A clean semi truck should be your top priority. After all, it’s your place of work and a home away from home. You spend countless hours driving from place to place, picking up and delivering loads. Keeping your cab clean and organized can improve your health and overall well-being.
Health and Wellness
For health and wellness purposes, it is important to:
- Use a Garbage Bag/Can: Allowing trash to pile up in your truck is unhealthy. A garbage bag or waste can lets you toss trash in while keeping the rest of the cab neat. Your work and living space will be cleaner and odor-free.
- Check the Air Filter: Follow the owner’s manual instructions for cleaning or replacing the truck’s cabin air filter. Neglecting to do so can create a musty smell and lead to unhealthy conditions, as you’ll constantly be breathing in dirty air.
- Use an Air Freshener: Lingering smells from meals, exhaust from other vehicles, roadkill, or whatever it may be can affect your quality of life. An air freshener makes it easier to drive, eat, and sleep.
- Sanitize Your Keys: If this seems a little obsessive, think about all the times you’ve unwittingly tossed a set of keys on the counter, dropped them on the floor, or touched them after contacting other surfaces. Play it safe with a disinfectant spray, antibacterial wipe, or a wipedown with soap and water.
- Don’t Tread Through the Cabin in Work Shoes: When you go to the bunk or other parts of the cabin, take your work shoes off. They may have dirt, rocks, soil, snow, salt, etc. Have a separate set of shoes for other activities.
Cleanliness
Knowing how to clean the inside of a semi truck is crucial. Here are some of your best options:
- Truck Vacuum: When dust, dirt, and crumbs collect in your cab and sleeping area, a truck vacuum can get rid of them. Vacuum under the seats, carpets, and the mattress. A handheld 12-volt wet/dry vacuum can quickly vacuum up just about anything.
- Glass Cleaner: A cleaning solution formulated to clean glass will remove dirt and grime from the windshield and mirrors and leave them streak-free, ensuring you have an unobstructed view.
- Clean the Dashboard/High-Touch Surfaces: The dashboard, knobs, buttons, touchscreens, center console, steering wheel, and other high-touch surfaces should be sanitized with a gentle cleaner and soft cloth to eliminate germs.
- Use Floor Mats: Install floor mats that match the truck’s make, model, and year, ensuring a good fit. They protect underlying surfaces, are typically non-slip, and look great. But remember to clean them regularly.
- Wipe Down the Cabin with Soap and Water: Be thorough and mix soap and water in a spray bottle, wiping down the dashboard, floor, headliner, and other cabin surfaces.
Organization
Being organized makes for a better trucking experience and improves safety as well. Here are some suggestions:
- Storage Containers: Piles of stuff and clutter are not good in trucks. Get baskets, totes, or plastic containers to organize food items, clothing, and toiletries. A milk crate is convenient for storing supplies like cleaning and engine fluids.
- Device Mounts/Document Holders: At Suburban Seating & Safety, we supply laptop mounts and cellphone holders so your electronics are secure and always at eye level. Holders to organize documents are available as well.
- Straps/Cords: Bungee cords, pull straps, and securing straps prevent loose items from shifting around in the cab or causing hazardous conditions. We offer multipurpose webbing as well that can be used for belts, straps, and harnesses.
- Sort and Reorganize: In addition to a clean semi truck, it’s important to keep your sleeper clean and organized. It can quickly become cluttered and uncomfortable. Regularly take everything out, sort what you need, and discard anything that’s not needed.
Suburban Seating & Safety Has What You Need
We have everything needed to maintain the interior of your cab, including commercial truck seats, van seats, cushions and parts, sneeze guards, mattresses, and safety products. Browse, add items to your cart, or contact us for a quote. If you have any questions or need assistance, call 844-727-7328 today.
