Manchester College offer a seven hour module on…
Driver CPC - The Effects of Sleep Deprivation
Ever have the feeling you won’t be suffering from this once you have completed this module
Manchester College offer a seven hour module on…
Driver CPC - The Effects of Sleep Deprivation
Ever have the feeling you won’t be suffering from this once you have completed this module
This actually sounds like something which could be interesting. Anyone who has been up all day, then driven all night will be well aware of how you feel after a 15 hour shift, especially if you only get a nine off then have to start again.
Hombre:
This actually sounds like something which could be interesting. Anyone who has been up all day, then driven all night will be well aware of how you feel after a 15 hour shift, especially if you only get a nine off then have to start again.
To be honest, I suffer badly even if I get a full 8hrs(ish) sleep then work a longish night shift that includes and surpasses 3am… Doesn’t matter how un-tired I was, around 3am, I get the nods, long blinks, heavy eye lids, blurring vision and eventual stop in a services for some shut eye.
No idea why either, never used to, always worked nights until 2008, now I can’t do it.
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This is going to make waves through out the industry.
There is another study out that suggests if you vary your sleep pattern you are more likely to have an accident.
So if for instance one day you start at 04:00 then 06:00 then 03:00 etc it’ll catch up with you at some point.
Sleep is becoming a real issue for road users I expect a big push about tiredness and rest periods to happen in the next few years.
In honesty if you reduce to 9 hours rest your not tucked up getting 08:59 sleep you have some scoff and then maybe some TV and sleep 5 - 6 hours.
Not a lot of kip for some of the work being done.
There can’t be many jobs where anywhere from 12 - 15 hours a day is regarded as the norm and then you get to sleep in your workplace.
alte hase:
Hombre:
What?Sorry ,Hombre, I just assumed that anyone doing a fifteen hour day followed by a nine hour ‘break’ would only do so at gunpoint, as it would have to be in any case involving me, I’ve only been hgv driving 40 years and have’nt come across the 12+ hour day yet…
Thought there were 24 hr in a day for work
Tin hat
alte hase:
Hombre:
What?Sorry ,Hombre, I just assumed that anyone doing a fifteen hour day followed by a nine hour ‘break’ would only do so at gunpoint, as it would have to be in any case involving me, I’ve only been hgv driving 40 years and have’nt come across the 12+ hour day yet…
First of all I don’t believe you, second of all if it were true then what a waste of 40 years, you must not have experienced anything both good and bad.
what’s wrong with working for long periods of time?
it’s part of the job.
why do people become lorry drivers, then make an issue about long hours?
limeyphil:
what’s wrong with working for long periods of time?
it’s part of the job.
why do people become lorry drivers, then make an issue about long hours?
Probably because they live in some sort of fantasy World. Lorry driving has always been hard graft and probably always will be. Personally I actually enjoy the job, Ive always worked long hours, been away from home for weeks at a time and usually not earned particularly earth shattering money as a driver. I could if I wished go and work as an I.T. engineer and earn two to three times what I earn now and be home every night - I did so for 4 very miserable years, but I prefer driving for a living.
I will now sit back and wait for the usual comments from those who don’t, won’t or can’t.
Some people on here live to work while others work to live.I dont think that I could drive safely after doing 10 hours work on a regular basis.What we could do as indistructable young men is not the same when in your late 40s.
I simply don’t believe anyone can be in this industry for 4 years, let alone 40, without doing a 15 hr shift. I don’t do it as a rule, mainly doing a max of 12 hrs, but only the other week on the way back to the depot I had a double blowout on the trailer. By the time the fitter arrived and changed them it took the full 15. Back in 9 hrs later.
It’s happened before with blowouts and traffic holdups as well as mechanical problems. Sometimes crap happens and there is no accounting for it.
limeyphil:
what’s wrong with working for long periods of time?it’s part of the job.why do people become lorry drivers, then make an issue about long hours?
ah Phil, before 1984 we only did 12.5 hour spreads! none of these comedians have parked up, gone on the lash, gone to a nightclub and shagged the local tartAND THEN JUMPED INTO THE WAGON AND CARRIED ON!
steering wheel attendants!
FFS