The (NEW) Truckers Friend…
Posted on May 10, 2009 - 10:01pm by Marshall J. Gruskin in Trucking
Truckers are very familiar with “The Truckers Friend – aka – the National Truck Stop Directory.” The popular guide comes out annually and sells for $14.95. These folks claim that they have sold over 1 million of these directories. I always have a current edition within arms reach in the truck along with “The Next Exit” and my $5.97 Wal-Mart road atlas. Just in case my GPS stops working, There are also those occasions when I’m somewhere that I”ve not been before and need to find a truck stop to park, have dinner and spend the night. That’s where the truck stop directory is, actually, was, “The Truckers Friend.”
Ok, so much for the advertisement. The truck stop guide is good to have, but is effective immediately (did you get the memo) no longer the friend of the trucker. A new kid is in town. As Linda Suckle-Pierucki informed us in her recent post, you can now find a truck stop by installing a new plug in on your I Phone. You can also search for a truck stop by going on line to http://www.truckstopguide.com/ which is the web site of the “The Truckers Friend.” So goodbye “Truckers Friend.”
Hello Clorox Wipes! – the NEW truckers friend. I carry them everywhere. I have a large dispenser in the truck. Recently, after suffering from a really bad case of the flu, I wiped down the inside of the ENTIRE truck. I use them on the steering wheel. Most of the surfaces that my hands are in contact with I now regularly wipe down. And, I take a small case of them inside the Flying J (or wherever) to wipe down the table BEFORE I eat dinner after I have washed my hands.
Yes, perhaps my OCD is getting the best of me. But did you ever “follow” the “rag” a waitress uses to wipe down the tables? Disgusting. Maybe she’ll wash it after wiping down 50 tables at the end of her shift – maybe. Check where you’re sitting. When was that cleaned? Like never maybe? So call me Howard Hughes. I don’t care. I want things clean already. I want them at least 99% germ free. I don’t even want to think about the silverware and dishes. Yuk.
Pick up your NEW truckers friend now. Use it liberally. Show staphylococcus aurous, salmonella enterica, e coli and rhinovirus whose boss. They also come in a very convenient TO GO pack.
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A truck stop guide is only half of the guidebooks you should carry. In addition you should have The Next Exit. It shows you truck accessible facilities in red. As a side note, treat these places with GREAT respect, they won’t be very tolerant of portajohn bottles and litter for very long before they insist that The Next Exit lists them in black.