The best thing I've found for staying awake...

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by kdryan, Nov 2, 2010.

  1. 123456

    123456 Road Train Member

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    Very hot cup of coffee,





















    pour between legs as needed !!!!!

    It Workx........
     
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  3. scottied67

    scottied67 Road Train Member

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    Drive hungry, drive thirsty. You're a hunter/gatherer still. You don't eat til you get your kill (x amount of miles in a day). When you do eat, eat healthy, salads, chicken not beef if possible. Drink, drink healthy, water not high fructose corn syrupy drinks (they call it corn sugar now, don't be fooled lol) or iced tea instead of high caffeine sodas. If you have to get that combo meal from the fast food fast heart attack place, choose the chicken burger and iced tea-- McDonald's, Wendy's, Subway have salads now. Iced tea is good because if you don't finish the drink, it won't go flat over time and you can finish it later.

    I like to hold a pen while driving and tap it on the steering wheel in time with the music. Or a golf ball, squeezing it or tapping it on shifter. Sirius/XM channel changing between every song because the stupid DJ's have to constantly remind that it is SiriusXM as if I don't know that because I pay the bill and all and it's so confusing what with all the variety of satellite radio stations, I might forget--, or that the channel name is 80s on 8 or 90s on 9 or The Blend the blend, The Highway, The Nashville Flash, BPM, Another Movie Moment! the DJ coming on the air all excited like we just have to hear what they have to say --NOT, all that stuff is annoying to me and keeps me ticked off and awake. I really want one song after another all day nice and mindless. But constant channel chasing probably keeps me awake more come to think of it.
     
  4. GasHauler

    GasHauler Master FMCSA Interpreter

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    Sleep is the only way.

    I have invented a sleep need indicator thou. It's a ballcap with fishing line and a treble hook. You wear the ballcap with the fishing line going down your back. Then place the fishing line between your butt cheeks and hook the treble hook to your scrotum. That's it. Just make sure the line is tight so when you nod your head the indictor will let you know it's time to pull over and sleep. Sorry no female device yet but working on it.
     
  5. rodknocker

    rodknocker Road Train Member

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    Getcha a 10mg ambien (not ambien cr but ambien) and a couple beers or a large glass of wine on your off time. You'll sleep like a baby for at least 5 hours. Then you'll be able to drive all night and then some without overloading on caffine or that other stuff.
     
  6. GasHauler

    GasHauler Master FMCSA Interpreter

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    Ambien has some bad side effects. The worse side effect is sleep walking and memory loss. It's very common for people not to remember what they did while taking ambien and even for some time after. Then to top it off with beer has got to be the worse advice you could give anyone that drives for a living. If you were to be tested after an accident and ambien shows up your case is over and you have to take what the courts give you. At the minimum I'm sure you'll be out of a job.
     
  7. Bazerk Wizz Bang!

    Bazerk Wizz Bang! Medium Load Member

    Sleep is for panzies!
    There will be time to sleep
    when you are dead!
    Untill then, roll on!


    Adderall is prescription crank! (crank kills say you? Then you say your trying to get prescription for crank?) Easiest way to make cash is to go to border and bring bottles of it across. Most every waitress or female entertainer in Vegas, and I am sure the other Vegas areas is hooked on it. With Navadas no tolerance law its a sellers market fetching top dollar for it.

    Im not, I am just little feller :( Thats whats wrong with trucking today, two many fat cats, and nobody cares about the little man anymore.

    Scotied advise I like best, beside the prescription crank idea: drive hungry thirsty ets. I drive almost exclusively grave yard shift. I worked graveyard shift many years before trucking 6pm to 6:30am. Kinda used to it. Good sleep, fresh air is great, exercise putting the cruise on and tapping your feet to the music, spicy food is great, like those nasty jalapeno burgers at t/a's fresh air again, no recirculating on your temp controls just fresh (when not on defrost mode) get as much 02 in cab as possible. Changing music, singing, cb.

    Anything you can do to keep brain muscle stimulated will prevent it from falling asleep with certain limitations. There will come a time when you brain goes into self preservation mode and begins a shutdown process regardless (excluding those under influence of illegal drugs or adderall) recognizing those signs before it happens is one of the best tools in a drivers fatigue arsenal. Shut er down before its two late.
     
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  8. trukngrl

    trukngrl Lollipop, lollipop...

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    Now why does it have to be a girl thing about sleep!! LOL :biggrin_25523:
     
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  9. CondoCruiser

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    Take Ambien and wake up at the receiver. You made money and don't know how you did it. It doesn't get any better. :biggrin_2559:
     
  10. Bazerk Wizz Bang!

    Bazerk Wizz Bang! Medium Load Member

    It goes something like this: Big balls make strong men, strong. Small balls or no balls make week men, week. Weak men are refered to girls becouse girls dont have any...Well you know.."down there".

    I dont know how to translate into girl lingo. Obviously there are very strong women, and very week women out there but the female sex has yet to attach a slang term for the weeker or stronger of there sex. Perhaps you could enlighten us?
     
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  11. Injun

    Injun Road Train Member

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    Hmph. A lot of hooey there.

    I know a guy who has small cajones. The rest of him? He's strong as a horse.

    And the one guy I dated with a set like a buffalo couldn't do two pushups.

    My experience with women is they are generally too catty to apprciate one another's body parts.
     
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