I have started the 1st in my series about truckers being treated like third class citizens. The first one focused on the treatment of truck stops and is available at http://tinyurl.com/4cz3jtv.
My challenge to the 3 major truck stop chains. You may get offended at the idea of having a shithole, but frankly, there are places that the biggest and meanest men won't venture through the parking lot at night. There are places when all night some lot lizard is beating on every door possible. There are places where drivers get robbed inside and out, where drivers (yes, even male, one reported his rape to me) are raped in the bathroom. These are your shitholes! They are the places that drivers remember your name for.
My challenge to my readers is to comment which shitholes you've been to. Town, chain, and circumstances. Now, with these places, I want the corporates of this truck stop to go to a truck rental and park for 10 hours overnight. You will walk in to use the restroom or get something. You will shower at that facility. You will eat the food we have to eat. You will not let the employees know you are corporate so that you won't receive special treatment. You will sleep in the truck. If the problem is due to your shop, you will take the truck into the shop and get what the commentor was having done. At no point can you let your employees know it is you. Then, and only then, will you see why we deem your facility a shithole. Drivers, co-pilots, and pilot cars, please comment and demand them see what we go through. Enough is enough.
The saddest part is, I doubt the corporate guys from at least 2 of these names will do it!
And, if you'd like, we'll arrange for another trucker to be beside you so you can feel safer. Will you accept?
My challenge to the 3 major truck stop chains. You may get offended at the idea of having a shithole, but frankly, there are places that the biggest and meanest men won't venture through the parking lot at night. There are places when all night some lot lizard is beating on every door possible. There are places where drivers get robbed inside and out, where drivers (yes, even male, one reported his rape to me) are raped in the bathroom. These are your shitholes! They are the places that drivers remember your name for.
My challenge to my readers is to comment which shitholes you've been to. Town, chain, and circumstances. Now, with these places, I want the corporates of this truck stop to go to a truck rental and park for 10 hours overnight. You will walk in to use the restroom or get something. You will shower at that facility. You will eat the food we have to eat. You will not let the employees know you are corporate so that you won't receive special treatment. You will sleep in the truck. If the problem is due to your shop, you will take the truck into the shop and get what the commentor was having done. At no point can you let your employees know it is you. Then, and only then, will you see why we deem your facility a shithole. Drivers, co-pilots, and pilot cars, please comment and demand them see what we go through. Enough is enough.
The saddest part is, I doubt the corporate guys from at least 2 of these names will do it!
And, if you'd like, we'll arrange for another trucker to be beside you so you can feel safer. Will you accept?
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