How can i get mail and packages while living OTR?

Your night vision will improve also. Better blood flow, your capillaries are wide open again. The retina depends on tiny little capillaries.

 

Lowering your blood pressure can gain the same result.

Funny, but that fact surprised my doctor when I told him that my vision improved after getting on the BP meds.

Actually, my overall vision improved - not just my night vision. I no longer need glasses to pass a DOT physical.

 

All you have to do is rent a P.O.box that provides a street address. They will hold packages so long as you are current on the rental of the box.
Been using one at my local U.S.pay office for 5 years now. Never had an issue about anything.

 

Unfortunately one of the things you give up as an OTR driver is a normal home life like most have. It is what it is. However all I can add is how I did it. If I knew for a fact I would be at a certain place at a certain time I called that place if the package was important and asked them what was their policies regarding forwarding packages. Most times I got an address and an attention to person's name. If I did not have this information or the item was not important I gave the sender my sisters address and on hometime got the package. The biggest part of the time when I needed an original not a copy of a permit or a trailer tag it was overnighted to a place like a truck stop and I picked it up the next day there.

 

I've asked my mother if i can use her address for packages and it also provides an opportunity to visit and help her out around the house.

 

Many hotels will hold packages for a guest coming to the hotel. Many trucking companys let you designate "hometime" wherever you want. Call a hotel you will use for hometime, talk to the manager, and confirm they will hold your packages. Since many companies need you to designate hometime weeks in advance, you can order stuff to arrive at the hotel AFTER you have talked to manager and got confirmation from your company.

You used to be able to order stuff General Delivery and it would be sent to a Post Office and wait for pickup when you got there. Some Post Offices don't offer that service. You also have to be at that Post Office during normal business hours.

 

It'\s still nicotine, and you are still burning (Applying heat) electrically to break down to get at the nicotine. Hence smoking.

I stand my ground. Im a 4 pack a day smoker who quit around 2001 after decades.

 

I understand that maybe you don't feel good with what I said. Im sorry about that.

I had to stop after crossing Eisenhower one evening at close to 13,000 feet. The blood was not able to transport what is called a Oxygen Saturation. Most people carry 95 to 99 on room air healthy, anything below 80% saturation is not supportive of life very long and requires supplemental oxygen to be adminstered via life support.

Mountain work, for those who are acclimated and do not smoke or vape, those people can routinely carry as low as 50 to 65% oxygen saturation for a while but it's because they are biologically adapted due to being raised there or what have you. Im talking for places like Everest... really high stuff.

I made eisenhower and by the time I got to Vail which I think was at 9500 I was still in trouble. It was a real risk of going unconsious at 70 mph on the downgrade, a big mountain grade no less....Getting to Denver and had the doctor check me real quick and discovered that the smoking had something to do with it. It was the beginning of the end for me as far as trucking and mountain work is concerned.

Im almost 20 years after I smoked alot and the body has repaired most of the damage inflicted. But not all.

Again, you will stop when you are good and ready some day. Don't worry.