What are most of you doing to stay comfortable while you are sleeping? I have heard some say they are just toughing it out most nights. Some say it is very bad to idle these new engines with DEF. When I drove tractor it had an APU which I thought was just the best thing ever, but obviously that would be incredibly expensive if it is even possible at all to do on a pickup truck. A small generator with a heating/cooling unit that could be installed through the rear window would be ideal but I have never seen anything like that. I have seen some running down the road with a unit on the roof that appears to be from a RV. I don't know how I would feel about cutting a hole in the roof of a 75k
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Some of the posts in that thread address the question of comfort and sleeping in a pickup cab.Lite bug and truckdriver31 Thank this. -
just get gen set and window unit
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Are many of you actually idling through the night?
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Yeah I would think 1 it's going to cut into profits & 2 I imagine it is hard on these new DEF diesels.
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IMO a window unit will be better than an RV roof unit. Besides the cost, the RV roof units are just plain crap. They are little more than re packaged window units and are too big. The smallest one is 9KBTU. You need at most 5K BTU in a truck cab. I'd consider making some sort of insert that replaces the back window and houses the window unit behind the driver side and has an RV window next to it on the PAX side so you can still see your blind spot. If and when the window unit craps out, $200 or less for a new on on sale at the end of summer. A 5K will run and start with a Honda EU2000i and some will even run on a 1000i, but I'd get the 2000. That would be about $1k for the genny, $200 for the AC, and a hundred or so for the panel and window. Get an RV window as it has the right type of safety glass and they open and have a screen.
Some window units are also heat pumps, But I'd get a small space heater with a fan for winters. Something around 1000W or less (50% load on the genny so it stays quiet.)
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Espar or Webasto setup is not very expensive in the long run and keeps the cab warm.
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