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I keep my cab clean, no kitchen utensils, no cookin pans, not even
a popcorn maker. I eat a Truckstops, where a trucker should.

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Me too...for the most part. I used to prepare more food in my truck, but running familiar routes in just the western states, I'm never too far from someplace to grab a bite. I grab a lot of fast foot -- subway, etc -- and try to stay away from huge meals...more like nibbling most of the time.
I do carry a can opener, some canned food, and extra drinking water in the trck in case I'm stranded in a snow storm, etc. But otherwise, I usually don't have more than a salad or an Arby's "market fresh sandwich" in my cooler -- and I try to snack on those and get rid of them within 48-hours.
I don't even have a traditional "coffee cup". I stop and grab a clean disposable cup for my coffee or iced tea when I need it.
I like getting out of the truck to eat whenever possible -- change of scenery. But be careful -- you're going to gain a lot of weight if you eat more than one sitdown meal a day.

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And why, pray tell "should" a trucker eat at truckstops when I can make anything they can there, and it is healthier and cheaper?

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Troll Alert!
On hurricane duty you read in the papers about everyone griping about sitting around and getting paid well for it. Not me. Coffee pot and microwave paid off. Put me on standby and let those truckers roll. God knows they couldn't take the pressure of getting paid good to park. I set my truck up as a lean mean parking machine. Sattelite, computer, microwave coffee pot and all the food I can stuff in it.
Wait at the shipper and get paid detention? Great!
Hurricane Duty, get paid 500 miles a day to park? Count me in!
Roads looking a little icy? Sure I can wait here at the rest area on paid weather delay.
Next time you post something else you know little about come back and tell us about it. You wouldn't by any chance be driving this winter would you? Ignore the emergency supplies advice you hear.
BTW just checked my settlement and ran 3150 miles this week.
Damn the good weather.
***Patience is the hardest thing to learn..

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OK, I'll confess.
I've been known to eat "Heater Meals"
Now I feel better that I got that out.
Yes I know, I already signed up for therapy....

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My wife use to make my meals then freeze them. I'd throw them in the cooler and the warm them in the microwave I had in the truck.
Figured I saved atleast $ 5000.00 a year that way. ( Vacation money)

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Don't fork over money for a microwave. Every truckstop has one and most shippers/receivers will let you use theirs.
That is, unless your fellow dwellers haven't vandalized it.

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You should try eating at home. Like a human should.

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Ain't that the truth. Look at the thousands of years man as evolved and domesticized. Always looking for better home comforts and here comes these truck dweller creatures trying to set everything back 100,000 years. Just give them a one stack junkliner with a cave on the back -- whoop,whoop. Go get 'em toughie guys.______
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I'd rather die on my feet like a man than live on my azz hiding in a truck.........Sir James Brown

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Wish I had seen this quicker. I just blew $32 at WalMart on a new one.***Patience is the hardest thing to learn..

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WOW! Drive, sleep, cook, eat, wash dishes, p, poop, clean up with baby wipes,(well, at least once a week) and surf the net, all in one convenient box. Where do I sign up? They sell hats for your types, they have a big "L" on the front.

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I don't think my shippers would like me using their microwaves, since they are usually part of the shipment.........