How many days is acceptable to go without a shower?

Correct. You can’t log sleeper berth without a legal sleeper berth. Which is why 10 hours off duty is acceptable in a truck without a legal sleeper berth.

 

Cmon chi town... don't live in a day cab... you better then that

 

I would agree, but he is a slave to his company.

He has the right to be treated as a human, and this is retaliation in a legal sense, which is against the law, STAA.

It is his choice to sit there and act like it is an order from a dictator.

This is one of the problems I have with a lot of drivers, they let the company crap on them and then act that they deserve more money because of it. This is not normal, and I know I would not tolerate it as both a driver and as an owner, I would fire the person who would put a driver through this in a second, without hesitation.

SO if this were me, after hearing I was to sit, I would have been on the phone with someone way above the dispatcher, like the CEO or some other exec, and asked them if this is part of the expectations of the company as a driver?

I would then ask what the policy is about hotels, seeing that either the truck goes back to the yard (assuming they have one) or you are allowed to go and take care of yourself and expect to be paid for it.

Either way, he is sitting there by his own decision, not mine.

I wonder if this is a foreigner or someone living in a daycab?



Maybe it is a daycab driver who is stuck there for a week, too?

 

Its bad, I even gave motel rooms to guys that took a load out with a Friday night/Saturday drop for the weekend vs sitting in a sleeper truck all the over the weekend after unloading for my appreciation that they’d work the weekend, and get em back in and swap days if they wanted, letting them off Tuesday-Wednesday or wed-Thursday…

I’d not put up with this in either sense either.
100% agree with @Ridgeline

 

You based out of the store along 421, just north of 465? Ya, there isn’t much along there, some good motels though!

 

Don’t put up with this chi town. Ask them if they’d do this. Hopefully they say yes then tell them prove it. Or get proper accomadations for you. These companies think they’re gods gift to drivers. They’re not.

 

Could also explain to the customer why you smell and how they’re treating you. Even better say it in the store let the public know.