Forced onto third shift...

they may have needed someone they could depend on, and keep an ""eye" on things"

maybe they got a bunch of slackers over there..???

they have money invested in that take over.

no, you will not be a company snitch, but rather maybe an example for the rest to follow what the company expects of them.

take this slide over as a possible compliment more than an insult.

leaving now may be like cutting off your nose, to spite your face.

 

Midnight to 9am shift. That is awesome

 

I worked nights in various non-trucking jobs for about 15 years.

Keep your room dark.

Run a cheap box fan to generate "white noise" while you sleep.

It was easier for me to keep my same sleep/wake cycle on my days off, but I realize it's not possible for some people to do that.

I'm back driving again, and while I enjoy being in daylight, I find myself gravitating to a night schedule if the load permits.

Good luck.

 

"Barry White, a spokesman at California's Employment Development Department, which administers unemployment benefits for workers in the state, explained it this way: Good cause exists when a "substantial motivating factor" causing a quit was "real, substantial, and compelling and would cause a reasonable person who genuinely wants to stay employed to quit under the same circumstances."

Let's say a worker has typical daytime hours, perhaps from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., and has family care responsibilities in the evenings. The employer demands a shift change to night hours, from 4 p.m. to midnight.

This worker could likely quit and collect unemployment, Woodbury said."

 

I find there’s a lot less people around to pay for any of my mistakes, kinda makes me feel lonely though, let me clip your bumper in a right hand turn

 

Look at it from the bright side, at least it is the same period of day/night so you can get used to it. It is especially difficult to adjust to ever-changing shift times, one day a driver gets 10 hour break for sleep at night, next day in the afternoon, the day after in the morning.

 

You're new; give it time, grasshopper . . . ~!

j/k... WISH YOU WELL~~!

 

Don't see you around these parts much anymore. . . I was up in 'your' neck of the woods last night; Vandalia.

Who 'are' you driving for, nowadays?!?

 

True. I don’t know if I could deal with that. I know a lot of OTR guys do that. That has to be very difficult

 

Yeah, beyond difficult, during the Orientation with one of the mega companies, doctor said the average lifespan of a truck driver is 10 year shorter than of the average person in the U.S., I Googled it now and it says 17 years shorter. It probably has to do a lot with sleep deprivation.

Inconsistency of sleep wears body out, difficult to get consistent sleep when pick up/delivery appointments are at all times days/nights, especially for OTR drivers who work long hours for weeks with no days off, I did that for a little bit, my stomach didn't function well, body started to shut down, I wasn't able to continue, the extra few hundreds $ a month weren't worth it, I went for a more steady schedule.

Working a steady night shift at least offers consistency.