How to stay cool/Warm when you cannot idle the truck???

To stay cool in the summer time when your company won't let you idle, just stop at one of those places that blows ice in chicken hauler's trailers. Open up your passenger window and fill 'er up!

 

ive never seen these places?

 

Usually down south... near places that ship fresh chicken or seafood.

 

I haven't read this whole thing yet but I'm here cause my truckers heat/APU doesn't work [hasn't worked since last winter] and the company has not fixed and won't pay for a hotel room. His truck cannot idle.
Basically forcing him to sleep in 30 degree weather tonight inside the truck. Just last last winter, he slept in his truck through snow storms and everything with no heat.
Can anything be done?

 

It must not be that bad for him, otherwise he would have found different employment by now. Just saying...

 

I'm sure you need one of them at 85 above F. lol Seriously, I would quit if the truck wasn't comfortable summer or winter. Even an Espar to heat the sleeper and /or cab is relatively cheap.

 

Exactly.

Any company that wont allow it's drivers to stay comfortable in summer and winter is not a company worth working for. That is completely inhuman IMO. Best way to stay warm in winter and cool in summer is start calling other companies to find a better job with decent LEGAL COMPLIANT equipment, and a company that wont treat you like a machine.

 

Please explain why a vehicle that will not idle when parked is not LEGAL COMPLIANT.

 

I didn't say that a non-idling truck was not legal and compliant. I said the freezing driver should find a company with decent LEGAL AND COMPLIANT equipment. I learned the hard way that some companies don't give a rats ### about their equipment. I think that the company selection process should be finding a company with equipment that is in good repair...... unless you like paying fines on behalf of a company that will not maintain it's equipment.

I personally have refused to pull trailers that I knew were out of compliance, for example. I'm obviously not going to make the company change it's policies by myself, but they definitely know I won't pull trailers that are not in compliance. And if I dont have an APU, I need to be able to idle in extreme weather. I don't think that is unreasonable. Do you?

 

You have said it again.

Why is a truck that will not idle not a legal and compliant.

I do not disagree, but want to know if you have a legal point.