Captain Caveman 76:
Drinking water. I go through about two litres a night. With the windows up and heater on you’ll start to dehydrate, this can exaggerate the effects of fatigue. Stay away from energy drinks and coffee, they may offer a short term boost (enough to keep you going for an hour) but you’ll feel worse then ever once the effects wear off.
Oh, and try and keep to working hours over the weekend, it’ll make Mondays much easier!
A bloody good map, random road closures are a nightmare. You WILL take a diversion on your first week, guaranteed.
I love nights, wouldn’t touch days unless it was a wonder job.
Cavey.
Blimey! I’d be back and forth to the bathroom all day, if I drank that much whilst on night shift…
The moment you feel thirsty mate, the body is already dehydrated…
Cavey speaks perfect sense!
Captain Caveman 76:
Drinking water. I go through about two litres a night. With the windows up and heater on you’ll start to dehydrate, this can exaggerate the effects of fatigue. Stay away from energy drinks and coffee, they may offer a short term boost (enough to keep you going for an hour) but you’ll feel worse then ever once the effects wear off.
Oh, and try and keep to working hours over the weekend, it’ll make Mondays much easier!
A bloody good map, random road closures are a nightmare. You WILL take a diversion on your first week, guaranteed.
I love nights, wouldn’t touch days unless it was a wonder job.
Cavey.
Blimey! I’d be back and forth to the bathroom all day, if I drank that much whilst on night shift…
The moment you feel thirsty mate, the body is already dehydrated…
Cavey speaks perfect sense!
I don’t doubt it. I just found there was a fine line between drinking enough during the night, and not getting enough sleep due to spending all day wearing out the landing carpet…
Youd think by some of these posts you were going on an expidition to the antarctic!!!
Your driving a truck mate,im guessing it has a cab heater??
Take yer food and coffee,earphones for your own music as night time radio is rank,
Ive been on nights for years, wouldnt do this job during day time,too much traffic…
Nights is better paid with less BS…
Dont let the scare mongers scare you off,stay up late the day before you start…you can get another kip on yer 45 off…
Youll love it
Thanks for your advise guys. Well tonight i think im going to stay up lates as poss then up early tommorrow morning thn have a kip in the afternoon so come work time i should be good for the night
devonlad2009:
Thanks for your advise guys. Well tonight i think im going to stay up lates as poss then up early tommorrow morning thn have a kip in the afternoon so come work time i should be good for the night
I used to do that but found I needed a very very mild sleeping tablet to get off in the afternoon and I made sure I had either an eye mask or black out the room entirely otherwise I suffered with headaches due to the eyes not getting ‘light rest’
