Why are there so many members on this early!?

[Budnicks]

I'm still not use to the time change
my dog isn't either, he still wants out at the org. 6:00 am
so I'm up when he's up, I start the coffee, watch a lil' news
before dad gets up, when it's still nice & quite
don't usually get on the "puter" until like 11:00-12:00

I don't punch a clock, but got up way earlier when I did have to
like 4:30am make coffee & breakfast or just a toasted bagel/cream cheese
& I wanted to be in/at my warehouse by no later than 6:00-6:30 am-ish daily,
if not earlier, only a couple miles from my place
usually, to do the daily planner/jobs for who goes where & when,
for my 14 guys, who showed up at or before 7:00 am, always had coffee on
office girls were in at like 8:00-9:00 am,
I'd do phone calls & then go out to jobs or if the rigs needed work
sometimes I'd stay there & fix stuff, then go out & check on jobs
or go to meetings/constantly

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[JackR]

Three years into retirement, I'm still going through withdrawal from the last 20 years when I started my work day at 4:00 am. Unlike RC, I'm sleeping 50% more now, trying to make up for decades of sleep deprivation. My primary care doctor of 15 years called me a freak of nature that was genetically engineered to drive a truck, only reason I'm still kicking.

Funny you mention the Dr thing. My MD believes my immune system is stellar because of all the travel and a couple million miles in airplanes the last 30 years. Everyone in my house can be sick but never me and I’ve never had a flu shot.

 

[DeltaV]

I'm awake at morning twilight. I try to not go asleep too late.

 

[Richard Cranium]

 

[cosgig]

Call me wierd, but I don’t use an alarm clock. For some reason, if I have to get up at a certain time, all I have to do is think about that time right before I go to bed, and I’ll wake up at that time, or a few minutes before. I’ve even tested this on myself a few times, thinking of a very specific time, like 4:57am, and sure as shootin I’m up at 4:57, almost on the spot. It kinda drives me nuts, sometimes I inadvertently think about waking up early to do something before work, and sure as shootin I’ll wake up at some random time that’s waaay too early to make noise, or coffee.

 

[Don selleck]

I set an alarm, and wake up 10 minutes before it goes off, every time. Sometimes wake up a 3am and bam I'm up like someone flipped a switch. I usually get up and go out to the shop and get some stuff done.

 

[turbine68rt]

My shift starts at 0530 so I get up around 0330-0400. Counting the weeks 'til retirement....

 

[Xp29h]

Since working years of midnights (8 pm to 6 am) I just have those night where I go to bed and boom wide awake. This morning I made it all the way to 2 am! Been up since!

 

[cr8crshr]

I routinely hit the sack between 8:30 pm at the earliest and 11:00 pm at the latest. I did so even while I was flying all over the World with the USAF, jumping dates and time zones, while jacking up my Circadian rhythm at every turn. After adjusting back to my home time, those hours to bed were routine. Now, with the time changes annually, it screws up my internal clock twice a year, yet I still get to bed between those times. I get roughly 6 1/2 to 8 12 hours of sleep despite getting up about 3-4 times to drain the bladder...FOOKING old age...but right back asleep in a very short time. Most though, 6 1/2 to 7 hours for me and up between 6:45 am/7:00 am. Last night in bed by 10:00 and up this morning at 6:45. One more odd thing about my sleep...I routinely take a power nap after being awake for about 6 hours. Is that weird for this Ol' 76 year young man or what??? cr8crshr/Bill

 

[1967coronet]

I'm up by 5:30, all 7 days.
Like many on here i run best on 6 hrs.

 

[PROSTOCKTOM]

Probably a lot of us have weak bladders from being old. I go to bed, sleep 3 hours, get up, take a leak, go back to bed, and if I am real lucky sleep 4-5 more hours.

Worst part is when you're half a sleep and bouncing into the walls/ door cases, or stubbing a toe. Which I broke my left little toe last year when I walked into the corner

of a chimney in the kitchen. Fortuitously, for me I had already unloaded the gun or I am sure I would have wet myself. Man did it hurt.

Tom

 

[Kern Dog]

My shift starts at 0530 so I get up around 0330-0400. Counting the weeks 'til retirement....

Years of construction had me working against my natural body clock. I always had to go to bed early to get enough sleep but most of the time I felt like the little kid that wanted to stay up. Weekends I did, usually well past midnight, 1:00...
After retiring, I'm rarely in bed before 1:00.
As I'm trailing off and ready to put the computer away, I start seeing the East Coast members start posting on the site.
I have no natural inclination to wake up at any specific time. It boggles the mind to learn that some people just pop awake at 4:00 AM.
I can go to bed at 11:00 PM and sleep dang near all the way to 11:00 AM. I don't have to get up to pee or nothing....straight sleep and dreaming!

 

[Krooser]

I learned years ago what circadium rythems are and I try to understand how they affect your sleep patterns.

After 54 years of wildly different work hours and many 18-48 hour work days ( mostly when I was younger) I learned to nap whenever possible.

I nap almost every afternoon. When I'm on a longer distance run I nap again in the evening and drive later into the night.

On my regular runs I am exempt from the current DOT elogs since I stay within 150 miles of my home terminal. I still bust my *** to stay on schedule not because my company forces me to but because that's who I am.

Tonite is one of those nights I am having a tuff time sleeping. I load at 9:15 tomorrow am and have a 180 mile run. I will have plenty if time to rest tomorrow since my reload isn't scheduled until Friday AM.

Regarding melatonin I just read that regular use over the long term may contribute to certain cancers. I use it sparingly but at 76 I have other more pressing things to worry about.

I just woke up at 3 am... not likely I will get any more sleep until later this morning.

 

[Scott Engelhardt]

Morning my early morning people. 30 years of 5am and restless leg syndrome 4 am is my new normal.

 

[YY1]

Bots?

 

[68BabyBlue]

I learned years ago what circadium rythems are and I try to understand how they affect your sleep patterns.

After 54 years of wildly different work hours and many 18-48 hour work days ( mostly when I was younger) I learned to nap whenever possible.

I nap almost every afternoon. When I'm on a longer distance run I nap again in the evening and drive later into the night.

On my regular runs I am exempt from the current DOT elogs since I stay within 150 miles of my home terminal. I still bust my *** to stay on schedule not because my company forces me to but because that's who I am.

Tonite is one of those nights I am having a tuff time sleeping. I load at 9:15 tomorrow am and have a 180 mile run. I will have plenty if time to rest tomorrow since my reload isn't scheduled until Friday AM.

Regarding melatonin I just read that regular use over the long term may contribute to certain cancers. I use it sparingly but at 76 I have other more pressing things to worry about.

I just woke up at 3 am... not likely I will get any more sleep until later this morning.

When I was in trucking management, my safest terminals were usually the ones where the guys ran the hardest. Drivers made top dollar, terminal always made a profit. The key was a manager who understood circadian rhythms, and insured that dispatch worked around them.

 

[YY1]

I don't get how the medical profession doesn't get thousands of people killed every year with their "normal" SOP of 12 hour or more shifts and 4 days on, three days off.

You would think that the medical profession would understand how unnatural, unhealthy and, making humans prone to unnecessary errors these practices would be for the medical profession to engage in.