Patricia Grisafi
For those who don’t work as truckers, the mythology of the truck stop looms large in the imagination: fights, lot lizards, strange lurkers, sassy wait staff, problematic hygiene. For those who do the long haul—it’s just life.
On Reddit, truckers are sharing all sorts of weird and gross stories about life as a trucker.
And lots of them include horror scenes from the bathroom and interactions with extremely tough sex workers. Next time you drive past a trucker, just imagine all the gnarly things they’ve seen!
1.
“Another time, in Texas, I saw a Japanese guy with his family walking around a truck stop lot. He kept walking up to drivers, would talk a few minutes, then walk away. Didn’t think much of it until I started to go inside and he approached me and my co-driver. I asked if there was something I could help him with and he asked if there were any ‘truck stop ladies’ around. I asked why he wanted a lot lizard (especially with his wife and kids there) and he said that he wanted to get a picture of his family with one since it was the first time his family had ever stopped at a truck stop…and they had already taken a picture with a driver, a truck, and by the diesel pumps. I just wished him good luck and went about my business.” — Emcee_Such_N_Such
2.
“Not a trucker but work in the industry. Probably once or twice a year a trucker will call me and tell me he can’t pickup a load b/c he s**t his pants. Then they email me pictures to prove it.” — mrbeefthighs19
3.
“10 year veteran from the trucker life. Nothing crazy at a truck stop, but in Nebraska during the summer a cattle truck had flipped taking a turn too fast. Fully loaded. Cow parts thrown everywhere. It looked like a movie. Ugh. It’s hard to get the image of butchered cows laying everywhere on the interstate out of your head.” — NewMoanYa
4.
“I was on the road a little over a year and saw someone way out on an interstate waving down cars. I stopped and found out that she was kidnapped something like three months ago. She called her husband on my phone after I called the cops. He called me back like an hour later and cussed me out because I wasn’t still with her. Lol. He saw her the next day in the hospital after she was admitted for observation.” — starsings
5.
“This happened to an uncle of mine. He was new and had a two person buddy system with a lady who was his instructor. Uncle’s wife did not like her at all and thought she was going to seduce him. Two days into a drive uncle is going to the truck stop to eat, goes back to the truck, and opens the door. Turns out the instructor was a lesbian, and was preoccupied with a sex worker. The instructor and the sex worker got married about 5 months later and they spend their christmases with all of us because their own families have disowned them. They’re very happy. Our family recipes have become their family recipes. The instructor will wait until her wife’s out of earshot and say, ‘best 20 bucks I ever spent.'” — dropsunshineandrun
6.
“Am a trucker, but not a service station. I stopped for my mandatory break at a public toilet in a buttf**k ‘blink and you miss it’ country town. There’s a glory hole in the wall and its been there for as long as I remember; even stopping in that town as a kid when my family travelled city to city. Anyway, I stopped in for a piss after 6am: the carpark was empty but the glory hole cubicles door was shut. I thought it odd, but stepped up to the urinal and mid stream I get interrupted by a bold and airy ‘yoo-hooOOoo’ and turn to look at a cock poking through the hole. ‘Its not going to suck itself!’ I lost my s**t laughing and the guy pulled his dick back in. I laughed so hard lights came on in nearby houses.” — DreadBeardDM
7.
“I was hungry and pulled into a run down diner that barely got my rig into safely. But I didn’t care, I was hungry and there was no truck stop around for a long time. The girl flipping burgers on a old blackened grill had a smoke hanging out of her mouth. She was big, greasy, pimply. She was talking and joking and cohorting more with the customers than watching the food. Desperate, I ordered a grilled ham and cheese and watched her barely pay attention to it as it sizzled on the grill. I finally got the sandwich and it was the best damn grilled ham and cheese I ever ate! That was 20 years ago and I still think of that sandwich!” — eieuxezyk
8.
“Going on 8 years now and I have seen a lot but one always sticks out. I’m at a red light behind a few cars and see this lady walking on the sidewalk along my driver side. On the other side of the sidewalk she is walking is a Burger King with the drive thru next to the sidewalk. Well as me and all the cars in line waiting and the poor car at the drive Thur and person working there this lady stops, pulls down her pants and takes the biggest s**t I have ever seen, pulls pants back up and keeps on walking…I will never forget the face of the drive thru driver and workers face as they were maybe 5 feet from the action. Thank you Fullerton Ca.” — Aethermask
9.
“I worked at a restaurant a few years back where one of the managers was an ex truck driver. One day I asked him why he quit, and he nonchalantly told me he backed over an old man that had wandered behind his truck and he couldn’t see. He said his head exploded. He said that was enough for him and got out of the industry.” — rumplestrut
10.
“I had an uncle who used to tell the story of many years ago he was taking a load to the west coast he hit a truck stop in the mid west and there was a girl couldn’t be more than 14 trying to sell herself and doing it badly, he told her he’d give her a hundred bucks, she gets in and he drives off promises he is going to help her, finds out she ran away he stops gets her a fast food dinner, and drops her at a local shelter, she gets in, then goes on his way, on his way back from the west coast he stops same place, there she is again this time looking worse for the wear. He just sighed and got his shower, food and moved on.” — publicservantguy1
