Slip seating with a smelly driver

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  1. Chinatown

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    I bought two of the largest bottles and used all of it.
    Can also stuff some stinky cheese into the air vents.
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    What is the smell? Is it poop or from food? Maybe spray the ozium directly into the seat and bed then let it dry. Its toxic so you dont want to be breathing it in. Also put it on recirculate when you spray it
     
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    prop poop. i've tried that unfortunately. it comes back within a day or two.
     
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    I would try an Ionizer or something they use in refer trailer to get smell out is coffee. Pour coffee grounds in floor and close the door. I think an ionizer you plug into 12v plug would work. Maybe ground coffee as last resort since it would have to be cleaned up.
     
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    Some people just don’t care how they smell. Apparently they can’t swim and believe they will drown in a shower stall.

    Once I was inside a TS in who knows where. All of a sudden the funk became unbearable. I looked around and I saw this disgusting looking 20 something year old standing in line a few feet back. His clothes were filthy. He had perspiration stains on both armpits. I felt like I would vomit any second.

    To say he smelled like a billy goat pulling a wagon full of camel poop is insult to those beasts. He was so funky I was afraid my eyes would start watering any second.

    I just spelled out of line and walked over by the drink machines and waited until he’d paid and then I back to the register to check out. Poor girl was still trying to catch her bearish.
     
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    Well pal, I can sympathize with you to an extent, but this post does have some merit. Okay, you took a job as a slip seat driver. That is the exact opposite to having your own truck. In a perfect world, something computers have made us think we have, everybody would smell like fresh cinnamon buns, but not so. I did a slip seat couple times, most were okay, one guy chewed and spit out toothpick pieces, or hung stinky wet clothes, and yes, one place the truck was particularly bad. I narrowed it down to the seat cushion, and got to the point, on my shift, I wrapped the cushion in a plastic bag. Point is, if it bothers you that much, then move on to a place with your own truck. Makes a world of difference.
     
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    Buy the cheapest can of coffee and scoop a cup out and keep it in the cab with you. It should take care of at least part of the smell.
     
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    I can only imagine how bad the seat fabric is if it is a cloth seat. All slip seat trucks should be vinyl so they don’t soak in and hold the soothing smell of muskrat love.
    try some Odoban. That stuff will take the skunk spray smell off of a hound dog. Had to use it a few times on our dog when it got done cornering pepe la peu.