Starting School Next Week, Better Not Be Smokers.

I suspect the original poster was purposly trying to get a lot of agitated responses just to stir up some controversy.

I suspect the original poster was purposly trying to get a lot of agitated responses just to stir up some controversy.

grin, well if that was his objective it worked. I've found it fun and entertaining.

You sound like a real easy going guy with a great attitude, im sure you wont have any trouble with the attitudes and personalities you will encounter in the trucking business.

What Dave said. Okay...you don't like smoking, but good grief, if you can't tolerate smokers without throwing a fit, you will have a heck of a time the first time you pull up to a food service dock and they tell you to come back in 8 hours....trust me.

Trucking schools that are respected and professional should have smoking-designated areas.

Two reasons: 1.) It is unsafe to be smoking around diesel fumes -- not just tankers. I think the CDL handbook had mentioned it too. 2.) If you want to smoke that is a persons' right, but that doesn't mean I have to inhale the smoke too.

No it isn't. Diesel is fairly hard to ignite outside a diesel engine. I used to line underground storage tanks. Gasoline will blow up but I've used cutting torches inside diesel tanks (no actual fuel in them but enough fumes to let you know it was a diesel tank). If you are going to be around smokers (and it sounds like you are) you are basically entering the lion's den and I think you'll be the one doing all of the adapting. Not every place is as anal about cigarettes as California (where I live) is.