Oi…Jesscia Dad…■■■■-off…i didn’t give u permission to use dots…
At what kung fu school did u learn my Dotty style■■?
U’ll have the grammer troops on your back…!!!
stvme2519 wrote:
does any one find when they have nap they suddenly wake up and think they arestill driving …hence pooing there pants and mini heart attack lmao
i do all time wake up think ive nodded off while driving suddenly grab steering wheel look round and then see im parked up lolyep thats me… another i used to do was wake up in the truck with no recollection of where i am where im going or what im supposed to be doing… thats a very scary 10 seconds
Ive had a few of them moments also, its the worst when your waiting to tip,so you throw the seat back and go into a real deep sleep,then when they come knocking you see some strange bloke standing there and your thinking “where the ■■■■ am i and who the ■■■■ are you” scares the ■■■■ out of me, also when i was trying to quit smoking i had the old patches on,but they were the 16 hour one where you aint surposed to sleep with them on,jesus did i have some scary dreams, was parked in a layby behind another artic,went out like a light,just as i was waking up i was sure i was doing 56mph and was only 2 foot away from smashing into the back of the stationary artic, i was fighting the steering and slamming on the brakes until i woke up properly and realised,felt very stupid and had to sit and build my air back up 
i seem to rember talking to a nurse who worked on itu wards that reckoned most people pass over between 0200 & 0500
dont know how true this is but i does seem about right ( from the deaths in my family )
i do know that the circadiun rythms are at their lowest then (that’s the bodies internal clock )
doesnt matter what i do i always have a bad half hour, drink water, splash water on my face , anything as long as im doing something, once im over that half hour im o.k.
am one of them smelly drivers that you were gone on about
So the smell keeps me a wake
stvme2519:
does any one find when they have nap they suddenly wake up and think they arestill driving …hence pooing there pants and mini heart attack lmao
i do all time wake up think ive nodded off while driving suddenly grab steering wheel look round and then see im parked up lol
Yeah, a few times i had a quick kip over the steering wheel!! When you wake up you ■■■■■■■ ■■■■ yourself, i grabbed the steering wheel and stomped me foot on the brake 
Mind you the engine was still running and the headlights were on quickly got meself into bed and had 9 hours 
On the bunk for an hour and twenty minutes this morning . 
gav:
was parked in a layby behind another artic,went out like a light,just as i was waking up i was sure i was doing 56mph and was only 2 foot away from smashing into the back of the stationary artic, i was fighting the steering and slamming on the brakes until i woke up properly and realised,felt very stupid and had to sit and build my air back up
I did similar to this in the queue at Ipswich docks one morning. Arrived at about 05.30 and pulled up in the queue, layed the seat back and nodded off. Next thing i knew, half opened my eyes to see the tailboard of a bulker filling my windscreen, so jumped on the brakes at about the same time i realised where i was and what i was doing! A glance in the mirror let me know that a group of 3 or 4 drivers were chatting to the driver behind me, so spent the next 5 minutes gently lifting my foot off the brake pedal whilst pouring myself a coffee!
so spent the next 5 minutes gently lifting my foot off the brake pedal whilst pouring myself a coffee!
Why, just say you were having a good old sleep and must have caught the pedal by acident. I mean i know i’ve put my foot on one of the pedals while having a break before now.
Its the motorways that get me, When you get one of those moments when your mind drifts as you are bowling along I always stop at the next services and tuck in behind those lucky [zb’s] fast asleep and take a half hour.
Funny thing is though when I’m really tired I always seem to hover between sleep and awake and have really strange dreams. They are like hallucianations and when the alarm goes off I cant seem to figure out why I’m there. Once I just threw the clock on the top bunk and went back to sleep without really knowing what I was doing and woke hours later panicking that I was going to be late with my groupage into Barcelona.
Not nice really but sometimes sleep is all that will work and its better than ending up dead!!
Yep Daineter…been there with those hippy dreams
Ever woken up from a dream…only to find you’ve actually entered another dream…and this dream starts normal so u think your awake…but then just starts getting weird…to which all of a sudden u wake up properly■■?
That some scary ■■■■…
daneinter:
Its the motorways that get me, When you get one of those moments when your mind drifts as you are bowling along I always stop at the next services and tuck in behind those lucky [zb’s] fast asleep and take a half hour.Funny thing is though when I’m really tired I always seem to hover between sleep and awake and have really strange dreams. They are like hallucianations and when the alarm goes off I cant seem to figure out why I’m there. Once I just threw the clock on the top bunk and went back to sleep without really knowing what I was doing and woke hours later panicking that I was going to be late with my groupage into Barcelona.
Not nice really but sometimes sleep is all that will work and its better than ending up dead!!
know exactly what you mean mate, happened to me for the first time the other night driving up the M74 it seemed to be taking forever. I think it’s worse at night when all you can see is an array of different coloured lights. The scariest 4 or 5 seconds by FAR i have ever experienced since i started driving as my mind just switched off and the lights just all seemed to be dancing around… lost all perception of lanes, distance, vehicles, speed etc. It’s the moment when you snap out of it that is terrifyiong - needless to say, some red bull was quickly bought and swilled 
I would be a millionaire if i didnt drink Red Bull
what keeps me awake 
still trying to find out . handed my notice in today been on nights 2 months cant get used to them so am getting out before its to late
looking for hgv drivers with there windows down on the opposite carridgeway just in case they throw stones 
other then that good nights/days sleep. dont go in for all this pro plus / redbull/coffee malarkey. much rather pull over for twenty minutes
jon
Next time you are on nights jonboy have a spot for our unit’s and trailers dottes all over the layby’s on the A50,A38 and A446 area’s .
smile!:
daneinter:
Its the motorways that get me, When you get one of those moments when your mind drifts as you are bowling along I always stop at the next services and tuck in behind those lucky [zb’s] fast asleep and take a half hour.Funny thing is though when I’m really tired I always seem to hover between sleep and awake and have really strange dreams. They are like hallucianations and when the alarm goes off I cant seem to figure out why I’m there. Once I just threw the clock on the top bunk and went back to sleep without really knowing what I was doing and woke hours later panicking that I was going to be late with my groupage into Barcelona.
Not nice really but sometimes sleep is all that will work and its better than ending up dead!!
know exactly what you mean mate, happened to me for the first time the other night driving up the M74 it seemed to be taking forever. I think it’s worse at night when all you can see is an array of different coloured lights. The scariest 4 or 5 seconds by FAR i have ever experienced since i started driving as my mind just switched off and the lights just all seemed to be dancing around… lost all perception of lanes, distance, vehicles, speed etc. It’s the moment when you snap out of it that is terrifyiong - needless to say, some red bull was quickly bought and swilled
Know what you mean about that M74, it’s a killer of a road if you’re a night driver. I took a job with a local company trunking from Elland to Airdrie 3 times per week then Elland to Hamilton MSA on the remaining 2 nights and I stuck it for a week then jacked. Nothing wrong with the job but the shear boredom of that M6 and M74 absolutely killed me. There’s nothing to look at for over 100 miles except the beam of your lights on your tarmac and the glare of everyone elses coming the opposite way and I could virtually guarantee falling asleep somewhere round Shap on the way back down . I tried everything known to man to keep me awake and alert but nothing worked. I wouldn’t do that run on a regular basis for all the money in the world now.
I’ve tried using Red Bull and Pro Plus to stave off the droopy eyelids but find that it kinda works but makes me feel ‘gnarly’. Best option, of which i’m a great believer in, even for day time, is the ‘Power Snooze’!!
There’s a book called ‘Counting Sheep’ (ISBN 0006551726) which is all about sleep etc and it tells how Winston Churchill used to have an afternoon nap every day no matter what. He didn’t just snooze in his chair neither, it was the full ‘PJ’s and under the covers’, usually from 1400 to 1800hrs. He’d then have his evening meal with his family and work from 2000 until 0200hrs where he claimed he got most of his important work done and made all the important decisions about running the country.
If i’m having a bad session of unwanted ‘sleep attack’ I use a trick someone showed me for staying awake on stag (army) - get a nasal hair between your finger & thumb and pluck it out!!! The pain and watering eyes works a treat for me!!!
marcustandy:
If i’m having a bad session of unwanted ‘sleep attack’ I use a trick someone showed me for staying awake on stag (army) - get a nasal hair between your finger & thumb and pluck it out!!! The pain and watering eyes works a treat for me!!!
Blimey Marcustandy, what happens when you get used to that, do you get the tweezers to your ■■■■■?