What do you eat if you need to drive all night?

Freightdawg · Feb 21, 2011

OVM had one thread on what not to eat if you have to drive all night. If you do have to drive all night, what do you eat? I've got an all nighter tonight. I've got granola bars, carrots, and apples. I like the crunch. I also have sandwich makings. What do you carry to eat on the all nighters?

purgoose10 · Feb 21, 2011

Freightdawg said:
OVM had one thread on what not to eat if you have to drive all night. If you do have to drive all night, what do you eat? I've got an all nighter tonight. I've got granola bars, carrots, and apples. I like the crunch. I also have sandwich makings. What do you carry to eat on the all nighters?

Well I drive almost every night. Besides 5 hr energy if I get really tired I will take a pack of salty peanuts and drop them in a coke bottle and eat them right out of the bottle. Helps to stimulate. Old truckers used to do it. A 20 minute power nap also helps.

robh2 · Feb 21, 2011

I use to do that as a kid with RC Cola, Coke and Root Beer. Good times.

Freightdawg · Feb 21, 2011

robh2 said:
I use to do that as a kid with RC Cola, Coke and Root Beer. Good times.

RC Cola and a moon pie! That was good eats!

cheri1122 · Feb 21, 2011

Purgoose: do you drink the Coke first, or drop them in?
I like popcorn or chips. Especially Sun Chips - the package is incredibly loud, lol, and the chips are pretty good, too.

chefdennis · Feb 21, 2011

5 hr energy and a red bull, coffee and a heath bar, if I have ti eat food while driving, it junk food..but I at times do the coke and salty peanuts, but not as much as i might...

jrcarroll · Feb 21, 2011

Coffee and peanut butter crackers, and more coffee.

Freightdawg · Feb 21, 2011

jrcarroll said:
Coffee and peanut butter crackers, and more coffee.

I once fell asleep with a mouth full of coffee. Of course that is not as bad as a co-pilot I had who fell asleep pouring coffee from his thermos to his cup. Something about pouring hot coffee unto your crotch seem to wake one up!

Ragman · Feb 21, 2011

Freightdawg said:
RC Cola and a moon pie! That was good eats!

Along with a sack of White Castles.

jrcarroll · Feb 21, 2011

Freightdawg said:
I once fell asleep with a mouth full of coffee. Of course that is not as bad as a co-pilot I had who fell asleep pouring coffee from his thermos to his cup. Something about pouring hot coffee unto your crotch seem to wake one up!

Wake one up, say many foul words, almost wreck truck

Freightdawg · Feb 21, 2011

Yep, coffee works every time!

MR.SNAPPY · Feb 21, 2011

Pilot Extreme caffeine coffee will get the job done for me..try to limit myself to 2 cups a day..

TeamCaffee · Feb 21, 2011

I have found that this is really good and takes time to eat Edamame.

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nightcreacher · Feb 22, 2011

You need the perfect way to keep awake.
Take a bag of potato chips,crumble them up into a powder,then put them in your shorts.Guranteed to keep you awake

bcordell70 · Feb 22, 2011

I drive most nights and I drink a few mountain dews, and maybe a cappuccino, usually the wife and I will have dinner when we stop to switch, so I just do snack stuff through the night like chips and stuff.

zero3nine · Feb 22, 2011

Roasted, unsalted peanuts. One at a time... chew slowly. Diet mountain dew. Diet coke.

Vitamin b complex and thermogenic capsules. Eyes glued wide open. Drive 1000 miles. Sleep 4 hours. Repeat.

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Desperado · Feb 22, 2011

2 coffee 1 apple fritter but if tired 1 hour nap trued them 15 min things once to bout the time my eyes close time to go lol

teamjdw · Feb 22, 2011

Trail mix & fruit, green tea.Sleeping 4-6 hours before my shift really helps.We try to split the run so one of us drives till 1-2 am then we switch. Splitting the night shift works great for us. If time allows,we will stop the truck from 1-3am.

greg334 · Feb 22, 2011

One cup of coffee, cold with a shot of espresso and some snacks.

Outside of that, proper sleep and a good meal before without a lot of carbs but with some fat in it.

TeamCaffee said:
I have found that this is really good and takes time to eat Edamame.

You mean soybeans?

You can get them in toasted form with all kinds of stuff on them, from Frank's RedHot Sauce to that funny green horseradish stuff (which isn't the real stuff so I say green stuff instead but good enough) to a sweet BBQ flavor - recommend anything hot. AND I saw them in chip form before, ground up like a potato and then put into a chip.