Would by a buy a brown small paper bag at Rocklea for $5 in the 70's, small white or blue pills would keep you awake but I would not be able to find my little fellow for couple days and only true blue truck drivers would know that experience mixed with good old coke.
They were amphetameme which is illegal these days, or maybe available on prescription, I don know. My sure fire stay awake for days is a Mars Bar and can of Coke.
Coffee...windows down...A/C and heating off ...even in the middle of winter. Most of my times when I needed a boost were in the middle of the night a cuppla hours before dawn. .... but the best thing that really helped was/is bloody really good lights...the best you can get...with a flood spread for close and medium distance ...and powerfull long distance spots that are not too narrow. Mind you ...I came fully awake after hitting the odd big roo west of the mountains hey....so thank heavens for decent bullbars too.......
Cheers Keith
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NoDoz were not amphetamines, they were caffeine pills.
"What are the active ingredients in NoDoz?
Charisma, motivation, all the answers well, not exactly. The only active ingredient in NoDoz is caffeine, 200mg per pill to be exact, which is about how much youll find in 1 to 2 cups of coffee."
Please do not pop pills and drive . Just dont for your sake and everyone else on the roads. Ps recall seeing a similar post before or maybe i was forseeing seeing this post . Dayzavoo.
-- Edited by the rocket on Wednesday 26th of August 2020 01:35:35 PM
Unsafe is unsafe regardless of what pills you are popping.
Spot on bgt.
My thoughts too.
Are full time (professional) drivers doing this to stay awake !!!! .
it use to be very common in the days gone past not as common now as there are more regulations / enforcement of them, with roadside drug testing. point to point cameras in the eastern states, drivers hours more accountable but still happens .
Unsafe is unsafe regardless of what pills you are popping.
Spot on bgt.
My thoughts too.
Are full time (professional) drivers doing this to stay awake !!!! .
it use to be very common in the days gone past not as common now as there are more regulations / enforcement of them, with roadside drug testing. point to point cameras in the eastern states, drivers hours more accountable but still happens .
A few years ago now I was working in a place where "B" doubles were delivering and also loading product constantly. I used to be dismayed hearing some conversation of the drivers in the smoko room, about the stuff they smoked the tricks they got up to.
I had to call an ambulance one morning about 0600 to a driver who was slumped in his car and having a serious fit and distressed. Seems he had taken something. He was not seen again.
I relied on the frozen ice pops that the kids use if I was in a situation that I had to stay awake. The effort of getting it from the fridge / esky and then opening it and the resulting COLD sugar hit gave me another hour or so before looking for another. Might not have done the diet much good but as I did not need it often it was a safe way to get that extra time or to get through when you have to. In my working life I had many times where I worked way past the 24 hours in one hit and often closer to the forty between a short nap, so have experienced what is called lack of sleep but you work through it . Luckily not often driving on the road but worked prawn trawlers for nearly twenty years and then worked in IT installing large computer systems where you had to go till the job was done. 6 wks of almost 20/7 sometime being sent to another job the same day I returned home to start again.
Tried the Nodoz on the boots about 40 years ago but they did not work for me and found the cold snap a lot better and safer.
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