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On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:38:17 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> On 2025-09-24 06:31, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:16:03 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>> Don't forget the tomatoes. During harvest season I'd pass the trucks
>> that looked like bathtubs on wheels pile high with tomatoes. Most of
>> the time they were leaving a trail of tomatoes on I-5.
> 
> Here they box them first. Otherwise they crush.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-koSjUj7kU
https://boomcalifornia.org/2013/06/24/thinking-through-the-tomato-
harvester/

The second link describes the tandem development of the machinery and the 
tomatoes that can survive the machine.

"The key was a change in perspective. Instead of looking for flavor, 
texture, or even color or appearance, as he would have otherwise, he had 
in this project to learn to “look at a plant mechanically.” Flavor, liquid 
content, shape, and appearance were secondary to finding the properties 
that could be run successfully through the harvester. "

They look like tomatoes but don't necessarily taste like them. The white 
bins in the video and the text link are transferred to flatbed trucks for 
highway transport but the loads are piled high and not tarped so some loss 
is inevitable. 

> I'm curious.
> 
> When lorries park at some place waiting to be loaded the following day,
> does the driver go to an hotel somewhere, or sleep in the vehicle? And
> how do they go, taxi? I fear they mostly sleep on the vehicle, other
> thing would be expensive and eat on the earnings.

You sleep in the truck. 


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_sleeper

https://www.core77.com/posts/59146/What-Do-Luxury-Sleeper-Cabs-for-Long-
Haul-Truck-Drivers-Look-Like

https://www.cloudtrucks.com/blog-post/where-do-truckers-sleep

The company I drove for had very rudimentary sleeper, just a narrow bunk 
with some storage underneath like the first photo in the third link. 
Another company in the same city had larger sleepers and we were told 
'Drive for them and you'll need the bigger sleeper because you'll never 
get home.'

I'd typically be out two or three weeks with four or five days home. It 
sucks for anyone with a family. You're going to miss holidays, birthdays, 
graduations, and so forth. I'd drive during the Christmas holidays since 
it didn't matter to me and would give someone a chance to take the time 
off.

The truck stops have shower facilities and you get a coupon if you buy 
fuel. I never was fond of truckstop food so I'd get bread or bagels, 
granola, dry milk, canned food, and so forth. Most trucks had places 
around the manifold where you could stick a can and it wouldn't fall out. 
Hot meal in 100 miles.

For grocery shopping, doing your laundry, and so for you'd drop the 
trailer and 'bobtail' with just the tractor. 

Overnight parking might be a truck stop, rest area, where you were loading 
or delivering, or other quiet spot. Good luck with that. I parked at what 
looked like a peaceful little park. Seems it doubled as a landing pad for 
the LAPD helicopters.

It's a different life and it was fun until it wasn't. When I was a kid I 
wanted to be a truck driver. Of course my parents wouldn't hear of it. I 
was going to college or else. Years later when I was burned out with 
computers I decided it was time. Since there is no continuity beyond 
delivering a load it had the advantage for me that I could take the winter 
off and go to Arizona. In the spring I'd go back and hit the road. The 
industry has a very high turn over so there is always a truck waiting. 
You're paid by the mile so if freight is slow you'er not making money.

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