Secret power inverter install in a company truck?

What's wrong with Idling the truck?...

 

If he wants to sweat, let him sweat.

It's a 'sauna-berth'. Yeah, that's the ticket.

 

I never understood that.... You have office staff saying you don't need to idle at 65 degrees outside. Okay well I typically run Southeast, even this time of the year it could be 65 degrees outside with roughly 80% humidity. So I shut my truck off for the night, 65 degrees outside, then for the next 4 to 5 hours I have heat from the engine and exhaust radiating into the cab bringing the cab temps easily up to high 70s. Personal preference if it's between 35 to about 50 degrees, I can live with just bunk Heat.... But I refuse to.

 

At Schneider the engine will shut off if you try to idle between the temperatures 15 degrees and 76. Yeah... Their investors don't give a dam about the drivers

 

Keep in mind we did not have any thing like that at all when I started. We did not know enough back in the 80's or need any of that crap as we do not apparently. If you wanted food and drink, all you had to do was pull in anywhere on a patch of parking lot big enough to fit the tractor trailer.

You can idle a truck 10,000 hours and it wont hurt it none provided you are idling at a fast RPM to keep the carbon OUT and the emissions crap from wanting to regenerate. Summer and winter you absolutely did not shut that engine off. I have almost been killed in the sleeper when my AC failed one summer night and the sun came up turning that tractor into a oven at about 150 degrees or so inside. I was a very young and strong man then. If that happened to me at my current age, I would have died within a few hours due to a variety of possible body failures.

The problem with idling is that you are now in a brave new world where it's a sin to idle. That goes against my grain. We are worlds apart. I don't know how to un confuse your mind by telling you that if you idle at the correct RPM usually 1000 or so in the summer to support the electrical loading of the AC etc (And all that inverter crap you are using to feed video games, computer, microwave etc) or 1500 in winter below -20 Combined with the company habits of interfering with your ability to idle at all.

a few gallons of fuel at night while you got your sleep in a situation of comfort is everything. I rather burn fuel for your happiness than spend money on 100 dollar hotel rooms to support the blessed environment. //sarcasm.

 

If you want to cook on the road, just buy some 12v cooking appliances. Or a camp stove. Hikers cook in the woods all the time without inverters.

 

And that is their choice...
... need not be everyone’s...

They also choose to sleep on the ground, drink water from a stream, and sometimes cook on an open fire... they probably have to take a dump in the woods too.

Oh, and only a very few hikers live in the woods 26 out of 30 days... rest for a few, and repeat...

Your point?

 

My point is that if someone without access to a bathroom, shower or running water can cook hot meals without an inverter, there's no reason that an OTR driver can't find a way to do it without an inverter.

 

Don't settle for garbage companies. Quit. There's plenty of companies that'll get you working right away.

That is, companies that are garbage, not trash haulers.

 

And my point was, that’s their choice... it need not be everyone’s... “no reason”??? Maybe just because expectations have changed... besides, who has the time to build a proper cooking fire...