Refusing a truck

Your company may give you another truck otherwise buy air freshner and see about getting reimbursed for it or see if the shop can clean the trk for you.

 

Most companies now that I've talked to clean the truck when a driver gets out for the next driver unless you get there first and tell them not to bother as you will do it yourself.

 

I figured they did.

 

When I got my first truck, it had been abandoned at a Loves (I think it was a Loves) in Fort Smith, It had pet hair everywhere, stained mattress, smoke smell, I would rather not talk about the tampon left between the bed and the shelf, and the guy that drove me from Lincoln to Fort Smith was under a load of Kawasaki four wheelers going to Atlanta and he was not about to wait for me to call Crete and complain, he was pretty much to the light by the time I opened the door (and he was totally right to do so). I called Crete, they said "Pick up the load in Conway, drive it to Salt Lake, stay in motels if you HAVE too, we will TRY and reimberse you" I did just that...did get paid back. But still how can a driver live like that? Salt Lake terminal cleaned it up but never did get rid of the smell(s). I did stop and vacuum it out on my way to Conway.

 

tampon?????????????????????lmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.Never know what surprises you'll find.

 

So true patty...oh so true!

 

Op since your such an expert in your current field. and dont like peoples advice, i think you should stay put. Probably wont do very good having to be told where to go.

 

When I started at my current company 3+ years ago I was assigned my first truck that had nicotine literally running off every inch of the inside of the truck. I told safety I was a non-smoker and just sitting in the truck was making me sick. They called in the detail company they use and in 4 hours I was good to go. Fast forward to my current truck. I got it exactly a year ago with only 178k on the clock and it looked and smelled like a test truck for a tobacco factory. This truck took me 3 weeks to get the smell out. What finally cleared the inside of the truck was leaving cup fulls of vinegar inside for 10 days while my wife and I went on a cruise. I changed the mattress, changed both cabin filters, cleaned the fabric on the seats, and took the curtains down and power washed them at home with my pressure cleaner. I'm not a smoker, never have but come from a family of smokers. It's a disgusting habit that offends me whenever I get in a truck that belonged to a smoker who abused the inside of a truck. Now the inside of my truck looks and smells like it did when it was new.

 

You need to be hauling fuel. Nobody can smoke in the truck, you are home every night, the pay is pretty good. All you need to do is beat the odds and stay in OTR trucking for 2 years first. But statistically speaking that probably wont happen..

 

In my opinion, Yes, When I went to work for western dist. out of denver, The truck I got, the driver that had the truck before Was a smoker, So the company had another company come out and clean the inside of the truck, and when they where finished, You couldnt tell at all