If you’re a new trucker learning how to hit the road with the best snacks and trying to find a gas station snack, there’s only one man to turn to: Uncle Rob.
Uncle Rob, described as a legend in the trucking community, knows what he’s talking about. Uncle Rob has been on the road since the 1980s, with 32 years of truck driving under his belt.
He says the essentials to do 1,800 miles in a night are the following: “Jack Links, gummy bears, kitty kitty (Kit Kats), Emmy’s (M&Ms), Sardines (he might blow you out of the cab with this one), Peanut butter crackers, and roller dogs.”
Uncle Robs further states that for an 1,800-mile haul, you need ten roller dogs: “five plain ones, five loaded ones.”
This gives us an inside glimpse on how roller dogs might be the key to eternal function. 1,800 miles is a long haul, but if you do the math, roller dogs make it easy. 1,800 miles divided by ten roller dogs is 180. This means that one roller dog will give truckers 180 miles of energy.
On average, truck drivers drive 500–600 miles per day. Let’s go in the middle and say 550 miles. 550 miles divided by 180 miles of energy is 3.06. Rounding down, that’s three roller dogs a day for truckers.
Your average long-distance truck driver would haul around 100,000 miles a year. 100,000 miles divided by 180 is around 556. So, your average trucker would eat about 556 roller dogs a year.
Truckers spend an astounding amount of time alone, and they also eat a lot of roller dogs, meaning these roller dogs may be the key to staying sane.
So, what if this gas station treasure is the key to not going insane? With just a diet of roller dogs, you can reach an almost perfect state of mind and ascend to more than just a human.
The trucker diet, whilst questionable, is just full of one hero and his group of friends discovering what it means to keep going.
Questionable they may be, they still might be the key to a superior conscience. This is a perfect case of not judging a book by its cover.
