How Much Sleep Do You Get Each Day?

Thanks for the replies. It seems everyone can get the sleep they generally require, which was one thing I wondered about. For me I know I would worry about not being able to drive safely if I could only get 5 hours a night or day on a regular basis. I'd need more, even if it was broken up.

The only way you could manage to _regularly_ get less than 5 hours sleep is if you are either an insomniac, or have no sleep discipline. You are required to shut down for 10 hours when solo. If you can't make 5 of those hours sleep time, you have a problem. Don't get me wrong. It will happen. When it does, make sure you really are safe to drive before you roll, and don't be afraid to pull off in a rest stop and grab an hour or two if needed after a bad night's sleep.

If you are in a team situation and your teammate sings when they drive and it keeps you awake, then you need a new teammate.

Sometimes I spend so much time at a shipper/receiver off duty and when I'm done loading/unloading I only have a couple hours left to get my 10 so I'll stay onsite or close by to finish the break. Days like that will have me running on only a couple hours sleep.

If your in that similar situation but don't feel comfortable driving, then just go on duty when loaded and finish out your day, then you can shut down for a real 10.

Sometimes I spend so much time at a shipper/receiver off duty and when I'm done loading/unloading I only have a couple hours left to get my 10 so I'll stay onsite or close by to finish the break. Days like that will have me running on only a couple hours sleep.

If your in that similar situation but don't feel comfortable driving, then just go on duty when loaded and finish out your day, then you can shut down for a real 10.

Days like that have me getting lots of sleep. I will nap in the truck when being loaded or unloaded, if I've already been awake a few hours. Then I drive the rest of my day, and sleep again.

All depends on the shipper , can't always sleep until loaded some places. When I was pulling a flatbed for Prime it was common to wait in a long line to enter a building to get loaded. This means every so often having to pull forward as the line moves, which doesn't allow time to sleep. Never got much opportunity to sleep at shippers/receivers as a flatbedder.

Sometimes I spend so much time at a shipper/receiver off duty and when I'm done loading/unloading I only have a couple hours left to get my 10 so I'll stay onsite or close by to finish the break. Days like that will have me running on only a couple hours sleep.

If your in that similar situation but don't feel comfortable driving, then just go on duty when loaded and finish out your day, then you can shut down for a real 10.

Days like that have me getting lots of sleep. I will nap in the truck when being loaded or unloaded, if I've already been awake a few hours. Then I drive the rest of my day, and sleep again.

All depends on the shipper , can't always sleep until loaded some places. When I was pulling a flatbed for Prime it was common to wait in a long line to enter a building to get loaded. This means every so often having to pull forward as the line moves, which doesn't allow time to sleep. Never got much opportunity to sleep at shippers/receivers as a flatbedder.

Sometimes I spend so much time at a shipper/receiver off duty and when I'm done loading/unloading I only have a couple hours left to get my 10 so I'll stay onsite or close by to finish the break. Days like that will have me running on only a couple hours sleep.

If your in that similar situation but don't feel comfortable driving, then just go on duty when loaded and finish out your day, then you can shut down for a real 10.

Days like that have me getting lots of sleep. I will nap in the truck when being loaded or unloaded, if I've already been awake a few hours. Then I drive the rest of my day, and sleep again.

Good point. I pull reefer exclusively, so my wait time is normally in a yard, parked, or on a dock. Big difference from flatbedding, for sure.

More than I did when I owned my own business and everybody THOUGHT I was rich. 😆