AA while on the road????

MarineNewRookie, sent you a PM, not sure if you can access it, though.

Glad you started this thread, I have never been able to make it work on the road, but maybe you can. Maybe it will help me, too!

If you can't read my PM, I guess the Admins can make an exception, my email addy is in the PM.

Good luck, and God Bless!

 

Just spoke to my dad who has known Bill W for 35+ years and is very involved with AA at the state level. He said they get calls all the time from truckers looking for meetings and do everything they can to accomodate the drivers. So, always call, local members will be glad to help.

 

I found putting half the effort into finding a meeting and staying sober as I used to finding a bottle and staying drunk worked for me.

 

Congratulations on the 538 days (just one of my quirks. It helps me to remember one day at a time if I count in days instead of years or months. I also believe if it is one day at a time whoever got up first this morning has the most sobriety, maybe a conspiracy by the East coast people against us West coasters )
I knew a gentleman who spent 28 years in and out before he left us. He never did get a full year in. The closest he came was one year his birthday was on a Friday. His group gave out cakes on Wednesdays and were going to give it to him 2 days early. He was so excited he got to the church where the meetings were held 2 hours early and started pacing up and down on the sidewalk. After 90 minutes he couldn't take it anymore and crossed the street to the bar and got drunk. He 12th stepped and got hundreds of people sober but couldn't keep himself sober.

I owe people who have slips and come back a huge debt. They have done my suffering for me by proxy. After 11,718 days of sobriety my drunk and sober days are almost equal. Left to my own devices the hold this cunning, baffling, powerful disease has on my brain would tell me I have reached a break even point and it is OK to drink again. The newcomers and returnees tell me nothing has changed since I last drank, that the misery and insanity are still only a drink away. I hear their pain, remorse, and grief in their voices and see it in their faces and get the motivation to stay sober one more day.

 

wow thanks Marine for this thread....I'm an older dog getting into a new career, but have about 18+ years, so this thread has helped me a lot.

God bless and keep truckin one day at a time!

 

I'm a little late to the party, but I find that I drink much less driving OTR then when I'm local, but then again I don't really have a problem with turning it off if I need to. At home I drink several times a week, but on the road I'm always too busy to find time to stop and drink. Don't get me wrong, I've had my share of drinking on weekends when I'm laid over but for the most part I may go months without drinking while on the road and when I'm home I can become a big slush....sometimes drinking everyday for a couple weeks until my liver tells me it's time to take a break.

Anyway good luck and at least in today's world you can have internet and phone access pretty much nationwide 24/7 if you need to talk to somebody. I come from a family of heavy drinkers and drug users and even the ones that don't abuse stuff like that suffer from some sort of mental issues so I can sympathize with you. Again good luck.