

Or just don't drive for a company that feels the need to watch you pick your nose.