How to not be tired after long trips?

The only time I have wakefulness issues when driving is when I get three hours sleep or less.

I carry 5-hour energies in the truck for those days. I also have satellite radio, audiobooks, and the Pandora music app.

If you are having wakefulness issues that resolve easily simply by getting out of the truck and walking around, you need something to help keep your mind active. Driving can be horribly monotonous, but it doesn't have to be. Create a car-watching game in your head that will keep you aware of what is happening around you while exercising your mind.

If you are having wakefulness issues that persist after a little physical activity, then get tested for sleep apnea. You might not be getting proper rest. Sleep apnea isn't just for fat people. It's a lot less prevalent than trucking companies and predatory sleep study doctors pretend it is, but it is a real issue, and it's not rare.

One thing that you shouldn't do is try to deal with important matters while driving. Sure, dealing with important issues can keep you awake, but the stuff you are doing to keep your mind busy should not be so important that you lose track of what is happening on the road around you.

 

Wear a pink thong and nothing else, you’ll have all the truckers turning their heads

 

I have scoliosis to a minor degree and sitting almost straight up is what I prefer, only thing I have problems with is neck pain and a headache that usually follows after a long day

 

Yea I suffer daily from a neck injury. If I sleep to hard my neck hurts all day along with headaches.

A bad seat will get a good case of Sciatica flaring up for me . Old snow skii accident seems to contribute to that also.

 

My uncle is a chiropractor (one of my uncles) and he claims you should get adjustments every week to two weeks as a treatment, says you shouldn’t wait for the symptoms to occur, better to prevent them from happening basically; I haven’t had the luxury to try this out but I figured it was worth mentioning in your case

 

Yea I injured my neck about 8 years ago.

Was doing fine before I tried to walk through a 5’11” doorway in my buddies basement last year and wedge underneath it like a Swift van under a train trestle.

There is a neck specialist up in Michigan I saw 2 years ago but no insurance and was looking at $10,000 to get started with adjustments and therapy.

I love a good chiropractor unfortunately mine down in Florida retired.

Hate to just go to anybody.

Neck pain comes and goes . I figure I’ll just hang on to build my threshold for pain so I can endure old age.

 

Nothing more needs to be said lmao if I send this to my buddy he’ll automatically think about the time we both got really eff’ed up sitting next to a campfire, he woke up with a bad hangover and i woke up feeling on top of the world, think it’s the Irish in me wanting a drink

 

Strangely enough all my years trying to kill myself jumping off waves at 90 mph in cigarette boats or launching off 10 foot breakers on jet skis or windsurfers never caught up with me.

I built a big deck for these Swiss people about 10 years ago on the beach.

A couple years latter that area got hit by a hurricane with some flooding.

The plumbing for the outdoor faucets was connected and ran under that deck.

Well it needed repair so I was working under it for the first time in a year.

I stood up fast before getting out from underneath it not realizing that it was no longer standing headroom underneath it since the hurricane brought fill sand in.

I think I literally went from 6 foot to 5’11” and a1/2 in that incident.

 

Screw driving 11 everyday. Plenty of local opportunities to make the same if not more. I've gotten used to my 350mi days going to Jersey and back.

A good seat makes a huge difference. I like the legacy silver, fits me good and my ### isn't sore from long days.

 

30 inch here with a belt