HEAVY Dumbbells in the truck?

Good idea, I've been looking at those folding bikes - most of them look goofy with those little wheels, but I found this one which looks like a regular mtn bike. Thought I'd pass it along.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UwixrhGILo

 

2- 200lb dumbbells ####! How about a lug wrench practice loosening and tightening your lug nuts. Maybe sliding your tandems with your truck running.

 

These swift teams run guys that that are 300lb+ a piece. Don't think carrying those around would hurt. Just put them in the side compartment. If your close on weight just watch when you fuel and rolling a scale. I would bring em. I went 5 yrs without iron in my life and I was closing in on 300lbs. Why I went LTL linehaul. Don't have to worry about that anymore. Get your year in and get off long haul. Go regional or dedicated. Until they make real gyms near truckstops and help fix this problem. Only way I'd go back to long haul.

 

I was a part of a Swift team that was breaking 800 lbs pretty easy.

 

Driver Health, use as much weight as u can. If, i hit to big of a bump in the road, i send supplements flying. Once while clearing customs, the female officer question me on my 3lb container of whey protein concentrate...thinking it was too much for me to be carrying crossing the border. i.e. drugs...i broke out in a deep loud laugh and told her its the way its sold. (allowed to proceed) Myself, i have a dual elliptical & bike in my truck. 120 lbs of sand vest for high rep squats & then 300lbs in weights. Scales rarely become an issue. Fudge space exists with fuel purchases and scale locations. (diesel fuel weighs 8lbs per gallon.) remain awesome to yourself.

 

Any update on how OP did with his ventures?

 

The OP hasn’t been seen since 2014, unfortunately.

 

Shame.

 

OTR trucking is tough on the body and mind.

 

Leave those 400 pounds of iron at home. Use your spare tire and wheel out of the trailer rack instead.

Such Iron cannot be secured enough to be safe inside the tractor's cab or sleeper unfortunately. It will try to escape the plastic cabinet or whatever and proceed to injure or kill you.

Finally but not least, the Captain Obvious school of problems is first prefaced with tare weight. You will find it difficult to get good loads that borderline you at 80000 pounds.

You must be quite something else 400 pounds of iron is quite a lot.