Never Leave Home Without It

[Road Dust]

I remember when I was finishing up cdl school and trying to imagine what to take on the truck with me, having such limited storage.. I read a lot of posts on trucking boards and tried to apply them to what I thought would work for me. So now, I thought I would start this thread on behalf of new drivers everywhere

What five things would you never leave home without?

My five would be:
1. Map/atlas
2. pens (definitely more than one)
3. clothes/hygiene (of course)
4. tire guage
5. flashlight

(wanted to throw in gloves and a good book but limited to 5, lol)

 

[Racer X 69]

1. Keurig machine
2. Inverter for Keurig machine
3. Boxes of K-cups for Keurig machine
4. Jugs of water or Keurig machine
5. Coffee mug for use with Keurig machine

The Keurig thing is nice, the concept of one cup at a time is fantastic. But have you ever figured out how much it costs per cup using the prepackaged K-cups?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Id rather have Cheap Foldgers than keurig coffee. They always have a hint of plastic to them.

I agree. But the Keurig thing also comes with a reusable K-cup, so you can use the coffee of your choice.

A French press would be a better investment.

The best coffee I have ever had was from a French press. And it didn't seem to matter what brand, or type of coffee was used. Something about the process that simply makes a very good cup of coffee.

In fact, when the wife and I were crunching numbers we realized I would be spending so much less on coffee that we included that savings in our budget. Kinda like gettin a couple more pennies per mile... Per say

Gotta like that.

As for the water, i get it straight from a spring. Tastes much better than most of the swimming pool water everyone else in the free world uses.

And, if Micabay is drinking similar water to what I get out of the ground at my dad's house in Oregon, he's right. Much better than chlorinated tap water or flavorless bottled water.

I feel the same way. The well at my house is a 20 foot dug well that taps into an artesian spring. Excellent water. Best I have ever had.

And I never drink tap water anywhere except at home.

 

[Duck]

The well at my house is a 20 foot dug well that taps into an artesian spring. Excellent water. Best I have ever had.

And I never drink tap water anywhere except at home.

In the neighborhood where I grew up, only about 35 miles from here, it's the same nasty ground water, but the neighborhood has community wells and several pumping stations and the guy who was in charge of the water all that time was able to treat it perfectly.

When we first moved out here, the water was so nasty that I was going back to the old neighborhood with a whole pickup-load of 5 gallon jugs and re-filling them from the spigot at my friend's house. Mrs. Duck's parents still live in that neighborhood and I'd like to keep doing that, since the houses in that neighborhood have a fixed water bill, no meters. But she whines too much if we take the pickups and I hate pulling a trailer with my car.

(Fixed water bill = the cost of operating the wells and pumping stations for a month, divided by 180 houses. Averages around $30.)

 

[MustangLX]

Cash is always nice.

 

[Racer X 69]

I don't drink Folgers coffee because it doesn't seem like it even has any caffeine. It's not a bad tasting coffee though.

Folgers. 100% Columbian. (That jungle you mentioned in the other thread) You know, the stuff your parents drink.

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And then there are these:

Maxwell House. It is better than Folgers and that's about it.

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Stumptown Coffee Roasters. The Chicken knows best!

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Dunkin' Donuts: How does America run on something that you can't find on the west coast?

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Starbucks: OK, if you have milk and syrup

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And what the Hell does a Mermaid have to do with coffee anyway?
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[Duck]

I just tried using the re-usable k-cup thingy.

I filled the little mesh basket to the top, and made a glass of coffee.

It was translucent brown, like tea. It tasted like water.

WT f'ing F??

Examination of the mesh basket shows the water out of the machine was injected too fast, and it made a tunnel down through the grounds, so the water was making it right past the grounds without going through them.

I dumped that watered-down crap out in the sink and used a real k-cup and made a decent cup of coffee. It was black, .. until I put creamer in it.

 

[midwestbound]

I have to go with the Maxwell House coffee. Now I do use Taster's Choice Instant on occasions and that is about the best instant coffee there is.

 

[Cerberus]

Dunkin donuts coffee is just awesome. Only coffee that gives me the maxed out caffeine jitters. Starbucks, i just dont care for a place that to get a small coffee you have to mortgage the house.


Best coffee at a gas station is gate coffee. Their butter pecan coffee with this certain creamer is to kill for. Thats right, kill for, if i walked in and somebody had the last cup of butter pecan, well lets just say they HAD the last cup of butter pecan coffee cause now i got it. LOL

 

[HoneyBadger]

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"And what the Hell does a Mermaid have to do with coffee anyway?

She's not a Mermaid, she's a siren, those two things that come up beside her head are her two tails. Sirens seduced mariners
into following them into rough water, then killed them. Starbucks coffee is very seductive, and might just kill you if you have too many of those Grande lattés.
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[Duck]

Best coffee at a gas station is gate coffee. Their butter pecan coffee with this certain creamer is to kill for. Thats right, kill for, if i walked in and somebody had the last cup of butter pecan, well lets just say they HAD the last cup of butter pecan coffee cause now i got it. LOL

Flavored coffee is for women.

 

[Road Dust]

If it wakes me up, it's good coffee.

 

[Injun]

Flavored coffee is for women.

Not this woman. I can't stand what I call "froo-froo" coffee. It's just nasty and I don't care what brand of coffee you start with or what flavor you add to it. I do not adulterate my coffee in any way. No sugar, no creamer, no nothing. And for the record, the absolute best coffee I have ever had is the stuff my ol man brews from the Maxwell House container.

 

[Duck]

I put creamer in my coffee, but nothing else.

Unless it's Bailey's. Real Bailey's, not the "new & improved alcohol-free coffee creamer" they advertise. But I can only do that at home.

 

[Cerberus]

Flavored coffee is for women.

If thats so, then i'm secure enough with my manhood to get in touch with my femine side to enjoy a good cup of coffee.

 

[Injun]

Flavored coffee is for women.

Not this woman.

If thats so, then i'm secure enough with my manhood to get in touch with my femine side to enjoy a good cup of coffee.

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[blackw900]

When did you start carrying that photo of Tim around?

 

[Cerberus]

Is there an option to like a post more than once?

 

[Micabay]

StumpTown out of Portland... Now there is a good life choice!

 

[Tim]

When did you start carrying that photo of Tim around?

When she heard of my nightly donkey shows in Boys Town!
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[Micabay]

If thats so, then i'm secure enough with my manhood to get in touch with my femine side to enjoy a good cup of coffee.

I second this motion.

 

[RACEFAN]

Dunkin' Donuts: How does America run on something that you can't find on the west coast?

They are here. As a matter of fact, there is one just off I-10 at the highway 79/ Beaumont Ave. exit. It's on the north side of the 10 just past Mickey D's. About 20 minutes from my house.