Why are day cab guys always sleeping?

Rewarded with more work. Hey driver, Everything went smooth today. We need 1 more pick up 10 minutes away.... Yeah that turns into a clusterf**k. EVERY DANG TIME !

Meanwhile. The office puke is already home beating his wife and kids when you need information Pronto. Magically it becomes a ghost account. No one else knows what the heck is going on. except for mr. office puke!

 

Not me man, My back was killing me on Tuesday so I pulled over laid flat on my back on the deck of the trailer in front of the dozer for 30 minutes. Felt much better after that.

Besides, there are a lot of day cabs that are used OTR. We have 8 of them.

 

I used to run from Arkansas to California every other week with a 36 inch sleeper. When you got ready to crash you had to put all your stuff up in the front seat. Then crawl back in the coffin an crash out. It's quite a chore for a 6ft 3inch tall man to get dressed in a 36 inch coffin sleeper.

 

I drive a daycab. From the time I walk out my front door to leave for work until the time I walk back in my front door it is rare for more than 10.5 hours to pass and I make 80k+/yr. Prior to this I worked for a "smallish" company (150 trucks) doing both OTR (5 days out---home weekends) and local tanker work. It was a very nice company to work for, but my current job beats it be a mile and then some.

No way I would ever go back to OTR again.

 

As a linehaul driver I average 6 hours of sleep. So I catch a nice dark spot every night for a nap in my day cab. I used to sleep 10-12 as a Otr driver. Too much to do when your home more. I remember running team Otr with my buddy. We had to wait at a truckstop for a load the next day. Dude slept 17hrs. Lol.

 

Lol, this too is my secret

 

We're not sleeping, we're napping!

 

Cant say a see a lot of ltl guys sleeping, most are hogging the left lane doing everybit that their governed truck can do. With the trailer(s) fish tailing behind them.

 

Yes, when I id line haul, on my way back to the home terminal, I too would take a quick 15-20 minute nap.

the LTL company I did line haul with, had city driver no doubt, and they never got docked for lunch. but then they had to start docking as it had to be shown they were indeed getting a lunch break. what some of the guys did, was their entire route, then pull into a shopping plaza, rest area, etc, and zone out for the 30 minutes, then get back to the terminal.