"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



--

Popeye
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun
than you can with a kind word alone. -Capone
www.finalprotectivefire.com

I was hoping that this might be a thread about staying awake on long
flights, but apparently not.

How _does_ one stay awake on a long flight as the sole pilot aboard?
I know that commercial pilots doze off frequently enough on long
flights, although they are reluctant to officially admit it. But then
there are usually at least two qualified pilots and others who can
wake them up. What do you do when you're the only pilot on board and
you have to fly a really long distance?

In the old days, staying awake was more a matter of life and death, as
you had to manually fly the plane at all times. Today, with
autopilot, you could drift off and survive, if you were lucky. So how
does one avoid it? Or is it just not a good idea to fly long
distances on one's own in an aircraft?

This all applies to other forms of transportation, too, of course.
Truckers and car drivers cannot afford to fall asleep at all. Boats
might be more forgiving, at least in open water with good navigational
aids and plenty of fuel (or wind).

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On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 11:23:00 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

In the old days, staying awake was more a matter of life and death, as
you had to manually fly the plane at all times. Today, with
autopilot, you could drift off and survive, if you were lucky. So how
does one avoid it? Or is it just not a good idea to fly long
distances on one's own in an aircraft?

You could break the flight up into shorter hops, landing to walk
around or take a short nap.
Is it legal to listen to music? (I'm not a pilot, so I don't know.)
--
Bill Funk
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Bill Funk writes:

You could break the flight up into shorter hops, landing to walk
around or take a short nap.

The overhead, time, and expense of landing and taking off again would
tend to discourage dividing the trip into hops, I should think.

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On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 20:12:03 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

Bill Funk writes:

You could break the flight up into shorter hops, landing to walk
around or take a short nap.

The overhead, time, and expense of landing and taking off again would
tend to discourage dividing the trip into hops, I should think.

It would beat falling asleep, wouldn't it?
--
Bill Funk
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