Ya Think TFG Eliminating Write Offs For Trucker Meals Made A Difference?

[DanieRains]

I heard it really cost truck drivers a lot of money.

Anyone know?

[2naSalit]

1. It probably hit them hard...

I used to spend a lot on food on the road and being able to deduct that as a per diem type cost was essential.

Food on the road is freaking expensive. If you have to eat out for every meal for weeks on end, it adds up real fast.

[Lefta Dissenter]

3. Particularly,

Particularly if you want to avoid some of the crap food and make healthier choices.

Tuna salad, perhaps? 🤷🏼‍♀️ 😆

[2naSalit]

4. That's the last thing any human should order...

And only eat if you make it yourself. Learned that from a bad experience with ptomaine one time, only one time.

I did have to seek out better food choices since I couldn't live on the stuff served at many places. Usually a soup/salad/sandwich combo was what I got. Other times I just went grocery shopping and filled up my cooler for rest area stops, hibachi in the side box for some things. I used to take a loaf of Italian bread, wrap it in foil with a bunch of butter lain into the middle of the loaf and set it along the engine block and the turbo tube before heading up a mountain grade, stop at the top and have nice hot buttered bread which I would have other stuff to go with at the top of the grade. (My ex used to have coat hanger basket things he made so he could heat cans in the exhaust pipe, I wouldn't eat any on that stuff, too sketchy.)

Road food is a category all its own!

[Lefta Dissenter]

6. LOL, I actually don't eat anything that ever swam.

Not a moral or religious choice, but I just don’t like sea/lake/river/puddle food!

My ex used to eat Engine Block Chili when he was on the road (in a car, not a truck). Well, anything canned - he had a nice little nook in the engine to heat his dinners.

Pretty much the only time he got fast food was if he was feeling sleepy, he’d get an ice cream cone from McD’s and hold it in front of the heat vent to get it nice and drippy. The activity of chasing the drips woke him up. That’s probably not recommended over a good nap, however…

[jmowreader]

12. I used the exhaust manifold on my Cummins engine

A Cummins ISX (the most popular engine in big rigs) exhaust manifold will hold four cans, and it’s cast iron so it retains heat. Poke a hole in the can, stick it on the exhaust manifold, and go take a shower. When you come back to your truck, a hot meal is waiting for you.

[2naSalit]

14. That's what he used to do.

I was good with the bread thing and what ever vegetable things I had in the cooler.

[SoCalDavidS]

2. I Think A LARGE Majority Of Them Still Voted For Him

If it had been a Democrat, they would have banded together and gone on strike perhaps. But since a repub administration and a repub Congress passed it, there's no problem.

[Bev54]

5. I think it is more about the talk of self driving trucks which is limiting

new entrants into the industry. Who wants to go through all the training for a dying career.

[abqtommy]

7. Speaking of a "dying career", I don't want to be driving anywhere that there are

self-driving vehicles. I even read on one of the Brit News sites that some people over
there are advocating for self-driving trains. As if there aren't already enough ways for
people to die!

Years ago when I was a trucker sometimes I ate healthy and sometimes not. It
balanced out. But I did like that I got paid to cover the cost.

[fescuerescue]

9. That will likely mean staying off of all roads.

But it'll be awhile.

[gulliver]

10. There's zero chance of that happening, but many people still think it's inevitable

Automated truck freight isn't going to happen prior to the emergence of general AI that matches and exceeds human intelligence. Truck drivers who fear automation is going to take their jobs are the victims of false expectation setting by folks like Elon Musk. Automated driving on roads by cars and trucks just isn't going to happen, at least not before the eventual general AI "singularity." And at that point we're all out of jobs.

[Klaralven]

8. On I-84 yesterday, there didn't appear to be any lack of truckers

[Saboburns]

11. It doesn't really matter.

Actually it doesn't matter at all.

You see Republicans don't deal in reality. Facts, truth, and logic are subservient to want they want to believe. And they have created their own WingNut "news" media that only tells them want they want to hear. Republicans will never see, hear, or be exposed to anything that criticizes thier tribe in any form. And ALL bad news is always, ALWAYS, blamed on "libs and the "democrat" party.

So if truckers said anything about this issue you must understand that they blamed the Democrats someway.

[jmowreader]

13. Yes and no

Yes, it cost them a ton of money.

No, it didn’t stop them from voting for the Scum of the Earth.