Can't sleep while truck is moving

It probably not the trainer choice also. I was a trainer for a while and the company would tell the trainer how many miles the truck has to go a day. They would dispatch us as a team running team miles at 1,200 every 24 hours. So the truck could get that 5,000-6,000 miles a week. It would also get the new driver miles in he needed to go solo. I never like that way of running but it how lots of trucking company do it.

I always thought it was just a way for everyone to make money. The trucking company got team runs that paid good. The trainer got paid for all the miles the truck runs. The students got pretty quick training. I didn't think the training was really very good. Because the trainer is probably tired and the new driver is tired from not sleeping good. You just have look at the goal of getting you own truck and push thru the training I would say. If you have any questions ask the trainer and pick the info you can .

I tried to show my students how to do a trip plan and they would get mad or did not want do it. So I just let them do the 3 they had to do for training. My trainer did not show me and I wish he did.

 

Didn't see it mentioned yet but you sleeping on top bunk or bottom when moving? If you're up top throw your sleeping bag on the bottom.

You'll get used to it. My 1st gig was team food service runs

 

U will get tired and exhausted by the 3rd or so night that u could sleep thru a tornado

 

Wait till you see your paycheck....

 

I take melatonin. It helps me relax/sleep without waking up feeling groggy.

 

Man up, there will be things to complain about, this ain't one of them. When your tired enough you will sleep.

 

I am closing in on 2 years OTR and I am starting to figure out that other than learning to back, it's mostly about your body figuring out what in the heck you are doing to it. I get most of my high quality sleep in a 45 minute nap at 4 am these days. (I start my shift at midnight if possible). Just gotta know how to deal with the sleep inertia when you roll out. It's brutal at first when you aren't used to the sleep schedule of a truck driver. My first year I didn't take hometime but I did restarts on the road so I could sleep, now I almost never take a restart.

I had a 4 day breakdown on the road and was in a motel slept a solid 8+ hours every night and it actually messed me up when I went back to work.

Also, I always pull over and nap if I start nodding off. Sometimes I'm 45 minutes from my delivery and have to pull over for a quick 20 minute nap. Gotta do what you gotta do. I have no team experience. I started with Schneider and we never had to sleep in the truck while it was moving thankfully.

Google "polyphasic sleep cycle"