Procedure for keeping truckers safe from covid-19

Well ur plan will fail if u use those gloves to open ur truck door and handle everything inside all them germs are now inside ur truck. Not to mention all over ur shoes as well.

 

Your reasoning is flawed..The virus is airborne when someone infected sneezes or coughs.

Droplets have also been shown to be airborne for up to 3 hours.

Also it has been found in feces..keep that in mind the next time you enter a restroom. With a stomach virus it is most important not to share a bathroom since it is highly contagious..Just food for thought.

Remember, this virus is new and we’re just starting to learn how it can be transmitted.

Lol, remember, when you get a whiff of someone’s farts it’s actually microscopic poop particles entering your nose
Could it be transmitted that way? possibly..

 

At least he is doing something , to the best of his knowledge, to protect himself and others . That is all he can do until new information comes. So, if he gets infected, he will look back and most likely he will
Say. I did the best I could . Which is better than nothing .

 

not airborne: lol its the main reason we are in this $&@ to start with.

 

3 oz of bleach per one gallon of water. put it in a $1.00 spray bottle. spray shoes, handles, gloves and any contact points. this has been used for years and years. i got less then $4 in total set up. when i must go shopping. i wear 7mm gloves from habor freight and medical mask. i had to trade 7 11oz bottles of hand soap for 20 mask. i buy all my stuff for 2-3 weeks. come home and get wife to get stuff out of the truck. thats once i spray handles etc. then i go around back and take a decon shower with dawn antibacterial dish soap. hair and all. you will not enter my home until you go threw decon shower wash first. its hot and cold water too

 

I personally do what I can however there is no mask on earth that will stop the actual virus particle from passing through. The ones we use are rated to stop TB particles from passing through and thats going to just have to be enough. We do have a "Bigger" mask capable of filtering but its not the time yet to break them out.

The virus lives 4 hours on copper, hours in the air, a day on cardboard (Amazon warehouses are now up to 10 plus with infected staff...) up to two days on stainless steel. Certain disinfectants can and does kill the virus as shown by EPA. The cruise ship Princess was shown to have active viruses on surfaces up to 17 days prior to cleaning in a recent survey.

The big problem is if you are infected, you continue to be infectious long before you show symptoms. And you infect infect and infect unaware until YOU get sick weeks later.

At some point this virus will be defeated. Vaccines, Antigens and a couple of really exotic and special medical tools will be put inside humans to engage the virus in battle and it will be victory. But until then... the infections continue.

If I was active over the road and sent into NYC with a load that NYC has to have such as say high dollar pharmacy loads like we did for them specifically after 9-11 happened, we loaded the trailer full in Detriot at mckesson there and were tasked to go into Linfield CT MCKesson with a volumed out trailer asap so that NYC can use these medicines with so many being sick, hurt and soon. We were happy to make it happen.

Thats what we are as truckers, if the load has to be somewhere even into ground zero, you go.

However.

This outbreak is what I call it now, has shown that truckers are disposable. If one got sick and must be removed from the tractor, there is 50 more in orientaiton ready to go out and make .34 a mile. In possibly a infectious truck cab. Thats where bleach and other solutions are brought into play to destroy the virus inside the cab all over. The matress removed, replaced with a new one and so on. You are going to be excluded anyway when you arrive at a shipper and get treated rather badly while told to stay in your cab because YOU are considered infectious. and there is no way to prove otherwise.

At some point all of this will blow over. But I feel strongly that we are not going to return to the Tralala happy go lucky America that we were before this outbreak before November of last year. Whatever we become later this year is going to be permanent. And not all of it is going to be good.

 

oh and by the way. they approved 2.2 trillion dollar package

 

New data suggests the virus may live longer on hard surface s than previously thought. It was found on shelves of a Cruise ship

 

Not really. Some RNA was, but not anything alive to actually infect anyone.