How do you not fall asleep?

I see Mr-Know-It-All is back.

American Trucker I bow down before thee. With your 6 months experience and your big plastic mega carrier truck. Ive got T shirts older than you.

 

You've got t-shirts you've been hanging on to for over 22 years?? ####...... I bet you still wear'em loud and proud, don't ya? All faded and stuff.....

And I thought I was bad about keeping clothes too long. Guess that eliminates all possible doubt on that!

 

These aren't audiobooks, these are graphic audio novels. It's like the difference between reading a regular book and a graphic novel. All the dialogue is done by actors, just like a movie. Background music, sound effects, the whole deal. Their slogan is "a movie in your mind" and it's true. After a while you see it all in your head while you are driving. I'm currently hooked on Deathlands, a post apocalyptic series of stories. Guns, fighting, death and torture, plus healthy doses of revenge. I go online and download each episode, generally $13 per episode which averages 6 hours.


I personally prefer driving at night, midnight to 11am. Roads are empty (4 wheeler drivers in bed), most scales are closed, and I love watvhing the sun come up. Finding parking at a TS is easier. I can usually do my drop at a receiver and get my pickup then take my break.

 

Well before all the Bull Crap came out it was easy get tired go get a nap wake up refreshed continue on you way but companies, Feds and all these dumb a@@ lobbyist have screwed that up thinking they are making the roads safer but what they are doing is making tired driver drive while they can log it and some are falling asleep but you can get in a car and drive till you dead

 

never understood that, I mean isnt the bigger share of trucker 4wheeler accidents caused buy the cars

 

Does't matter who caused it. It's who the lawyers can make responsible.

 

Yes I think last numbers I remember reading was that 68% of the time a passenger vehicle was at fault no that not including the times that some drunk caused it and they didnt test him oe by time they did he was below tha limit and they blamed it on the truck because he had a marker light out and should have not been operating in daylight ok it was dark by time they got it cleaned up. Ok this may not be true about the marker light but you know they will go over the truck and driver to find something wrong to throw fault on the trucker

By the way anyone know what ever happen with the state cop that had plan on killing the walmart driver and staging an accident so he could sue

 

Here is one link

http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2010/Nov10/110810/111210-02.shtml

 

I dont know how long you have been driving? You will do great in this industry, I like to read something like this. NEVER fight fatigue. Fatigue will always win. When your tired, SLEEP. Great post Mattkujata.

 

Run legal and get your rest.