The story about the trash that truckers leave behind is TRUE. There’s a street in my town, about a mile long, plus a cross street also about a mile long . It’s on the edge of town . There’s a Love’s store, a Whataburger , a small restaurant, all 24 hours places. Truckers would park there a lot. Always full of trucks. Very convenient. Then the trash started. Someone would pick up the trash. They put trash barrels out there , IT DIDNT HELP with the trash being thrown out there. Eventually NO PARKING signs were put up all over the streets in that area. Regardless there went all the free , convenient parking for truckers. ALL BECAUSE of the trash left behind.
Seems to be a worldwide trait now sadly , kids are the worst of the worst though , always damn burger cardboard and bags everywhere , Saturday and Sunday mornings are the worst because of the night before - SCUM.
Yes, you're right, but they're not adults and most of them. I hate to say it Or foreigner. They don't care They throw there trash. Out who am I? I'm a truck driver I don't drive Over there road Anymore.. i drive local. I work 6 days a week. Sometimes 7 the place. I work at they let trucks park in the parking lot of abandoned tire plan Sunday. One backed up to the edge of the parking lot And throw Some trash out.
Exactly, right on point. Wherever trucks are able to park for the night or day, during their 10 hour break, they typically throw trash out the window of their trucks, along with the bottles they pee in out the window it all goes. Have some damn respect where you’re able to park for your 10 hour rest period. I’ve been there seen it many, many, many times. It’s absolutely totally ridiculous. No respect for their own selves, much less anyone else around. I’m not surprised one bit. Show some respect!!!
I only drove for about 5 yrs. before retiring. I wanted to see the country on somebody else's dime before I left the workforce. Anyway, the things I saw were really disgusting. Things like the day I was parked at a Pilot and saw a man pull up to the fuel island. He was at the closest pump to the door going into the Pilot. After fueling, instead of going inside to go to the bathroom, he waled over 100 yds. and peed between the truck and trailer parked next to me. I saw another man that was walking barefoot across the parking lot. He was wearing droopy, baggy, stained shorts, a torn and stained t-shirt, and his hair looked as though it had not been washed in 2 months. I wanted to start taking pictures of various drivers and lot lizards. I was thinking of making a coffee table book called "Truck Drivers and the Women that Love them". I finally decided to retire when I was sent out to retrieve an abandoned truck that someone had quit and left at a truck stop. I opened the truck door, looked inside, and immediately closed the door. I called my dispatcher and told him to send someone else because I could not stand to get in that truck. Much less drive it 750 miles back to the terminal. There are some drivers out there that could make the life of a hog look like high society.
So true. This also encompasses the homeless. They urinate and leave trash all over. I've been homeless, and there are fewer places to park and stay. The actions of one ruin it for the many.
The homeless in my neighborhood leave so much trash. There’s so many trash cans around. But they just toss it in the street. It gets cleaned up regularly but it drives me nuts. No one hassles them except the cops will tell the people in RVs to move on every few weeks. My neighborhood is as accepting and understanding of people on hard times as we can. A local church provides showers and bathrooms. There are two places they can get clothes and food. For teens there is a shelter, the adult shelter is in another part of town. Even a developer when he was bidding new condos said that if a potential buyer has a problem with the homeless they aren’t welcome. I don’t know if he actually mentioned that but he’s damn good at reading the room. Just walk your trash to the trash can. It’s free the spot you’re living in doesn’t need to look like shit.
Instead of dumping your liquid bodily waste in grass, or rocks, put your bottle in a non- transparent bag and dump it a toilet. That’s what I do. Keeps the truck stops and rest areas from smelling like urinals.
Rain will wash away any urine poured on the ground. Many drivers treat urine like toxic waste and will not use a gallon jug and just pour it out and reuse the jug. I can use the same jug 5 years.
pee is fertilizer for grass, so that's the ideal place to dump it. the lipids and smelly stuff will linger on rocks and pavement for quite awhile though.
It's not Wal-Mart's fault. They used to love truck drivers. When I first started driving, I was always told if you need a place to park, Wal-Mart was a good safe place. Not anymore.
You cant accommodate what's unaccomodateable. They are used to trash in Africa and Pakistan, that is how they live in their home countries. And America imports this kind of workers
Finally! Someone is talking about this big problem we have these days!!! I have seen poop in grocery bags flung into trees in truck parking areas in northern Ontario, namely the town of Spanish! There’s no need for that!! As a female trucker of 40 years, I have a similar setup in my truck with a reusable bottle from Walmart, small funnel and disinfectant spray. Toilet paper goes in garbage bag, disposed of when I fuel truck. Being menopausal, I don’t want to get up at 3am, get dressed, walk across a dark parking lot to go have a pee! And Covid didn’t help either with businesses being closed! IT’S TIME TO CLEAN UP THE MESS!!! There’s no need for it!
I use a plastic container with a screw top so it can’t inadvertently come off and spill urine. I pour it out in the grass or in the rocks and reuse it occasionally rinsing it out. I’m amazed at the amount of piss bottles and trash I find at weigh stations that are closed and rest areas. My parents taught me to respect public areas and other people’s property.
...let's face it - too many of the general public is a collection of obscene pigs. If they think no one is looking they will do just about anything.....and encouraging people to dump their piss bottles where ever they feel like is a terrible idea. That is what 'blackwater' dump stations and restrooms are for. 3rd world counties allow human waste to be dumped any where in public !!
I just left a Staples down here in Florida that had signs saying "no over night parking, truck will be towed & driver arrested" ... its safe to say they are fed up!
Years ago I put on a mud bog event, and I had to get on the P. A. and explain how to use the portapotty, as some miscreant had crapped on the floor. To this day I haven't figured out how they did it.
For years I have used Snapple drink bottles. I put a little liquid soap and a little water in it, then, in the morning, I take it into the restroom and empty it in the urinal or toilet. Then I add a little soap and water and shake it up then empty that as well. Then I put more soap and water in it for the next time. I keep two bottles on hand and trade them out. When any bottle gets smelly, I throw it in the trash and buy another Snapple and start a new one.
@@calshrock3531 I used to carry a hospital type urinal bottle with a lid and handle and I always had a cardboard copy paper box in the truck with strong sides and would hang the urinals handle over the side within reach. It would hold about a quart safely
I saw a head-on wreck on Highway 65 north of Clinton, Arkansas 15 years ago, near Route 110, where two elderly couples were traveling to Missouri. The old man driving fell asleep at the wheel and their car crashed head on beneath a Ford F-150 four wheel drive pick up truck. The truck was catapulted upward and landed on it's left side. The car was sheared down to about a foot and a half high. All four occupants had to be extracted in pieces out of the car. The car was front wheel drive with a V6 engine. I remember seeing where the lead head of the engine was sheared off where you could see the tops of three of the pistons down in the engine block. The engine head was likely knocked off against the front axle of the pickup truck. Highway 65 was closed down for 5 hours.
@@seansoccer100 that’s absolutely correct given that 80% of the United States population lives east of Mississippi…. Cities are closer together and have much higher populations in the eastern part of the country…..
Even the bottles… 1 or 2 truckers emptying urine into the grass or rocks is fine. But night after night builds up a smell and leaves an area urine soaked.
Saddest part is it give truckers a really bad reputation.......if you want to be treated like a professional one needs to act like a professional......keep it up and there will be nowhere left to park, including truck stops and rest areas.
You have only scratched the surface of why truckers are not welcome in so many places. Here is my list. Noise. Drivers going too fast across parking lots so that they can make a lot of noise with their engine brakes every time they take their foot off the fuel. Add to that straight pipes that add to the noise. Pollution. How many drivers idle up the engine to run the heat or air conditioning - when it is not needed or justified. On a nice and otherwise quiet night, when people like to open their windows and enjoy the fresh air, here is a big truck running his engine at fast idle filling the air with diesel smoke and NOISE!!! Then there is the trash. Go to ANY truck stop. Back into a parking spot. Now, walk to the back of the truck. It looks like a landfill with all of the trash all over the ground. Truck stop owners have to pay somebody to clean up that mess. The same at any Wal-Mart parking lot. As a retired trucker, I have seen all of this first hand, and believe me, I would not want truckers anywhere near my property behaving like that. They make themselves unwelcome.
Get a bag like a book bag …. Next time you go to a proper bathroom dump it in a toilet … carry 4/5 of them … please don’t dump it in the grass or rocks …. No one likes the pee lot smell
@@ryhol5417 A half-gallon jug of piss isn't going foul up a storm drain, never mind an entire retention pond. I still believe it's better than pissing on the ground in the truck stop lot. A lot of drivers are lazy and won't even walk 50 feet to a trash can, so there will be no improvement anyway.
A couple of friends who do videos and are drivers talk about this too. Thank you for what you do, you drivers go through a whole lot of crazy to keep America going. I appreciate that. If I tried to do it, I'd be in my sleeper rocking back and forth while babbling incoherently and pulling my hair out a strand at a time after the first week. You're a tough breed. I enjoyed the video, thank you for that too.
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Totally agree with sir,The laziness of some of these so called steering wheel holders nowadays!Their no reason for throwing your piss bottles out anywhere or trash!Especially at the truckstops!Its freaking disgusting to see piss bottles and trash the next morning all the truck parking lot!Its no wonder their charging truckers to park.Trucking isnt the same as it use to be back in the 70's,80's and 90's anymore when i was driving.🤷♂️ Have a safe and blessed day driver.
Your 💯 percent correct, I started driving back in 1983, I just retired in May of 2023 I did my 40 years as a OTR independent trucker, and your right trucking has gone to trash, and it's no where near what it used to be. I just couldn't handle the AHs that are out there anymore.
I drove a NYC cab back in the day. The old timers used to carry a bottle. I knew all the city parks that had open toilets instead. Not all of them were open.
Let us be honest. Only my opinion...but I feel for the most part the ones who are doing this the most are foreign drivers. I'm saying for the most part. They are also the ones washing their feet in the sinks in the TRUCKSTOPS.
As the mother of a trucker, I must agree with this statement. I've seen many truckers leave their trash at the stops and rest stops right underneath their rigs. All were foreign (India/middle-eastern) decent.
Your wrong. It is "So called Americans" also I see it everyday. "Everyday " born Americans throwing trash out the windows, Melanies and GenZ throw diapers on the ground. When a trash bin is ten feet away. White and Black mom's doing this shit. Lazy.
I knew what this video was about before i ever clicked on it. I agree Completly !! In some states we can't even park on the ramps anymore because of the garbage left behind. Piss bottles and shit bags are bio medical waste, improper disposal should be enforced. Jail would be a good place to learn to clean up after yourselves.
This is everywhere. Part of my janitorial duties at the restaurant I work at is to pick up the trash in the parking lot. People leave diapers,empty liquor bottles,trays of food and the other day someone dumped their ashtray full of cigarettes.
I see how Totally DISCUSTING the insides of some of these Trucks are.... It's mostly the Foreigners.... They must like to Sleep on a Big Pile of Rancid Garbage, I don't know... Just imagine what their Homes look like! (If they even have one).... Pee Jugs and Grocery Bags with Toilet Paper and Poo in them... Tied shut and Randomly Discarded around their Living Space... Just like them Truck Cabs.... They just can't let go of that 3rd World Culture!....Nasty!....
Oh, and I wanted to say: These are the SAME ONES that Pull Up and PARK at the FUEL ISLANDS, right next to the Garbage Cans, but don't throw away any Trash... Then they will stay parked there for an Hour and a Half while they go inside and eat, play games, etc... I would have said "Showered" but 99% of them are Foreigners and have NO CLUE what the Hell a Bath or Shower even is!.... Anyhow, then when they eventually do decide to move, they will throw their Poo Filled Grocery Bags, and Pee Jugs out the Window.... They are absolutely DISCUSTING!... They give all of us Driver's a Bad Name, so to speak!.... And don't get me started on their Driving Skills or their ability to Speak English which is needed to Communicate with just about everyone in the Business... Especially Law Enforcement in the Event of an Accident or Emergency!.....
Would do that, normally would get some Fabuloso / water mix at the bottom so it wouldn't stink up the place. Drain out towards the woods or some Oboy, and reuse. This one rare walmart that had truck parking recently removed it. People are just nasty, and because of them, they ruin it for everyone.
Believe it or not, it's human nature. I've been working around trucking for most of my life and some drivers are unbelievable. I worked at a terminal in Massachusetts, and a long haul driver stopped at the terminal and shoved a months worth of garbage on the ground 10 feet in front of the dumpster. The foreman filled his car with the dumpster and then put the car on the roof of the shop. Never did that again
Why on earth does this even need to be said. There’s that old insult question “were you raised in a barn?” Sigh! We need more people like you on the road!
There was a warehouse in Orlando that became a community drop lot with a bunch of owner op types using the place as their own personal parking yard and even leaving their personal cars there while they were gone on the road. Needless to say, it was recently cleared out and now nobody is allowed to stay there anymore and thats bad because Orlando has almost no truck parking anywhere unless you want to pay or drive a long way. 😢
I used to use a black 2.5 gal Delo oil bottle. I made a gasket out of innertube rubber for the lid. I would dump it in porta pottys or at rest area RV dump sites. When pulling into a shopping center use the truck entrance drive to the docks and see if there is room to park without blocking the docks.
Its mainly black, Hispanic, and other foreign peoples that do this. We have a truck stop down the road, and they stopped them from. Parking for littering
Some of those things that you’re describing is true. But, the main reason that Walmart doesn’t allow overnight parking anymore is their insurance carriers have determined that there is a liability risk to the corporation. When the insurance companies order something, then rest assured, it becomes policy.
I AM a truck stop cashier who has to do bathrooms and empty garbage as well. I don't know where to start!!!!! First off, what customers AND truckers do to the bathrooms alone is nothing short of depravity. Now let's talk about your pee jugs; WHY do you NOT empty them on the football sized grass fields we have on both ends of our lot?!?!?! Urea is a grass FERTILIZER.... WHY do THINK it's okay to just throw your pee jugs IN the trash I must collect each day???? WHY do you let it FERMENT in your trucks before disposal????? EVERY day I want to HURL when I do the truckers lot trash because SOMEONE not only is throwing human waste in MY garbages, but they didn't bother to tighten the cap. And I get all that fermented smell like a punch to my lungs. It's SO bad. It's right up there with rotten animal corpse. Your GAG reflex comes calling. I BEG YOU TO STOP DOING IT, "PLEASE"...
No pride in country any longer. Foreigners who don't care about our country have influenced a massive chunk of the country and now we hate ourselves just like they hate us.
@ROllingKING-i7p THIS is what peeves me off MOST about you truckers. You "feel" peeing in a bottle is okay. It's NOT "illegal" or anything, DESPITE the law saying otherwise. I should just bend down to you free coffee wanting truckers??? The station makes TWO CENTS a gallon off truckers. You fill 100 gallons and want a free shower AND coffee....lol. Yes, stay OUT of truck stops if you feel my disgust with your lawbreaking is wrong. Go to Wendy's....Burger King. Drop your pee jugs THERE since it's illegal and you don't seem to care about that part..... Just truck stop cashiers are the enemy, huh? What a human worm.....
Boss, most folks these days can't pour piss out of a pair of workboots without making a mess. You're right, it's people who don't and likely can't care.
Yes sir you're exactly right. I've been out here for years as well and I have learned how to take care of my business and not trash up where I sleep or eat. I bought a camp toilet and keep it under the bunk with extra black trash bags and kitty litter along with wet wipes and tissue. I also keep a gallon size bleach bottle for urine. We're essentially nomads and we have to prepare for emergencies. Thanks for the video.
I live in tucson you should see the apartment parking lot especially on Saturday and Sunday mornings some low class people dump trash, fast food bags , wrappers, soda cups, and other items in the parking lot. Unfortunately on several occasions it's the newcomers to the United States from developing nations and also some us citizens with no regard for private property, I caught two separate incidents I told them to pick it up they just ignored and drove away.
Based on my own observations over the years, this is a result of cultural "programming" for lack of a better term. People feel like they are "owed" by society (yes, the entitlement mentality) to varying degrees. And they feel oppressed by various authorities, and so the act of throwing out trash is, in their mind, one way to "get back" at society. This isn't aimed at truckers; this is everybody. We see the same thing from RVers parking on public land, and off-roaders. At least that's my take on it.
I worked at a restarea on I-29 back in the early 00s. The crap that the truckers left behind. Bottles of urine aka truckers torpedoes , dumped boxes of used kitty litter, leaking diesel fuel, engine oil patches,, coolant spills , and soybean spills.
Looting is becoming such an issue its only a matter of time that they'll just go directly to the trucks. They don't want the liability so more and more stores are becoming a stop and drop and they are not allowing overnight parking. Sucks when your out of hours and told you have to leave, no more paper log books, now with up to date GPS tracking and real time cameras so if you fart in the wrong direction you're fired. Treated poorly, long hours away from home, crazy deliveries and ever higher expectations with dwindling profits. Large haulers are feeling it, small companies are running on E, owner op have all but given up. Taking pride in your work and quietly keep those wheels turning isn't a glorious thing anymore, high pay kept it afloat for a while but its past its prime. Best of luck out there and stay safe, keep on trucking
Common Sense is Not Too Common and you were either Born with it or you weren’t. Unfortunately Most people were Not given that Gift at Birth. We’ll Pray for them.🤪🙏
It's all really about respecting others, any you sir sadly are a passing breed. The generation behind you have not been taught this. Be safe andThank you.
It is soooo bad now! A few weeks ago, while getting fuel at a J in CO. I kept smelling shit and thought there was a cattle truck nearby.. Nope. Someone had got on top of the trash can on the fuel island and shit in it!!! Not 100 ft from the building, and they couldn't walk that far!! There is no consideration for other drivers or the persons who have clean that mess up!
It's funny you should say that because I had a subscriber email me about 3 weeks ago who had experienced a similar situation. Only someone had gone between his truck and the truck next to him during the night while they were in better sleep and did the same thing but just inches from his door
@truckingenius Yes. I've seen that. A pile of poop and toilet paper on the ground in the parking lot of some of the pilots/J I've parked at. I usually avoid these places except to get fuel. For example, I usually park at places that used to be truck stops but are out of business now, like the truck terminal on 54 in New Mexico. The buildings and parking lots are still there. It's an extra 50 miles from the big road, but I know I can sleep and avoid the kind of stuff that goes on in these places. It's just sad and frustrating that this is what has become of our industry. There's no pride anymore.
Yes sir that’s what I do. I got a couple urinals off Amazon and what I do with mine I empty them in the grass or down the storm drain and I put a little bit of mouthwash inside the urinal keeps it fresh and keeps the germs down I do have a puppy that rides with me so I will throw a dirty puppy pad in a trash bag outside my door in the middle of the night but I make sure when I get up I pick everything up with Rubber gloves and throw it in the can where belongs. good deal, sir. I appreciate it passing on some good knowledge to the young ones. and some old ones.
I live in a fairly new community in North Texas. The new Wal-Mart was built and it is designed to keep truckers out. There is no way to even park in the parking lot. The back of the store has a loading dock and a road not connected to the parking lot for Wal-Mart truck deliveries. There is two truck stops nearby so truckers have to walk across a busy street to shop there.
To scrub the inside of a bottle - not necessarily for this reason - you can put a little coffee grounds in there with enough water to put some weight behind the coffee and give it a good shake and the coffee will scrub it clean. A dot of soap will sanitize it then, bleach would be kinda overkill once all the material has been removed.
Thats Bs 😮 The pavement has nothing to do with it. It's the trash and biohazard that people leave behind. We are Rvers and Walmarts are not letting people stay overnight in Rvs anymore because of the same thing. And camping out for multiple days instead of just overnight.
@@ImnotgoingSideways I used to deliver candy loads to Walmart's. And that's what one of the managers told me that's why they don't want trucks in their lot
Hydrogen peroxide works as a cleaner also. You can store it until you get to an area with a public toilet or urinal and dispose of it as well. Your advice is sound and sensible, something that is rare today.
Interesting to hear your perspective on human nature. Glad you brought it up. I think people who litter are aware of what they are doing, they just don't care. What is lacking is having respect for other people and their property . It sure would be nice if they could learn to do that.
I’ve been trucking for 50 years and I blame all the trash and sanitation problems on the way the ELD is set up with the clock not stopping only f you take a sleeper break if 7 hours or more. I could remember stopping at a diner and letting either the morning or evening rush do it’s thing and going off duty to enjoy a nice sit down meal and when the rush was over go back on duty and not lose any hours.
@@Retired88Myou can also just take a 2 hour break and then follow up with the 8+ hour one later. I agree the eld makes things harder sometimes, but it's really only enforcing those pesky hours of service rules. Change the hos rules and then the eld wouldn't matter.
@@chris76-01 but I don’t know about you but it never takes me 2 hours to have a meal when I’m trucking by myself. Now maybe some truck maintenance or a repair would but I always try to get back to the home 20 . And since I’m a part time driver now I usually pack a lunch and only take the mandatory 30 minutes and that happens more often than not when I’m loading or unloading.
There storm/sewer drains almost everywhere - at truck stops, rest areas even parking lots to dispose of urine. Since urine is full of nitrogen it is good for grass, trees and bushes but ONLY if it doesn’t get overwhelmed. Toilets work too to dump bottles.
YOU HAVE TO EXPLAINE IT. BECAUSE THEY DONT KNOW OR DONT CARE. Bleach or Ammonia. OR AND OLD LAUNDRY BOTTLE. NOT GATERAID BOTTLE. WIDE MOUTH. A WIDE MOUTH SO YOU DONT SPILL. ( WE SAID THE GRASS BECAUSE WHEN YOU JUST POUR IT OUT ON THE GROUND IT STINKS WHENIT GETS HOT. BUT RAIN WASHES EVERTHING.
i noticed that over the years there is more diapers and human waste in plastic bags that really started showing up about 20 years here in the states and even in Canada and some if the places i use to park at night now have chain link fences up
Totally agree with you. I’m a retired truck driver and NEVER threw trash out in the parking lot. In fact a lot of the time I would pickup trash and put carts back that other people left. I’m heading toward the store, so why not take trash and carts with me. I’ve also seen truck stops that have so much trash that you can’t even walk behind the truck when parked. Did the same thing that you are doing with urine. And some drivers can’t understand why they won’t let you park.
Seriously? Walking through the parking lot of ANY Walmart is like visiting a trash heap in a third world country and it ain’t the truckers who are doing it either.
I started driving at night 20 years ago. I keep a trash can with a garbage bag in the floor board of my passenger seat. I empty it once at a Loves truck stop(trash cans at every fuel island) and again when I come in after 5 nights out at my companies yard.
I understand because nobody wants to pick up other people’s piss. I’m not throwing no stones but it’s mostly foreign drivers. It’s not their country and they don’t care.
I think you are being kind by saying "unaware", it's more like "they don't care". It's all about convenience with people these days and no one wants to make an effort to do much of anything. Your generation, my generation DO CARE and will go the few extra steps to dispose of things properly. I too am sorry you had to make a video about this. It all boils down to courtesy and common sense. Which unfortunately, in America today, has been pretty much tossed aside. Thank you for all you do and be safe out there! ❤
My comment is why do I have to press “read more “ on a lot of posts,when some are longer and don’t have that and the read more part is usually only a few words longer. 😉. me, knit picking.
So much common sense, i only do local distribution but at times i need to use a bathroom, but i rather ask the customer if i can borrow their facilities.
The problem is most people are selfish and don’t think of others. I’ve always tried to treat people the way I want to be treated. Sad part is it’s very rare to find people with the same mindset
The story about the trash that truckers leave behind is TRUE. There’s a street in my town, about a mile long, plus a cross street also about a mile long . It’s on the edge of town . There’s a Love’s store, a Whataburger , a small restaurant, all 24 hours places. Truckers would park there a lot. Always full of trucks. Very convenient. Then the trash started. Someone would pick up the trash. They put trash barrels out there , IT DIDNT HELP with the trash being thrown out there. Eventually NO PARKING signs were put up all over the streets in that area. Regardless there went all the free , convenient parking for truckers. ALL BECAUSE of the trash left behind.
We have let litter laws go uninformed now we are a 3rd. world country. Enforce the laws.Stop this trashing America.
Seems to be a worldwide trait now sadly , kids are the worst of the worst though , always damn burger cardboard and bags everywhere , Saturday and Sunday mornings are the worst because of the night before - SCUM.
Yes, you're right, but they're not adults and most of them. I hate to say it Or foreigner. They don't care They throw there trash. Out who am I? I'm a truck driver I don't drive Over there road Anymore.. i drive local. I work 6 days a week. Sometimes 7 the place. I work at they let trucks park in the parking lot of abandoned tire plan Sunday. One backed up to the edge of the parking lot And throw Some trash out.
Exactly, right on point. Wherever trucks are able to park for the night or day, during their 10 hour break, they typically throw trash out the window of their trucks, along with the bottles they pee in out the window it all goes. Have some damn respect where you’re able to park for your 10 hour rest period. I’ve been there seen it many, many, many times. It’s absolutely totally ridiculous. No respect for their own selves, much less anyone else around. I’m not surprised one bit. Show some respect!!!
Trucking was opened for Mexicans 10 years ago.
Videos about “Trucker’s Etiquette” would be a good TH-cam niche for your channel ! 🙂
I only drove for about 5 yrs. before retiring. I wanted to see the country on somebody else's dime before I left the workforce. Anyway, the things I saw were really disgusting. Things like the day I was parked at a Pilot and saw a man pull up to the fuel island. He was at the closest pump to the door going into the Pilot. After fueling, instead of going inside to go to the bathroom, he waled over 100 yds. and peed between the truck and trailer parked next to me. I saw another man that was walking barefoot across the parking lot. He was wearing droopy, baggy, stained shorts, a torn and stained t-shirt, and his hair looked as though it had not been washed in 2 months. I wanted to start taking pictures of various drivers and lot lizards. I was thinking of making a coffee table book called "Truck Drivers and the Women that Love them". I finally decided to retire when I was sent out to retrieve an abandoned truck that someone had quit and left at a truck stop. I opened the truck door, looked inside, and immediately closed the door. I called my dispatcher and told him to send someone else because I could not stand to get in that truck. Much less drive it 750 miles back to the terminal. There are some drivers out there that could make the life of a hog look like high society.
So true. This also encompasses the homeless. They urinate and leave trash all over. I've been homeless, and there are fewer places to park and stay. The actions of one ruin it for the many.
The homeless in my neighborhood leave so much trash. There’s so many trash cans around. But they just toss it in the street. It gets cleaned up regularly but it drives me nuts. No one hassles them except the cops will tell the people in RVs to move on every few weeks. My neighborhood is as accepting and understanding of people on hard times as we can. A local church provides showers and bathrooms. There are two places they can get clothes and food. For teens there is a shelter, the adult shelter is in another part of town. Even a developer when he was bidding new condos said that if a potential buyer has a problem with the homeless they aren’t welcome. I don’t know if he actually mentioned that but he’s damn good at reading the room. Just walk your trash to the trash can. It’s free the spot you’re living in doesn’t need to look like shit.
Instead of dumping your liquid bodily waste in grass, or rocks, put your bottle in a non- transparent bag and dump it a toilet. That’s what I do. Keeps the truck stops and rest areas from smelling like urinals.
Rain will wash away any urine poured on the ground.
Many drivers treat urine like toxic waste and will not use a gallon jug and just pour it out and reuse the jug. I can use the same jug 5 years.
@@MrCountrycuz Just go in a toilet.
pee is fertilizer for grass, so that's the ideal place to dump it. the lipids and smelly stuff will linger on rocks and pavement for quite awhile though.
if there was a toilet there wouldnt be a bottle to dump …
@@MrCountrycuz Except when it doesnt rain.
If you wouldn't do it at your home, don't do it somewhere else.
Well, sad to say some people do way worse at home...
Their homes are probably filthy as well.
@@armageddonready4071 They are!!!! Shantys!!
ALOT of these 3rd world DRIVERS DO DO IT AT THEIR OWN HOMES!
They do it at home . Sickos.
It's not Wal-Mart's fault. They used to love truck drivers. When I first started driving, I was always told if you need a place to park, Wal-Mart was a good safe place. Not anymore.
I'm not a fan of Walmart but I agree. I've seen the depravity. Don't blame them at all.
Homedwelling losers ruined it for the rest of us.
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No company wants the liability or unnecessary headaches! It's always a few bad apples that give the whole industry a bad name!
@jaminova_1969 it's way more than a few.
Totally agree! It’s an outright shame! Wish drivers would put on their big boy pants and be respectful and responsible! Pure laziness! 😞😞😞😞
110%
You can't train what is untrainable
Even dog go on the grass, not on the pavement.
Well, you can… just depends on what is utilized to help with the education.
Can’t fix stupid.
You cant accommodate what's unaccomodateable. They are used to trash in Africa and Pakistan, that is how they live in their home countries. And America imports this kind of workers
Finally! Someone is talking about this big problem we have these days!!! I have seen poop in grocery bags flung into trees in truck parking areas in northern Ontario, namely the town of Spanish! There’s no need for that!! As a female trucker of 40 years, I have a similar setup in my truck with a reusable bottle from Walmart, small funnel and disinfectant spray. Toilet paper goes in garbage bag, disposed of when I fuel truck. Being menopausal, I don’t want to get up at 3am, get dressed, walk across a dark parking lot to go have a pee! And Covid didn’t help either with businesses being closed!
IT’S TIME TO CLEAN UP THE MESS!!! There’s no need for it!
I use a plastic container with a screw top so it can’t inadvertently come off and spill urine. I pour it out in the grass or in the rocks and reuse it occasionally rinsing it out. I’m amazed at the amount of piss bottles and trash I find at weigh stations that are closed and rest areas. My parents taught me to respect public areas and other people’s property.
...let's face it - too many of the general public is a collection of obscene pigs. If they think no one is looking they will do just about anything.....and encouraging people to dump their piss bottles where ever they feel like is a terrible idea. That is what 'blackwater' dump stations and restrooms are for. 3rd world counties allow human waste to be dumped any where in public !!
I do the same thing.
@@Mojave9370 ..are we proud of our self ??
Claussen pickle jar!
@@78tag Yes I am.
So many people from places that don’t care about their country.😢
Been saying THAT forever.
@@BayAreaPeebz yep
Exactly
Wisconsin is the worst home state.
@@wayneessar7489 no other counties. Or ain’t got no yakking up
And that my brother is common sense trucking..GREAT VIDEO
Unfortunately it’s actually uncommon sense
I just left a Staples down here in Florida that had signs saying "no over night parking, truck will be towed & driver arrested" ... its safe to say they are fed up!
Doesn't say driver will be arrested lmao
Entitled homedwelling losers ruin everything.
Same as UK my friend.They park and crap in a plastic bag an throw it out of window..It's a new breed of driver..that's why we are not welcome anymore
A new ethnicity of driver
With their own cultural standards.
That's exactly why they're leaving trash.Because it's not their property.I am absolutely appalled at all the trash and piss bottles that drivers leave
Years ago I put on a mud bog event, and I had to get on the P. A. and explain how to use the portapotty, as some miscreant had crapped on the floor. To this day I haven't figured out how they did it.
For years I have used Snapple drink bottles. I put a little liquid soap and a little water in it, then, in the morning, I take it into the restroom and empty it in the urinal or toilet. Then I add a little soap and water and shake it up then empty that as well. Then I put more soap and water in it for the next time. I keep two bottles on hand and trade them out. When any bottle gets smelly, I throw it in the trash and buy another Snapple and start a new one.
@@lunarvvolf9606 I use Powerade bottles. I'm homeless in my car.
A couple oz of mouthwash knocks down the smell greatly.
@@calshrock3531 I used to carry a hospital type urinal bottle with a lid and handle and I always had a cardboard copy paper box in the truck with strong sides and would hang the urinals handle over the side within reach. It would hold about a quart safely
I saw a head-on wreck on Highway 65 north of Clinton, Arkansas 15 years ago, near Route 110, where two elderly couples were traveling to Missouri. The old man driving fell asleep at the wheel and their car crashed head on beneath a Ford F-150 four wheel drive pick up truck. The truck was catapulted upward and landed on it's left side. The car was sheared down to about a foot and a half high. All four occupants had to be extracted in pieces out of the car. The car was front wheel drive with a V6 engine. I remember seeing where the lead head of the engine was sheared off where you could see the tops of three of the pistons down in the engine block. The engine head was likely knocked off against the front axle of the pickup truck. Highway 65 was closed down for 5 hours.
Sir, thanks for advising your fellow drivers. It is said that you needed to say these things, but I agree it is needed.
The ones who need to hear this message the most are not hearing it.... or couldn't understand it if they did hear it.
That’s why I just can’t drive east of the Mississippi much, just no parking after 6pm….. Many pigs on the road though I agree 100 sir
Yes, is this bc the population density gets higher? Seems like less places to park from maybe I-35 and east.
@@seansoccer100 that’s absolutely correct given that 80% of the United States population lives east of Mississippi…. Cities are closer together and have much higher populations in the eastern part of the country…..
We are beyond "why" it's just time to stop this shit and hold those accountable that do not
Take you garbage with you period.
Even the bottles… 1 or 2 truckers emptying urine into the grass or rocks is fine. But night after night builds up a smell and leaves an area urine soaked.
Saddest part is it give truckers a really bad reputation.......if you want to be treated like a professional one needs to act like a professional......keep it up and there will be nowhere left to park, including truck stops and rest areas.
They are also underpaid.
You have only scratched the surface of why truckers are not welcome in so many places. Here is my list.
Noise. Drivers going too fast across parking lots so that they can make a lot of noise with their engine brakes every time they take their foot off the fuel. Add to that straight pipes that add to the noise.
Pollution. How many drivers idle up the engine to run the heat or air conditioning - when it is not needed or justified. On a nice and otherwise quiet night, when people like to open their windows and enjoy the fresh air, here is a big truck running his engine at fast idle filling the air with diesel smoke and NOISE!!!
Then there is the trash. Go to ANY truck stop. Back into a parking spot. Now, walk to the back of the truck. It looks like a landfill with all of the trash all over the ground. Truck stop owners have to pay somebody to clean up that mess. The same at any Wal-Mart parking lot.
As a retired trucker, I have seen all of this first hand, and believe me, I would not want truckers anywhere near my property behaving like that.
They make themselves unwelcome.
Get a bag like a book bag …. Next time you go to a proper bathroom dump it in a toilet … carry 4/5 of them … please don’t dump it in the grass or rocks …. No one likes the pee lot smell
Most truck stops have storm drains also
@markmccue8472 true
Sorry I neglected to mention that
5 gal bucket with trash bag in it and toilet paper makes for a great emergency pooper
@@markmccue8472that doesn’t improve anything. Storm drains lead to retention ponds. Guess what those smell like when full of piss?
@@ryhol5417 A half-gallon jug of piss isn't going foul up a storm drain, never mind an entire retention pond. I still believe it's better than pissing on the ground in the truck stop lot. A lot of drivers are lazy and won't even walk 50 feet to a trash can, so there will be no improvement anyway.
A couple of friends who do videos and are drivers talk about this too. Thank you for what you do, you drivers go through a whole lot of crazy to keep America going. I appreciate that. If I tried to do it, I'd be in my sleeper rocking back and forth while babbling incoherently and pulling my hair out a strand at a time after the first week. You're a tough breed. I enjoyed the video, thank you for that too.
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I'M RETIRED
I'M RETIRED
I'M RETIRED YES INDEED
NO MORE SPEED COPS
NO MORE ROOKIES
NO MORE D O T FOR ME
I WISH ya'll all the luck in the world.....
I did mine.....it's up to ya'll
now.I just do not care anymore
Me too. 30years yeehaw!
I can't understand why people would throw trash on the ground when just about everywhere you go there's a trashcan.
Totally agree with sir,The laziness of some of these so called steering wheel holders nowadays!Their no reason for throwing your piss bottles out anywhere or trash!Especially at the truckstops!Its freaking disgusting to see piss bottles and trash the next morning all the truck parking lot!Its no wonder their charging truckers to park.Trucking isnt the same as it use to be back in the 70's,80's and 90's anymore when i was driving.🤷♂️
Have a safe and blessed day driver.
Your 💯 percent correct, I started driving back in 1983, I just retired in May of 2023 I did my 40 years as a OTR independent trucker, and your right trucking has gone to trash, and it's no where near what it used to be. I just couldn't handle the AHs that are out there anymore.
I drove a NYC cab back in the day. The old timers used to carry a bottle. I knew all the city parks that had open toilets instead. Not all of them were open.
Let us be honest. Only my opinion...but I feel for the most part the ones who are doing this the most are foreign drivers. I'm saying for the most part. They are also the ones washing their feet in the sinks in the TRUCKSTOPS.
As the mother of a trucker, I must agree with this statement.
I've seen many truckers leave their trash at the stops and rest stops right underneath their rigs. All were foreign (India/middle-eastern) decent.
Your wrong. It is "So called Americans" also I see it everyday. "Everyday " born Americans throwing trash out the windows, Melanies and GenZ throw diapers on the ground. When a trash bin is ten feet away. White and Black mom's doing this shit. Lazy.
The ones that come from the countries that practice flying toilets 😮
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I knew what this video was about before i ever clicked on it. I agree Completly !!
In some states we can't even park on the ramps anymore because of the garbage left behind. Piss bottles and shit bags are bio medical waste, improper disposal should be enforced. Jail would be a good place to learn to clean up after yourselves.
This is everywhere. Part of my janitorial duties at the restaurant I work at is to pick up the trash in the parking lot. People leave diapers,empty liquor bottles,trays of food and the other day someone dumped their ashtray full of cigarettes.
I've been doing that for Years. You're Spot on Brother. Didn't know about the Bleach. Excellent Cleaning Idea. Stay Safe, Brother
It's also some folks don't seem to know where the trash can is at, they just toss their trash in the lot, for someone else to clean up 😡
@crazyburkey3677
unfortunately some folks are lazy and inconsiderate of other people and other people's property.
It keeps people working.
@@jimmyjames6487Sounds like your part of the problem.
I see how Totally DISCUSTING the insides of some of these Trucks are.... It's mostly the Foreigners.... They must like to Sleep on a Big Pile of Rancid Garbage, I don't know... Just imagine what their Homes look like! (If they even have one).... Pee Jugs and Grocery Bags with Toilet Paper and Poo in them... Tied shut and Randomly Discarded around their Living Space... Just like them Truck Cabs.... They just can't let go of that 3rd World Culture!....Nasty!....
Oh, and I wanted to say: These are the SAME ONES that Pull Up and PARK at the FUEL ISLANDS, right next to the Garbage Cans, but don't throw away any Trash... Then they will stay parked there for an Hour and a Half while they go inside and eat, play games, etc... I would have said "Showered" but 99% of them are Foreigners and have NO CLUE what the Hell a Bath or Shower even is!.... Anyhow, then when they eventually do decide to move, they will throw their Poo Filled Grocery Bags, and Pee Jugs out the Window.... They are absolutely DISCUSTING!... They give all of us Driver's a Bad Name, so to speak!.... And don't get me started on their Driving Skills or their ability to Speak English which is needed to Communicate with just about everyone in the Business... Especially Law Enforcement in the Event of an Accident or Emergency!.....
Would do that, normally would get some Fabuloso / water mix at the bottom so it wouldn't stink up the place. Drain out towards the woods or some Oboy, and reuse.
This one rare walmart that had truck parking recently removed it. People are just nasty, and because of them, they ruin it for everyone.
Adult children are everywhere 😅
Believe it or not, it's human nature.
I've been working around trucking for most of my life and some drivers are unbelievable.
I worked at a terminal in Massachusetts, and a long haul driver stopped at the terminal and shoved a months worth of garbage on the ground 10 feet in front of the dumpster.
The foreman filled his car with the dumpster and then put the car on the roof of the shop.
Never did that again
Great idea!!
I have much respect for truckers.
Why on earth does this even need to be said. There’s that old insult question “were you raised in a barn?” Sigh!
We need more people like you on the road!
People raised in a barn can piss anywhere they want.
There was a warehouse in Orlando that became a community drop lot with a bunch of owner op types using the place as their own personal parking yard and even leaving their personal cars there while they were gone on the road. Needless to say, it was recently cleared out and now nobody is allowed to stay there anymore and thats bad because Orlando has almost no truck parking anywhere unless you want to pay or drive a long way. 😢
I used to use a black 2.5 gal Delo oil bottle. I made a gasket out of innertube rubber for the lid. I would dump it in porta pottys or at rest area RV dump sites. When pulling into a shopping center use the truck entrance drive to the docks and see if there is room to park without blocking the docks.
Its mainly black, Hispanic, and other foreign peoples that do this. We have a truck stop down the road, and they stopped them from. Parking for littering
Homedwellers do this.
This driver is who companies want as employees. 😊
Same ones who trash up the coffee area of the stores. Its really not hard to clean up your messes.
Some of those things that you’re describing is true. But, the main reason that Walmart doesn’t allow overnight parking anymore is their insurance carriers have determined that there is a liability risk to the corporation. When the insurance companies order something, then rest assured, it becomes policy.
Walmarts along the interstates are banned from letting trucks stay there due to municipal laws. Its not Walmart that bans it. It is the towns
Most of the time, yes, it is a local ordinance created by old people who don't like any trucks around their neighborhood.
I AM a truck stop cashier who has to do bathrooms and empty garbage as well.
I don't know where to start!!!!!
First off, what customers AND truckers do to the bathrooms alone is nothing short of depravity.
Now let's talk about your pee jugs;
WHY do you NOT empty them on the football sized grass fields we have on both ends of our lot?!?!?!
Urea is a grass FERTILIZER....
WHY do THINK it's okay to just throw your pee jugs IN the trash I must collect each day????
WHY do you let it FERMENT in your trucks before disposal?????
EVERY day I want to HURL when I do the truckers lot trash because SOMEONE not only is throwing human waste in MY garbages, but they didn't bother to tighten the cap. And I get all that fermented smell like a punch to my lungs. It's SO bad. It's right up there with rotten animal corpse. Your GAG reflex comes calling.
I BEG YOU TO STOP DOING IT, "PLEASE"...
I feel for you. Whatever you make, you need a raise.
No pride in country any longer. Foreigners who don't care about our country have influenced a massive chunk of the country and now we hate ourselves just like they hate us.
Get a new job? You gotta do some. Are you mad you have to do your job? Lmao if it really bother you so much get a new job
I'm a new trucker and I already have it in my mind that truck stop cashiers are a big enemy for truckers
@ROllingKING-i7p THIS is what peeves me off MOST about you truckers.
You "feel" peeing in a bottle is okay.
It's NOT "illegal" or anything, DESPITE the law saying otherwise.
I should just bend down to you free coffee wanting truckers???
The station makes TWO CENTS a gallon off truckers.
You fill 100 gallons and want a free shower AND coffee....lol.
Yes, stay OUT of truck stops if you feel my disgust with your lawbreaking is wrong.
Go to Wendy's....Burger King.
Drop your pee jugs THERE since it's illegal and you don't seem to care about that part.....
Just truck stop cashiers are the enemy, huh?
What a human worm.....
Boss, most folks these days can't pour piss out of a pair of workboots without making a mess. You're right, it's people who don't and likely can't care.
We are a single use, non repair, throw away people.
Sadly, you're right but it shouldn't be that way.
Yes sir you're exactly right. I've been out here for years as well and I have learned how to take care of my business and not trash up where I sleep or eat. I bought a camp toilet and keep it under the bunk with extra black trash bags and kitty litter along with wet wipes and tissue. I also keep a gallon size bleach bottle for urine. We're essentially nomads and we have to prepare for emergencies. Thanks for the video.
Driver at 54 years ,of age I can't believe, I have had driver's that wanted to fight about things someone told them on the internet..
Just think of all the free lemonade truckers leave behind though!!! 😅😅😅
I live in tucson you should see the apartment parking lot especially on Saturday and Sunday mornings some low class people dump trash, fast food bags , wrappers, soda cups, and other items in the parking lot. Unfortunately on several occasions it's the newcomers to the United States from developing nations and also some us citizens with no regard for private property, I caught two separate incidents I told them to pick it up they just ignored and drove away.
Based on my own observations over the years, this is a result of cultural "programming" for lack of a better term. People feel like they are "owed" by society (yes, the entitlement mentality) to varying degrees. And they feel oppressed by various authorities, and so the act of throwing out trash is, in their mind, one way to "get back" at society. This isn't aimed at truckers; this is everybody. We see the same thing from RVers parking on public land, and off-roaders. At least that's my take on it.
I worked at a restarea on I-29 back in the early 00s. The crap that the truckers left behind. Bottles of urine aka truckers torpedoes , dumped boxes of used kitty litter, leaking diesel fuel, engine oil patches,, coolant spills , and soybean spills.
Looting is becoming such an issue its only a matter of time that they'll just go directly to the trucks. They don't want the liability so more and more stores are becoming a stop and drop and they are not allowing overnight parking. Sucks when your out of hours and told you have to leave, no more paper log books, now with up to date GPS tracking and real time cameras so if you fart in the wrong direction you're fired. Treated poorly, long hours away from home, crazy deliveries and ever higher expectations with dwindling profits. Large haulers are feeling it, small companies are running on E, owner op have all but given up. Taking pride in your work and quietly keep those wheels turning isn't a glorious thing anymore, high pay kept it afloat for a while but its past its prime. Best of luck out there and stay safe, keep on trucking
Common Sense is Not Too Common and you were either Born with it or you weren’t. Unfortunately Most people were Not given that Gift at Birth. We’ll Pray for them.🤪🙏
Is there some reason you choose to capitalize certain words or are you just illiterate?
That’s why I’m glad my company has a terminal in most states I can park wherever and the place is clean 24/7
It's all really about respecting others, any you sir sadly are a passing breed. The generation behind you have not been taught this. Be safe andThank you.
It is soooo bad now!
A few weeks ago, while getting fuel at a J in CO. I kept smelling shit and thought there was a cattle truck nearby..
Nope. Someone had got on top of the trash can on the fuel island and shit in it!!!
Not 100 ft from the building, and they couldn't walk that far!!
There is no consideration for other drivers or the persons who have clean that mess up!
It's funny you should say that because I had a subscriber email me about 3 weeks ago who had experienced a similar situation. Only someone had gone between his truck and the truck next to him during the night while they were in better sleep and did the same thing but just inches from his door
@truckingenius
Yes. I've seen that. A pile of poop and toilet paper on the ground in the parking lot of some of the pilots/J I've parked at. I usually avoid these places except to get fuel. For example, I usually park at places that used to be truck stops but are out of business now, like the truck terminal on 54 in New Mexico. The buildings and parking lots are still there. It's an extra 50 miles from the big road, but I know I can sleep and avoid the kind of stuff that goes on in these places.
It's just sad and frustrating that this is what has become of our industry. There's no pride anymore.
I had a small platic trash can to put bottles in and empty it in trash can at fuel stop.
Do unto others that you would want others to do unto you
fill up a foreigners sleeper with that trash, pee, and poo.
God bless our truckers and keep them safe 🙏🙏🙏!
Look out for each other 🙏🙏🙏 and I mean all true Americans 🙏🙏🙏
Walmarts where you know you can park.
You see 6 trucks or more parked in the lot all the time.
Perry Georgia
Conyers Georgia
Augusta Georgia
Yes sir that’s what I do. I got a couple urinals off Amazon and what I do with mine I empty them in the grass or down the storm drain and I put a little bit of mouthwash inside the urinal keeps it fresh and keeps the germs down I do have a puppy that rides with me so I will throw a dirty puppy pad in a trash bag outside my door in the middle of the night but I make sure when I get up I pick everything up with Rubber gloves and throw it in the can where belongs. good deal, sir. I appreciate it passing on some good knowledge to the young ones. and some old ones.
I live in a fairly new community in North Texas. The new Wal-Mart was built and it is designed to keep truckers out. There is no way to even park in the parking lot. The back of the store has a loading dock and a road not connected to the parking lot for Wal-Mart truck deliveries. There is two truck stops nearby so truckers have to walk across a busy street to shop there.
There are more and more people that are perfectly comfortable with inconveniencing others.
Great video,,,!!! Thank you.
Don't park to a rig from Miami. I seen thugs crap in bags and toss it out the driver door. Make trucking normal again.
To scrub the inside of a bottle - not necessarily for this reason - you can put a little coffee grounds in there with enough water to put some weight behind the coffee and give it a good shake and the coffee will scrub it clean.
A dot of soap will sanitize it then, bleach would be kinda overkill once all the material has been removed.
Your rite it's ridiculous
It's because the asphalt in their parking lots is not designed for 80,000 lb. It's designed for short-term car parking.
Since when and what's the design difference?
Thats Bs 😮 The pavement has nothing to do with it. It's the trash and biohazard that people leave behind.
We are Rvers and Walmarts are not letting people stay overnight in Rvs anymore because of the same thing. And camping out for multiple days instead of just overnight.
That's the gross weight, If empty the weight 32 thousand pounds give or take.
@@ImnotgoingSideways I used to deliver candy loads to Walmart's. And that's what one of the managers told me that's why they don't want trucks in their lot
@@Tatonka-MAH and your average car is between 3-4000
Being conscientious is a skill that not many people have or even bother developing. It's sad because it's not even hard to do.
Hydrogen peroxide works as a cleaner also. You can store it until you get to an area with a public toilet or urinal and dispose of it as well. Your advice is sound and sensible, something that is rare today.
Interesting to hear your perspective on human nature. Glad you brought it up. I think people who litter are aware of what they are doing, they just don't care. What is lacking is having respect for other people and their property . It sure would be nice if they could learn to do that.
I’ve been trucking for 50 years and I blame all the trash and sanitation problems on the way the ELD is set up with the clock not stopping only f you take a sleeper break if 7 hours or more.
I could remember stopping at a diner and letting either the morning or evening rush do it’s thing and going off duty to enjoy a nice sit down meal and when the rush was over go back on duty and not lose any hours.
Why don’t you just go to off duty, that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever
@@lylesommers5018 because even if you go off duty for say an hour your 14 hour clock keeps moving unless you take 7 hours or more
@@Retired88Myou can also just take a 2 hour break and then follow up with the 8+ hour one later. I agree the eld makes things harder sometimes, but it's really only enforcing those pesky hours of service rules. Change the hos rules and then the eld wouldn't matter.
@@chris76-01 but I don’t know about you but it never takes me 2 hours to have a meal when I’m trucking by myself. Now maybe some truck maintenance or a repair would but I always try to get back to the home 20 . And since I’m a part time driver now I usually pack a lunch and only take the mandatory 30 minutes and that happens more often than not when I’m loading or unloading.
There storm/sewer drains almost everywhere - at truck stops, rest areas even parking lots to dispose of urine. Since urine is full of nitrogen it is good for grass, trees and bushes but ONLY if it doesn’t get overwhelmed. Toilets work too to dump bottles.
YOU HAVE TO EXPLAINE IT. BECAUSE THEY DONT KNOW OR DONT CARE. Bleach or Ammonia. OR AND OLD LAUNDRY BOTTLE. NOT GATERAID BOTTLE. WIDE MOUTH. A WIDE MOUTH SO YOU DONT SPILL. ( WE SAID THE GRASS BECAUSE WHEN YOU JUST POUR IT OUT ON THE GROUND IT STINKS WHENIT GETS HOT. BUT RAIN WASHES EVERTHING.
It's called 'etiquette'.
I have like a mini tank with a hose and cap. It holds about a gallon. Its opaque, easy to clean and sanitize, designed for road trips or camping.
He's right... Because today in society we're dealing with a group of people who feel entitled to other people's property.
What a weird coincidence! I just had this conversation with my CDL students last week!
i noticed that over the years there is
more diapers and human waste in plastic bags that really started showing up about 20 years here in the states and even in Canada and some if the places i use to park at night now have chain link fences up
You are so correct sir. These drivers throw their trash out the door with a trash can at the end of their trailer.
Totally agree with you. I’m a retired truck driver and NEVER threw trash out in the parking lot. In fact a lot of the time I would pickup trash and put carts back that other people left. I’m heading toward the store, so why not take trash and carts with me. I’ve also seen truck stops that have so much trash that you can’t even walk behind the truck when parked. Did the same thing that you are doing with urine. And some drivers can’t understand why they won’t let you park.
Seriously? Walking through the parking lot of ANY Walmart is like visiting a trash heap in a third world country and it ain’t the truckers who are doing it either.
With the exception of a few. You find that it's truck drivers that will actually keep the lots clean. Just one of our ways of saying thanks.
I see all manner of people getting lazier, whether it’s trash, or taking carts to the cart corrals, whatever…
Yes, the regular car people can be just as bad with trash but nobody bans car parking 😊
I started driving at night 20 years ago. I keep a trash can with a garbage bag in the floor board of my passenger seat. I empty it once at a Loves truck stop(trash cans at every fuel island) and again when I come in after 5 nights out at my companies yard.
I understand because nobody wants to pick up other people’s piss. I’m not throwing no stones but it’s mostly foreign drivers. It’s not their country and they don’t care.
EXACTLY 💯 PERCENT, I've seen it just roll the window down and throw it out, parking lot fuel island it doesn't matter.
I think you are being kind by saying "unaware", it's more like "they don't care". It's all about convenience with people these days and no one wants to make an effort to do much of anything. Your generation, my generation DO CARE and will go the few extra steps to dispose of things properly. I too am sorry you had to make a video about this. It all boils down to courtesy and common sense. Which unfortunately, in America today, has been pretty much tossed aside. Thank you for all you do and be safe out there! ❤
My comment is why do I have to press “read more “ on a lot of posts,when some are longer and don’t have that and the read more part is usually only a few words longer. 😉. me, knit picking.
mister my god, its gen xyz, people from many countries that lived that way all their life.
So much common sense, i only do local distribution but at times i need to use a bathroom, but i rather ask the customer if i can borrow their facilities.
😂 so many drivers need to be potty trained 🤣
Less aware. Lol Very very very politely said.
Coolant jugs work surprisingly well.
That's what always happens man, a few bad apples ruin it for everyone.
I use detergent jugs and pour in the grass. Also.
The problem is most people are selfish and don’t think of others. I’ve always tried to treat people the way I want to be treated. Sad part is it’s very rare to find people with the same mindset