AC not working, is there a DOT regulation about this?

**Wicked Wizard** · 06.14.2012

Originally Posted by Roadmedic

Got sent down to Memphis in a rough area one trip. Hot all the way down, no AC. Got there it was 84 outside and the heat was pouring up from the truck. Not safe to open windows. Fried for hours.

I hear ya! I was in Texas with no A/C and had to PU a load at 20:00. The inside of my cab was 108. The A/C was broke inside the Flying J and they didn't even have ice. Had to go to a fast food joint and get a cup of ice. Laid in my truck with the ice on my junk and under my armpits until it was gone. I know TMI, sorry.

**Roadmedic** · 06.14.2012

Originally Posted by Wicked Wizard

I hear ya! I was in Texas with no A/C and had to PU a load at 20:00. The inside of my cab was 108. The A/C was broke inside the Flying J and they didn't even have ice. Had to go to a fast food joint and get a cup of ice. Laid in my truck with the ice on my junk and under my armpits until it was gone. I know TMI, sorry.

And to think, people pay to go to saunas and hot tubs.

**Bill104** · 06.14.2012

All we need is a few more dot regs, try driving teams that way the truck never stops LOL, as my pop always said two windows and 55 keeps you cool, legal and on time.

**snowwy** · 06.14.2012

i can't remember if it was arizona law or company law. but a driver died in his sleep from the heat 3 years back.

**Roadmedic** · 06.14.2012

Originally Posted by snowwy

i can't remember if it was arizona law or company law. but a driver died in his sleep from the heat 3 years back.

It will happen again the way companies are about idle policy.

**Vito** · 06.14.2012

This is a pretty big issue for those doing OTR. As far a rolling down the windows, wouldn't that create more drag? It does with a car and mpg goes down when the windows are down. Whether or not you get better mpg with the windows down and not running the A/C OR getting less mpg with the A/C on and the windows up is debatable.

MPG is certainly an issue and why they put nose cones on the truck (to reduce drag), right?

**Zab** · 06.14.2012

Originally Posted by Roadmedic

Sleep in that truck at night?

No, don't sleep in truck, but sleep in an unairconditioned house every night. AC raises the electric bill $150 to $200 a month. I can live with the heat for a $2000 yearly savings.

**rickybobby** · 06.15.2012

I know if you don't have A/C in Humvee (up armored), They are considered Dead Line....lol

**Gizmo_Man** · 06.15.2012

Originally Posted by Wicked Wizard

Listening to you guys, I have to wonder what the working class in America did before the invention of A/C, jogging pants, sandals, and 32 oz. big gulp drinks.

before a/c, we used fans blowing air over a block of ice.

before jogging pants, we wore "pantaloons"

before sandals, we wore moccasins

before the 32 oz big gulp, we drank 12 oz normal sized.

before mankind, there were apes

before the apes were protogens

before the protogens,

there was nothing......

**GasHauler** · 06.15.2012

Originally Posted by Roadmedic

But when a local driver gets on here and says that driving the truck without the ac is no problem, then goes home in ac vehicle and sleeps in ac at home, it is a bit different.

I'd never say that. Try working in 120° heat. The only thing we did was keep the window cracked a bit because a good way to get sick is going in and out of cold all day long.