I find on nights, Alex Lester on Radio 2 really helps. It’s like having your own nutter in the cab (besides yourself)
If that doesn’t work, I have some rock albums on my MP3 player that a good for keeping the yawns away
Sam Millar:
I used to work with a guy actually who plugged something into his iPhone at the bottom, and it would be connected to the ciggy lighter, and whatever was playing on the phone it would be sent to the speakers in the lorry.Any ideas anyone?
One of these, good if you dont have a ipod dock. it transmits your music on your ipod and your cab radio picks the frequency up and plays through the cab speakers.
Sam Millar:
I used to work with a guy actually who plugged something into his iPhone at the bottom, and it would be connected to the ciggy lighter, and whatever was playing on the phone it would be sent to the speakers in the lorry.Any ideas anyone?
FM transmitter.
Sam Millar:
I used to work with a guy actually who plugged something into his iPhone at the bottom, and it would be connected to the ciggy lighter, and whatever was playing on the phone it would be sent to the speakers in the lorry.Any ideas anyone?
I’ve got a Dension Car Dock for mine - has a sticky cradle which fits to the screen, has FM transmitter & aux lead, depending on what radio you have, charges as it goes, and comes with an app to control it all with bigger icons than the normal iPod ones. Worth a shot
Gary
What you want is an FM transmitter. Can buy them anywhere.
Audiobooks either on C.D (to many disks) or preferably an Ipod or similar, using the auxiliary socket on the truck or headphones.
Most good titles can be “found” on the tinternet for free.
Never been bothered by it. I do need a radio but will listen to almost anything except Alex Lester, when he is on I pull ■■■■■ out of my knackers, it is more fun
I find Rammstein are good for keeping me awake if running late into the night, though it helps if you can speak some German
xfmatt:
Look for fanny coming past in their cars with little skirts on
I don’t see many cars with little skirts on these days!!
Sam Millar - on the earlier Mercs I believe there is an input on the rear of the radio. You need to get it out of the mounting to access it. If not, the FM transmitter works well in most situations.
I have a DAB radio + music on my phone and all plumbed into the input on the radio. When stopped my laptop also plays DVDs and music through the same sound system.
If i’m around london at night i listen to BBC london, some of the people who phone in are hilarious.
Around the midlands its Kerrang radio or Alex lester on R2.
Trying to flick ■■■ butts into passing convertibles was always a laugh. 
But with the newer trucks, being able to plug a memory stick into the radio is great, no more packs of cds, (or tapes) and can listen to storys or music.
Oh, and working out how i’m gonna spend my 10 million pound lottery win passes the time. (the A11 is a long lonely road at 3am) 
BBC 2 during the day, Heart FM at night while in UK, CD books in France and Kiss FM in Spain.
xfmatt:
Look for fanny coming past in their cars with little skirts on
Try rolling on a noddy, for a posh knuckle shuffle! 
Stricko:
I listen to a lot of podcasts
Whats a podcast?
Stricko:
I find Rammstein are good for keeping me awake if running late into the night, though it helps if you can speak some German
I’ll second that one! Usually something with a decent beat, cranked up LOUD, certainly helps keep me awake. Even works during the day, but especially well at night with some of the weird electro stuff I listen to.
Sam Millar:
I used to work with a guy actually who plugged something into his iPhone at the bottom, and it would be connected to the ciggy lighter, and whatever was playing on the phone it would be sent to the speakers in the lorry.
Any ideas anyone?
I’ve got a SatNav / PDA that transmits FM, so you can play your MP3’s and rather than play them on the satnav speaker, it transmits them.
So set the satnav to transmit at, say, 87.00 FM, tune your truck radio into 87.00 FM, and your truck radio recieves your satnavs signal.
Then it’s Dire Straits and Guns n Roses all night long 
mick.mh2racing:
Derf:
I used to try and estimate how much fuel I had in the tank, how many miles I’d done since I last filled up and work out how many more miles i had left in the tank, all in my head just to keep the old noggin ticking over and stay alert. That was in the days before fancy trip computers mind…I do the same, working out maths in my head. How long to the next stop or converting road sign distances into kilometres.
Mee too, not fuel or KMs though, just random number sums.
Like, whats 1784 divided by 3. Or times by 5. Stuff like that.
Counting the bumps on the rumble strip 
Loud music, the louder the better
Stricko:
I find Rammstein are good for keeping me awake if running late into the night, though it helps if you can speak some German
We like this!!!
Sam Millar:
Snarley:
Listen to talk radio, talksport or radio 5. The debates and arguments keep me awake.What freq’s are these?
Talk sport is 1053 or 1089 am.
Radio 5 is 693 or 909 am.
I tend to have a drivers mate in the cab with me and the music I like is…shall we say not for everyone? I’m not the most talkative person either, some want to chat, so I try my best, others just put in their headphones. If I’m south of Luton and it’s between 4pm and 1pm (the woman on between 1-3 annoys the hell out of me) I’ll put on LBC 97.3. Anywhere in the midlands and it’ll be Kerrang.
If I’m on my own then I have a few CDs with me ranging from Bon Jovi to Finntroll.
The other thing I tend to do is work out what time I’ll get to the next drop/back to the yard based on a clear run. I’m getting suprisingly good at that.