Can anyone answer me this? How in the heck can anybody drive down the road with all that stuff piled up in their windshield? Now I don't mean just a map or your bills, but from one door pillar to the other with stuff. How does the defroster even do anything. I don't keep my truck spotless
on the inside but I passed one guy last week going to a shippers gate and
I counted 4 fast food bags 2 log books a big bottle of pop(or soda whichever you perfer) a truckers atlas and it looked like enough loose paper to start a forest fire. How do other drivers find anything?

 

I love seeing trucks parked at the truckstop that the driver clearly moved all his crap from the sleeper to the passenger seat just so he could sleep.

 

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Actually...seeing it disgusts me..but to each his own !!! 8) 8) 8)



Why can't they just throw the crap away? After all...the fast food joints give them bags for free!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

I'm not so much a neat freak but I'm a very organized person. If I get this job with the garbage company then if I run a log book it'll be up in the cubby hole, my bills will be on a clip board in the windshield or passenger seat and my little milage book I'm gonna use to write down milage will be in the hole in the dash that are on the Mack Vision/Granites if mine will have one. My truck will stay clean INSIDE and OUTSIDE!!! I feel a clean truck is a happy truck but seriously I rather roll to the landfill or jobsite in a clean truck which will mean at the end of the day I'll end up washing the truck before heading home! This is if I get the job and everything works out which I think it will! 8)

 

Never understood it myself.

Back in CDL school our classroom teacher was a semi-retired DOT certified cop. He told us that the keeping the cab of your truck organized and reasonably clean as well as keeping your log book entries neat will do more for keeping the number of close inspections down than anything else you can do.

LEO's figure if you take the time to keep the truck clean and your log entries neat that you are more likely to see to the major items.

I have seen this scenario played out many times as most experienced driver probably have.

 

Your not a neat freak....Sometimes I think I am though. Inside of my truck is always clean. Cant stand tracking anything in. Outside gets washed as often as my dispatch gives me truck wash PO. (I generally request one every 2weeks).
Only thing on my dash board is my eyeglass case and pack of smokes. I dont even let dust settle on my dash

 

I go over the interior in the morning for dust ,and before bed ...everything must be folded neat and in it's place carpets straight and fre og lint or dirt ...I casrry a windex bottle full of water and sray the floor and wipe with a rag to remove any foot mark ...And I spay orange scented air freshner 2x daily ...Evem my weights uner the bunk have to be neat and in order,and I can't even see them from ...I clean as I go never let anything sit dirty if it gets messed I clean first then go I think I spend 1 hr every 24 hr day cleaning .

 

Glad to see that there are still drivers who like a spotless truck and keep them clean.

 

I clean everything when I park the truck on Friday - dust the dash, clean all the glass inside & out etc. I don't get too nuts with the floor - our trailer lot is mostly dirt, so it just gets dirty again anyway. I've got a bootbrush on my step though, which helps alot. But the only things I've ever got on my dash are my bills for that load, my coffee cup and my iPod.