I keep getting drowsy

How about some Adrenaline?
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Stress, Sleep apena?

 

I would like to chime in as I went from working for Werner working 7-10 hour days to doing flatbed 11-16 hour days. What works- multi-vitamin taken with the first food of the day. Drinking plenty of water during the day (only time I don't drink water is when eating). Avoid greasy #### food like burgers and chips or truckstop hot dogs. Avoid lots of sugar like candy and monster energy drinks. (monster energy drinks will turn you into a mess faster than anything) Get enough sleep, if you are obese then sleep apnea could be making you tired. Exercise is a good thing also as you tend to get better nights sleep. This is a serious job and if you fall asleep it has serious consequences. Some people have to change their whole lifestyle.

 

Your not used to driving long distance in a big truck. It'll stress you out more then a car. Also your not used to greasy food from truckstops and probably lack of exercise. Poor diet = less energy. Your probably sleeping in a moving truck. Which in reality your not getting well rested sleep. Bouncing around isn't good sleep regardless of how long you sleep for.

 

I got sleepy too when with trainer. One thing I had to get used to was when I was a 4 wheeler I couldn't wait to get to where I was going. Now that I am a trucker, I don't look at the time often and just use that time to listen to the radio, talk on phone, and think about things. Before I know it 6 hours have passed, fuel up, eat, and day is over. On days when I am really tired I pull over to a rest area and take a 30 minute or one hour nap depending on how much available free time I have.

 

Reoccurring theme here is rest, get some good rest. And don't eat big meals as this put the body to work digesting. Drinking water will help to curb your appetite, and my favorite thing is to take a break at the two hour mark. I get my dog out for a short walk and we hit it for two more hours. I believe he has made me more healthy than any other thing I've done, a pet makes some folks happier people.

 

The cure to 5 Hour Energy and Getting drowsy is simple, Save your money and Just Do It. If your tired pull over at a safe area, walk around the truck few times, do some jumping jacks, get a drink of cold water, maybe a beer, not coffee or soda both will not keep you awake then drive another 300 miles and do it again.
Talking about getting tired as a "wild-cat" try this run. Loaded in Birmingham early on Friday morning drove to North Alabama to eat lunch with friend, brushed my teeth and drove all night into early am Saturday, stopped in Salina, KS took a cool shower, ate breakfast, got back in truck and drove all day into the afternoon and stopped in Missoula, MT and laid down for several hours, showered again, ate and pulled out mid-morning on Sunday and next stop Spokana, WA at the customers plant at their docks ready to unload via first thing Monday morning for first stop and Seattle that evening for final drop then turn around and load out of Vancover, WA for Whitehorse, Ak then drove through Canada Providences toward U.S. border to Clayton NC "dozier plant" and make a turn around from Jan. 5, to end of June then shut down for the rest of the year. As an owner operator my profits range around 6 figures a year. You know why, nobody would haul those wintry routes in the winter up there, they had to be crazy ones would say. I was crazy a pup who wanted to make money fast because I had nobody to ask for help or loan if something went haywire. I never went to any trucking school. I learned to drive when my uncle throw me the keys to his coal truck one afternoon and said haul that coal to Chattanoog boy. My remark, I cannot drive no 18 speed truck muchless what to say when I get there. His reponse it is Friday, you've got 3 days to get there from Brimingham. Besides when you get there maybe there be some others there if not dump where the guard tells you, sign the bill and come back, but don't show back up here until your done. That is how I learned how to drive a truck, my uncle was a mean as a rattlesnake. Can't never could do anything he would say as he beat on your butt, so that was my driving school lesson. I never went to a mechanic either, changed my own tires, fix my own truck and trailer, that's how you make money in trucking.
If someone flashed enough "green" into your pockets you'll learn to overcome and adapt - Just Do It....
Years later I ended up owning 32 trucks and 38 trailers, a 6 bay shop, machine shop, office workers, and money worries left me and headaches begin. And, I done all that before my 50th birthday, so yes you can overcome your issues, if you will just do what is good for you - You've got no one out here to impress, take your time, do it with tact and you'll make it if you be tight fisted with your cash.

 

You just need a good sheep....

 

stress, and eating a lot of junk before driving and enegry drinks with sugar that crash or just dont work on you. if i take a 5 hour energy i will get tired and need to pull over and sleep

 

How about this...maybe you're not cut out for this line of work. End do story. No shame, it's not for everybody.