FMCSA says 1 in 3 drivers may have Sleep Apnea

If you can’t survive on 52k/year while sitting at home watching tv and eating Cheetos, there’s a problem.

 

I agree. However in my case, I was making 230k per year when the last downturn hit. I have two choices:

1. Find a crappy job, and lose everything I built
2. Go out and work, and keep everything I built

So I got my own numbers, and started a trucking outfit.

If I could only make 52k per year as a 40 year old man with a strong back, I'd stick a shotgun in my mouth.

 

They can’t throw you out, they got it locked down where you don’t pay they can’t evict you.
That’ll be extended again or half the country’ll be homeless.

I've told bosses before, I’ll take a pay cut to prove a point, you think the fmcsa tards will do a truckers job for over 2 weeks?
They probably wouldn’t make it past day 3, Just be a paid vacation for a couple weeks.

My last year with LS was 242k.
This year I did 187k in 65k ish miles, I put mileage down on What if It snows thread.
Slept in truck 97 days.
I could’ve ran hard, but mileage isn’t the answer, I run pay per ton, less that 40/ton my truck is parked.
I was saying how to get them off your back about useless laws about why drivers are 2/3 sleepless zombies.

 

People can record themselves sleeping to see if they stop breathing for 10 seconds. If someone stops breathing 5 times or more per hour, you probably have sleep apnea. If you hear someone sleeping and gasping for air. That sleep apnea. If someone is having crazy dreams and they wake up sweating a little. That could be sign of sleep apnea

 

So, everyone has sleep apnea by that classification.
When your sleep sometimes things you don’t want to remember may creep back to your memory, things you think you may have locked into the “Do not Remember” file.
That’s just part of life, now the not breathing, sleep means your body is in the off position, your not going to breathe as if your running a marathon.

Gasping for air, could be a problem.

 

You could move into the trailer park and live on a grand, lol

 

Five episodes per hour is considered normal. When I got tested I was having over a hundred per hour.

 

Shame on you for not planning for rainy days. Same with so many people in this country.
I applaud you for working to solve the problem you created. So many others want handouts from working people to pay for their mistakes, laziness, or greed.

 

Someone with sleep apnea really stops breathing. The airway has lose or stretched skin. That can closes at night because everything relaxes when sleeping. Then people try to breath but can't get air into lungs. It's hard to know this when you sleeping but you wake up tired in the morning because you blood oxygen levels are dropping at night. You feel like crap in the morning.

Bad dreams or I would say more like a panic dreams. I had dreams, I having I was seemed like I was going to die and I would wake up sweating a little at night. I thought that was normal because of the crazy dreams.

It's not 100%, but they says when your not breathing at night you don't wake up and open your eyes. You brain knows your chocking and not getting enough air. So it trying to wake you up. One way it can do this is pumping adrenaline into you body. That adrenaline can be what makes the crazy scary dreams. You wake up gasping for air and sweating a little thinking, wow that was some crazy or scary dream.

All the CPAP does is make a little air pressure to keep airway open. It's kinda like a mini air compressor on the truck always keep air pressure so someone with sleep apnea can breath like normal. I don't have the crazy scary dreams anymore that wake me up at night anymore.

 

I was tested at the VA and had nothing to do with trucking. If you're a veteran the VA will issue you a cpap machine. Then before I was due for a DOT physical, the VA would give me a readout of my cpap usage and I would show it to the doc that was doing the physical. I felt a big difference once I started using cpap, and still using it every night for the past 14 years.