Having trouble driving at night

While you are adjusting your body clock; you may want to consider ways to occupy tour mind and keep metabolism up. Drive a little hungry. Pull over every 2 hrs. and run around the truck abusing your tires with a hammer. Audio books are GREAT. Mints. Baby wipes. Keep W/S clean avoiding eye tiring glare. The list goes on. I try to only take short breaks the first 3/4 of my trip; then if I need to I close my eyes for an hour and MOST of the time it's good enough for the rest of the trip. OH! I left something out! PULL OVER B4 closing your eyes. I tried it the other way once and it didn't work out well at all.

 

When you get sleepy take a nap. A couple of minutes is far more effective than coffee. Coffee takes about an hour to have a genuine effect on the body and you body quickly adapts to your normal amount of coffee, so drinking coffee is a losing game. I tried smoking cigs for short period and they do work well if you aren't a regular smoker. But besides the other bad effects of sigs they reduce your night vision somewhat.

If you stay in OTR long enough you will be so tired so often you can take a nap almost anywhere and any time. Take naps that is what your body needs.