Truck drivers and vaping gear...

[Banshee]

Ok I drive a big truck over the road and I am out usually 4-6 weeks at a time. I am carrying all of my vape gear back and forth from home to truck as well as a HUGE amount of juice. It's getting cumbersome. With 30+ batteries, 5 mods, coils, 9 tanks and 15 RDA's, replacement stuff in case something breaks, plus wire, cotton and building gear. I know, I know... I should just bring "some" of it out, but no matter what I bring, I find the thing I want was left at home, so I just carry it all. Anyone else drive and have this issue? There are some shops that are accessible with a truck, but they usually aren't very good shops and rarely have the "thing" I'm needing or looking for in a pinch.

I have one of those leather shower bags (looks like a mini duffle bag) from Loves with the gear, but that's over flowing and a large plastic tub of juice with about 20 x 120 mls of juice. I have separate chargers for home and the truck so that's about the only thing I don't drag back and forth.

How do other drivers handle this? Do you carry everything back and forth or just some of your stuff?

 

[SMOKIE]

Ok I drive a big truck over the road and I am out usually 4-6 weeks at a time. I am carrying all of my vape gear back and forth from home to truck as well as a HUGE amount of juice. It's getting cumbersome. With 30+ batteries, 5 mods, coils, 9 tanks and 15 RDA's, replacement stuff in case something breaks, plus wire, cotton and building gear. I know, I know... I should just bring "some" of it out, but no matter what I bring, I find the thing I want was left at home, so I just carry it all. Anyone else drive and have this issue? There are some shops that are accessible with a truck, but they usually aren't very good shops and rarely have the "thing" I'm needing or looking for in a pinch.

I have one of those leather shower bags (looks like a mini duffle bag) from Loves with the gear, but that's over flowing and a large plastic tub of juice with about 20 x 120 mls of juice. I have separate chargers for home and the truck so that's about the only thing I don't drag back and forth.

How do other drivers handle this? Do you carry everything back and forth or just some of your stuff?

Best to have mods that USB charge so no need to carry extra bats, and chargers.
And a few different tanks with extra coil heads plus some being RTA so all you would really need is a cotton change.

On 35 years driving the Big Rig

 

[Banshee]

Yeah all mine USB charge, but I also use an external charger to keep them balanced. I'm so paranoid of not having what I need after I leave. Lmao! Maybe I just have a hoarding problem.

35 years? Whew! I'm just a baby with 6 years under my belt.

 

[SMOKIE]

Yeah all mine USB charge, but I also use an external charger to keep them balanced. I'm so paranoid of not having what I need after I leave. Lmao! Maybe I just have a hoarding problem.

35 years? Whew! I'm just a baby with 6 years under my belt.

Actually 37 years this year, started in 1979 driving for Whalen Trucking hauling for Proctor and Gamble. We were their house trucking Co out of Port Ivory Staten Island, NY.

 

[Banshee]

Nice! The stories you could tell, right? I don't know how you've done it so long. My hats off to you sir. Just in the short time I've been out here I've seen it go from bad to worse, I can't imagine the changes you've seen. I had the great fortune of being trained by an old timer that started driving in 1967 and he instilled a lot of his old school values/mentality in me. It scares me that companies are letting 6 month rookies train the new drivers. After 6 years I still don't feel qualified to teach someone.

 

[SMOKIE]

Well I have never been over the road, some regional but mostly a city driver. And for the majority of my career it had been Teamster Power! that has kept me going.

And I should of been retired already but would have no medical benifits, so I keep working till I reach 65 to collect. 7 more years, and counting down.

 

[UncleRJ]

Not that I drive a truck, but from time to time I do take longish road trips.

And while driving, I usually use a mod that operates as a pass-through device plugged into a port.

 

[Rabbit Slayer]

I'd get a few of those Isticks with the 5,000 mAh battery packs, at least one tank system with replaceable coils-heads and a pack of coils for backup in case your rebuildables need work and you don't have time to stop

 

[Shorevaper]

Im a heavy equipment operator in the logging business and its a pain in the ass 12 hrs a day with juice and extra batterys I couldn't imagine being over the road . my hats off to you sir keep on trucking

 

[Canadian Vaper]

Toolbox, with drawer organizer inserts to stop stuff from moving around...

Used a ammo case for a while too..

 

[Waffle Baron]

Isticks with the 5,000 mAh battery

Love this mod in particular, it's small has all the settings you need and that 5000mah battery lasts me 2 days of vaping at work before I need to plug it in

 

[Huckleberried]

@Boattlebot and @zaroba might have some suggestions?

 

[Boattlebot]

Go to walmart. look at their fishing tackle boxes. their rugged and keep everything neat and organized while being easy to stow away. if your solo get the bigger one and you can keep it on your unused top bunk or passenger foot area. if you team, I'd get a smaller one.

If your in Albuquerque nm park at the ta and oasis vape is a mile and a half easy walk away. their juice is great price and it's good. you could potentially park at the mall across the street but it's gunna be a tight turn with a 53.

In indy, tilburrys vaping elixars is near I believe the frieghtshaker dealer on kentucky.

If you see a Werner rig where the driver's rollin more coal then the rig, give a wave stay safe driver

 

[Banshee]

Go to walmart. look at their fishing tackle boxes. their rugged and keep everything neat and organized while being easy to stow away. if your solo get the bigger one and you can keep it on your unused top bunk or passenger foot area. if you team, I'd get a smaller one.

If your in Albuquerque nm park at the ta and oasis vape is a mile and a half easy walk away. their juice is great price and it's good. you could potentially park at the mall across the street but it's gunna be a tight turn with a 53.

In indy, tilburrys vaping elixars is near I believe the frieghtshaker dealer on kentucky.

If you see a Werner rig where the driver's rollin more coal then the rig, give a wave stay safe driver

I'm going through Albuquerque tomorrow. Loading in CA today. I'll check that shop out. Thanks!!!

I deliver in Ohio on Tuesday so I'll be going through Indiana. I drive for KLLM. I think I have the only Volvo on the interstate without doilies in the front window.

 

[zaroba]

sorry for not coming by sooner, don't have internet often with my laptop and accessing the site via cell phone is a pain in the ass.

I'm over the road, out 2-3 months at a time and go through around 30ml a day dripping.
The best thing I can suggest is to get 2 of everything so you can keep stuff at home for home time, as well as keeping stuff in the truck for when on the road. The only thing I have to transfer between my truck and house is my mod, battery box (11 pairs of batteries, use 2-4 pairs a day), liquid bottles to refill, and mini tackle box of RDAs so I can clean them.

Everything else I have some at home and one in the truck. Cotton, wire, coil master coiler, battery charger, etc.



If you have a facebook account, look up the group Twisted Vapors
Its a vaping group for truck drivers and many people can point you in the direction of truck stops that have vape shops nearby

 

[zaroba]

For battery storage, look for a 10 gauge shotgun shell case from Amazon. They perfectly hold 18650 batteries. Can get a cheap plastic one for around $5 that holds 25. Charged batteries right side up, drained batteries upside down.

For liquid storage, I just use a shoebox.
I found one the perfect size to hold my 19 240ml bottles.