Urine containers, and worse with my team driver.

Enjoy finding a convenient place to park, eat, sleep or use the bathroom for 70 feet of truck.

 

Pooping in the truck is pretty extreme. The down side of running team is their never seems to be enough time to stop. At 1,200 miles a day they only leaves 2 hour to stop and fuel and eat and shower.

Try asking for another driver of you like running team

 

I prefer to use Aviation containers for flying in small planes, they have the proper receptacles for men and female organs. And store the urine safely until disposed of and then cleaned with sanitation designed to really clean them.

Now I draw the line at pooping in the sleeper. You cannot imagine the infectious risk and in a bed to sleep in to boot. It's not ever acceptable.

I would contact the company, A operations manager directly and explain the situation and get the eff out of there. It is your body, your immune system and your heath that is at threat here. Not to mention a serious problem with that driver.

The company will deal with him. Get out of that truck, situation and away from him. Do it quietly with a phone call and arrange to hit the next company yard to do it. The sooner you do the less of a big problem it will be.

You have to stand up in your boots on this one. Anything less is not acceptable.

Now with wife and I we had a proper human toilet for number two on human based litter for lack of a better word with additional chemicals designed to dehydrate the waste and turn it into a biodegradable lump in a bag easily taken and buried in two feet of ground anywhere. Nature takes care of the rest.

We only did that toilet from a major camping supply store with the necessary supplies and we still have it to this day ready to go if the water situation should quit (As it does once in a while here at home)

It's a measure of commonsense and being able to be nice about it in that sleeper when and if necessary between spouse and I. Everything from properly going to disposal is all correct. But most all trucks don't have that. (And should)

 

Even then you can find 15 #### minutes to take care of the problem.

 

When I was a trainer we did loads for Conway they are now XPO but the trucking company I worked for had a deal if the load was late the load was free. It was to much pressure because you could not stop and take shower of it meant the load would be late.

We had 2 hour a day the truck could stop that included fueling bathrooms and shower and eating. Running solo is much better unless people like running team and that pressure

 

ok, you have ONE year of experience as you say..??

then in all frankness, find a solo job someplace else. you CAN do better.

the co-drivers lack of respect to you speaks volumes.

 

As a team there were times with FFE where we were 7 minutes early leaving Avenel NJ for LA we made LA 4 minutes to the good. It was one of those runs where we did not stop for nothing except fuel and tried to nurse that century towards a 2000 mile refill instead of 1600 refill. We got away wtih it. But leaving Avenel there were messages on satellite from LA dispatch thinking we were going to be late.

We told them open us up to ungoverned so we can get out and make time. But nope. We could guarantee Armarillo overnight. And LA really fast from there.

 

seriously, unless YOU WANT to team, find other employment. this is one of only a few reasons why i'll never team.....the slobness of some people.

just make phone calls to job listings, ads in trucker magazines, etc.

frankly, if you do not seek other employment, then there is nothing else anyone can do for you...you have to make it happen, all we can do is advise..