How do you operate?

I like to leave my house in the morning and arrive at my house in the evening,

 

Driving a truck will be much more different. It will tire you out, as you will have to keep your concentration level up and at all times. The bad weather will tire you, as well as all the delays at road construction sites.

Driving professionally cannot be taken lightly (not that you are by the way). Once you go to school, that alone will open up your eyes to the awesome responsibilities that you will be facing

 

Adapt and go with the flow. Night or day. I Don't have a preference. Whatever Shift pays the bills and going home every day.
Not a picky SOB. I just need my 60 hour restart each week. Less then that, very very very grumpy....

 

Drivers have difference in taste, in reference to night or day driving, night driving has less traffic and more closed scales, but animal activity is higher, day driving has a farther viewing distant, easier to see problem, more reaction time, you'll get some saying best time is day driving, while others will say night is the best, it's a personal opinion

 

That pretty much sums it up. I still prefer to drive days and sleep at night tho. Like someone said, if you don't do it all the time, it's hard to adjust. That's true for me. I prefer to get rollin' early tho and quit early evening. Less problems find a place to park. If we have no need for a truck stop and it's later, I jest pull it in a rest stop. Easy in, easy out and no pulling into a truckstop looking for 20 minutes just to leave and go down the road to the next one. Hell, once in a while, I'll just pull off on a ramp if it's late for that matter. Saves time and headaches.

 

I prefer driving at night and as a company driver I stuck to that. Now days cant really with customers, brokers and drivers calling all the time.

 

I slept 1 time in a truck stop. Im more of a exit ramp rest area kinda guy. In the dump bussiness alota customers let me sleep there so. But i usually run early morning 3 am or so from central pa west. But i do alota night driving to.. I wont tell you the hours i run cuz we all know majority of us dumps dont run legal. So with that said its mostly driving days. And i usually leave sunday and sitting at my house friday by noon with 5 loads for the week n 2500 plus miles in. N reloaded for sunday thats how i run some say it aint ssafe but i can tell u my set schedule is alot safer then the guy who sleeps differents time etc i usually wake up n go bed same time all week. Untill e logs r mandated then ill b home every night driving a feed truck

 

I used to like night driving but these days I drive only in the daytime from about 9am-8pm. The sunlight keeps me energized plus if I want to make pitstops at starbucks or some obscure restaurant along my route I know everything is open.

I also use my time while I am driving to keep up with my bills and keep everything back at home up and running. That business is all done on the phone and during the daytime hours I know anyone I may need to contact is available for me.