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Old Train Bridge in Columbia, NJ
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That's my least favorite, having to check in with a guard somewhere. Can't you just come out to the truck, look at me, look at my ID and let me go back to sleep? Do I have to get dressed and come inside? You're right there. Just stick your head out. And who would sneak in here anyway?
I like having no set schedule. I know drivers who do shifts, driving generally the same hours all the time. They have regularity. I don't like doing that, I kinda like having different hours on different days.
The hardest part comes when we're off for a few days or home for a few days - then we become regular. Up during day hours - albeit, sometimes waking very late in the morning - and going to bed like regular people at night. We get into a routine, which generally works, but then when we go back on the road, we're all screwed up.
I'm mostly a night owl, but I also like being up in the very early morning hours when no one else is around. No TV, no talking, no one else breathing to ruin my silence. Sometimes I even hate hearing the truck or generator running. After we do a team run where the truck doesn't stop for say, two or three days straight, I can't wait to turn it off and hear nothing. I feel instantly relaxed once the purr that usually puts me to sleep, ceases.
We're home now, and sleeping at night without the truck running is weird. It's so quiet. I slept with the window opened last night - it's very cool in the desert at night this time of year - and there's hardly anything that makes noise out here. No crickets. No neighborhood dogs. Well, that's a good thing.
The sounds of silence.
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