Top bunk, don't do it, ever!!!

I'm not taking your trainers side. I wouldnt roll until my codriver has moved from the top bunk. I did it a couple times because the bottom bunk was disgusting and it stunk.

But I'm willing to bet a lot of experienced team drivers could sleep up there if they had too. You just arent practiced at sleeping in a moving truck yet. I had the same problem when I started.

You can sleep up there with practice and when/if you get tired enough. The body can adapt quite a bit. Its fragile, but also adaptable.

 

Theres Also was to rig your bed so its not so bad. Think layers of foam between you and your mattress to absorb some of the bounce.

Pillows and blankets can be used to brace your body and prevent too much rocking back and forth.

A "sit up" pillow can be used if you are with a hot rod that loves making hard curves. Put the pillow in the corner. Shoulder into the middle of the pillow and head on one of the ends that sticks out. It prevents your head from slamming into the drivers side wall when your hot rod codriver takes a right curve too fast.

If you can sleep on your back or stomach its inherently easier to sleep. I can only sleep on my side. My wind pipe anatomy makes back sleeping very hard and I snore and breath abnormally.

It can be done. It took me 3 months to fully adapt, I almost threw in the towel and went solo. Then I started getting it.

Sometimes when I come back from home time, it takes me a day or two, maybe three to get back in the groove.

 

I just leaned forward against the seat belt and flopped around in the codriver seat when I needed to sleep.

 

Youre my hero.

 

i slept in top bunk. sleeping in another grown mans bed who sweats and does "other" things in. ya no thx u. good thing im not a trainer because i wouldnt share a bed. period

 

[QUOTE="darinmac38, post: 8516838,] I went through boot camp in the Marine Core years ago.. [/QUOTE] well MAN UP MARINE...!!
it's ez'er to sleep in the upper bunk of a moving truck than sleeping in a c-130 with canvas seats in bad air

 

well MAN UP MARINE...!!
it's ez'er to sleep in the upper bunk of a moving truck than sleeping in a c-130 with canvas seats in bad air

 

[QUOTE="darinmac38, post: 8516838,] I went through boot camp in the Marine Core years ago.. [/QUOTE] well MAN UP MARINE...!!
it's ez'er to sleep in the upper bunk of a moving truck than sleeping in a c-130 with canvas seats in bad air[/QUOTE]

 

Thank you for your service Marine especially on your day IE Memorial Day.

I agree with you you shouldn’t put up with this B.S. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. I ran team for years and wouldn’t consider sleeping in the top bunk while the truck was moving. When you are logged in the bunk that bottom bed is yours and I would let him know it immediately. Tell him he better have his bed clothing out of your bed the next time you are off duty or we don’t go any further. There are too many LTL, car-haul or other good paying local jobs to put up with Mega Truckload bottom feeder B.S. anyway. With the Marine Corps on your resume you can have a much better job in a matter of weeks and never sleep in a truck again.[/QUOTE]

 

I slept in the top bunk when i trained. Im still alive. When i trained my trainees all slept in the top bunk. They all made it. Few places where the roads where prety ruff. Everyone just took a nap in the passenger seay till we got past it. Tho im prety sire id never sleep on the top bunk with a trainee driving. Been tossed on the floor a few timew by trainees.