Trucking Magazine – July 2019

MY MISTAKE FOOD ON THE GO

68 TRUCKING Summer 2019

One driver’s cautionary tales of irresponsible snacking

By Bill Dean

ILLUSTRATION ANITA WATERS

FOOD ON THE GO

hours later), or the

dashboard gets covered

with fragments of Gregg’s

flaky pastry.

By the way, is it beyond

the wit of the UK’s bakers to

produce a pie surround

which doesn’t explode into a

cannonade of crumbs with

the first bite?

Of course, you can take

sandwiches. This presents

two problems. The first is:

when do you make them?

The night before and they go

curly, unless you keep them

in the fridge – in which case

they go soggy. Or in the

morning, when you’re

creeping about trying not to

N

o-one tells you

when you start

driving for a

living that not

only is there no

canteen with the job, but

there are also few cafés or

sandwich shops with room

for a 40 ft wagon outside.

The only choice is to eat in

the cab when you find a

quiet spot on an industrial

estate or an empty lay-by for

your 45-minute break.

The problem with this is

the cab either gets stunk out

with the smell of chips

(seductively appetising as

you drive past chip shops,

but decidedly queasy two