The hazards of funk...

Good Luck !!!

 

You will be paired with a trainer based on smoking preferences at most companies. However, when you are assigned a truck, it may have been a smoker's truck previously. Or it may have been pissed in. I've had both over the course of my career, and I would rather have the smoker's truck- it cleans up better!

 

Beware the 'blue splash'

 

I'm a little ocd when it comes to a clean truck. Hell, I have my ProStar carpeted out. This is my home 25-26 days out of the month. I want to make it as comfortable as possible. I'm amazed when I see the inside of trucks, and there is so much garbage on the dash that you cannot see the bottom of the dash. Or, dirt, mud, trash all over the floor. Not sure how anyone can live comfortably like that.

I'm pretty sure there is such a thing as truck hoarders. Hmmm, might make a good tv show idea.

 

Don't give the networks another bad idea (there are enough bad "reality" shows out there as it is)




...but that was funny as h___

 

Try to make your decision at the yard otherwise you will be on I80 at a Pilot with all your stuff if you call the company and complain about the driver. Bubbas dont take kindly to anyone remarking about their buttcheese.

 

Trainers should have regular inspections of their trucks for cleanliness in my opinion. You want to let a slob drive for the company fine, but don't let that slob represent the company to a new trainee.

 

Driver funk is the main reason I prefer to be self employed. Slip seating is a danger to your health- or not, if you're the problem driver I'm talking about. Some drivers have well tested immune systems- the rest of us have to lay in, sit in and be surrounded by the after effects. Without getting too colorful, there are reasons why one driver wouldn't want to lay on a mattress that another driver has entertained a few lot lizards on.

As a former smoker, I don't want to breathe stale smoke odors 24/7- and in one company truck I found a stinky "panty collection" stuffed under the mattress of the top bunk.

The thought of having sex with a fat, greasy, dirty driver is slightly more disgusting than the mattress he used for a few months- you know, the one you're laying on? You're also sitting in his seat...(let your imagination loose on this one).

I once told a terminal manager that slip seating is just like two grown men stripping naked- and exchanging under shorts. (You put on his and he wears yours for the rest of the day).

Yes People- it IS that disgusting.

 

That is one of the things I liked about TMC, for the first 14 or so years I worked there. Trucks were clean, and kept that way. If one was issued to you that wasn't clean, tell the shop foreman, it would be before it became yours. The last couple trucks I got before I left, not so much. Really annoyed me to be issued a dirty truck. When coming to this new company, that is one thing i really worried about....getting a filthy truck. Got lucky, and got a new one though. And I will keep it clean enough the next guy won't fear for his health when he gets it after me.