Handling Your Ladies Time On The Road...

I'm seriously glad you asked this and I am seriously considering the hormonal IUD, but that makes me nervous, seeing as if we are sitting for quite a while.

And this is why I just want to go solo. But if I MUST team up, maybe I'll go for a dude who has sisters or a woman.

I'm seriously glad you asked this and I am seriously considering the hormonal IUD, but that makes me nervous, seeing as if we are sitting for quite a while.

And this is why I just want to go solo. But if I MUST team up, maybe I'll go for a dude who has sisters or a woman.

Yeah the hormonal IUD has also gotten a lot of complaints about complications, or so I've heard. And even if you go solo you will still have to team for a little while. When you go out on the road with your mentor for like 2 or 3 months, you guys will be considered a team. Where my concern lies is that your mentor can be a man or a woman. You can request a woman but if they don't have one available then you will go with a man. I don't want a perverted one who tries to sneak looks, or what if he complains about the smell as you're changing your feminine products, or since you may not stop for a while, you might have to put the products into a garbage bag and the heat of the summer might cause it to smell a little stronger and what if he complains about that? Or what if the truck is moving while trying to swithout a tampon and you leak or misaim or something? Lol These are all the kind of things that I was thinking about.

And what I've noticed about guys is that even dudes with a sister or woman will be cruel about it because you're not THEIR sister or woman. But I figure if I get like the shot or something, then I'll be okay for those couple of months. You know?

Pretty old topic but I was also wondering how you lady OTR Driver’s are handling monthly “gifts?”

I'm seriously glad you asked this and I am seriously considering the hormonal IUD, but that makes me nervous, seeing as if we are sitting for quite a while.

And this is why I just want to go solo. But if I MUST team up, maybe I'll go for a dude who has sisters or a woman.

Yeah the hormonal IUD has also gotten a lot of complaints about complications, or so I've heard. And even if you go solo you will still have to team for a little while. When you go out on the road with your mentor for like 2 or 3 months, you guys will be considered a team. Where my concern lies is that your mentor can be a man or a woman. You can request a woman but if they don't have one available then you will go with a man. I don't want a perverted one who tries to sneak looks, or what if he complains about the smell as you're changing your feminine products, or since you may not stop for a while, you might have to put the products into a garbage bag and the heat of the summer might cause it to smell a little stronger and what if he complains about that? Or what if the truck is moving while trying to swithout a tampon and you leak or misaim or something? Lol These are all the kind of things that I was thinking about.

And what I've noticed about guys is that even dudes with a sister or woman will be cruel about it because you're not THEIR sister or woman. But I figure if I get like the shot or something, then I'll be okay for those couple of months. You know?

Use the doggie bags that people use to pick up their poop. You can put your used pad in the bag tie a knot in it, and it won’t stink.

Now I have a question. I am prone to UTIs. A friend of mine suggested I wear pads. But the pad is soaking up the sweat and keeping it wet down there. It don’t make no sense. I’m still gonna get a UTI. I had been using D’Mannose; if I spelled it correctly. I was doing good with that, but then I got off track and got a UTI. When I tried to explain to my friend that I don’t see how that’s going to work considering the pad is wet with sweat and it’s sitting there fermenting it’s only gonna cause more problems. She don’t get it. At least without the pad, I get air in that area. So she told me I have to change my pad every three hours. I said I don’t have time to stop every three hours. I stop every 5 to 6 hours, unless I have to desperately fuel up.

Pretty old topic but I was also wondering how you lady OTR Driver’s are handling monthly “gifts?”

Seems like an old post so this may or may not be helpful to anyone but here’s my personal experience and method. I agree that sometimes you can’t stop as often as you’d like. Some days may be ok for stopping every 2-3 hours, while some days every 5-6 hours is all you can manage. Often times we need to stop when we’re not exactly in a convenient place to do so. There are clean ways to handle your business. Keep an emergency cup for bladder relief that you can clean inside and out with baby wipes. Obviously that includes having baby wipes on hand at all times. I also use pet potty pads to put down on the floor so that any “miss” is contained and easily dealt with. Pet potty bags are cheap at the dollar stores or anywhere else, even at truck stops, and make clean and simple clean up and disposal of your messes and products, while still being discreet. And the final bit of important info… adult diapers work really well for containing your period and keeping you more clean and dry down there for long time frames while driving. They hold more than an overnight pad, protect better, and are easy to deal with in your truck. You can rip the sides open to remove it so there’s less mess than trying to pull your underwear down when everything is messy. Roll it up with all your wipes from clean up and put them in a doggy bag and no one has to see or smell anything or know what you’re doing. It’s never pretty handling your period anywhere, but it doesn’t have to be difficult on the road either. You can also sleep on a pet potty pad just as a reinforcement. That is how I manage my period on a truck. I’ve ran team and solo and this has helped in both situations. It is better protection and easier to work with than tampons and pads, and more discrete.

So my suggested list of supplies is this:

Adult diapers Wipes Pet potty pads Pet potty bags Hand sanitizer Plastic emergency cup

Hope this helps someone!