Bunk Heater Broke

Are you expecting someone on this message board to give you permission to idle your truck? Are you expecting your company to read your mind and notice you would prefer not to freeze in the bunk overnight? Only you are affected by having no heat in the truck. If you keep volunteering to drive a truck with no heat, nobody is going to give you a gold star. You have to make keeping you alive important to the company if they are not worried about it already. If you keep driving the truck and delivering freight and hope someday in the future someone in the company will let you idle or get the truck fixed you might die before they put you on their To_Do list.

 

So when can you idle the truck with your company?

Mine is under 32-34 on the low side and above 68-70 on the high side.
Then I have to deal with the temp sensor not reading things correctly, sometimes 10 degrees off.

But under or over those temps I can idle.
In between, sometimes it get a bit too hot or cold and I have to deal with it.
Irritating, but not life threatening.

 

Have you tried setting something heavy on the peddle to get the rpms up a little and hopefully stop the auto shut off? Never done it myself but it could work. If they give you #### about it winter when you have a broken bunk heater, well, there are other jobs available in trucking I think.

 

That’s rough mate. There are some companies out there that engine only shuts off when checking the oil if the driver needs to idle. I left a company that had a similar rule as you wrote about and became much happier! Also made almost more than double the cash. I just had to get the magical 2 years in to make the necessary jump.

 

11+ years in with Swift, and I do not stay because I have to.
I stay because I want to.

Aside from a couple things like the idle, I am treated very well here.
I work with people I respect and actually like, and I can control how I do things out here.

I have a job I love where everyone lets me do my own thing.
Why would I give up that?

 

I bet their staff keeps their offices above 35 degrees.

Most important thing is your happy, by all means don’t give that up. I am sure swift appreciates your loyalty and dedication. Something that is hard to find these days.