Stormin Mormon wrote:

I'd also have enjoyed being a driver. Sadly, the
demographic tends to crude language, and lots of
coffee and cigarettes. I don't much care if someone
drinks coffee, but like The Daring Dufas, I'm
allergic to tobacco.

You would be surprised. The demographic has changed quite a bit. I didn't
smoke so I'm not certain, but I think the company discouraged smoking in the
trucks. I never got into a cab that smelled like an ashtray at least. Some
of the drivers would chew and have their spit cans but that was it.

Most truck stops now are 'travel plazas' and are clean, well lighted places.
You can still find the old school, drugs and hookers type places back east
and in parts of CA but that's about it. I never bothered with the CB much,
but crude language also seems to be an eastern phenomenon. There's a truck
stop in Wyoming where the bull haulers congregate that I never want to see
again, but then bull haulers are sui generis.

Coffee, yeah, and I tended to have a case of Diet Coke in the box but that's
normal for me. Lately I've switched from Diet Coke to Monster or RockStar.
Gotta get my drugs.