Can I bring my Xbox or Playstation in the truck

I have a 1800 watt inverter in my truck. It runs my PS4 and my 25 inch HD tv with no problems. When you’re running good, you don’t have a lot of time, but trust me, unless you have a set run, you will have down time. Like it was said, if you run Reefer, long unload times. I pull a food grade tanker. You’ll have some wait times at the wash. Not everyone needs 8 to 10 hrs sleep.

 

After I eat and piss, yes. I always sleep as much as I can.

The only piece of advice that my trainer gave me that was worth anything, always sleep when you can. If you're being live loaded at the customer crawl in sleeper lay down and sleep. If they require you to check for green, set your alarm for every 45. Get up and go back to sleep. Do this cause there will be times you will have to run loads straigh through and cant pull over and will need to be alert the whole time.

He was right two. Did a dedicated. Pickup and drop on the same day. No break in between. If I stayed ahead of schedule I could pull over for a nap, if not time for coffee.

 

The 70 hour rule reduces a drivers drive time down to about 8 hours a day.
24 minus 8 is 16 hours to goof off each day.

Sure a well seasoned pro would stop at every exit to nap or eat and complain about the window lickers having no work ethic, but the pro will drive his 8 hours in a 22 hour window and then redo the log to look like he kept the door shut and “got er done”
Where a new driver would get it done and then park and take his 10 plus hour break.

 

I know Ridge. It sickens me. I use to game before I went on the road. I use to be addictsd to tv too. Now, I dont own a game system and I dont watch much tv unless it is sports, or a movie on dvd.

My uncle taught me a lot. He was old school. Show up. Drive, be professional, do a true pre and post trip, always get weight right, be nice to the scale master. Keep the cb on for accidents. Dont be a cb rambo, act like you have done this before. Dont piss on the legacies of the men that came before you and built this business. Always help your fellow trucker when you can.

I still try and live by those words.

 

Great post.

 

Thank ya.

 

Inverter and APU if you're cool. I game all the time and I'm cooler than all these people. Make those a requirement for whatever company you're looking at.

 

I'm not even close to being new generation and I have my gaming stuff with me, yep dang near 60yrs old and I game.
Hey , and guess what I get my sleep too.
Yes that's right instead of an hour or so of tv before bed I'll break out my laptop and do a little gaming.
Its really a nice thing to have with you on the road. Especially when your down for the weekend at a truck stop.

 

I'm old school and I game on the road.
Oh and I also wa6ch tv, lol

 

That's cute and all, but I know many people (including myself) who can function on as little as six hours of sleep. Hell, I'm not even on the truck anymore, and even when I was running I didn't have a gaming system, but the notion the older generations have towards gaming is hilarious. I could shower, eat, watch a movie, come on TTR and still get perfectly adequate rest. Same with playing on XBOX for half an hour. Half the older generation is a bunch of pot-bellied, technologolical fossils who think they should command respect because they've been eating gravy pizzas for 20 years and that's the way she goes.