Living in a truck 24/7 makes it hard to take care of your appearance. I notice when OTR drivers become local they start looking cleaner and maintained.

@aaronshandc

Жыл бұрын

No excuse. Your still a man made in God's image.

@AmericanTrucker89

8 ай бұрын

Stop buying donuts 🍩 every truck stop eat fruits walk around do some jumping Jack's on your down time not hard Buddyy don't eat a whole pie pizza and sleep on it 😂

@bjorn3923

7 ай бұрын

Still keeping the truck clean is basic, easy, not hard to at least do your beat to keep clean not make a mess in the cab, etc.

@flogrown2857

6 ай бұрын

That goes both ways actually. Sometimes they work so much and the commute makes it upwards of 100+ hours a week. I've gone local and otr my whole life. Def had local jobs where I'd fall asleep in my uniform and wake up where I had to question being on time or take a shower

@brutuscarpathia9638

Ай бұрын

Mmmm definitely don’t agree with this

I agree with him with everything he says. I just got my permit yesterday and one thing I'm so worried about is the unsanitary conditions because I literally have OCD when it comes to being clean

@14isoldenough

Жыл бұрын

I dont want to recommend using meth but maybe use meth. It makes cleaning fun and it helps you stay up real late.

@abes3925

Жыл бұрын

@@14isoldenough yeah a lot of them truckers be wired on meth

@sasquatchrosefarts

Жыл бұрын

​@@14isoldenoughit rots your brain and makes you stupid.

Love the video!! Im so proud that you are my friend and my son n law!

Thank you for the content and the story I know now that when I’m getting paired with a trainer I’m going to be very specific about what I can and can’t tolerate and also that I don’t want to be sitting around waiting for my trainer because he wants to be home all the time. That hygiene situation is my worst nightmare. This really tells me I have to be very diplomatic about my expectations for a trainer.

Wonderfully truthful video. As an employee, you are an ambassador for your industry. I’ve spent 30 years in a white collar world, interviewing hundreds of applicants and you tell much about a person by their presentation and presence. This is not to say you have to spend thousands on a wardrobe. Clean and presentable. I just passed my Class A skills test and considering exercising my newly gained license.

Much better audio here, and yeah that story was awful but amusing at the same time. Thanks for sharing Mike!

@TheLivingFreedChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Lol yea, we had to fix that!

Wow, that's brutal 😂 love the story

Awesome video! I appreciate this and you need to take pride in yourself and your job ❤🎉

Great video Tyler! I continue to have renewed hope for our nation by watching men like you to lead. Roll safe and see you on the next one.

@TheLivingFreedChannel

2 жыл бұрын

That really means a lot, thank you so much!!!

@sasquatchrosefarts

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheLivingFreedChannelI'm dieing laughing about shaking a urine bottle out of the truck. 😂😂😂😂 That's awful. It sounds like a sitcom. I get having a pee bottle, but don't be stupid about it.

@sasquatchrosefarts

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheLivingFreedChannelactually, I think he made that up....... I watched the video and this guy has a disorder. If someone shook pee on other drivers the company would get every driver on the road calling to complain. Including highway patrol, and dot. No way that happened. I don't believe it. I bet they got in a fight about bad eating and dirty clothes and this guy started lieing so he didn't look bad in the company. Maybe the guy was gonna piss himself and peed behind the truck instead of a bathroom, and this guy started judging and it snowballed. This guy huffed too much bathroom cleaner.

Your trainee nailed it!

Looking forward to the option video 👍

The shaking the pissbottle out the window thing was actually pretty funny 🤣🤣🤣

Dudes in the wrong business

You guys are two cool dudes!

I hope that trainer got fired.

I'm starting my first trucking gig in a few days and I really hope my trainer isn't going to ruin it for me. I'm not afraid to demand a new one but I really hope it goes smooth the first time and I don't have too.

@ChiefofPropaganda

Жыл бұрын

How’s it going ?

Great video guys. Tyler it's good to see you have a student who has common sense and intelligence. Unfortunately that's a rare combination these days. I'm sure you guys will remain friends after you part ways. You are both going to make a lot of money in trucking.

youre like me mike. im older too and i plan on looking professional. good thing about being older is people will assume we are veteren truckers once we are on our own.

Saw a trucker in okmulgee OK hanging out the drivers window swerving both lanes trying to pour out what looked like a milk jug of pee. He almost ran me off the road in the dark. On another note my 20 year old son completed cdl school with central tech in Oklahoma and is now solo otr trucking. (He just turned 21) He is loving it!

I hope I get someone like you to train me in my next company

OMFG thats Crazy

I had a trainer like the first guy. He died of a heart attack 4 days into training, which was ironic cause he kept telling me we dont have time to stop to pee, and i need to use a cup or bottle. He couldnt spend money when he was dead.

@princeamg

6 ай бұрын

U serious 😂

I have so many new clothes i never get a chance to wear because i work at a warehouse all dusty also hopefully i be getting into trucking 🚚 soon and i can wear them all im all about hygiene

Oh wow, this is a horror story. Glad he's got off that truck.

I’m so worried, I’m going to be working with a trainer next week.

@ivansalgado35

5 ай бұрын

How’s it been so far? I was lucky enough to go with a local trainer.

how can I get trained my you, I already have my CDL but I only have 2 months experience.

It's a sad state of affairs when a grown man can't keep a haircut and shaven face, and don't get me started on the flip flops. Cmon men. Clean up!

Hell, I use a hospital per bottle, saves time. But, I don’t pour it out on the driveway or if anyone is nearby. It saves a boat load of time. But, I was a claims adjuster in the insurance industry for 20 years. You can’t expect to change anything about trucking.

I just got my cdl permit and Im on the road now with a trainer, there is some good and some bad! Let’s start with the good! He’s nice, friendly, and he has a lot of knowledge about the trucking world! And organized with the business aspect! He’s been a trucker for 13 years now! So far that’s all I have to say about the good! Now the bad! My birthday driving I had to stop because I had a bad headache, He had me sleep in the top bunk while driving! he’s very dirty! He doesn’t keep the truck clean, its very dusty, it’s cluttered, his bedding has not been washed in a long time! The sheets has a pee and Pooh Smell, he doesn’t wash his clothes he just takes a shower and put them back on! And I smell that! We’ve only ran through the pre-trip twice and my test is next week! So we are done for the day and I wanted to practice the test! And he got in bed and as I’m talking he’s told me he couldn’t hear me, I guess you can’t in the bunk?!😅 I’m just afraid now that it couldn’t potentially hurt me from passing! I would feel really upset. I don’t know what do please help

I respect the message here. My channel is dedicated to showing drivers it’s possible to stay fit on the road. We desperately need to clean up our image. If you want to be a pro act like one.

I used to be a trucker for about 6 months, I had an automated manual paccar 12 speed, it was a kenny t680, and I pulled a spread axle 53' trailer behind me. I will say with the utmost critical view on myself as a (former) trucker, I will say that I do use pee bottles, but ONLY for emergencies. And that I make sure to smuggle said pee bottles in to the bathroom so I can later drain them out and throw them away afterward. It disgusts me to see pee bottles tossed out and not even emptied out before hand, I used to be a janitor for walmart too and had I worked for any petro, pilot, ta or loves, and if I had to deal with piss bottles, I would've quit if I'm being honest. Or I'd ask my boss for a raise or "hazard pay" lol. Seriously though, even though I'm guilty of using a bottle to whiz in at all, I only do it for emergencies if I had too much coffee or if it's cold out, but even I will go through the effort to drain any whiz bottle after each use down the toilet before tossing it. That way no worker gets inadvertently R Kelly'd. Nobody wants pee on them, so lets agree to be civilized y'know? That aside, I hope I don't get judged if at all pardoned for this post. And also, I love this video and I want this to be an example of what truckers are supposed to be: Clean, professional, and curteous.

You think that's bad . My trainer had such a bad Temper everytime he was pissed at me he would wait until I was headed to the sleeper he would slam on the brakes. So in the first week I was thrown on the floor so the whole time my shoulder was hurting. I asked him why he stopped he said someone cut him off but when I looked there wasn't anyone within 30 yards. The second time that I know was on purpose he slammed the truck around when we were leaving a truck stop in the parking lot still. I was with him for 3 weeks and he never took a shower. Western Express ignored my request for a new trainer so I come to believe Western Express doesn't care about their employees. Another thing is the trainers in Western Express get paid for all the miles the trainee drives and their miles. So they only train to make more money with no incentive for actually training anyone.

mike you look like youre going to play round of golf later lol.

There's no passion in the trucking industry anymore unfortunately. Hell I work a local job and we promise drivers 55+ hours a week all hourly which isn't true with the routes open so management tells them to milk it out. Don't work just sit around and get paid. Then when we have call offs we have no one to cover long routes bc we've told short routes just get paid to do nothing. Got 2 drivers who have 4-6 hour routes and they make it 9-10 hours and we can't ask them to do anything else bc they where told that's their job so why would they actually work 9-10 hour routes if they don't have too?

Yes indeed,even working at wal mart, people will throw all kinds of trash,and not at all walmarts, but the one I work at,people will throw diapers,cans,crab legs, restaurant bags, and all kinds of just on the ground and some instead of throwing In the trash they throw it on top of the trash can smh and leave tissue on the bathroom floor smh and I'm talking bout the customers,But yea I know how it is to to see uncleanness

@TheLivingFreedChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Yep it’s sad

wow

Omg that terrible i have to say he has more paitence than i would with that hygiene thing .The first rest stop would have been calling a uber to the bus terminal to go back home

@TheLivingFreedChannel

2 жыл бұрын

lol I’m with you on that one!

@Mr.Bathelus832

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLivingFreedChannel 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

Few years ago was working at a frozen food production company. We had one driver come into the office and the front office lady had to call his company at 3am to cancel a load because it was not good. His sweat pants looked like they could stand on their own. Had chili stains n his hair looked like he has never washed it in weeks. Could smell the oder threw the closed window. He would never touch the freight but the image was not something to be desired. So they shut down the production line two hours early due to space and canceled his load. Have to be clean. Your basically living in a 76 inch box for 23 hours a day. With every commercial company fuels at pilot or loves which gives shower credits. Basically like what your trainiee said good hygiene = better productivity n most importantly your health.

Talking about cleanliness I watch some another channel and they are a Nice couple but they have 2 Big Pitbulls that travel with them full time!! I don't think that Cab could smell that good.

Dont apologize, those that are offended are the offenders...and yes...sell options...just found your channel this afternoon Thnaks

The kind of person who does stuff like this isn't going to change unless there are consequences to them. I get frustrated with why it is taboo to say the name of the person you are referring to. If you let him just keep going along like nothing happened then he will keep going along like nothing happened. If you want trucking cleaned up, then you need to be willing be part of the process of getting scumbags fired.

LoL. Man isn't supposed to live in a truck. Nearly a trillion dollar industry and they can't put you guys in a hotel room? I was a cargo pilot and never slept in the back of the aircraft. You guys need a union.

This old dude sounds like he shouldn't of got into to trucking ..we are men , we don't keep up with our appearances all the time.😂😂

@j-stilt9746

5 ай бұрын

I agree

@joshj7012

2 ай бұрын

Being a man doesn’t mean you need to look like a Viking and live in a pigsty. That’s just an excuse for crap hygiene

😂🤣😂🤣 Shakng the urine bottle out of the window🚛🪟 🪣💦🚙😳😱🤦

Lmfao 🎉😂

What a despicable and deplorable example of a "trainer." These are the kinds of people and practices that we regular drivers abhor. Sure doesn't present a good Industry example.

Oh wow that's awful

I have seen it all and if you are going to do this work just know these folks being filthy will never change believe that Sir .Ans some advice for shipping and receiving. You will deal with shippers who are rude regardless of your attitude your smile will sometimes cause them to be rude to you .These folks have been working at this job they are doing for years and they are miserable trust me when I say some of them don't care about professional attitude. Be prepared to just mind your job or you will get angry I have been a flat bed guy for 2 and half years OTR .And I have seen it all and I have had enough of these so called professional drivers and shipping and receiving With that said there are really wonderful folks that are professional but very few . Mentally I deal with most of them with just get me loaded and we are not friends and I just want to get strapped boomed ects . This industry will challenge you.

That is a really horrible story about the previous trainer, and if that is a negative situation for you than I am glad you were able to get out of that situation . It is interesting to see that as somebody entering Trucking you are hoping to be able to stay clean. Oh on the road and always use a bathroom. I am noticing that you are someplace southwest , and wondering if you have ever done very much Trucking in the northeast . I live in Buffalo New York, area and have spent my entire 21 year career of driving trucks in the northeast. Mostly New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire. Maryland. And occasionally go to Chicago and back to New York again. A typical day for me is to go to New Jersey where it is not uncommon to spend 12 hours in a shippers parking lot trying to get unloaded , ( or sometimes asked to deliver 24 hours later ) due to “shortage of employees to unload my truck “ . Many of the places I go to in Jersey don’t allow truck drivers to use their bathrooms while they are waiting in the parking lot., and in fact, one of the places I go to which is a warehouse that ships things overseas ( either by container ship in the Elizabeth Seaport , or or a cargo plane on the opposite side of the Jersey turnpike from the Elizabeth international airport . And since Covid these places won’t even allow truck drivers to hand them a paper bill of laden. But instead your office has to email them a copy of the bill of lading and they are so busy that by time you get through the line to the receiving desk they have received so many emails that they can no longer find your email. And so you have to have somebody send it again while you’re standing directly in front of the person. All of this makes the waiting take so much longer than what maybe you are used to. And then once you are finally unloaded, and your Dispatcher has sent you backhaul information form a a nearby city , it is now 3:00in the afternoon , which around here, makes you sit in the traffic for hours until 5 o’clock in the afternoon traffic also begins. afternoon traffic doesn’t end until around 11 o’clock at night around here . And your backhaul that should’ve been 45 minutes away now becomes two hours away in gridlock traffic, and because it is a New Jersey, you don’t pass any place along the way, such as a rest area, or service plaza, or a truckstop to pull into . When you finally do make it to the shipper to pick up your back hall it is another place that does not allow truck drivers to use their bathrooms. You could sit in their parking lot for another two or three hours to get your back hall on. At which time you leave their warehouse (hopefully after 11 o’clock. ) and try to find someplace to park your truck on your way back home but around here all parking spots fill up by 3:00 or 5:00 , and I often have to drive through Pennsylvania on the way home to try to find someplace to go to the bathroom there in hopes of being able to park on the diesel island long enough to do so . And then continuing on my way, because there is no place to park and finding someplace on a shoulder to eventually park. It is not uncommon for me on a daily basis to have to hold my “ sit down bathroom “ for 12 hours or more from the time when I noticed I really have to go . Which is something my wife who is formerly and nursing tells me it’s not healthy for me. The older I get the harder I find it for me to be able to hold it that long and I have discovered a wonderful thing called a 5 gallon bathroom bucket which I know Carie with me and my truck has a lot of truck drivers in the north east have develop their own clever ways of relieving themselves along the trip, and in case they are stuck in traffic for several hours .

@gbellsvids

Жыл бұрын

I guess you could probably say that around here. It has been my experience that most employers are assuming that you’re not going to end your day at a truckstop, and that you have equipped your truck in a way that you will be able to perform your job throughout the week without the need to stop at a truckstop other than to get fuel and then continue on your way after fueling

I thought the dude behind the wheel Is the trainee lol. Looks like father and son. Great story thanks.

What does this guy have against fat people ? Yes I completely understand you are representing your company out there and you have to uphold an a certain image and for god sake clean up after yourself. This guy doing most of the explaining about his experience is almost grouping all obese, big, fat whatever you want to call in the same group of being lazy. I 'm a big guy and I work hard everyday and clean up after myself at work or at home. I just feel like he is singling out all obese people.

screw the bankers

His trainer was gross for sure, but I wouldn't train this dude

@markpolice3585

11 ай бұрын

Me either. He thinks he's better than everybody cause he tucks his shirt in.