My trainer stayed in the jump seat for like 45 minutes, and went to sleep. Drove like 550 miles first shift, down 80 to the J at North Platte. Dude woke up as I was slowing to get off and gave me direction on how to pull into fuel island.
I said, " how'd I do?"
He says, " When I go in that sleeper, and pull that curtain, you have a future as a truck driver."
I said, "You mean you have people you have to stay awake with?"
He roared out in laughter.
He says, " There's times when I don't sleep for 3, even 4 days, just had a guy like that. So I went solo for a week to take a break."
Found out later when I started training he wasn't kidding about that.
We did like 5K week. And I was happy to do it, cause on the days we weren't moving, hanging out at a J or a pilot, in the top bunk wasn't really that much fun, so I'm glad we ran like a team, cause time went by.
Depends on the strength of student.
I had some that were terrible, but I had to get the load delivered = not hardly any sleep sometimes.
Just curious about the difference?
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