Rug_Trucker Goes OTR What I Am Learning

Gladiator, you beat me too it, lol. I've never seen a 12 volt fridge, but I think that would be cool, no pun intended. That price tag is definately a deal breaker though. ####! I can't even afford a $100 coleman right now. My mentor had a coleman cooler on his truck and it worked great. When laid on it's side so the door opened up, you could stick a couple cans of soda or anything else right up next to the motor and it would freeze. My wife was concerned about these coolers only cooling to 40* below ambient temps, but I reminded her that in the warmer months when it is hotter than blazes outside, the A/C will keep it cool in the truck. During hometime, when I'm not in the truck, anything that needs to be kept cool will come in to the house.

As for the coolers going bad, I've heard that you can use a fan from a computer to replace the original one that went bad, and it even works better.

 

A decent mentor will provide some space for you to put your stuff and some food. He will also allow you to put stuff in his cooler. Shortly after going out with my mentor, we stopped at a Walmart and did some shopping. He did get a couple items to cook in his luchbox oven and he shared that with me. Was actually pretty good. Of course the majority of the time we did eat at the truckstops, either fast food places or a regular type restaurant. He even bought me dinner at Applebee's once. I had a really cool mentor.

 

That's what I'm hoping for is getting a good mentor. I have prior driving experience, unfortunately it isn't recent enough. I had a trainer at the first company I drove for, and he was really good. Hopefully I'll have that same luck this time.

 

Replacement fans can also be purchased from most radio shacks..for about $20 most of the time the one that needs replacing is the one on the outside..They are nothing more than cooling fans for car stereo amps. They come in all different sizes so better to have the old one to compare with..
It took me a quite a while to put the money together for my fridge...Had to wait for my first vacation check...but it was worth it...My second mentor had one and vowed that I would have one. Best part I was able to write it off my taxes...just like my laptop, broadband internet, satelite radio, and the list goes on and on...
Because it's not about how much you make but how much you can keep.

 

Sorry to say the Volvo 670 is one of the trks that has no space for one of these type refridgerators...

 

TA truck stops have a 12V refer. for 200.00 or you can buy a cooler type 12 v at wallmart for about 80.00

 

Amps times volts equals watts. So the 400 watt inverter draws about 25 amps from your 13.8 volt batteries equals about 375 watts. They frown upon higher wattage inverters hooked up to their trucks....

 

Pilot offers a small cooler for about $35. Holds 9 sodas. That's how I started. Later on shelled out the 100 for the food cooler and used the small one for drinks only. I used a 3 way splitter on the front power port to run small cooler, Sat radio and phone charger since all were light draws on power. Worked great.