Sleeping in daycabs

I thought the advantage of driving local in a day cab was getting to "sleep in my own bed" every day?

 

Senior year moving 'transfers' for Ryder. Sent from Scranton to Pennsburg [west of Quakertown] driving a Ryder box to the shop to bring back two new sets of decked flats & two new tractors. Passenger was a Ryder supplied driver, just back from Boston.

In 1972 the NE extension of the PA Turnpike resembled a bomb cratered runway. I felt bad for my passenger, sleeping as sound as possible as his head bounced off the passenger window for over an hour...don't know how he did it.

 

I sleep like a baby.




I toss and turn and cry all night and crap my pants at 3 in the morning.

 

Drive nights for years you’ll be able to sleep anywhere. I can now park lean back in the seat and fall asleep. I used never or rarely nap during the day before I became a night driver.

 

After working in the oil patch when all we had were day cabs, I learned to NEVER do either of those... even when pulled over and stopped. It develops a bad habit and subconsciously you're telling yourself it's okay to sleep behind the wheel.

 

Lol, thats funny, never had trouble sleeping during the day, when i was in the daycab on a regular shuttle, sun would start to come up and id get sleepy. Sucked napping in it but better crappy sleep than driving tired

 

Those are the guys 3 weeks from retirement with convenient schedules. The other 90% of drivers are going to work at 9pm or 2am and spending their time off sacrificing sleep to avoid divorce

 

When i was doing team food service we had a 3hr nap halfway through the run. Whoever was driving home got the bunk so the other person got the seat. The box that the straws came in was a perfect fit between the seats so you could stretch out and be comfortable Lol

 

I guess if you have no choice and you have to sleep in a day cab that's one thing...

But I absolutely love my sleeper and I would never ever trade that for anything.

 

Can do that with a bunk truck too and not be miserable if you do actually get stuck somewhere