Are you a lean-thin-and-fit OTR driver?

[mndriver]

Whatever.....

 

[Electric Chicken]

Whatever.....


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Yeah but are you fat?

 

[r3gulator3]

I don't think young Americans are being trained to be thin, fit and health-conscious also. Look at all the fatness and laziness today. I'm afraid that many roadside establishments dish out fattening/sugary crap to drivers because the majority of them are tubs of lard. The fat stuff (hamburgers, fries, shakes, spareribs, fried chicken, pizza) should be a treat once in awhile, not the daily food staples.

If more drivers were to become health-conscious and demand sensible wholesome meals, then more roadside food establishments will follow suit. Grilled lean meats/fish/fowl, steamed vegetables, steamed/boiled rice, baked potatoes, beans, pasta, parmesan cheese, red pasta sauce, and steamed vegetables are the fit-n-trim types of table fare. Truck stops need more "George Foreman Grillin n Chillin" types of menu offerings. The Chester's fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy (they are rather chintzy on the gravy at the one in southern Colorado Love's off of I 25) is an occasional treat.

It seems very tough for a driver these days top "get ahead in the game". Bank as much money as you can over the road but don't die of a stroke or a heart attack by the same token. I want to make the money as a driver to squirrel away for older age and actually live to enjoy the fruits of my several years of double-clutching then migrate toward an office job in the motor carrier freight field.

Truck driving sounds to me like a JOB with little or no fun time off, not much fun at all. Even soldiers in the army have the weekends off for R&R, most of the time, unless they are at war, training, on the weekend CQ duty roster or on maneuvers.

Walking a nice man-size German shepherd dog in the park or training a nice retriever in the field for ducks or birds, hunting, fishing and boating all sounds like FUN to me.

There is probably no probably no single/bachelor company OTR driver here that ever enjoys hunting, fishing, boating and camping.

The question I replied to had nothing to do with health food choices. You asked why being a trucker wasn’t promoted. No trades are really promoted. They offer shop classes for the ones they consider lesser. All others they try to get into college. Where they will get further indoctrinated, swarmed with debt they will never pay off earning a degree that will maker them less money than a trade.

As for healthy eating. Every truck stop and restaurant has healthy options. Most choose not to eat them. Same as people working a day job choose to do the same.

 

[GAnthony]

Good luck is often an insincere remark.

It sounds like my expectations to be a fit-and-trim professional OTR driver are unreasonable.

It sounds like the private/independent roadside services economy of the United States of America is not willing to accommodate the health and well-being of those employed in over-the-road travelling occupations given the special gypsy-like lifestyles such occupations entail. It seems like the mega-carriers themselves should own and operate roadside living accommodations for their driving employees as showers, laundry facilities, full-service dining facilities and gyms. If motor freight employers themselves ran the roadside facilities for their very own, it would probably lower the driver cost of living as well.

Here is the military analogy: when you are a soldier in the army, your employer, the federal government, makes living provisions for your total lifestyle, not just your occupation, as:

1. living quarters; barracks
2. food service; mess halls
3. showers
4. laundry facilities
5. on-post/base weight rooms/gyms
6. MREs/rations while on field maneuvers
7. mess personnel to provide troops hot, square meals in the field
8. medical personnel even in the field
9. dieticians if the soldier is overweight
10. issuance of clothing/personal gear to perform mission: truck drivers also may need special clothing and gear do their jobs and live their lives day to day: refrigerators/coolers/microwaves should be standard equipment in company-owned rigs; I did not have to buy a refrigerator for my barracks room as a soldier, my supply sergeant issued me the appliance; I was issued cold/wet weather gear, boots, gloves and so on

Truck driving like military service, is not just a job, but a total way of life.

I would like to see more collaboration among the various government entities that regulate motor freight transportation nationwide, the roadside services entities, and the freight transportation entities to make driving a healthier occupation. The big-box travel centers are literally murdering truck drivers with all the unhealthy crap they offer drivers and robbing them of their paychecks as well. Truck drivers need a major change in infrastructure as well. The highway system needs to be more freight accommodating. Roads need to be sensibly engineered and well-maintained. There needs to be big-rig parking galore nationwide at little or no cost out of the drivers' pockets. We need national formal established truck routes. America demands so much from truck drivers. America should appreciate drivers and give back to them, making a healthy and affordable lifestyle even possible for them.

Walmart could be more helpful too by offering an expansion of more tractor-trailer-accessible stores nationwide along truck routes.

We know what the problem is: lack of big-rig-accessibility of products and services that are conducive to healthy living.

The solution to national truck driving woes is TOTAL ACCESSIBILITY built into our national highway system. Redesign the infrastructure to make them fit trucks and drivers well. Our highway system should be reengineered to be centered around the trucking industry. Trucks, not automobiles, should be priority one.

Perhaps, we need to elect more people to political office who were ex-truckers. We need government to see the trucking point of view from the driver seat.

well if you wanna drive a truck, then do so in the military where they coddle you. in the real world of trucking, you make do with what you got.

 

[mndriver]

Yeah but are you fat?

While my cardiologist would like to see me loose 20 lbs, he's not overly concerned.

And since my body fat is currently at 29%, for my age, he's said there's more important issues to address.

So seeing someone flailing their claims like this make me chuckle.

 

[mndriver]

I don't think young Americans are being trained to be thin, fit and health-conscious also. Look at all the fatness and laziness today. I'm afraid that many roadside establishments dish out fattening/sugary crap to drivers because the majority of them are tubs of lard. The fat stuff (hamburgers, fries, shakes, spareribs, fried chicken, pizza) should be a treat once in awhile, not the daily food staples.

If more drivers were to become health-conscious and demand sensible wholesome meals, then more roadside food establishments will follow suit. Grilled lean meats/fish/fowl, steamed vegetables, steamed/boiled rice, baked potatoes, beans, pasta, parmesan cheese, red pasta sauce, and steamed vegetables are the fit-n-trim types of table fare. Truck stops need more "George Foreman Grillin n Chillin" types of menu offerings. The Chester's fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy (they are rather chintzy on the gravy at the one in southern Colorado Love's off of I 25) is an occasional treat.

It seems very tough for a driver these days top "get ahead in the game". Bank as much money as you can over the road but don't die of a stroke or a heart attack by the same token. I want to make the money as a driver to squirrel away for older age and actually live to enjoy the fruits of my several years of double-clutching then migrate toward an office job in the motor carrier freight field.

Truck driving sounds to me like a JOB with little or no fun time off, not much fun at all. Even soldiers in the army have the weekends off for R&R, most of the time, unless they are at war, training, on the weekend CQ duty roster or on maneuvers.

Walking a nice man-size German shepherd dog in the park or training a nice retriever in the field for ducks or birds, hunting, fishing and boating all sounds like FUN to me.

There is probably no probably no single/bachelor company OTR driver here that ever enjoys hunting, fishing, boating and camping.

It's called personal responsibility. You mind yourself, we'll mind ourselves. Beauty of free will.

Things will change when enough people get fed up with shit.

It might help if you go find a boat and go drown some worms this weekend.

 

[Electric Chicken]

While my cardiologist would like to see me loose 20 lbs, he's not overly concerned.

And since my body fat is currently at 29%, for my age, he's said there's more important issues to address.

So seeing someone flailing their claims like this make me chuckle.

I was just ribbing ya.

I'm a third generation trucker gut myself.

 

[vaportrail]

Yeah but are you fat?

well duh look at that bow lean! what im more concerned about is his lipstick on the dash! thats a mighty fine birdup front as well





(this is intended to be sarcasm) except for the bird of course

 

[GAnthony]

I was just ribbing ya.

I'm a third generation trucker gut myself.

hey, no way possible, are you third generation, i know this for a fact...we did not have trucks back in my days (or your grand dads day), we started with oxen carts and progressed to horse drawn wagons.....

if anything, you'd be second generational driver.

i on the other hand, progressed thru the centuries.

 

[ironpony]

hey, no way possible, are you third generation, i know this for a fact...we did not have trucks back in my days (or your grand dads day), we started with oxen brontosaurus carts and progressed to horse mastadon drawn wagons.....

if anything, you'd be second generational driver.

i on the other hand, progressed thru the centuries millennia.

Keepin' it real Methuselah!

 

[GAnthony]

Keepin' it real Methuselah!

10-4, Roger wilco, will do, amen brutha trucka,

only God was a mere tear drop in his father's eyes at the time.

i had to teach him things, as well as straighten him out too.

he wanted to part the Red Sea, i told him a bass boat with an Evenrude was a quicker way to get across...

feaking kids

 

[r3gulator3]

10-4, Roger wilco, will do, amen brutha trucka,

only God was a mere tear drop in his father's eyes at the time.

i had to teach him things, as well as straighten him out too.

he wanted to part the Red Sea, i told him a bass boat with an Evenrude was a quicker way to get across...

feaking kids

Did you ever give Jesus the $5 you owe him?

 

[ironpony]

10-4, Roger wilco, will do, amen brutha trucka,

only God was a mere tear drop in his father's eyes at the time.

i had to teach him things, as well as straighten him out too.

he wanted to part the Red Sea, i told him a bass boat with an Evenrude was a quicker way to get across...

feaking kids

I had ta 'splain to him how dirt was 'sposed ta work...

 

[GAnthony]

Did you ever give Jesus the $5 you owe him?

nah, i wanted to, but a bottle of musketell was a better idea to give him, then he goes all holy on me.

 

[Electric Chicken]

nah, i wanted to, but a bottle of musketell was a better idea to give him, then he goes all holy on me.

He likes Maker's Mark.

Every time I gave him a bottle I said "Are you ready to meet your Maker?"

 

[mndriver]

well duh look at that bow lean! what im more concerned about is his lipstick on the dash! thats a mighty fine birdup front as well





(this is intended to be sarcasm) except for the bird of course

That's not lipstick.. it's a case for cheaters for tying knots. Getting old sucks.

Package is an ulterra i-pilot link paired with a Helix 10 mega DI G2N on the bow and a 9 mega SI G2N on the dash.

 

[The Rolex Trucker]

What is your secret to being a hard-body like a young Marine in this generally lethargic occupation with seemingly very few semi-accessible gyms/fitness centers and precious-few roadside semi-accessible "lean cuisine" restaurants that cater to the Jack Lalanne/Euill Gibbons types of 18-wheels?

A truck cab and sleeper berth is not a KITCHEN or gym!! It's not a HOUSE or even a Winnebago motorhome for living space.

As a driver, I would want to know where each and every semi-accessible gym and semi-accessible full-service restaurant with healthy menu choices is located wherever I may be tasked to take my loads. It would be nice to have GPS technology to even locate these kinds of places on trips like a heat-seeking missile.

I understand some mega-carriers are actually committed to driver health and fitness.

I did some research yesterday on this subject. I found that freightliner actually has a gym system for the cab of their trucks. It consists of resistance bands. Looked pretty good.
TA and Pilot are starting to put gyms at their truck stops. TA has put in 40 and Pilot has put in 100 gyms.

 

[ironpony]

I did some research yesterday on this subject. I found that freightliner actually has a gym system for the cab of their trucks. It consists of resistance bands. Looked pretty good.
TA and Pilot are starting to put gyms at their truck stops. TA has put in 40 and Pilot has put in 100 gyms.

If you want some peace and quiet, those gyms are a great place to read a book.

It's more a struggle to balance your eating with the very sedentary lifestyle we get locked into. Check out what a ketogenic diet will do for you.

 

[mndriver]

Cardiologist wants me to actually walk or actively exercise 45 minutes a day.

 

[The Rolex Trucker]

If you want some peace and quiet, those gyms are a great place to read a book.

It's more a struggle to balance your eating with the very sedentary lifestyle we get locked into. Check out what a ketogenic diet will do for you.

Yeah I work out 6 days a week now. I haven't started my trucking career yet. Starting Jan 7th 2020 so I need to hit the gym as much as possible. I plan on not eating a bunch of crap at the stops. Researching healthy eating and living while on the road