I don't want to slip seat anymore.

You could eat off of any part of my truck but the skid plate of my 5th wheel. Even my engine gets cleaned when I hit the beacon every couple of weeks. No idea how people can live like that. I would have thought it'd be worse with OTR guys than it would people who don't have to pay to bathe. Guess not lol

 

I'm otr and shower daily ..ya could eat off my truck inside and out and it's not a show truck.

 

Even worse when someone or you is sick. The BO that emits is a clear signal that person should be on sick call. Not infecting a group of 60 truckers watching a movie for two hours.

 

Who came up with the idea of "Discussed in this thread" and it shows names of companies that were mentioned? That's a great idea.

 

No way could I slip seat, I am so anal about the inside of my truck. If I slop a drop of coffee on the dash or floor I will stop and re-armorall it. I am constantly dusting and armoralling the dash, floor, etc. I even armorall the #### e-log machine! I get a lot of crap from other drivers for how much time I spend detailing my truck, but hey if I am going to be stuck in that tight space all day, you bet your arse it's going to be clean.

I can't believe the way many drivers treat their equipment. I was chatting with one of our otr drivers a few weeks ago, and he was sitting in his seat smoking, ashing his cigarette on the floor. There was dirt and ash and filth everywhere in that cab.

Just this week I had to use one of our spare day cabs for an afternoon while mine got serviced. Another 2016 model just like mine, 20k less miles than mine, and I felt like I needed a tetanus shot after sitting in that seat.

 

I think there is a loss of cultural love and respect for the equipment by a people who might be immigrant or less inclined to be properly hygiene etc.

Makes me feel ashamed for us all and deeply angry as the slovenly lazy do nothings contribute to a overall decline in health and sources of infectious problems increase. It's totally unnecessary.

I can rant on, but frankly I don't think I will. Enough is enough I say.

 

One time I was talking to an 0/0 and his girlfriend at the Flying-J in Ripon,CA and they had probably half dozen cats in the truck. The whole floor had about 3 inches of cat litter. Horrible smell. The driver and his girlfriend had cat litter stuck all over their shoes.

 

In Kansas City, KS for the night and one of the parked trucks had all kinds of garbage in between the dash and the windshield.

Had a stint trying driving for a small company out of Barrington Lake, IL. I was told to take another driver's truck for a regional haul and when I opened the door, there was at least an inch of dog hair covering every surface and filling every crack of the inside of that truck. The water bowl also appeared to regularly slosh around and spill all over the floor. Needless to say, I refused to even get in the truck.

The owner/dispatcher said: "The driver said he cleaned it out."

I should own stock in disinfectant wipes.