Truckers Can Officially Enjoy Coffee



It seems at times, everything is bad for you and life has turned into one big rulebook. Don’t do this, Don’t eat that, Exercise, Stop for inspection, and so on. Occasionally we cut a break. And that break is…Caffeine.

I am reading in Overdrive Magazine that a study in Australia shows a significant connection between caffeine and alertness. 

I am prepared to accept that. In fact the article uses important sounding words that make it sound so much more scientific than I ever dreamed. The article describes the miracle of caffeine with:

“caffeine is a ‘psycho stimulant’ that suppresses the innate  adenosine mediated drive to sleep.’”

That is a mouthful and maybe a really verbose way of saying coffee keeps you up or like my wife puts it ‘coffee keeps you moving.’ 

But who cares!

We officially can enjoy coffee. It is one of the few guilt free pleasures that is not linked to heart disease, hypertension, infection, psychosis, nightsweats, cotton mouth, allergic reaction,…etc. We now do not have to walk into the truck stop with that uncomfortable sense of knowing that some doctor said that coffee is bad for us. Even better we have official jargon to back up the right to drink coffee on the road. 

In fact it is something healthy. We are not guzzling coffee while hauling cars all night. We are operating our Cottrell’s with a legal ‘psycho stimulant.” (wow that sounds good). We are rolling down the highway with a health beverage that fights our innate nature to go into adenosine cerebral arrest which is a fancy phrase I just made up meaning your tired. I would imagine every trucker or carhauler understands the value of a caffeinated pyscho-stimulant on an extended roadtrip.

On a side note, the article also mentions that there is a condition where you are exhausted all the time. It has a fancy medical term too but I just call it being a parent.

So pull into that truck stop and find that coffee stand…It is now “official”... it might help you stay awake!

 http://www.overdriveonline.com/caffeine-use-reduces-crash-risk-for-truck-drivers-says-study/

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 *please note: this article is not a recommendation to drink coffee or consume caffeinated beverages of any kind or amount. This is a merely a humorous look at how feeling tired can potentially be mitigated by drinking coffee. Please observe the HOS rules and drink lots of water when you consume caffeine. This writer is not a doctor and is in no way giving any medical advice to anyone. In fact, consult with your physician before consuming coffee or caffeine products to make sure that is the proper remedy for any exhaustion or sleep problems involving adenosine or your bodies predisposition to got into a ‘adenosine mediated drive’ to feel tired or sleep. Be safe out there.
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1 comment:

  1. who can drive without coffee first???? Lol Gotta have it.


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