jammymutt:
Please carry on using the bottles and throwing them in the middle of the motorway
What a sensible suggestion. You seem to have a lot to say for someone who has packed in driving!
I now work in an office and find it disgusting when i park my car where a truck has been and it absolutely stinks of (zb) , had the driver used a bottle i wouldnt have to smell his (zb) when i go in to work.
Classic case of someone missing the point, the issue isn’t should you use a bottle? It is should you throw the bottle at the roadside and in the process, undo all the work done by Pat, Rikki and co in raising the esteem of truck drivers with the general public.
Is it right, under any circumstances for so-called “professional drivers” to leave bottles of urine in lay-bys, next to the central reservation, on the hard shoulder and at service areas etc? (I’ll let you have the last one!)
We all get caught short sometimes, but to advertise the fact that some lazy ZB cannot be bothered tidying up after himself shames us all.
Is it really too much trouble to empty the contents of “Hard Shoulder Soda” in a toilet? Or am I just being trivial?
Same as Mal…
I have a container for those times whern caught short… I do try to get top a layby and dissapear up the bank into the trees… but for those occassions I cannot then the Bottle comes in handy.
It gets emptied either down a Lavatory… or directly down a drain… and changed regualrly (Next time I have used up a bottle of Highland Spring water !!)
No bottle for me… FH12GT - open passenger door, with feet on the edge stand up outside and put your hand on the top of the door - then let it go (undo trousers first). Pee like yer 12 foot tall! YEE HAH!
Works in most trucks (but not for ladies i think!)
(this must be difficult for ladies though - i dont like to pee in stinky public toilets anyway - never mind have to park near them… and as for bottling it…! )
My opinion on the kidney juice bottlers - behave ya scruffy dogs or take it home with ya ( you could save it all and proudly show yer missus at the end of the week!! ).
Another scruffy habit: Opening tins of fish so the juice goes down the side of the door - you know who you are… ( easy to spot - look for the seagulls following him! )
Bottles eh… Blimey you’re posh.
I’ve always managed with a funnel and length of rubber hose threaded through the quarterlight.
In wet weather conditions I find that about 40mph is ideal for keeping the offside marker lights clean.
**(please note the above is meant as light hearted banter,sorry if it offends anyone.) G.
Like everyone else so far, I keep a wide necked, screw top bottle handy. Nothing worse than waking up, in the middle of the night, with the rain/snow goin sideways, ice under foot. You have to get out of your warm bed, get dressed, traipse half a mile to some stinkin toilet, traipse all the way back and try to get back to sleep.
Use the afore mentioned bottle, without even opening the door, back to bed(still warm) and dispose of the bottles contents in the morning. Keeping the bottle for next time. What could be simpler?
a particularly disgusting habit, i don’t ever remember this happening in the eighties but then most bottles were made of glass and you often got a deposit back on them too, and they were normally only small bottles too.
the countryside often looks very disgusting when you see all those yellow coloured bottles highlighted by the glare of the sun.
unfortunately nobody ever seems to get caught throwing them out.
i am sure that this would be covered under the dropping litter laws.
Simon:
Nothing worse than waking up, in the middle of the night, with the rain/snow goin sideways, ice under foot. You have to get out of your warm bed, get dressed, traipse half a mile to some stinkin toilet, traipse all the way back and try to get back to sleep.
Tell me about it - and you lot don’t have to bare all in the process!!!
Nasty horrible habit. If someone takes the trouble to use a bottle and not the wheel then it really can’t be that much more effort to dispose of the bottles and contents in a responsible manner.
I find it quite depressing to think how vistors to our country regard us when there is so much litter spread about.
BOTTLES■■? You actually bottle the stuff up and store it in your cab? Would you leave a bottle of pee in your bedroom at home? No,I think not.
What’s wrong with the black rubber toilets down each side of your vehicle?
At least you know its only YOU that has wee’d there,and are unlikely to catch any ghastly diseases. If it’s a number 2 you need then i have to sit on a proper toilet. Apologies for being so crude
What’s wrong with the black rubber toilets down each side of your vehicle? At least you know its only YOU that has wee’d there,and are unlikely to catch any ghastly diseases.
thats not actually true i fell asleep in a layby near gospot and woke to find someone had peed up my rear tractor unit wheel
Nothing worse than waking up, in the middle of the night, with the rain/snow goin sideways, ice under foot. You have to get out of your warm bed, get dressed, traipse half a mile to some stinkin toilet, traipse all the way back and try to get back to sleep. 
What could be simpler? 
