life in a box

when I was otr I used to get out after my day and just walked and visited stores another thing to do is park at walmarts and just walk around or meirjers places like that if your parked for the night you get excsercise and get out of the cramped truck im 6'4 and even with the condo sleepers I was always cramped. the next tip is also to turn it into your home get a nice tv 29 inch laptop and get a phone plan with data like 10 gigs works your phone can be a hotspot to use the laptop and to watch Netflix and you can Skype the family.

 

Get out of the truck frequently. If you already lead an active lifestyle and have interests beside eating crap food while slugging down soda watching tv in bed...then you should be ok.

Don't let the company make you feel like a prisoner...no need to babysit the rolls of paper or the chicken broth...get out and explorem

 

Its a prison..
everyday the cab walls are getting closer..
everyday the cab is getting smaller n smaller..or im getting bigger n bigger..

went to a Dr and he gave me meds..
but honestly
the medication isn't helping..
the therapy isn't working...

The next tall bridge I come too I may just pull over and...

 

Strange; I always liked my little apartment on wheels. Company used to give us $50.00 for hotel room during 34 hr. restarts and I still slept in the truck and pocketed the money. Had a nice private library and XM radio and that's all I needed.
Never had a refrigerator or television and never ate meals in the truck. Not once did I ever watch a TV program in a truck stop TV lounge. Always ate in a restaurant, freshen up, then back to my little apartment on wheels and read a good book and listen to XM radio; Frank Sinatra, Bill Mack Truckin' Radio stations.

 

i would get a motel room when i did a 34 reset once in awhile. alot of good info so far

 

The truck isn't magical one way or curse the other way. Anecdotal evidence on my part. Most bring all the bad habits, eating, smoking, inactivity problems right with them into trucking and then tend to blame trucking for the causes of their various problems. Just like they blamed everything else for their problems before they became truckers.
It is what you make it. Sounds trite I know but it is. If your a reader turn it into a small personal library. Warning books are a pain to move and to carry around. E Reader is a better choice. Got a small hobby use it for that. Plenty of room to learn to tie flies for fly fishing. Small scale model building? Painter or like to draw? Plenty of room to do it. On line courses for education? Possibilities are end less. Various ways to exercises in a truck. Hell if you in to Yoga or meditation or maybe you want to give it a go nothing to stop you. Close the curtains and sit on the bunk or floor and mmmmmm mmmmm all ya want. Got a dog? Train it to be a world champion in obedience. Five to ten minutes a day you can train a cat to drive a truck. You're only as bored and inactive as you choose to be.

 

Hi Campitor, Things are a lot different today with laptops, cell phones, Skype, and such. You can keep in touch with family, as years ago, you'd say good-bye and you'd go for days without talking to family. ( collect calls rang up the bill in a hurry) I agree with Chinatown, as I liked being in my own little cabin, but I admit, when I got a TV for the truck, it was bliss. Now that cell phone, that's a different story. I like it now to keep in touch with family, but the downside is the boss always asking, "where are you now, where are you now"? Matter of fact, the first company that had phones in the truck, when it would ring, I'd almost go through the roof, because it was a sound I just wasn't used to hearing in a truck.
As far as keeping fit, you can kiss that good-bye. Many times, schedules, weather, traffic backups, chasing the proverbial goose, doesn't allow you time to get out and exercise. Make sure you have a refrigerator to buy your own food, as food on the road is pretty bad, and costs a fortune. I wish you the best of luck.

 

Treat the truck like your own personal bed room at home. What you do in it is your business and what you choose to do there is up to you.

 

i see alot of guys doing laps around the parking lot just walking. one time i seen the total number of laps around your truck that equals a mile i think it was around 50 or something. alot of the petro and TA's have a smart fit board and on it will be a google map with a highlighted route that equals about a mile. some of them still have a small exercise room but you would have to whipe the dust off the stuff in there...


some guys have mentioned about getting a hotel. I enjoy swimming in an effort to work off the buffet. some will let you pay to just use the pool. some times its worth getting the room private bath room, shower, most have a small table and chair for the computer and cable tv! alot of them also include Netflix in effort to crush local competition