i have to admit this is tempting

I started out with a cooler and ice... then I upgraded to a plug in cooler... then, upgraded to a fridge...
Werner allows refrigerators... you buy one and have the shop put it in... they will wire it and make sure it is secure..
As for cooking.. there are also rats of things available for you to cook on a truck with... also, there is a whole recipe book about cooking under the hood...

You were not forced to eat fast food.. it was your choice.. I did not eat fast food when I was on the road.. if you didn't want to eat fast food why didn't you figure something out... I did, as do many other drivers..

It is said all the time, that trucking takes a certain breed... one of the main qualities is figuring stuff out.. individuals who are independent... individuals who don't depend on others for their livelihood and substance.. they need to be self-reliant, self-sufficient... be able to figure out how they are going to feed themselves...

All these fast food restaurants in the truck stops is relatively new.. and a lot of drivers don't like it.. it is why some drivers refuse to go to the big truck stops and prefer the small non-corporate ones...

But.. it doesn't seem like trucking is for you.. and I don't think even China knows of a trucking company that has trucks with a mini kitchen that is looking for drivers with little to no experience and who have tried a couple other companies but just weren't happy..

Don't get me wrong.. there are trucks out there with a mini kitchen.. even ones with a bathroom... with the big extended cab... but, they are usually not company trucks.. and if they are they I am pretty sure they don't get assigned to new drivers.. say, someone with less that 5 years experience...

 

IF you burn 150 and make net 1500 then that's fine. What we did installing our Inverter is halt the retail. 60 dollars a day for two people three meals. Forget it. Stop in walmart once a month for a few hundred dollars, fill the upper bunk custom bins that ride up there with it's own special securement and lashing food and fluids etc for 6 weeks worth for two people. Meats and milk went into a cooler on the sleeper cabinet. Not ramen soup either. Actual cook it food.

The hours consumed in supporting your spouse in cooking while that thing is moving through yet another 1400 miles in 24 does not go into logbook for onduty. But it does take away from wake up time and sleep quality. However, it's much cheaper than retail and final daily expense average half the perdeim paid flat rate each year from Dear Uncle Sam.

 

I know for me.. having a budget on the road and sticking to was mandatory.. Any week I had I would stash away... an every now and then when I had stashed away enough I would treat myself to something nice.. maybe a cab ride and diner at a non truck stop restaurant... or I often on a lay over would go to zoo, museum.. even went to a few good concerts...

I am grateful for my experience in trucking.. it taugh me a lot, and I became a more resourceful person.. no doubt I am a stronger and better woman because of it..

I am also grateful that I can say I have at least drove through all the lower 48 and into Canada... now, I have been to Canada often, as I love to canoe the boundary waters.. but, I also did get to go into Canada a few times in the truck.. I am very grateful for getting to go through the mountains in a truck.... there is something about the sound of the jake brake when your rolling down a mountain.. same with riding a motorcycle through the mountains and the echo of your pipes.. it just sings to something archetypal deep inside... and if trucking isn't for you.. then those things don't mean as much to you and that is okay... just saying that a part of my success and staying power in the trucking industry was that there must be some trucker blood in my veins...

 

You are alive, it is one of the best things in life.

Not many can say that FireLotus. Not many.

 

I'll tell you where you can put your unmuffled jake...

 

As opposed to all those old school trucks you've driven?

 

Have you applied at
Carolina Eastern-Crocker on 237 in Stafford? They have a sandwich board up asking for drivers in the hamlet. I heard Ron Conniber on Randall Rd. in LeRoy is looking for drivers, too. You may have to haul some manure but you will get lots of hours.

 

LOL.. how else can you slow down in the Truck Stops without a Jake... in the mountains I liked the sound, in the trucks stops not so much...