Mental Stimulation

 Bouncing down the road day after day, driving your load to the next delivery.  This sometimes gets pretty mindless because you’ve been doing this what seems like forever.  Don’t get me wrong, the average person can’t do what you do safely day in and day out, you are a one-of-a-kind.  What I’m saying is routine sets in after a while and your mind needs some stimulus other than avoiding accidents with other crazy drivers.

After your paperwork is caught up, you’ve had a bite to eat, fueled up, taken a shower, washed cloths, and you have free time, then what.  

Do you like movies or TV programs?  How about setting up your VCR while you are gone to record movies or TV programs that you like but always miss because of being on the road.  Or ask a friend or family member to do this for you.  Then when you return home you have some new programs to take with you when on the next trip.   Bring back the old tapes to recycle for new tapes when home again.  

There are also on-line DVD’s to rent from places such as Netflix.  Pay a monthly flat fee, create your list of movies/TV programs you want to view, they ship the DVD’s to your home, watch them and mail them back from anywhere for new ones in their postage-paid envelopes.  More DVD’s get sent to you as fast as you return them.  

You can watch some TV programs off the internet on your computer for free when you have free time too.  Some of you lucky drivers may even have a satellite dish on your truck and you can view and record programs as well.

Check with other truckers to swap tapes or DVD’s of movies you don’t care to keep that you own.  Some movies are better than others and some you want to keep in your collection.  Swap DVD’s with other truckers and keep passing them around as you want.  

Do you like listening or reading books?  Subscribe for a fee to audio books on-line and download books to your computer to put on an MP3 player for listening.  There is a huge range of books to choose from.  One website comes to mind, audible.com.  I’m sure there are others too.  

Me, I prefer having a book in hand to read.  My problem is after I’ve read it then what.  Most of mine gather dust, or get put in with items to be donated someplace or I pass them along to other friends.  Some books deserve another read just because they were that good, but most times they end up gathering dust until I get around to getting rid of them.  Like the DVD’s, you can swap with other truckers for other paperback books to read.  

The same with magazines.  If you have magazines that pile up, pass them around or swap them with other truckers for something new to read.  Everyone has different tastes in reading material so give it a try and happy swapping.

 

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