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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lepton1, post: 3241771, member: 101602&quot;]I&#039;m not quite following your logic here.&nbsp; If I had a job flipping burgers, is the company supposed to pay for the time I sleep and commute?&nbsp; I don&#039;t think so.&nbsp; I&#039;m paid while On Duty.&nbsp; What are you talking about in terms of adding up ALL the hours from the time you leave home?&nbsp; That makes absolutely no sense to me.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you calculate income on an hourly basis correctly, using only the time when you are Driving or On Duty, then I doubt you will find many burger flipping jobs that compete with trucking.&nbsp; True, you don&#039;t have to be away from home for weeks at a time if you flip burgers (unless you are on a ship), but I think every OTR trucker is pretty <i>aware</i>that is part of the job requirements.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding having a refrigerator on board, now that the weather is heating up I&#039;ll have to consider that.&nbsp; During winter months stowing food in compartments that aren&#039;t heated by the cabin work well.&nbsp; I also stock up on foods that don&#039;t require refrigeration (canned goods, bread, peanut butter, powdered milk, cereal, etc.).&nbsp; As I noted in an earlier post, I was getting killed by buying meals at the truck stops until I figured out how to provision myself properly.&nbsp; I&#039;ve saved about $600-700 per month (at least) by eating in the truck 95% of the time.&nbsp; I reward myself with a sit down meal when I&#039;ve delivered a load sometimes.&nbsp; Kind of like giving biscuits to a dog for training.... <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; ... &quot;Good boy!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve seen truckers hog fuel bays with their sleeper berth tractors, then come running out with a sippee cup and burger and drive away without fueling.&nbsp; What!!!????&nbsp; They have all that storage in the truck and they have the bad manners to take up a fuel bay to get a meal while they are driving?&nbsp; Really!??&nbsp; There&#039;s a trucker destined to make more money flipping burgers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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