PORTSMOUTH, Eng. — The owner of one of the world’s swankiest cruise ship lines thinks truck drivers are a smelly bunch and that his customers should not have to mingle with them.

According to England’s Telegraph newspaper, Lord Sterling, the boss at the five-star Swan Hellenic Cruise Lines, was touring a dock facility in Portsmouth Eng., and was “taken aback” when he saw that his “prized passengers” would be boarding at the same time as local ferries would be loading up.

The Telegraph reports that Sterling told reporters after the tour: “We want to create a certain atmosphere, a five-star setting, as soon as people arrive to travel. I am concerned our customers, who are expecting that, will instead to be asked to mix with lorry drivers who in the summer suffer from BO, wear shorts and no shirt and in some cases won’t have shaved for days.”

In response, the port manager told Sterling that ferry customers will be boarded at different times than cruisers.

We here at todaystrucking.com would like to suggest that if Mr. Sterling would prefer trucks NOT deliver the caviar, champers, food, fuel, and, oh, everything else his prize passengers need, he could merely have a car sent ’round to pick it up.