What made you leave the trucking industry for good?

On the subject of eating healthy on the road, I tried playing that game on and off for seven years. It is next to impossible if you ask me. I used to pack my cooler full of sandwiches and even fresh fruits and veggies. After 3 or 4 days it all spoils or is on the verge of spoiling. Even in a fridge the stuff only lasts about a week. I always took bottled water with and Milk, OJ, and other fruit juices, and usually some bananas, just so I could get some form of decent nutrition. I cut back on the soda pop a few back, but even then I was never one of those guys who had two 24-packs of Mountain Dew within reach, and i never touched any of that high octane Monster, AMP, etc.

Sure you can also take frozen stuff with you and get a microwave, but frozen, packed food is usually not very healthy either. It may say "low sodium" on the box, but frozen food is loaded with many other preservatives that are worse for your body than sodium.

There are a lot of Wal-Marts now that aren't trucker-friendly, and walking into one you usually see the same type of lowlifes you do at a truck stop. Grocery stores are usually hit and miss too, and I normally didn't have time for either those or Wal-mart.

As far as "running your truck like a business":

If running it like a business means going 63 MPH with a EOBR and keeping the Log book rules the way they are now, you can have it. The Electronic Logs wouldn't be nearly as bad if we could go back to the old pre-2004 rules. most of the guys who are running E-Logs tell me they are driving a max of about 10 hours per day, just so they don't get hung up at hour 11. In order for every truck in the USA to run legit with a black box, we would need several several MEGA sized rest areas or truck stops outside of every major metropolitan area, in addition to large truck parking areas every 50 or 100 miles in the rural areas. There simply IS NOT enough room for all the trucks on the road to park at night. Even the on ramps (where its still legal) get filled up.

Once again I'm not trying to run you down or have an attitude, just stating why I can't and won't hack it anymore.