Being Awake And Staying Awake - versus - Being Told "You Need Sleep!" {HRI note 20060907}

"Peter R." wrote in message
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TruckingNoob wrote:

Sure, but can you learn to SNIP ****? Maybe keep only what is
RELEVANT.??
I really don't understand people's lack of basic deletion so that you
don't
have to look throguh tons of CRAP just to see someone one line BS.

Occasionally there are cross posts that are very educational. For
example,
with this thread I didn't realize there was a newsgroup devoted to
truckers. When I picture a trucker I picture someone not familiar with
the
Internet or specifically, Usenet. Now I know better.

FYI, I'm an over the road driver, somewhere in -any- of the Lower 48, 28
days a month or more.

I have about 20,000 posts /10 yrs on Usenet (primarily in Rec.scuba), and
I have broadband PCS in the truck.

As a wildly unsupportable guess, I'd say about 40% of OTR drivers have a
notebook in the truck.

They are, at least, far from uncommon.

We use them for work as well as recreation.

Mapping routes and destinations, book keeping, and locating facilities
like truck scales, maintenance facilities, and fuel stops, all on the
internet.

For recreation I dock my iPod, and download books on tape, and play then
via the truck's sound system.

DVDs of course.

Mounted on a Jottodesk made specifically for Freightliner.

Also many truck stops offer Wife, as well as some state rest areas.

--
Peter



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