Originally Posted by headborg

this is the way to go....a buddy of mine (old school-driver) claims he'll never $&!+ where he ates/lives but then again he'll also whip out his edit and piss off the running board in broad daylight on the pavement or on your truck.

2 greatest Must Have Inventions for modern Trucking!

Cell Phone
Port-a-pottie(fresh water flush with chemical)

I'm a guy, and don't know how I managed for 10years before getting one.
(oh, now I remember....getting up, getting dressed and crossing a freezing snow covered slick parking lot at 2am...to go set on a disgusting dirty crapper that you don't know who the last ass belonged to that set there b4)
If you're a lady trucker just starting in this business or gonna have YOUR lady out on the truck with you.....this ITEM better be the first on your list of
tools to get.

P.S.- go with the cancer causing chemicals-they work whereas the "greenthumb" enviromentally safe brand doesn't"

and go with the "liquid gold" camping toilet paper found in the hunting section...it desolves much better than standard RV paper.

Originally Posted by GMAN

Scania, the main reason I purchased my first port-a-pottie is because I was delivering to Canada. I was in Markum (Toronto) and the receiver would not allow me to use their facilities. There were businesses all around so it was difficult to do your business without being seen. After the first time I decided that I would NEVER be in that situation again. When I got home, I bought my first port-a-pottie. I rarely use it myself, but my wife really appreciates having it when she is with me.

Originally Posted by MommaKay

There are several different brands of formaldehyde-based holding-tank treatments that you can use in your porta-potti. Star-Brite makes a really good one that's available at any number of boating, camping and sporting-goods stores. Besides, you will most likely have daytime access to multiple places where you can empty the holding tank, so it's not like it's sitting there brewing sludge for weeks at a time.

My own porta-potti is there for night-time use, and usually only for peeing in, with emergency exceptions. Daytime and in places I view as safe and clean, I will use whatever other facilities are available.

Originally Posted by headborg

Here's an actual real life story where a porta potti came in very handy.

Do you know how much the fine is for not having your Log Book Current in Pa these days?

Well, I overslept one morning...got up and "put 'er in the wind" without updating my Logbook. Pa DOT sets up in the Rest Areas...and this morning they had a suprise waiting on me on I-84. Now, If I had had my CB on...I might have known about it early enough, but I didn't . So, there I was, I drove right up to within sight of the flashing sign. Pulled 'er over to the shoulder and climbed in the sleeper with the log book. Minutes later, a Trooper was standing on my running board knocking on my driver's window.

I just waved the roll of T-Paper from out from behind the bunk curtain and continued to frantically draw those lines in the book emerging minutes later----Hey, when Nature calls.....it counts as an Emergency STOP.