Still learning things about this before even starting

That guy does reefer and I have found that to be much worse for sleep than dry van. If you are sleep deprived then you definitely want to grab sleep whenever you can even if it means being abruptly woken up. Just part of the job.

I don't know how sleep deprived he is though. I saw him at a NJ cold storage warehouse last month and he backed into the dock then sat in the driver's seat either talking into his Bluetooth or to a camera.

 

In my opinion, driving a car 11 hours is WAY easier than driving a truck the same amount of time. Every bump and bridge joint is magnified in a truck, despite air ride tractors with air ride seats. 600 miles is a piece of cake in a car, but brutal in a truck. People don't realize how hard it really is on a person's body to drive a big truck all day, day after day.

 

I did not and will not watch that video and I watch very few drivers that are legends in their own minds. However as a former reefer driver I was used to those knocks as well as the noise that reefer made starting and stopping. However as I think back to my driving days loading and unloading I was called on my cell phone or had a pager to be notified I was needed in the office. In the trucking world there are many negatives. Over time you will start to get used to most of them. Now as to shutting down and doing a 10 I did this many times dockside because of my 14 hour clock running out. Once you are finished and the place where you are allow it you can sleep for the most part uninterrupted. However even in the dry van world there are going to be times when this can't be helped. This is not a major problem. It will pass. If however it don't pass I suggest you give serious thought to changing from OTR to maybe a local job in a daycab or getting out of this business. If you can't sleep in a tractor it is not a matter of if but of when you have that collapse. Hopefully it won't happen when you are going 65MPH on a highway with a lot of other vehicles around you!