Drivers, Quit Acting a Fool

Here are my thoughts, a former owner-operator when fuel was $0.99 and up to $1.25 per gallon. We all thought we’d die when diesel fuel went to a whole dollar a gallon. I have 24 years of experience and am now a company driver.

I cannot understand my fellow drivers. Some are slobs and pig pens, really. I can’t understand why grown men use a truckstop bathroom and throw used hand paper towels on the floor, or worse, in the sink! The sink? Yep. How’d you like to be the low-wage janitor — go in a toilet stall and pick up discarded scratch lottery tickets off the floor, coffee cups, water bottle, Coke cans and other such trash? A 5-year-old wouldn’t do it, but grown truck drivers do. Why? Because no one’s looking. Quit being animals and become human beings again!

Other drivers following you don’t like it, and I’m sure the janitor hates it and us truck drivers. Have some pride in yourself, Jocko.

Also, why do some of you morons have to unscrew and steal all the clothes/coat hooks from all the stall doors nationwide? I have a friend who is a manager at a major truckstop chain. He told me they replaced hundreds of coat hooks in the bathrooms and are not doing it any more. He says when using their bathrooms, “Throw your jackets on the floor.” He doesn’t care. Drivers, grow up and don’t act stupid.

Mike Giglio, Marietta, Ohio