Making your day efficient

Fuel, eat, shower, 30 minute break - all inclusive, fast as you can - about 10am.

Drive like snot the rest of the day, pre plan or reserve parking.

 

Try and fuel at end of your day. That way you get free shower credit you can use it during your 10 hour break.

Because of the 30 minutes break every 8 hours. Some days you are forced to take two 30 minutes breaks. If you drive first 3 hours none stop, take 30 minutes break. You can then finish the day without stopping for 30 minutes. You can stop say 15 minutes for snack or bathroom and keep going.

 

Oh another thing. This messed my sleep pattern baaaaad, which in turn, messed my efficiency.

If You do drop trailer at a DC, don't hang around to wait for it. The stoooopid yard dog kept blaring his horn, when I was tryna catch some shut eye.

I wished I had left the yard. Drove 10 miles to a truck Stop, find the remotest stop and sleep, wait till they call me to grab my empty.

Rest of that day was rough, to say the least, but got caught up, thx to paper logs.

 

If you need a shower in middle of day. You can take a shower during your 30 minute break. It may take 45-60 minutes but you only losing 15-30 minutes on your 14 hour day. Because the first 30 minutes was the required break. By the time pack clothes in bag walk across parking lot get shower and get back to truck it normal takes 1 hour or 1.5 hours


The same thing for washing clothes. You can put clothes in washer. That's 30 minutes. They put them in dryer and that 45 minutes to dry them. If your short on time you can go get a shower and you finish both at the same time. So you save 40 minutes.

 

If you're a dude learn how to tinkle into a cup in a moving vehicle. That could save you about 6 minutes every bladder evacuation. When you have that down pat learn to hold the cup until some pekkerhead decides to ride your mirror because he's too stupid to realize you're going slower than he is then give him some assistance in cleaning his windshield. Doing that will remove time from his 20 minutes of windshield cleaning at the fuel pump after he has already fueled and the poor driver that's stukk behind him will pull out less of his hair because he knows if he gets out of the trukk and tells the schmukk to move that could possibly result in another prison sentence. In the end everybody benefits. Best of lukk to you.

 

that was me ..... I think it was the hot sauce at the taco bell