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Originally Posted by Colin
Sounds like you got the job at Bettendorf. Cool.
I worked with a lot of their drivers up in Oregon on the night shift. They brought funny looking doubles up to the Weyerhauser sawmill in Cottage Grove. 5 axles total over 2 trailers instead of our 8 axle doubles!
My schedule was 5p-5a for almost 4 years by choice.
First day on:
If you're starting on Monday at 6pm, stay up late on Saturday and sleep for about 5-6 hours. Do your best not to nap on Sunday. Stay up all night on Sunday. Edit some photos. Surf the web. Go grocery shopping around 3 am to keep yourself awake. Get to bed Monday morning about 6 am and you should be able to sleep all day.
When you get home at 6 am, don't eat or drink coffee or soda with caffeine. I like to go to bed after a hot shower within about 2 hours of being off work. Get up around 3 hours before you're due in for work.
You would think that treating your night shift as a day shift (staying up until 10 pm, then sleeping until just before your shift starts) is a good idea. I never found this to be the case. The bulk of my free time was spent before work, not after. If the opposite works for you, do it.
Now when your week ends and it's a Saturday, try to get to bed as soon as you can and get up by noon to be a 'normal person' on the weekend. On Sunday, maybe a short nap so you can stay up overnight on Sunday and then repeat. If your days off are during the week, I would keep the same schedule. I hope you can get to dayshift soon. Night shift is not easy on your life.
That's EXACTLY what I was looking for thanks man. I'm going to try that schedule. I still want to have a "normal" weekend when everyone else is off and it will be nice to go to a party and be able to stay up all night without passing out around 2! :lol:
I drove for the first time in a couple months today and was more nervous than I've ever been. My co-driver was pretty chill so I relaxed and drove down the road. I have to get used to driving a different truck with diffrent clutch... But I did it and he said I did a "helluva job". I hit the unloading back like I just quit driving yesterday. He was impressed... I'm so happy that I can go back to driving. Now all I need to do is find a portable XM player and I'll be set!
Photos to follow as soon as I get in the truck.