How to eat cheap with a trainer?

We went once a month out of the Laramie Walmart in Wy. Takes care of two people in food and fluids for 6 weeks or so. We kept a inverter, cookier and coffee pot inside the cab. Cooked on the move when necessary. Slow cooked most of the time. One would hold a meat like ham and the other would hold taters, onions etc. by dinner time it's ready. Trash is removed when fueling daily.

We spent several hundred and that would be it. Another problem is that two people and food and fluids approached 1000 pounds over vehicle tare. Most of the time we burned that off in fuel before hitting scales. But once or twice it was close and we would be a little bit over. But not enough to hit the ticket land. We did have to slide pretty often. Catting every load.

I couldnt tell you now what we did for food products. Ramen wore off pretty fast and we moved up towards keeping a cooler under the desk inside the sleeper and that cooler would be 40 degrees below cab temperature. Sometimes it's 90 in the sonora or death valley inside the cab because the air conditoning can only do so much. That makes it 50 in the freezer so we have to either use the milk up fast or it's gone. Dried milk became a alternative. Ultimately coffee creamer rode better.

One of the big favors shippers did for us is throw a case into the cab and we would feast on something across the USA. Salsa comes to mind out of Landover/Jessup area going to Arizona. Or Apples out of washington at farm prices of then .15 cents a pound rather than walmart's pricing.

We did stop once a week to sit down for a complete breakfast and later a complete dinner with emphasis on salad and other things we missed out on with the foods we did not put in the truck because it requires freezing etc.

 

Do you honestly consider pilots and loves to be GOOD truck stops? I avoid those places like the plague.

 

Thank you all

 

Takes up some space, but I basically live on Campbell's Chunky Soups as well as their Roadhouse Chili.

 

where ya gonna keep your groceries? have you discussed all this with your trainer?

anything mre-ish, add water, canned items, canned meats ready to eat with out heat, crackers a case of top ramen

 

what yah getting for $10.00 a day?

 

Well I guess there was a bunch of posts before this one that explained that.

 

oh ok

 

Why is it that us Felons have to point out the obvious? Trainer has a wallet. Wallet has money. Trainer has to sleep. You have to eat.

Truthfully, the fact that Roehl pays $500 while in training seems to mean that someone has taken the right approach.

 

I too used to live off of canned soup & fruit.... Problem with the soup is that there's 7000% of your daily sodium needs in one serving and the can has three.... My blood pressure has dropped being off the road. Lol.

 

500 per what? Week? That's good money. But not what you would make on your own, two or three times that on a good week.

In my time it was 200 a week for a trainee. Hardly enough to keep him or her in food. I myself a time or two dipped into that trainer wallet for a 20 now and then to feed the poor waif. I remember one in particular JBH kicked him back to the bus to go home flat broke and a angry wife waiting for him. I gave him a 20. You think he found the ark of the convenat or something. Im not money bags, But I believe that people should have a fighting chance.