wife of a new trucker

you folks have all helped me so much
i will tell you as his training has gone on it's gotten worse, and i know it's not him-
right now he's getting about 4 hours sleep a night
and i am very lucky if i get a text from him even-i know this is got to be driving him nuts

now i thought that drivers by law had to have 10 hours off daily, but i don't understand the 34 hour (or whatever it is) restart either

i was trying to text him throughout the day with little things that go on at home, so later during down time he could go over things-make him laugh, send him pictures...but he doesn't even have time to scroll through them so i stopped

now i am just concerned that he may not survive the training!

 

ok that's funny...... that cracked me up
hahahahaha

 

from what i am seeing is he's got paperwork to do and then sleep but he's only getting about 5 hours off somehow

(he texted me but no phone call)

i am editing this to ask.... when does the 70 hours run out then? see he understands this, and has tried to explain it but maybe it is way beyond me
from what i can see...... they run 7 days a week.....before sun up to after midnight from what i can see, 600 miles a day giver take a few, with stops for fuel and potty breaks.... see how i am confused? if the trucks don't go over 62 mph.... then the math doesn't work for me, that would equal almost 10 hours of straight driving.... what about traffic? fuel? eating? crazy weather?

i'm sorry to be stupid about this but i don't get it

i know when he was home i tried to not let him do much cause i wanted him to sleep and to eat real food cause i was so worried

 

ok, i did stop because i figured he wasn't having time to read them all why give him any more pressure

i did answer his of course- his little fur baby has survived, so today i am going to send him pictures of her as she doesn't look like the dead anymore thankfully

i was sending him all sorts of stuff, photos of the snow in the yard, photos of his favorite supper (it's in the freezer now for him)
our pets, all stuff like that from home
and just little short things about the stuff going on (like the snow drops are up in the yard)
"yes i did gas up the car'

but mixed in where really important stuff too that i couldn't reach him to tell him
we even had a couple of spats through text (all related to his not being able to call home at least once a day)
i swear i can't wait until this is all over
and i know he can't either

he kept telling me while he was home 'it's almost over'
but he did NOT want to get back in that truck

now i got two fast texts from him just after midnight last night, nothing so far today
i highly doubt that i'll hear from him by phone
we are now counting down days for this to be over

and i have to thank every single one of you folks that posted a reply to me, you all don't realize how much you helped me and in turn him and i am going to make him READ this thread when he gets home next time- i wish i had asked you all when he FIRST went into the otr training, as he would have then been able to see these replies (when he got home time)
and then got a different trainer

 

oh the other thing i did do, was i tucked in little notes and stuff into his clothes and his luggage before he left for training and before he went back out so that randomly he would find them, in a pair of socks, in a pocket etc
hugs from home..... he said that they helped him a lot (and he saved them all)
i didn't know what else to do

 

we don't have children, except for the animals but i have told him, if he wants to not do this....we will manage
(we will)
so if he finds he really isn't cut out for this
he can do something else, we will manage one way or another
(that's my job)