question never been this tired

Tell y'all a little tale from back in the "Bennie Days". We had a driver that went by the handle "Splitter", who was "The Shining Example" as far as the company was concerned. Man, he ran and ran and ran some more.

One day several of us were stopped at a local restaurant for breakfast coffee. The fuel attendant said Splitter was out back, sitting at the fuel pumps..... and he couldn't get him awake.

Sure enough, Spitter is just sitting there, eyes wide open but nobody home. Talk abour eerie. Wound up having to take him to a nearby hospital. His heart was barely beating.

A week later, he was back doing the same #### thing.

Several years later I came across him again...... working as a helper on a local garbage truck. Burnt completely out. Lost his home, wife left him, barely knew his own name.

Don't kill yourselves for a couple bucks. MFing trucking companys aren't worth it.

 

Yeah it will catch up to you if you have a lot of bad habits. Smoking, excessive caffeine/energy supplements, bad food/over eating, not sleeping. You gotta try and keep yourself as shiny as your truck, which can be a pain in the ### sometimes!

 

Ok so i skipped a good portion of the pages but seriously r&r is needed. Also I would recommend you start drinking a lot more water. Water is an amazing part of our human body, and coffee doesnt count as your water intake completely. Also, exercise, I know its the hardest thing to do on the road but get a chance to run, skip walk or lump freight, just do it. Your will find you will have more energy for the day.