Feeding your mind and entertaining yourself over the road

I started listening to podcasts before the term podcast was invented. I used podcasts to escape trucking. I never wanted to be in trucking, found a couple of places to stay in trucking and am glad I retired from trucking. I cannot imagine spending one minute of my free time thinking about trucking. Other drivers are in the industry and like it. I would recommend you listen to Kevin Rutherford's podcasts. I think you have to pay for them, I'm not sure. I listened to him on my free satellite radio subscription with a new truck. He has the Power Hour, for engine stuff. He has a business hour about the dollar and cents of trucking.

I listened to politics and religious podcasts, plus comedy, history and science and a little bit of true crime. There are a million podcasts. You will need to search among them to find what you like.

 

Correction. You will need at a MINIMUM a laptop you use only for day trading and at best two laptops when you get heavy into it.
My brother-in-law discovered this the hard way when his laptop took a poo and he lost serious $$$ shorting a stock.

 

My wife uses a laptop for trading.

 

have a 22in with a built in dvd player. bunch of dvd's to choose from.
also have alot of western paperback books to read.
when driving i just turn misic on

doing local stuff now

 

There not trucking books, but W.E.B. Griffin books on audible are good, on last book of brotherhood of war series.

 

Spank the monkey

 

I heart radio......free and a crap load of podcasts. I used to listen to Dateline all the time.
All you need is a patch cable from your phone to the little hole in the radio.

 

You get YouTube TV you can watch on your tablet when sitting in the sleeper. $75 a month.

 

In the mornings I listen to various sports shows going down the road. I'm into different sports so I like to hear the breakdowns. Other times, i listen to shows that discuss psychology, foreign languages, or any type of deep discussion. I definitely like discussions, the type where ideas are exchanged, not where the host tries to flex his or her intellectual muscle, or tries to hammer opinions too hard.