Do any of you wear masks due to fumes?

Wrapping feet in bags sounds a bit obsessive-compulsive.

I was walking across the parking lot at Little America, WY and was almost gagging from the idling trucks but I'm not about to wear a mask.

 

No

 

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I generally suit up about like this any time I step out of cab, not just on the fuel island..

 

I am a walking fuel fumes.

If I don't get a snootful of fuel early in the morning I just cannot get motivated. That plus smoke and coffee equals a thousand miles today. Let me get the lava powder and wash off my fueled hands a minute before food. If I have time.

High sulfur too. Its a wonder I thrived on that stuff. HA....

 

Here's what I can tell you, don't get anything on your skin. That's how it could enter your skin. Yes, you might think your skin keeps things out but somethings can get in. Now the only thing that'll protect you from all the stuff coming off diesel fumes is an scba. And I'm not sure you want to do that.

They have a phrase, the best solution to pollution is dilution. That means keeping things off your face. Those little paint masks, even the ones with cartridges will only trap them inside your mask. We had a guy killed a few years ago on top of the tanks because he didn't like the vapors coming off the tank and he's wore one of those painting masks. They found him slumped over on the tank

 

Here’s the deal. Driving a truck is dangerous to the health. It’s probably the most dangerous and unhealthy job one can do. After the road hazards, garbage fast food, lack of exercise, and poor hygiene, and pubic crappers that the guy before you just pee’d all over, a few carcinogenic fumes aren’t going to mater. And watch out for the DOT man that wants your money to help fund his retirement, and the money chasing lawyers if you mess up.

If you want safe and healthy, driving a truck might not be the best move.

 

Oh for the diesel fumes. Wear thick rubber gloves and avoid inhaling the fumes directly while fueling. If diesel exhaust bothers you, park away from other trucks as much as possible.

 

No, I love the smell of diesel fuel, asphalt too. I think I'd laugh at someone wearing a mask fueling up. While diesel fumes may cause cancer, so does too much Mountain Dew, and besides, diesel smoke smells like money to me.

 

Most trucks are the new emissions trucks. So they are clean exhaust. The exhaust coming out of a new truck is cleaner the the air you breath in California. We can't live in a bubble, wearing bags to fuel sounds like a OCD

The new emissions truck are so clean you can just about breath the air coming out. It is cleaner then the air in southern California.