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no, but your insulin level is going thru the roof.

 

Maybe not tonight but keep at it and you just may be on that midnight train, but it won't be to Georgia.lol

 

If your that tired just stop. No load is worth your life (or God forbid someone else's life). Just stop, take a good nap and then roll down the road. The load will get there when it gets there. The caffeine won't kill you but the wreck you have from exhaustion sure will.

 

I feel sorry for you bro!

If you put your life and other peoples life at risk for a load that you probably are getting ripped on just for money than WOW.

Yew you can die if you keep on that, happened to my buddy, would drink Redbull twice a day till he passed away in his shower.

 

Your insides must be all messed up with all that crap you're feeding it.Keep it up you'll be in the hospital before you know it and may not ever drive again.No load is worth it if you're that tired.Tell dispatch to repower your load that's what I would do.

 

You will be ok just drink a 16oz red bull and you will be there in no time.make sure u dont stop along the way and no driving under 65mph

 

Not necessarily.

Your insulin probably will be very high leading to a future crash worse than what it would have been without it.

Caffeine would eventually build tolerance into your body. Your mind will take you to sleep one day in the future when that happens while you are at 65 with eyes open. Poof, there you are in dream land in a flying dutchman ready to kill the first who stops in front of your rig and unable to do anything about it.

Im not certain but caffeine might also be a diuretic, taking water out of your body as in dehydrating you.

In addition should you have a undetected heart timing problem or other issues in your chemical fight and flight systems eventually you must suffer a problem of a serious nature once either the timing gets tossed or your inflammation and stress from the corsitcol etc gets high enough.

Finally but not least there are two very important problems with driving while no sleep.

First is your memory, you will deliver a load and not remember it at all. I had that happen many times. I would run icecream at -20 into a facility NE of Baltimore off US 40 only because it's my childhood stomping grounds and am able to get into it while sleeping which I was from where it was loaded the previous evening after a long day at the dock loading the #### thing.

The other problem is sleepless driving is worse than driving drunk. Something will come up and there you are unable to function as you should. At the same time toxins build into your blood as you are awake. We are required by nature to get some sleep each night on earth to eliminate both the built up toxins in the blood and also to do a brain dump from the previous day's problems and drama. So you are bright eyed and bushy tailed come morning ready for battle.

Unfortunately trucking is not following natural sleep, wake cycles and never will.

The Nation can blame itself by going 24/7 grave yard shifts and night time operations when in the past everyone pretty much quit for the night after a certain time of day. World war two pretty much ended that.

You can stop the chemical habit and improve your quality of life and enjoy same again, but it will take you several months to readjust.

 

Coffee only hide the fact that you're sleepy. Doesn't give you energy. Take a 45 min nap is better than caffeine in my experience.

 

Thank you. I clean forgot the nap part.

I once took a hour nap on the side of the US 322 near duncannon west of 15 after a 1200 mile straight through run. It was 9 am that morning and I still needed to be in jersey in a couple hours by appt. I could not keep it between the lines and barely came off 7 mountains with my hide and brakes intact... That one hour nap was a roll of the dice because it could easily turn into a long term sleep and get me fired. One way or another, that load was there on time. And for all the times Ive used the bunk in the lifetime that one nap was one I remember best because part of the problem was to sleep lightly and check the clock every 15 minutes to be gone in 1 hour no matter what. That load depended on it.

They could solve the problem by running that particular load as a team. Why they did not do it? I don't know.

Another time we ran for a outfit and could not keep our appointment times in Wisconsin to Indiana to save our skin at all no matter what we did with those unlimited trucks in that time. Finally one day while in company shop, I listened to a drinking night dispatcher boast that the bosses built contracts to customers based on travel times double check by regular cars, not 18 wheelers. Ergo, the car can get there a few hours faster than a big truck can... I left that outfit soon after. As soon as mr Beers started laying out the particulars of why we were always late, I started looking for someone else to run for mentally.