Living in a truck

Wow

 

I know it's been said but....WOW

 

LMAO, can you imagine not showing for a week? You would go in the shower and the water would just bead up and run off you like a car that just got a fresh hot wax! I guess it would make you water repellant in case you have to secure a load out in the pouring rain; wait a minute, maybe there is an advantage to this not showering thing...

 

Wow, even when I was in northeastern Australia on an op in the Corps, stuck up on a hill for 2 weeks I found a way to bath and wash my clothes.

I used the hard cardboard sleeve of an MRE box and a put a hefty bag in it to make a makeshift bucket. Then used my bayonet to shave off soap from a bar, and used that. Just me and one other guy up there as a radio retransmission site with no one else coming up there. Had to make do with what we had.

 

I'd think you'd be repellant to alot of things!

 

half of the drivers I see in truck stops look like homeless people.

 

Haven't yet tried it myself, but Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap (liquid type) is supposed to work well. Put some in a gallon of water, soak a face-towel in it, give yourself a thorough rub-down, hair and all, doesn't need rinsing if you don't put in too much soap. Other alternatives for keeping the "nether regions" clean is good old-fashioned Witch Hazel. This works very very well, especially for anyone who has to sit a lot.

 

Okay, don't get too wound up over someone's sense of humor. Just because he joked about the issue, is not a cause for a chorus of "wow's" to ring out over hill and dale.

As for living in a truck, It's not that complicated if you plan ahead. For a two week trip, plan on bringing a little bit over a weeks worth of clothing for your normal wear. Unless you are a real slob, you should easily get two days of use out of a pair of jeans or slacks without any appearance issues. I also carry coveralls with me if I know i am going to something likely to make a mess of my outfit. I wear a company unniform shirt, and keep a couple of them in my bag, and supplement that with some solid color T shirts for use if I am going to drive and while and not encounter a customer. Add a decent raincoat, a zip up hooded sweatshirt, and a jacket for the season and you have most of the clothing problems covered. Carry them in a small suitcase, or on hangers in the closet or clothes hangers of the bunk. I carry anything extra in a duffel bag, and I just toss it at the foot of the bunk. My suitcase sits alongside the passenger seat, between it and the door, and is unnoticable.

I carry a small cheapie tarp on the pax floor, and use it if needed to get under something greasy or dirty. Get a briefcase and you can carry whatever paperwork supplies you need, like scissors, stapler, paper, pens, etc.. I use a seatback holder in the pax seat that holds most items I often need, like logbooks and sunglasses, available at all truckstops.

I have a 12v cooler in the truck, holds bottled water and tea, keeps things cold and sits on the floor between the seats, with a velcro strap holding it to the armrest of the pax seat. I take along a small dvd player and some favorite movies, once i can watch without being bored. Good westerns like the Old Clint Eastwood "Man with no name" and "Magnificent 7" work for me. Good gy films, though i rarely have time to watch them.

As for life on the road, there are washers in many truckstops, so yuou can go inside and wash the clothing if need be. I carry plastic bags and put the used clothing in the pax side box, but I rarely have more than one outfit there before I return home. I cary steel toed work boots in the truck, but for driving prefer inexpensive white velcro laced tennies. They run about 10 bucks at Wally World, and do the job. When they get a bad appearance, they stay home and I get a new pair so I remain looking decent. I like velcro because I can slip them off for long runs and keep my feet comfortable.

You can make the truck habitable easily enough, just have to look at the space available and decide what you need to have with you. I have my CB and my xm set up together, so I can easily change them from truck to truck if need be. And I can pull the antenna for my GPS and move it just as quickly. And I am at the point where i would not consider going down the road without my xm and my GPS. They both help make the day go easier.

 

Are you talking about the old spagetti western called My Name is Nobody?

My sister told my dad to see it now he has been bugging me and bugging me to find it. Nobody around here has it... I suspect she rented it from Netflix. Sounds like some obscure movie that onone has heard of but is pretty good. The title itself makes you want to rent it. I'd never heard of it.