last october i had to drive to new hampshire to pick up a hovercraft. i was working b shift, had monday off regularly, and took a personal day sunday so i could leave early sunday morning. I was unable to get any sleep saturday night, left at 4 in the morning and drove to manchester. I spent a few hours helping raoul move his snowblower out of his basement and driving the hovercraft on lakes near his house. When I left there I had been awake for about 36 hours. I struggled to make it back into new york and almost lost it many times sundaynight/monday morning on the 90. I will never drive that tired again. I felt like i was hallucinating or that i was in a dream. I just wanted to get home so badly i kept driving.
The same thing happened a year before driving home from wisconsin. The truck I just bought had no radio and a nice, soothing, constant hum to the engine, i dozed off several times. There was an accident in chicago with traffic stopped dead for a few hours, i woke up to see the road ahead clear wondering how long i sat there as everyone else pulled away.
Definetly pull over and sleep instead of driving tired.
some times i just close um for a half second then im like WTF are you doing wake up!!.. but one time i was driving my realy deal army hummer from the armory in buffalo out to camp smith ( near NY city) and it was a long boring ride. hummers are really loud inside but the noise is kinda soothings and gets me tired sooo i was going about 75 in this big bitch with the windows down and got tired. I closed my eyes for a second… then for some reason my body scared myself to wake me up. Probably one of the worst things i coulda fell asleep behind the wheel in because if i woulda hit a car they would have been done.
After that i put some headphones on and kept drinking water to keep myself occupied since my buddy crawled into the rear of the truck to sleep himself
i used to do it everynight commin home from my gf’s house like 3 years ago
5th gear cruize on, zzzzzzzzz, ohh shit… ok im good, cruize, zzzzzzz… oh shit…etc
i remember this one time i was driving JEG somewhere, and told him to stay awake to make sure i do, he says ok, i look over 5 min later and hes pasted out, 5 min after that i passed out, started goin off the road, the vibration usally wakes me up (from stones/shity road/grass/bumps/sidewalk/shoulder) we both wake up, i get back on the road, we look over at eachother and start laughing i yell ta him “asshole u almost killed me”.
now im to the point where i dont really need sleep, i have to force my self to sleep.
i can go 30+ hours no prob.