Just curious but WHY would you need to carry nearly 1000 pounds of weightlifting gear with you all the time? Where did you find time and/or the energy to just pull over, whip out your bench, set up all that crap, go through a complete workout, break it back down and then stow it all away?!?!? :shock: Not to mention the extreme danger that carrying free weights in the cab poses to the driver during an accident! :shock:
Any OTR driver I know who also works out carries a couple of bumbells, hand grippers, MAYBE a curl bar and a few stretchy type rubber band exercise devices.
Are you a body-builder? If so, how do you find time to drive too with your several hours per day workouts?

 

Well I spend about 1-1.5 hours total 3 somtimes 4 times a week ,and occasionaly on leg day I take 2 hours dependng how much energy I have ,and how fast I move through the heavy sets . I don't know who you seen lifting for 7 hrs , But I thought only Highschool kids were that ignorant about physiology.


I train very basic I obviously don't train with much veriety with just a barbell a bench and a couple sets of dumbells , but in reality it's all you need , But I do bench 315 x 13-15 and 405x2 ...squat 585x2 and deadlift 585x1 with no straps for grip these aren't the only exercises I do ,but they should give an idea as to why a set of stretchy bands and a pair of 25 lb dumbells just don't do it for me .


The safety aspect always makes me chuckle ,as first off anything in your cab in a roll over ar collision can kill you even a box of clean ex can split your skull open at 55mph , so how about that TV , lap top and 40 qrt coleman :wink: But my weights are under my bunk , so they pose no more danger to me than the tools and 50lb bags of chains kept under the bumk ,and the bench is on the cat walk ...


Now as for the time aspect if your running legal you should in a 7 day period have time in one of those 24 hour blocks be able to find an extra 1.5 hours to work out in 3 of them ...if not you are hiding some serious tyime on your logs by averaging your drive time ,and spending much more time working not driving than you're showing ... :wink:

 

--I said SEVERAL not SEVEN hours per day.

--Yep I now see why the stretchy bands won't do it for you. You are a bit more advanced than that. :wink:

--The safety STILL concers me. :shock: The Kleenex killing you myth was busted on the Mythbusters TV show but free weights WILL kill you. In a lot of trucks, the TV, microwave and refridgerator mounts are ALL DOT spec and come with safety anchors so stuff stays put.

--TMC's heavy stuff is in a HEAVY (thick) locked headache rack OUTSIDE the cab and they stay put in every accident I have seen .

--You are right about SHOULD HAVE THE TIME to work out during the day but I rarely did plus being a flatbedder, I was too darned tired to do so at the end of the day :wink:

Finally, we're OFTEN loaded to capacity and carrying another 500-1000 pounds of gear would REALLY piss some shippers (not to mention TMC) off when a normally "OK" load was scaled as overweight.

 

Yes, I was referring to the 387. I'm not a "truck" guy, whatever they put under me is fine with me, as long as it's mechanically sound.

 

Yeah the tarping/securing then driving is the reason I just want to pull a van ,because I can't picture spending the time to trarp.strap especially in the winter with high winds and frozen tarp ...or in the south when it's 110 out and humid beyond beleif ,and then driving for 10-11 hours and wanting to work out especially with the broken sleep you get when driving . So I figure I'm best to stay away from flat bedding as I wouldn't be able to devote myself to it like I should ,And my job performance would be sub par ...However hauling a dry van is limited physically to hooking the trailer ,and opening /closing the doors most of the time ,and loads that usually top out at around 44k up to 46k which I can manage ...Yeah I can't picture lasting very long picking up loads everyone else hauls ,but yet somehow I'm 500+ pounds over they might frwn on that just a bit .

 

Whatever happened to Mr. Grimmm?

I miss his inspirational and positive posts.

 

Funny you posted that. I was thinking the same thing the other day. I'm just curious what ever happened to him. After all the build up, it would be nice to know what finally happened.

 

i guess he eighther quit, or was fired... Maybe the truck exploded on him... lol (jk)

 

Yes, he was from the Altoona area. Actually between Altoona and Breezewood. He was quite an idiot.

 

I just applied on-line to TMC and was just wondering what ya'll think my chances of getting hired are?