I can handle sleeping near a reefer or a loud truck.....

Just a difference in what you're used to, nothing I own has a muffler on it and never will.

 

I actually look for a spot next to a straight pipped rig with his running lights on. Spent a long time idling at night and yanking a reefer around. An APU and lack of reefer makes it hard to sleep. Quiet is as loud as it gets for me.

 

The only place i can run my generator is beside old truck. They like the noise.

 

Couple that spitting dump valve with an extra loud engine fan you can hear from across the parking lot... that sounds like a 747.. that kicks on for 60seconds every 2 minutes...

Yeah that's nice.

They'll say, "wear some ear plugs".

I say, "should we have to?"

I can take reefers and normal idling... but ####.

 

And no one has tried to hook up a gag barf joke bag on one of those? The whistle and biological like sounds emitted through one should be a hoot.

 

Steve Scott

So i guess those drivers without an extra piece of crap on their trucks (APU) they are required to freeze just to satisfy you? It seems like you newbie drivers with all your fancy needed technology, warning devices, DEF, APU, or another style of auxiliary power unit in their trucks. What would you do back in the 60's- 80's before all the technological devices, warning systems, and so forth you need to do your job. Back before these electronic crap, plati-glass trucks with storage out the ying- yang, in cab televisions, refrigerators, and such in your truck? It amazes me the whining from new breeders who never have drove a mile in years back to see what it was really like and to appreciate what they have today to do the job. Go hop in a Cabover from years past, or a 36" coffin box sleeper, no technology of any kind, electronics, etc to help you do the job.

Not all of use work for Mega companies who get bulk discount pricing for their trucks. Not all of us want, or need the modern items in our trucks. This goes for APU's, auxiliary units (heat/A/C) and so on. As to the air pressure valve of the air tanks going off. Every truck on the road has these tanks, and while you go down the road it goes off after the pressure gauge reaches its max pressure to be released. Do you think your APU is any quieter than the air tank release, or a truck running? Those units sit behind the cab on the frame, right on the side where i sleep, so i have to listen to your APU running all night. Sounds tome as equal treatment.

 

This is why I say everybody first year tbey shoukd be stuck in a truck with no a.c., or power windows or any of the garbage, then they'll know how good they really have it. Yes my a.c. didn't work the first summer I drove it and I still don't use it most of the time and I don't idle while sleeping unless it's about 80 degrees or raining.

 

For the however many times I've said it, how do you know it's an air leak, could be the governor on the compressor, or the unloader valves, no I don't believe you can actually hear it from 10 feet away, a leak that bad it wouldn't build air.