Nature Calls But No Nature Catchers

This is the only trucker forum worth posting. I despise TR and I cant stand the filth on there. Ihave an abundance of respect for the people on here and i just didnt want to offend anyone. Im still new and didnt know if i crossed the line.

I have been fortunate to not have to go #2 in the truck yet but I too have a trash can just in case! I usually just use diet control when I know I will be somewhere that restrooms are scarce. I know how certain foods affect my body. PS. Welcome back fiesty guyjax;-) And Michael dont take it personal hes really a teddy bear lol. But this forum is the trucking truth. We cover and topics needed.

I alway bring a large coffee can with the lid. With me and A roll or TP inside it. About 24 years ago I was hunting in a blind in south Texas. It was early in the morning. And bam....😳 I needed to go so bad. It was just getting day light. I told myself to make it quick and I knew the chances of seeing anything after that was zero ! So I went down the ladder and started walking without my rifle. And I walked. I stoped about three times with this feeling I was being watched.😳 but I could no longer hold it. So I went to the thorny tree and droped my pants and held on to the tree with one hand and held my pants away with the other hand and did my thing. Luckily I have allergies and had a box of Kleenex in my pockets. I walked back to the blind and felt like I was feeling watched still.😳 so I claimed up set down and grab my rifle and started to scop out my area. It was quite. Man I screwed up. Then about ten minutes later. I could see people moving around. What the hell......then I heard them speaking in Spanish . They made a line to the fence line. The guy in front steped on the bottom wire and pulled the other one up. Then one by one they went. My lord I just dropped my pants and showed my ass to 1,2,3..... 30 people. Lol I was 😳. Never again. After that. Large Coffee can for the what ifs. Safty 1st ladies. I didn't even have my side arm on. Just saying I alway have one just in case. Only needed it once sence then.

Hubby purchased us a fancy porta potty from a camping store. It even flushes! We urinate it, which is sealed off in the bottom container of the potty. We buy potty deodorant liquid at Wal-Mart, pour that in, no smell at all.

If we need to number 2, we have potty garbage bags that we set down in the toilet and do our business into the poopy bag. When done, tie up the bag and dispose of it in a garbage can somewhere.

Works perfectly. We paid $160 for our potty, it's great. Its small enough to leave sitting in our floor.

Some guys pee in Gatorade bottles. And keep a bucket and garbage bags handy. Keep some baby wipes handy too, and air freshener.

This may seem gross, but it's part of this way of life.

Be prepared because rest areas and truck stops are not always available.

This type of info, while it will not save a life, still needs to be shared. Trucking is hard enough just starting out and if we can help answer questions and relieve at least one worry then that is the least we can do.

I would rather talk about this than really be offended by the smell of body odor. I have a great sense of smell and when passing some of these people in truck stop it makes me want to cut my nose off and burn my sinuses out with acid. It's really that bad sometimes. Now that is offensive.

😳I hope I don't get a stinky partner ......when I start out in this job...... I have a nose of a dog my kids used to tell me. I can smell when we get a mouse in the house. I have even smelt a snake in the house before didn't know at the time, till I went on the hunt for it. But I hate when sometimes when I start to smell things and no one else does yet ! And dirty body odor and clothes is one of them.😒😩

😳I hope I don't get a stinky partner ......when I start out in this job...... I have a nose of a dog my kids used to tell me. I can smell when we get a mouse in the house. I have even smelt a snake in the house before didn't know at the time, till I went on the hunt for it. But I hate when sometimes when I start to smell things and no one else does yet ! And dirty body odor and clothes is one of them.😒😩

Communicate openingly with your teammate.

"We need to take showers and do laundry today, its stinkin' in here!" Lol

I have been fortunate to not have to go #2 in the truck yet but I too have a trash can just in case! I usually just use diet control when I know I will be somewhere that restrooms are scarce. I know how certain foods affect my body. PS. Welcome back fiesty guyjax;-) And Michael dont take it personal hes really a teddy bear lol. But this forum is the trucking truth. We cover and topics needed.

Wait... Girls poop to?

I would make sure to keep a bottle of Imodium on your truck. During my training phase at Prime a couple months back, my trainer and I were running ahead of schedule and stopped at the Petro truck stop in Toledo for showers and dinner and a nice night sleep. When early AM came around, it was my shift so I got up before the sun rose and had some breakfast from the restaurant, coffee, sweet tea and water.

Then about 45 mins after I took off, a message comes across the qualcomm. "The Flying J, Loves and Petro truck stops in Toledo have been shut down due to high bacteria levels in the city's water supply. Avoid those truck stops." About the time I hit Illinois, the bowels of hell opened up. And for the next couple of days, all the way across 80 and 84 to Portland I must have hit most of the rest areas (even when I was in the bunk trying to sleep) and had to have an emergency pitch on a rural off ramp in Wyoming.

I also got an upset stomach from some particularly greasy breakfast buffet at the Petro truck stop in El Paso. I barely made it to the T/A truck stop in Las Cruces before it hit. Imodium was my friend the rest of the way to California. I think there are some faster acting OTC meds for this than Imodium. But nevertheless have a supply of those handy.

Thanks for the tip on Immodium. Methinks it's probably a good idea to pack an assortment of things for headaches and little ailments of that nature.