Stuff for MY truck! Fridge, microwave, slow cooker?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by JustSonny, Jul 27, 2010.

  1. ChromeDome

    ChromeDome Road Train Member

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    I got it lol.

    There is a 12v microwave I have been seeing in truck stops lately. I have not heard from anyone if it is any good though. May be worth checking out eventually.
    I keep looking at it, but 200 bucks is out of my budget at the moment. Searching around you may be able to find one cheaper though.
    Be careful with the plug in small inverters. If you draw too much power with them they get hot, and have been known to burn up trucks. My company will not even let you use them anymore due to some idiot plugging a power strip into one and starting a fire.

    On the coolers. Had to replace fans in the Coleman's several times. I finally gave up and lived without for a year or so. Now I broke down and bought a cheap one again. Just the 30 dollar soft side one at the peelot. Keeps a few drinks cold.
    I keep some cans of premade food in the truck for emergency's on the road. You never know when you will be stuck somewhere without food or a bathroom for 10+ hours.

    I have gotten to where I use my Cell phone for my alarm clock. It has only failed me one time, I was parked in Remington IN, and it changed time zone on me in the middle of the night and woke me up an hour early. The peelot is right on the line.

    As you can tell from earlier. I do not stock up on allot of food in my truck or try to eat out of my truck all the time. I am a person that needs to be around people sometimes. So I will eat at truck stops or even better near by restaurants.
    I limit myself to 100 bucks a week to spend on the road. My scales come out of this also, but normally I can stay below my limit.
    Breakfast is usually a nutragrain bar and coffee.
    Lunch, if I stop for any will normally not be too good for me lol. A dog or tornado's. Normally I do not have time to stop mid day.
    Dinner I try to vary my intake. Once a week I will treat myself to a really good meal, unless I hit a really good place to eat that I know about on another day.
    But normally I can find good salads or chicken sandwiches etc for not allot of money. With food, drink and tip I can almost always stay below 9 bucks.
    Many non-chain truck stops will have good dinner specials for 6.99 or less. This will put me over the 10 bucks but can be worth it. 7x 11.00=77 bucks. I would never eat that good 7 days in a row though.
    The breakfast bars are cheap at Sams or walmart. Dogs are 2 for 2. But as I said, that is only 2-3 days I may stop at lunch.
    Once a load is in the box I run till I have to stop.
     
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  3. JustSonny

    JustSonny Big Dummy

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    JustSonny Big Dummy

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    I think the translator app on your droid is about to EXPLODE!!!!:biggrin_2556:
    Don't feed it OHTW and it'll live to see another day.:biggrin_25513:
     
  5. REDD

    REDD The Legend

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    They accept TCH?
     
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  6. Big Don

    Big Don "Old Fart"

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    again. In post 16, I was talking about my Coleman cooler. Senility done reared it's ugly head. It were an IGLOO. In fact, it still is an Igloo, and I still use it when we go on trips.
     
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  7. Big Don

    Big Don "Old Fart"

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    You grew up in ELY? Nice country up there. Cold, in the winter, but nice.
     
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  8. rubbergearsnextyear

    rubbergearsnextyear Heavy Load Member

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    Just buy some MRE's (meals ready to eat). No need for the microwave in the truck, just use the ones at the TS for the chef boyardee days. Get you one of those crockpot type things for when you find a wal mart around where you can get some fresh food. All the coolers I tried don't last too long or stay all that cold. They'll kill the battery too and you know you can't idle much lol.

    I must say I'm glad you're finally out there, it was getting old hearing you talk about it for so long. Be safe hand and don't forget to get you a decent CB (Cobra 29 is a good one for starters)!
     
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  9. milskired

    milskired Road Train Member

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    MRE's???? Screw that! Eat 2 or 3 of those things everyday and you will get fat and you will literally ###### a log!!!
     
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  10. fulgrwnmn

    fulgrwnmn Light Load Member

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    On the coleman 12v coolers, yes they work better in the winter, however I found a way to trick it into thinking it's winter, get yourself a piece of dryer vent hose, fasten some cardboard(i used a 12 pak pop carton) cut out a slightly smaller hole in the cardbord for the hose to fit, cut to fit AC vent with enough room for some velcro tape to attach hose to vent, run hose to the intake on the cooler........works great!!
    Now you gotta remember these coolers were meant for the occasional use, i ran mine for darn near 365/24/7 and it lasted a whole yr b/fore probs set in, what you save in ice alone well pays for itself, plus you don't have to keep stopping and draining, buying new ice and hear it slosh around all day or night, when mine did start to make noise, i bought another, used the old one for back up, figured i'd buy what parts it needed, and fix it till the new one took a crap, well turns out , all you really need to do, unless ya burnt out the fan motor, is to take some compressed air and blow out the dirt from the fan motor and heat sink, and blamo........your back in biz, now for you guys that want to use ice, I'd drill a hole through floor board, attach a rubber hose to drain on cooler, and run out threw said hole, beats tryin to grab cooler everytime out of trk to drain and mt watever you have in it, hope this helps
     
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  11. Jolsen

    Jolsen Heavy Load Member

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    idle time pfft. my truck stays on 24-7-365. They tried to say something about my idle one time. that was enough for them to drop the subject. I went off on a rant about how heat affects the human body and how fast it heats up inside these trucks. I told them after aprox 30 min it gets hot enough to cause brain damage. 1 hour heat stroke. 1hour 30 min It will get hot enough to kill you. I read this information in a research paper can't seem to find the link atm though. Want proof of my idle times?
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