Rest Areas, Dumping Options

[WPB]

Has anyone else notice the trucks dumping their sewage in the parking lots of the rest areas. I witnessed this at a rest area on I-10 in Fla about 2 pm. He dumped it, jumped into the cab and took off. I informed the security people working at the desk, gave them the truck numbers/company. Don't know if anything was ever done about it, probably not. There was a dump station at the end of the lot too. Here in the Southeastern US I have noticed a sewer-age smell in the Truck/RV parking areas of the Rest Areas especially in the HOT summer months. I've also noticed small piles of old toilet paper packed on the asphalt. It never crossed my mind what was happening untill I saw the trucker dumping his holding tank. This practice is disgusting and un healthy. I am concerned that the RV community will get the blame for this. For those of you who are not aware, most of the trucks out there have toilets just like RV's. If you see this get the truck information and report them.

[kennard04]

Well, all PC aside, I have been RVing fulltime for 3 years and frankly I have seen a deterioration of truckers attitides in those three years that has been rather dramatic. So let's report any abuse like this we see, so they can be punished regardless of who they are.

truck drivers used to be called 'Knights of the road', but now ? I can't repeat on a family web site. I have truckers force me off the road if they thought I was trying to cut them off when all I really was doing was trying to merge, I've had them tailgating me, flipping me off, blowing their horn if they think I'm not going fast enough or there's nowhere to pull over safely. Truckers on the west coast routinely blow by me at 80+mph. They're rude, they're not the same high class people that we used to know as truck drivers. And as I deal professionally with truckers everyday, I know that their business ethics leave much to be desired. Buit that's another subject for another day.