I never got on with plugs, always felt uncomfortable. Then in the night I would wake up with a painfull earhole and end up taking them out.
You could try custom moulded earplugs from about £150. They are solid silcone rather than foam so they are not trying to expand inside your ear in use.
A bit extreme, but if they let you do your job, might be worth it.
Wow 150 nicka for plugs I always used cheapo,smooth exterior foam ones,off ebay,for best effect.I find spraying them with colloidal-silver gives a good adhesion as well as a frontline against ever- possible ear infections that often can be a result of moistening them with saliva given the potential nasties that lurk in most cake holes.I took good plug-husbandry…stop that…very seriously following an infection by simply soaking a fresh set in the silver and by jimminy it did the trick,(soaking them in milton sterilising fluid is useful too)…gone in 48 hours.No gut-flora nuking antibiotics required.The idea of daytime kipping without them seems an impossibility l even prefer using them when mobile to dampen road noise with no problem at all,(That ludicrous trope about ‘not hearing’ emergency vehicle sirens is the biggest of Red-Herrings) just the same deal as a noisy factory,plus the visual/spatial skills seem more enhanced as a result.All hail the humble ear-plug,an essential ally in a noisy world.
Conor:
You got no chance of finding anywhere quiet to park up if you’re going to be sleeping in the truck and come summer it’s unbearable. I’d tell them to shove night tramping up their backsides unless they’re prepared to put you up in a B&B or pay for a bedroom at a truckstop if they have them.
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1000% this. Night Tramping ffs. This is exactly what we mean by the anti social working conditions which should be stamped out. I would add that if anyone even considers this, then the employer guarantees that the deliveries take second place to reaching the prebooked accommodation if there are delays.
Who ARE all these truckers who cannot sleep during the day, cannot sleep in heat, and cannot find a layby space after everyone on normal night trunking vacates them around 4am onwards?
Winseer:
The overheads for EU truckers coming here to the UK - has never been higher.
As time goes on, you’ll notice the number of foreign trucks that habitually fill up all our laybys around the country - start to diminish.
From the Foreign Haulier’s point of view, they are now expected to NOT park in Kent, and park ever deeper into the country, to get near these many “Trunk Corridor” depots springing up.
This makes it harder for them to do their old thing of “double fuel tank, drive 1000 miles around the UK without ever having to fill up here, and pay our road duty”…
As time goes on, the costs will continue to mushroom, and the process of natural selection will get rid of all but the hardist outfits, that will also find themselves gradually losing drivers to the UK economy…
They are already coming over here, don’t forget - know the score. Might want to fill their boots with some £3k per month job, and at last chuck in that <1000 Euro per month job they are currently doing back hom…
It is a waiting game from now on then.
Build the Laybys - and eventually the foreigners will stop coming, and you’ll more often be able to get a space in the evening to park up for the night.
There are still a lot of Laybys not yet finished from their extensions - coned off, entire roads like Watling Street - closed off at the weekends for the contruction of…
Observation rather than speculation there.
The Brexit dream (myth) is still alive and well in some minds I see. I do admire your optimism
Winseer:
The overheads for EU truckers coming here to the UK - has never been higher.
As time goes on, you’ll notice the number of foreign trucks that habitually fill up all our laybys around the country - start to diminish.
From the Foreign Haulier’s point of view, they are now expected to NOT park in Kent, and park ever deeper into the country, to get near these many “Trunk Corridor” depots springing up.
This makes it harder for them to do their old thing of “double fuel tank, drive 1000 miles around the UK without ever having to fill up here, and pay our road duty”…
As time goes on, the costs will continue to mushroom, and the process of natural selection will get rid of all but the hardist outfits, that will also find themselves gradually losing drivers to the UK economy…
They are already coming over here, don’t forget - know the score. Might want to fill their boots with some £3k per month job, and at last chuck in that <1000 Euro per month job they are currently doing back hom…
It is a waiting game from now on then.
Build the Laybys - and eventually the foreigners will stop coming, and you’ll more often be able to get a space in the evening to park up for the night.
There are still a lot of Laybys not yet finished from their extensions - coned off, entire roads like Watling Street - closed off at the weekends for the contruction of…
Observation rather than speculation there.
The Brexit dream (myth) is still alive and well in some minds I see. I do admire your optimism
It does indeed seem to be coming in a form neither side want - I’ll agree with you on that.
You don’t want more than 0% Brexit, and I don’t want less than 100% Brexit…
I always used cheapo,smooth exterior foam ones,off ebay,for best effect.I find spraying them with colloidal-silver gives a good adhesion as well as a frontline against ever- possible ear infections that often can be a result of moistening them with saliva given the potential nasties that lurk in most cake holes.I took good plug-husbandry…stop that…very seriously following an infection by simply soaking a fresh set in the silver and by jimminy it did the trick,(soaking them in milton sterilising fluid is useful too)…gone in 48 hours.No gut-flora nuking antibiotics required.The idea of daytime kipping without them seems an impossibility 
