Bathroom break's Etc....... While riding with a trainer ???

@otterinthewater knows a lil bit about this lol

There is also this
Werner Trainer Craps Himself

Just doing a copy and paste of that makes me love my daycab even more lol.

 

Well he has to allow you to relieve yourself cause holding it in is a health issue. But try not to abuse the situation. It’s also a good idea to use the rest room every time the truck is stopped at a rest stop or truck stop even if you don’t have the need to go yet. It helps won’t need to use the rest room until abit later than you would have. But if it’s night and you’re in the middle of nowhere and the trainer is driving and can’t find a anywhere safe to stop for awhile (Colorado mountains is one I can think of) then a pee bottle will have to do but please don’t get used to doing this and be like a lot of the other slob drivers dropping piss bottles everywhere.

 

Curious as to what it is like during training ?

IF you have a trainer that is anything like me, Im riding in the right seat with spouse driving. SHE has to learn by doing, same as a USMC does with drill. Over and over. ME in the right seat holding schoolhouse in that truck. I try to learn her limits and then teach her to endure and overcome them.

Sooner or later she and I have formed a reefer team. At that point we shift to high intensity operations based on what her strengths are and working drill on her weakness. Once in a while we hit a wall with her, for example wide open spaces of Nevada. One big rockpile to her 300 miles of NOTHING. That hurt her mentally. What a Country we live in. So that's where i come in.

Living in a space smaller than your bathroom for weeks will force two people to become closer than brothers. OR fail very badly.

How hard is it to just pull in a rest stop for a quick break every few hours ?

Breaks break up your daily miles against your appointment to the hour and minute in the near future. That truck keeps rolling.

What about # 2 when you are stuck in traffic or stranded , or staying the night at the receiver / shipper ?

Human toilet system from camping store situation. Toilet is a big human formed can with bags of human waste material that will capture the solid and liquid waste and process it to where you can bury it outside with shovel and go.

This goes into the sleeper and is to be protected until you have no alternative or recourse.

What about waking up in the middle of the night at a truck stop ? Will I have my own key to get in and out as to not wake the trainer.

Don;t worry that airride system will shake the trainer awake. As soon you start moving, a good trainer will come up to light sleep and monitor you through the airride and if you are working on getting out he is going to the same. Because he does not know what you are up to.

Sometimes a truckstop is a high threat area. You don't get out until morning or some other problem.

Sometimes weather problems like winter winds get to -55 locally and for you that means you are in need of hospital support within 20 minutes if not dead if you are not wearing appropriate clothing. You will see drivers from the south in the north wearing jeans and tee shirt. It's stupid.

You will learn 7 days clothes of one kind. So they go into one laundry load at all the same time. One cold weather outfit and one hot weather outfit. Nothing else. Bedding will be rather extreme. You buy a large rectangular sleeping bag rated to -25 or better. You sleep on top of this below your mattress which is only 3 inches thick. You learn to nest with woven blankets of a particular kind sold in truckstops and other places int he west particularly.

You learn to understand the United States weather situation coast to coast all the time. I can tell you right now it's raining badly in Florida but not too bad. Pop up storms in the NE additional storms from MN through Kansas City, we expect flood warnings NW arkansas and so on and on and on around the USA.

You learn. And continue to learn. Even today I learn. There is no room for ego bs in trucking. You will be out on your ### in a hurry. Sure there is fun to be found. Thats part of living.

You will learn how to buy food, water in partiucular and other needful things and just enough and no more than that. You will learn the American SOuthwest is hot enough to keep your cab at 80 in AC full blast. Drink hearty. Hydrate. And eat a minimum of 1000 calories every 24/7 to maintain your body's minimum processes. Never over eat. You get fat and sleepy unable to drive.

Thats the other problem. Training you are not expected to get up and drive. That stamina will come to you.

Some days you sleep in the sunshine. Other days you sleep in the night time like normal people and other days in the same workweek you sleep everything in between. You LEARN to SLEEP lightly at any time at any moment where possible. You CANNOT know that you are waiting 30 hours for a walmart dock in Denver DC. There you sit. Wait wait and wait.

You will learn to wait.

You will learn to physically move 45000 pounds in say cases of soda cans off pallets in a grocery asap as in a few hours. Then drive 500 miles getting a new load at the same time. Your body is going to hurt the first few times. Shake it off.

The soft side.

Trucks have gotten push button. Push, set D for drive and press fuel off you go.

When you get into the mountains, winter and all of that... your trainer will go to work. Listen to him and learn fast. Do not argue the problem of a 10% downgrade. It is nothing that can be argued. It is there. There you are on the way down. Do what you trainer tells you to and shut up. Do your talking after the mountain is over. You learn.

And the driving?

You are always 10 seconds from losing it all, killing a family or falling off a mountain 3000 feet or some other stupid darwin crap at any time those wheels are rolling. It is UP to you to see the problems AHEAD OF TIME examine them and then MAKE SURE that never gets to be a problem.

Maybe a little puff of wind hits you on a nice big strong bridge. Over you go. It's death down in the sea. And one bridge system has you 30 miles at the ocean. If it's stormy and you are at 40 ton the rollers sometimes reach the pavement below you.

A percentage of us must die or get injured badly far from home. Or jailed. Or whatever. Not everyone is going to make retirement in trucking oh no. You sure picked a hell of a thing to make a dollar for yourself. Ive been killed a number of times. I believe very strongly that whatever I don't see coming will be what gets me next time.

You sure you like that there trucking training? It's going to be AWESOME. You will learn what and how America runs on all the things we eat, buy, use and whatever from your truck. We cannot exist without you and your truck.

Just remember to leave a line in your emergency contact to nail your time card unpunched to the ceiling above the time clock at your company should you pass on. You will need that money to live in Heaven's trucking waiting for Dispatchers to get up there to get you moving. //teasing.

One final thing.

If you are a idealist or any kind of person with preconcieved ideas about truckers. Toss it. You will meet good people, bad people and people who make you wonder what in hell created this one? Or these? (PLural as in many) A percentage are not americans as you are. SO you have to make accomodation.

Driving a truck is easy. It's the last way you can make any thing at work without excessive requirements that kill today's hiring anywhere else. THAT too and YOU will be replaced by Robot trucks in your life time.

IF you are ever in Chiraq, Chicago. You do not stop for nothing. You will have already been robbed if you do.

 

Use the vent window so as not to waste time stopping.

 

,,,huh, what, sorry, dozed off, I see you have a lot of concerns, I believe you are over-thinking this, you're aren't training to be an astronaut. Yes, it's intimidating, but seat time takes care of that. Far as the physical, just like a cop, keep your big mouth shut, and gotta go? You won't make any money stopping every hour, probably limit the coffee, pee bottles are disgusting, don't add to that, you'll see, a lot of pigs out there. You sure you want to do this???

 

I have a dumb question ... you have a little yellow plane in your avatar, so I am assuming you fly.

So what do you do when you are flying?

stop at a mcdonalds in the sky?

 

Don’t over think it. If you need to stop, stop. If trainer protests tell him to go fly a kite.