ST. LOUIS — Bryan Scott took an order for a hot dog, a cooling towel around his neck. Then he got to work in his food truck, Doggie Mac's off of Market Street.
"It's almost unbearable to the point where it makes you ill," he said.
He said the key is to keep drinking water and to take frequent breaks.
Robert Murphy agreed. He is the site safety coordinator for PARIC on Ballpark Village construction.
He said he drinks eight bottles of water a day and workers stop for breathers around every fifteen minutes.
They have cooling stations, a cooling room, fans, and water for their workers. We saw several in the shade taking a break from the work on a day that felt nearly 100 degrees.
But for these construction workers, it can feel even hotter than that.
"A lot of times we are using tools that are going to be producing heat off those tools," said Murphy. "And then we're inside enclosed buildings a lot or we're out in the elements to where we don't have a lot of climate control."
It's the same for Bryan Scott. He said it can get to 120 degrees inside his food truck.
On Wednesday, he considered himself lucky. He was in the shade. There was a slight breeze. And he just bought a fan.
"It's probably 110 [degrees] on the truck," he said with a smile.
He said the cooling towel was extremely helpful.
"Put a little water on it. It's nice and cool. So this is kind of saving me as well," he said.
He's been working the food truck for six months full-time. As for what he'll do when he's done on Wednesday.
"Get home take a nice cold shower, lay out in the air. Try to relax."
Because even with this heatwave, Bryan Scott and Robert Murphy will be back at it on Thursday.