Do any of you have hobbies that you bring to help with down time?

Just curious.....

What does everyone do when you have (un)planned extra time on the road while you are waiting for others to do you the favor of doing their jobs so you can GTFO and do yours? Like it or not, a lot of us do end up with extra time while either waiting for (un)loading, repairs, stuck behind a closed road due to weather, or unable to sleep on a DOT break....

For me, I'm building a 1/8 scale KITT (from a subscription plan kit with mostly metal components).... not only do I find it relaxing, but I've found it allows me to escape reality and be 8 again; it puts me in the mindset to recall and enjoy memories of similar projects with my dad since we lost him not long ago. This is EXACTLY the kind of project that we would have been doing when I was ACTUALLY 8!

I have it stored in 2 plastic totes, I use 1 for completed components and the other for components needing completion. I take them both out and go into the restaurant seating area and work on it for hours.....

 

Good for you.... I get paid extra NOT to touch the freight beyond securing it for travel, so I'm sitting on a lot of time sitting with my thumbs up my ^%^^%% waiting for others. And that's not mentioning shop time, I was recently stuck for 24 hours when my air compressor failed and needed to be replaced.... part was ordered, I went to sleep, in the morning, actual work started and I wasn't allowed to even be in the truck.... almost got a 34 hour reset out of it that I didn't need!

 

Go to www.fanhome.com; you will find something that appeals to you.... I'll probably take another one on after I'm done with this, just undecided which one.

 

True, but I can only sleep so much before I "run out" of it. And most shops won't let you stay in the truck while they are working. Most of my extended repair projects are done while I'm home, but I have had problems on the road that couldn't wait and weren't going to take enough time to need a hotel room.

Another situation that gives me extra unplanned time is when the schedule gives me so much time, I end up within 30 minutes of delivery on Saturday, but they don't want their crap bad enough to be there until Monday (or Tuesday if a holiday is involved). That happened to me just the other day with less than half of my current 70 used

 

And a project makes it suck LESS! LOL