By all means, team truck driving leads to poor quality of sleep. That is due to the fact that the truck is constantly moving and you are bouncing around. Later on, the noise comes from everywhere, starting with the cb radio, up to the vibration of truck altogether with the highway noise.
Moreover, in the past few years, it has been noticed that more and more truck drivers have a sleep disorder. Unfortunately, sooner or later truck drivers with sleep apnea are likely to have an accident on the road.
Well, the FMCSA has conducted few surveys about sleep apnea and has come up with the result that more than 70% of truck drivers have this disorder due to being obese, as well as due to driving alone. Nowadays, DOT exams are covering this problem too.
Later on, as I mentioned before team truck drivers are getting poor quality of sleep. Besides the reasons I mentioned before, there are few more that are contributing truck drivers to have a poor quality of sleep, one of them is: going to sleep at the wrong time- that way you are getting your body’s clock out of rhythm.
