I want to start this post off with an apology for not updating this as promised. I have been incredibly busy, and quite upside down since the last post. I have since received a new trainer since my last one didn't like to eat but once every other day, and firmly believed that Febreze took the place of showering. My new trainer is better...not much...but still. That brings up a good topic to discuss: The Truckers Image.
There has been quite a bit of discussion on why truck drivers as a whole have a bad image. Unfortunately, when you don't shower every day...or every other day...or every other week, you begin to smell. Quite wretchedly in most cases. Not only do you smell, but you look like shit (excuse the french.) Your hair gets really greasy and napy, and your skin starts looking all oily.
Lets face it; You sit on a cloth seat in an enclosed cab with the a/c on recirculate for the better part of 11 hours a day, and then you climb into the bunk for 10 hours before starting the cycle over. Sure, you get out to fill your 164oz thermos up with Shockwave energy coffee and 12 shots of 5 hour energy, and grab a few donuts and candy bars for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Maybe you'll have to stop for fuel, but that's it. No bathroom breaks, cause you can pee in a bottle. Gotta "keep them doors closed to make money!!!" Riiight...so you sit and sleep in your own stench and filth for days on end. You non truckers are probably thinking "yeah right," but you truckers reading this are laughing your ass off because you know I am right! The problem with this is, you eventually have to interact with other people...whether knowingly or unknowingly. Shippers and receivers; the general public at truck stops; that cute server in the diner. You get my drift. These people then, unwillingly, have to look at and smell your nasty un-showered self because that load was just too hot to take a 15 minute shower. See where I'm going with this? If you all want the professional truck drivers image to get better, just start practicing basic hygiene. I know personally, I can't stand to live like this. I feel nasty and dirty. I have felt like a homeless person. I would never operate my truck this way. Both of my trainers have told me that this is how the trucking life is, and to that I say bullcrap. There is no load that prevents a driver from taking 15 minutes to relax in a hot shower, or even 5 minutes to stop at a rest area to use a restroom instead of a plastic bottle. A driver is the only person that prevents a driver from the basics of life.
I will try to get some updates out soon.
Thanks for stopping by!!
There has been quite a bit of discussion on why truck drivers as a whole have a bad image. Unfortunately, when you don't shower every day...or every other day...or every other week, you begin to smell. Quite wretchedly in most cases. Not only do you smell, but you look like shit (excuse the french.) Your hair gets really greasy and napy, and your skin starts looking all oily.
Lets face it; You sit on a cloth seat in an enclosed cab with the a/c on recirculate for the better part of 11 hours a day, and then you climb into the bunk for 10 hours before starting the cycle over. Sure, you get out to fill your 164oz thermos up with Shockwave energy coffee and 12 shots of 5 hour energy, and grab a few donuts and candy bars for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Maybe you'll have to stop for fuel, but that's it. No bathroom breaks, cause you can pee in a bottle. Gotta "keep them doors closed to make money!!!" Riiight...so you sit and sleep in your own stench and filth for days on end. You non truckers are probably thinking "yeah right," but you truckers reading this are laughing your ass off because you know I am right! The problem with this is, you eventually have to interact with other people...whether knowingly or unknowingly. Shippers and receivers; the general public at truck stops; that cute server in the diner. You get my drift. These people then, unwillingly, have to look at and smell your nasty un-showered self because that load was just too hot to take a 15 minute shower. See where I'm going with this? If you all want the professional truck drivers image to get better, just start practicing basic hygiene. I know personally, I can't stand to live like this. I feel nasty and dirty. I have felt like a homeless person. I would never operate my truck this way. Both of my trainers have told me that this is how the trucking life is, and to that I say bullcrap. There is no load that prevents a driver from taking 15 minutes to relax in a hot shower, or even 5 minutes to stop at a rest area to use a restroom instead of a plastic bottle. A driver is the only person that prevents a driver from the basics of life.
I will try to get some updates out soon.
Thanks for stopping by!!
