What kind of trucker are ya? (day or night)

Whatever it takes to make the load work. I prefer to run days, but it's more efficient to run nights... so I run mostly at night.

Its about the dead presidents...

 

Night and Day. Always seem to want a bit of sleep around 5 AM for some reason though

 

yea the 3-6 am hours get to me

 

Oilfield trucker....sleep is over rated

 

i loved driving at night but i drive when the money says too lol

 

I like nights the best unless it's raining ! then you get that #### reflection and glare from everything ,, sometimes you can't even tell what lane your in .

 

I hear ya! I have 20-15 and I prefer dark and raining to lighted and raining because of the glare.

 

I'm definitely a Solar-powered trucker driverer, but unfortunately freight doesn't always let me pick. If it did, I'd run daylight only, though. Up early, do my day, pick my parking spot (back line between two O/O's, preferably at least one reefer for white noise to sleep to.), hit the buffet before all the buffalo come charging in.

 

Thats what makes it fun. A bit of blindness where you can see absolutely nothing gives you an adrenalin rush from hell. You catch your second wind. Your adrenalin pumping, your heart racing, eyes wide open all kinds of natural drugs pumping threw your system, almost as good as sex, last thing you think about is sleep, just pushing harder, faster, longer more adrenalin, more drugs in your blood. You become completely focused ready to tackle the world and kick its ace hard! Unfortunatly way to soon the bad weather lifts, you get your stupid visibility back rush dwindles. Eventually come down from your high and realize you been driving to long, peek at your logs to find you been on line 3 for the last 13 hours straight. Thats what its all about, thats where all the fun is in this industry.

 

I went off the deep end and took days this year - started the year in a yard truck which was nice but bumped up to day line-haul and don't like it so much. Traffic blows, have to see suits at the meet terminal, and I have a harder time staying alert at 2 PM than I did at 2 AM. Lesson learned - back to nights for me next bid.