Im new just 3 months of OTR and I enjoy driving just getting used to sleeping in a running truck my problem is im used to day job getting up in morning and sleeping at night. The other day picked up a load at 8:00 pm then headed out got to about 1:00 am and my eyelids were flickering rapidly. Headed to first truck stop and slept till 7:00 am. still had 6 hours of driving left and got the load delivered at 200 pm. Maybe i can find a local run day shift only. What can i do?
Having trouble driving at night
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it'll get easyer the more you do it. I can stay awake for days, but if im driving its a differant story. When i first started out OTR i was good until 2am, then i started getting REALLY tired. Then i could start my day at 6am and be fine, but between 2am and 6 am it was hard to stay awake. As time went on i found it easyer and easyer to stay awake later and later and start my day earlyer and earlyer.
Now its exciting to run all night, since i rarely do it. I like to start at like 8pm and drive till 7 am
Makes ya feel like a real trucker when you out truckin all night blastin some good tunes while everyone else is sleeping.
Don't give up, just take it easy and it'll get better.
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ive been late a couple of times but it wasn't a problem they just said you gota wait until i unload everyone else. That Volvo is the truck i just bought . I drive a freightshaker columbian but it still makes me sleepe.
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