Truck Driving Jobs

golfhobo · #21 08-08-2008, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Useless

My years of experience have taught me that a man should work 8 hours a day, and sleep 8 hours.

I chose to drive at night. That way, I could sleep while I was driving.

Yeah?? How did you LOG it?

Mr. Ford95 · #22 08-08-2008, 10:50 PM

Doesn't say in that link HWD provided but wasn't that driver's logs looked thru and came back as being legal? DOT requires drivers to log 10 hours off duty but nothing in the regs say it has to be 10 hours of sleep.

Sleep is the only good energy you can get, if that makes any sense. The longer your awake the more your brain is deprived of proper oxygen, hence you start making mistakes in whatever your doing. If you can get 2 hours of sleep, it is better than none and this is coming from a former stadium worker who spent many days and nights pulling a 20-30 hour shift. We would grab an hour or two of sleep during soundchecks or during the show if we weren't working the actual concert. No amount of soda, Red Bull or coffee could keep you awake and on your toes.

Rawlco · #23 08-09-2008, 04:15 AM

I will have to agree with Mr Ford. Some nights I just can't keep my eyes open with any amount of caffine, but a 20 minute nap works wonders. It isn't really that my brain is tired either, just my eyes hurt from all the genius Masshole drivers using their high beams all night long. I guess they figure the guardrail between the lanes prevents the high beams from bothering the oncoming drivers. :wink:

married to the road · #24 08-09-2008, 05:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Ford95

Doesn't say in that link HWD provided but wasn't that driver's logs looked thru and came back as being legal? DOT requires drivers to log 10 hours off duty but nothing in the regs say it has to be 10 hours of sleep.

Sleep is the only good energy you can get, if that makes any sense. The longer your awake the more your brain is deprived of proper oxygen, hence you start making mistakes in whatever your doing. If you can get 2 hours of sleep, it is better than none and this is coming from a former stadium worker who spent many days and nights pulling a 20-30 hour shift. We would grab an hour or two of sleep during soundchecks or during the show if we weren't working the actual concert. No amount of soda, Red Bull or coffee could keep you awake and on your toes.

One time I unloaded in mid state FL (Thurs morning) and waited for around 10 hours to for my next load, of which I probabably 1 or 2 hours of sleep. Got my next load picking up about 50 miles south of Jax on 95 going to Al, close to Birmingham. And if I didn't get it delivered that friday moring, I knew I was going to sit all weekend. So I stopped and got two 24 oz coffees at pilot and got to the drop and had another load stacked on me before I was finished unloading picking up in Tuscaloosa, AL. Amd it was a big, heavy load of steel that required all three of my tarps and a bunch of straps. I made it to the pilot in n/w Tuscaloosa, took a shower and crashed from that afternoon until the next morning.

So, besides that 1-2 hour power nap, I was up for over 30 hours and driving around 600- 650 miles on those 2 cups of coffee, but I don't do a lot of caffiene.

My logs looked right, even though what I did maybe wasn't safe. And I wouldn't recommend doing it to anyone!

zipy46 · #25 08-09-2008, 11:10 AM

Yes...You know how you might wake up in the morning and somehow end up

getting loaded at 8 in the evening (nearly 16 hrs later)

(those runs which will require you to run all night through the morning for a 4 or 2 am delivery)

you guys know what i am babbling about ....

I simply tell my dispatcher to keep those ....i tell him lets try again tomorrow...i cant drive tired like that.

People should boycott these outlaw groups and not apply or work for them
that try and run you hard when its unsafe

Frozen Yogurt aint worth dying for...and the phone bill can wait

sw1241 · #26 08-09-2008, 10:26 PM

Boston to Los angeles, with 6 hrs total sleep . was a long time ago in a 58 mile per hr Dodge( yes Dodge) cab over, no i couldn't have logged it and yes i was still making out my log book two days later

bigtimba · #27 08-10-2008, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by zipy46

I simply tell my dispatcher to keep those ....i tell him lets try again tomorrow...i cant drive tired like that.

That's the best advice I've seen on this thread . . prevention.

Don't try to be a hero and don't knowingly be a fool.

heavyhaulerss · #28 08-12-2008, 04:20 AM

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How long have you driven on no sleep?

UH... let me see... what year is it?? :lol:

Phantom433a · #29 08-16-2008, 05:29 AM

Why try and run illegal? Stupidity is the greatest killer on the road

Rocketdog · #30 08-23-2008, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Malaki86

And, before ya all start ripping my head off and using it as a soccer ball: I had to be at my pickup at 7am.

Before you try justifying your ill-advised actions....there are only a few things you HAVE to do out here:

1. Be safe..always. If it can't be done safely, don't do it...ever.
2. Use common sense.

I'm sure the families of those 7 dead children will all be SO comforted to know you HAD to be there by 7am. That should take their LIFETIME of pain go away.

Save yourself a long prison sentence, and your family a lifetime of unhappiness....park your truck and find another line of work.