Wanted:Tips on staying up all night!!

Old Navy trick.

Espresso....
Double shots are for sissies.
Buy your own machine, start with 12 oz, and move up as tolerated.
You know you're at the right level when the muscles in your neck go tight and don't relax for a couple hours. :)
Of course, road rage may just have to be re-named; after you.

Ditto on the chocolate covered coffee beans.

(If you can't tolerate coffee, try tea. Caffeine rush, without the negative side effects.)
 
I did rotating shifts for years where we switched every month. When going to mids the one thing that helped me the most was not going to sleep as soon as I got home. If I had to be at work at 2200, I would go to sleep around 1400. I would try to be home from running errands no later than 1300 to calm down. That worked the best for me, It would take about 2 weeks to get used to the new schedule, then two weeks of feeling good then switch shifts.
 
I have NO idea if this will help, but there is or was a devise that anyone could stick in their ear, and would make a loud noise if you nodded off.
 
i have driven a truck for allmost 30 years now. window open you need air keep drinking if you dont have to pee at least once a hour your not drinking. fruit and lots of it. coffe frist a hour before you get in your rig. take a nap at what passes for lunch time on graveyard shift eat on the fly. and for gods sake and the people around you if you havent licked this problem in three weeks you never will find something else a big rig at 30 tons will do stunning things to you and the people around you if you nod off at 65mph. good luck
 
I used to work in job supervising film and movie crews doing outdoor filming for second units- these are the crews that have to film stunts and explosions in action scenes.

A typical day was 18 -22 hours straight- often at night and in the pouring rain.

We would work three 20 hour shifts a week- and after a while, all of the red bull, chew and caffiene in the world couldn't keep me sharp- so I went to my doctor and got a prescription for Dexedrine.

The DOD uses it as a "Go Pill" for soldiers and pilots that have to operate 24/7.
 
You ask for strictly legal methods. But i doubt that staying up that long and driving commericially would be legal.

There is a new prescription drug that would help though. Provigil. I think they should sell it in a combo pac with Viagra. Their ad could be: If your going to be up, stay up!



Paul
 
the-swexan said:
i have driven a truck for allmost 30 years now. window open you need air keep drinking if you dont have to pee at least once a hour your not drinking. fruit and lots of it. coffe frist a hour before you get in your rig. take a nap at what passes for lunch time on graveyard shift eat on the fly. and for gods sake and the people around you if you havent licked this problem in three weeks you never will find something else a big rig at 30 tons will do stunning things to you and the people around you if you nod off at 65mph. good luck
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Here's someone who's been there.

The only thing I could add (as a person who's naturally a night person and has to work daytimes) is that if this is your only job, and its steady hours, then you need to totally reset your clock. Treat day as night, night as day, sleep during the day, mentally you have to accept that night is your day. After a few days, maybe a week, of adherence to the new schedule, you can reset your clock. Some folks (like my wife) are too much day time people, they can't change. But it can be done in lots of cases.

Be careful out there!
 
When my brother travels cross-country alone I will talk to him on the phone for hours, maybe 4-5 hours at a time so that he will not fall asleep. Is there anyone that you can find, another driver perhaps, to converse with you around 3AM?

All in all, this may just be a hazardous job and quitting would be a reasonable thing to consider.
 
One large cup of strong coffee, follow that with 1 oz shots every hour. Works like a charm only a few things to remember: the crash after an extended run is pretty spectacular & the constipation can get really ugly after a couple of 20 hr days :(
 
1.)...listening to comedy tapes by Gilbert Gottfried and Bob "Bobcat" Goldwaithe with the volume pegged...:eek:

2.) Munching "loud" foods ie; potato chips, Doritos, and my personal favorite,
Westinghouse 60 watt bulbs...:D

Ron
 
I've worked night shifts for about 30 years, and I can say you never really get used to it.What always worked for me was using hand grips to keep the blood flowing. I would also use a small 10 lb dumbbell to do some curls. It's all natural & it works.
 
I was gonna say I hear it's pretty hard to fall asleep after taking some acid, but you said legal only :D
 
Find someone else that you can chat with, by CB or phone, on the bright side the minutes are free at night. If you can find a radio talk show to call once in a while that would be amusing, but a budy who is also up at night would probably work the best. It looks like all of these ideas would work, but I would try and keep away from any drugs even the legal ones except for in an emergency bail out when it was just imposible to get enough sleep.

Stick with getting some sort of excercise, occasionally walking around the truck a few times, and stopping for a quick nap when needed. I recomend actually walking about a half mile away fromt he truck and walking back, as this is far enough to really get the blood pumping, maybe even throw in a jog on the way back.
 
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