Originally Posted by SHO-TYME

Reefers put me to sleep, but if I gotta park beside another pos with the air tank popping off every minute, I'm gonna take a hammer to it, same goes for those who's fan has to cycle on and off every 60 seconds. Here's a hint, turn the fan ON, it will make you a/c work better and it will keep me from shoving a 4 ft pipe through your grill.

Cut me some slack, bro, my truck lacks the manual fan switch.

Originally Posted by raverez097

I was talking to a reefer driver the other day, he mentioned that he's so used to the reefer that he wakes up if he doesn't hear it running.

Last night I parked in Faribault Mn. away from everybody. About 2:00 am a reefer pulled next to me. Loud reefer, loud super chicken hauler truck.

I know what he means. One time with Stevens, I woke up about 1AM when I noticed my reefer kept cycling into defrost. I was hauling ice cream. I got up and checked the temp. It was 31F when it should be -20! I was at the Tallulah, LA T/A. I immediately called night dispatch who told me to head for the nearest Thermoking dealer on my route, which was in Jackson, MS. I got there and the on-call tech was already at the shop. Turns out that a chunk of ice had clogged the drain tube for the coil and it had backed up and made a mess. He cleaned it all out and got my unit running. Just then 2 more trucks pulled up and he remarked how it was going to be a long day, lol.

Parked at the nearest truckstop to finish out my break (since this was the old 10/8 days when you could actually do that and not be in trouble).

just anthor thought on this, we truck driver's are um, i'm thinking nice way too put this, , well i wont say it, he allready said it in anthor post what we are , bout get 7 post back, but also i never had a apu, i just got down unloading the us mail, catalogs, at a warehouse, then the mail truck's come too this warehouse and get the there catalog's, anyway i pull out out, it's a old manufacturing plant so there a super big parking lot, i asked if i could take my 10 there, it was all fenced in , nice , i didnt have a reefer, just a box trl, doing the boss a favor as this was a relay load , that got dropped in the yard and since i was there getting my tractor pm, and got done with that, sure i'll take it in, so i was sitting there waiting for my next load on my 10, it was late and the place were i worked at , everybody went home at 5pm, so i knew ,no load till morning, i was in a nice place, nice cool out roll down the windows a bit , when the same company truck pull up beside me and i just about fell alseep when roarrrrrrrrrrrrr , he had a dang apu on his truck dang that was loud, got up move my truck clear across the lot and i still could hear that dang apu way over there, if there that loud , that's worst then my reefer i had, then i dont want one, i never get any sleep

my second boat was built in stonington conn pre WW11 had an old grey marine (671 Detriot) only 2 bunks both in the engine room either side of the motor. Now that was loud slept fine but i might be a lil hard of hearing now. Was nice and warm in feb too