How often do you drive nights vs day?

depends in the hwy, I-81 thru VA nitetime, I-80 thru WY daytime, whatever keeps me away from the mentally ill.

 

Depends on if your man/ woman enough to stand up for yourself and not alow a deskjocky drive your truck.
Flipping your sleep schedule back and forth on a moments notice is one of the largest contributions to fatigued driving.
You also have to be smart enough to chose a company that has enough freight running at your preferred time.

Drivers and companies have only themselves to blame when bad things due to this ridiculous bs.

 

By the way it's ' NOT ' a requirement it exsists in the industry because drivers alow themselves to be manipulated into it. ( coerced )

 

My company prefers and even insists on daytime driving for 3 stated reasons...

1. Deer
2. Fatigue especially between 4-6am
3. Flatbed shippers and receivers work normal business hours and driving only nights would mess up their preplans. We usually don’t wait even 10 minutes without our next dispatch, so we need to have hours to go get the next load.

 

I like driving at night past truck stops and seeing all those solar powered trucks crammed in like sardines, sometime two deep along the curb... lol. Can’t believe truck stops allow that. It’s madness I don’t have to worry about right now.

 

When I pulled reefers most of the driving was at night and that's the way I liked it.

 

When I was OTR I drove mostly days. They threw in some nights here and there. When I teamed and we split it down the middle. One start at 2pm other starts around 2am. Worked great. When I did OTR I was crappy at driving nights and didn’t want to. After I burnt out of OTR and started researching local jobs on here 6-7 years ago I found LTL Linehaul. I read it was a lot of nights but the money was great. But I chickened out and went Foodservice. Early morning shift ate me alive. Got canned. Then LTL linehaul job called me and I said screw it I need a job I’ll run nights. Best move I made but I’m back at Foodservice but it’s a night shift and I like it and the money. After 7 years running nights it’s a breeze. It’s a big mental block. I was the driver before that said “I can’t run nights.” I find nights is better for working except when you get off for your days off cause you have to sleep part of your day off away. Only part that sucks.