Conor:
In 20 years I’ve never peed in a bottle, [zb] in a bag or [zb] in a bush. Probably because I refuse to work for someone who runs the job so tightly that I feel so much pressure I can’t stop for the loo and that I refuse to park in lay-bys.
So, lets say you arrive at the services late on because of a delay and end up having to park a fair distance from the building. Think, say, the far corner of the lorry park at Lymm. You wake up at 2am busting for a ■■■■, it’s freezing outside and you can hear the rain pelting down on the cab roof and wind swirling outside. Do you ■■■■ in a bottle or starting donning the waterproofs to make the 10 minute round trip to the loo?
I know which i’d do. Been there, done it and dealt with the shame. Part of the reason why I would never tramp again.
That is what I have basically just said.
However speaking as a driver that has always tramped, I realize ■■■■■■■ in a bottle (and dealing with it responsibly) is not ideal, that goes without saying, but it is adapting to a situation in the most convenient way.
As for shameful? well unless you are some kind of shrinking violet I don’t get that bit.
The article says 50 to 100 lorries park up on the estate roads.
I park there many times and have not seen that many.
How do they know how many lorries are parked up at night when they are sat in the comfort of their homes ?
I have never seen human ■■■ or bags on the estate.
Macdonalds is a short walk from the timber mill.
I think it is open 24 hours.
Could it be dog walkers tossing dog ■■■ bags in the hedges around the area ?
If they are that worried about the bowel and bladder movements of drivers keeping the economoy running ,why don’t they install Portaloo’s.But hold on ,drivers will vandalise them.
It seems Richard Reynolds and John Bridge are not anti-truck,but realise there is a Lgv parking problem.
Hiya…its a pitty the council never built a cafe say on the bit of ground where they built the industrial estate
on the left as you come from cambridge…that would have been a great place to have a truck stop.theres
already a off and on slip road. infact i think it was the old road through godmanchester…
one time i had a dream there was a cafe there and plenty of parking space with fuel pumps and the dream
was so real the truck stop/cafe even had a name i think it was the Afton cafe and truck stop i think in this
dream over and over. i was always running from the Cambridge area to Peterborough to load bricks and
was always driving a Foden S39…WHAT A DREAM IT SEEMED ALMOST REAL.
John
3300John:
Hiya…its a pitty the council never built a cafe say on the bit of ground where they built the industrial estate
on the left as you come from cambridge…that would have been a great place to have a truck stop.theres
already a off and on slip road. infact i think it was the old road through godmanchester…
one time i had a dream there was a cafe there and plenty of parking space with fuel pumps and the dream
was so real the truck stop/cafe even had a name i think it was the Afton cafe and truck stop i think in this
dream over and over. i was always running from the Cambridge area to Peterborough to load bricks and
was always driving a Foden S39…WHAT A DREAM IT SEEMED ALMOST REAL.
John
it was a shame when they knocked it down john circa 1996/ 7
Always used a pee bottle, a large chocolate yazoo bottle in fact, brown plastic so cannot see the contents (it mattered to me ok), widish neck “if ya know what I mean”.
Always emptied it out next morning in either a storm drain or a grass verge or hedgerow and then swilled it with a cup of water, never ever pee’d (or emptied my bottle) on the tarmac or concrete of either a MSA, layby or footpath though.
Got caught out on number 2’s only a couple of times in my driving career, both times managed to stop in a layby and go for a little trek in the field on the other side of the hedgerow, but to be honest both times I was unwell and have never normally been caught out.
tango boy:
If taken short when on a night out (can happen) a bush is the best option it’s when it’s on the pavement or side of a layby so its visible or even trodden in
In 20 years I’ve never peed in a bottle, [zb] in a bag or [zb] in a bush. Probably because I refuse to work for someone who runs the job so tightly that I feel so much pressure I can’t stop for the loo and that I refuse to park in lay-bys.
I suffer with IBS and medication isn’t always 100% so I’ve been caught out on a few occasions! I carry bags and wipes in my pocket and I can assure you whatever I do leave behind will easily be washed away at the first shower (if it could be picked up I wouldn’t leave it)
Apologies. Me not reading the the reading the thread thoroughly.
robroy:
As for shameful? well unless you are some kind of shrinking violet I don’t get that bit.
Maybe shame wasn’t quite the right world. For me slashing into a plastic bottle, feeling the warmth of it filling up and then facing the prospect of having to discreetly dispose of the thing was quite harrowing for me. I certainly didn’t feel proud, lets put it that way. More, “what the ■■■■ am I doing? I signed up for this”
Unfortunately I have whats known as ‘Uncooperative Bowel Syndrome’, this means that when I’m near a loo I won’t need to do a number 2 but when the loo options are limited / none at all, my bowel decides that I must ■■■ immediately, stomache cramps and everything. Even with this condition I have never had to dump in a layby, I simply close the curtains and nip one off into a tissue lined carrier bag ready for disposal at the next RDC I visit.
Top tip: don’t use those carrier bags with the anti suffocation holes in them.
I have tried to confuse my bowel by doing an early morning poop but as it never sleeps this rarely works.
However vast quantities of vodka and red bull will often get my bowel drunk enough to be more cooperative or not care.
Sorry if this is not relevant, just wanted to share…
robroy:
…somebody will finally address the fact that drivers should have basic human facilities provided in order to do their job safely and legally and not just settle for any old [zb] as a matter of course …as we do
Past 2 stores jobs I’ve done I’ve walked into the goods in yard to see a driver ■■■■■■■ against their trailer in the yard. Tell them there’s a bog just in there and they look at you like you’re nuts.
Been driving now for 7 years and never felt the need to embarrass myself like that.
Tell this little tin god to build a truck park.
Who the hell does he think he is?
They want their town to have an “economic” life then they need transport.Time to realise that without trucks (specially in this god forsaken backwater) they are buggerd.
I thought that such wonderful “clubs” such as the RHA and FTA were there to support their members and tell this petty little man to swivel.A real road haulage association would tell the the “Council” to try a night in a layby with not a pot to ■■■■ in and see if they like it.
Who are these jumped up tossers?
Should try a days work once month.
circa 1996/ 7 
(if it could be picked up I wouldn’t leave it)
