Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

I don't have many issues with it. Occasionally it gets confused and thinks that I want it to run to keep me warm instead of cool. Our opti-idle has cab comfort mode or just battery mode. In the summer it cools pretty decent, but I insulate the windows with some reflective thermal insulation panels (stuff that looks like a couple big window shades). I use them winter and summer. In the winter, we have airtronic bunk heaters that do a decent job keeping these trucks warm, if you put something in front of the single vent to direct the airflow up instead of blowing it straight forward across the floor into the front of the truck. These trucks don't shake nearly as bad as the old trucks did years ago when they start and stop. Back then, in the summer I would only get a series of short naps between start up and shut down. With the newer trucks, I only get shook awake once in a while.

 

I do believe I need to get my front nanny radar calibrated. It was occasionally picking up the ghost vehicle when there was nothing around. Now, it falses daily, and today it brake checked twice for vehicles who were way out of the travel lane exiting the interstate. Fortunately I keep my foot hovering over the throttle for when it goes into coast mode.

Unload took about 4 hours. One of the few loads to a major food warehouse that was FCFS (and I wasn't first). That made me late for my pickup in Mt. Crawford, but they started loading me shortly after I hit the dock. I like these type of docks. Back in with your doors closed, they open them inside, load you, put your load locks in place, close and seal the door from inside the building. I have only been at the dock a little over an hour and I already have the green light, and I just got the call saying my b/l is ready. I figured being 90 min late, I would end up being a work in...now, I still have over an hour and a half on my 14 to get to a truckstop.

 

I was having a decent day today....until BOOM!!!!!!!!





I've had blowouts before, but this was one of the loudest I have ever had... thankfully I wasn't far from the White's T/A in Raphine...but I am almost out of hours on my 14 so I set it up for a 5 am time slot for a replacement tire, that way I keep my decent parking spot and I don't have to stay up half the night waiting for a phone call.

 

Plenty of time to sleep when you're dead, no sense wasting too much time in bed when you're alive

 

There is a definite advantage to scheduling a tire replacement like I did. I woke up, made coffee and was ready to pull in by 0415. I saw the shop guys in the open door of the bay having a smoke. I walked up to them and talked to them, they said c'mon in, we'll get started...by 4:30, they were already pulling lugs and mounting a tire. I just hope they take until 5:15, that's when my 10 is over.

-they didn't take long enough (how often can you say that about a T/A tire shop)...they had me done by 5:05.

 

Satan is digging out his snowmobile suit