Stay Hydrated My Friends

lord have mercy y'all it is human in texas i mean it's look at this look at this right here what's on the outside of the window i've got i'm in the mercedes because it has better air conditioning than the truck does and it is so humid outside it's like 91 degrees i've looked it up it's 91 degrees and it feels like 103. it is uncomfortably warm outside and that is under exaggerating the issue uh i have been out in it since about 10. uh i told you guys i got pulled over it was saturday uh i got pulled over and and the the guy the officer really pulled me over because he wanted to see the truck but he tried to get me for a license plate light it was the middle of the day which is i don't know why he tried to get me for a life split like the middle of the day but i you know we walked back there i showed him he's like well it's not bright enough it's like it's middle of the day and he goes well i really just pulled you over i want to see the truck like okay so as he was getting ready to leave he kind of pointed to the window he kind of goes you know taps on the window goes by the way your inspections do you need to go get that taken care of i'm like okay so i um that was what i was doing today and my van that my brother drives he it also needed to be done so we drove around today trying to find that but i had to put two headlights in the van first because um it was like we went out to check it my brother's like it's fine well he only ever drives it like a mile and a half to work or a half a mile to work and then a half a mile back so um it's hilarious but anyway uh so we checked it it needed light so we would put lights in it and everything and then we drove around trying to find a place like one place was closed one place's machine was down one place said they did it but they don't do it and then finally the fourth place we went to work but anyway um i'm on here i'm trying to make this as short as i can you know how i am i like to talk um i i want to talk to you guys about staying hydrated out on the road so i worked on steam locomotives and and at the trolley barn for years and in temperatures that i i look back now and go like why you know um 110 outside and then the steam locomotive it could get up to 140 145 easy uh and on the streetcar no air conditioning windows down i loved it i i still do i would do it again if i could but you know um i need to make money so um i had some issues around the steam locomotives had a couple of uh incidents where i was suffering from some heat exhaustion had to go to uh the triage at six flags and and and sit in the air conditioning for a little while so um i went looking for any information i could on staying hydrated because there were steam locomotives that ran across the deserts of the united states and those guys stay hydrated how they'd do it so i called around a couple places i got a hold of the guy that was in charge of the union pacific steam program at the time steve lee and he shared some tips with me and i want to share those with you guys so uh those tips are and these work i tried them all out i did great after this and never had a problem i worked for the six flags of like three years and and suffered through 110 degree heat and never had an issue um but the the three things are and i don't know if all these really apply but the three things that we should think about are one um we should we all need to be drinking water we need to drink water all day long we're too tempted to stop at petro or the pilot go in get a big sweet tea get a big dr pepper get a big pepsi whatever it is and all that sugar is not going to help us stay hydrated and i don't want to get out of the truck and immediately have an issue so i try to drink as much i already try to drink as much water as i can but we should all be doing that so drink as much water as you can if it gets to the point where you're thirsty you're actually already dehydrated so when you're thirsty and you're thinking about getting a dr pepper or anything about getting a pepsi remember thirst means you are dehydrated to drink water okay secondly don't drink gatorade everybody's like it has electrolytes it's what plants crave i understand that but i always think about that when i hear the word electrolytes um electrolytes are only good for you if you have been very active so if you're doing heavy haul you know changing binders if you're doing flatbed you know gatorade might help especially in this kind of heat humidity but in general if you're doing dry van like i do uh you're just going to want to drink water so try to stay away from that the sugar again will not help you stay hydrated it actually inhibits your body from staying hydrated the third thing that steve lee said i don't really know if this should apply to a lot of us because again we're so we're always in the air conditioning or whatever so you can kind of take this one or leave it but he always said eat a big salty meal the night before or eat a big salty breakfast the day of and the salt helps you retain water and you'll stay hydrated a lot easier so i used to put this up every year at uh the trolley barn when i was the chief dispatcher uh it seemed to help out everybody there just a good reminder to stay hydrated but i wanted to share that with you guys just a good reminder to stay hydrated okay when you're tempted reach for water okay i don't want to hear about anybody especially that watch my channel um that you know climbed out of a truck and ended up getting a heat exhaustion or heat stroke or something and ended up having to go to the hospital so um it's a little kind of there's no real in between for us uh if you're running steam locomotives and you drink water every chance you get so before you get thirsty you need to be grabbing the thermos every time you stop drink water um every every few minutes i remember doing that but as truck drivers not really we're always in air conditioning so we don't need to drink that much water uh there's a point in air conditioning where it's gonna be too much because you're not losing any moisture and then there's a point where you're outside you're sweating where you're losing a lot of moisture so it may be too little so you gotta find some sort of a happy medium and i really think the the happy medium is to just cut out sugary drinks as much as possible and just drink water so um i know some some people are gonna go like what about coffee i i can't i'm not gonna tell you to stop drinking coffee um you know i'm not going to tell you stop drinking tea if that's what you're doing you know do those things but drink water whenever you get thirsty think about water first okay so that's it you guys know the drill keeps trying to set up see you down the road oh here it comes oh there it is [Music] you

Channel: Big Mike Trucking

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Length: 6min 42sec (402 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 14 2021