In cabin carbon monoxide and chronic health issues.

Note to self - truck driving is hazardous to your health.

 

U4EA:

You are absolutely correct. But you should not have to give your life or health so the guy next to you can be comfy with his malfunctioning APU...or kill someone else because you didn't know your own exhaust system was filling your cab with carbon monoxide and you took an unexpected nap behind the wheel as a result.

 

Education is always an obstacle; people need to be educated on these subjects. Most just "don't know any better".

Injun, I'm impressed; you were the only one to identify carbon monoxide as CO! Cheers

 

I hate lawyers.

When was the last time anyone had acute CO poisoning from smoking cigarettes? If there is a hell, lawyers are defintely going there.

 

Hell is supposedly full of fire. Chances are there will be lots of CO in hell, hopefully they'll be choking on it.

 

Oooo....the company shop got a healthy dose of the effect of carbon monoxide poisoning today...from me.

My APU went down in California and because of their idjit policy that APUs can only be fixed at company shops and I have an autonomic nervous system disorder that makes me extremely heat intolerant, I spent the next 5 days idling until I could get to a company shop.
Before that, I changed the fuel filters hoping it was something as simple as that. But as I watched it kick on and cut off several times, I noticed that the solenoid was kicking in and cutting the unit off.
So when I got to the company shop, I explained what it was doing and told them it was either a starter, alternator or electrical problem. What do they do? They re-prime it and call it fixed. THEY ALSO FOUND I HAD AN EXHAUST LEAK. They fixed both but 10 minutes after I got out of the shop, the APU was doing the same thing and was back in the shop. This time they changed the fuel filters. 10 minutes later....it was back in the shop. This time when the mechanic mentioned another BS fix.....

I had been overheated all day....6+ hours. I was also very likely suffering the effects of some level of carbon monoxide poisoning. My ANS disorder symptoms had blown up, I had been yarking for 5 days straight, had a killer headache for most of that time, was light headed by now....and no one was listening to what I was telling them...

There was a large box of shop rags sitting there and the next thing I knew, I reached into it, pulled out handfuls of them and began throwing them, one after another, at the mechanic, swearing like a sailor at the top of my lungs at him....

Now I do get cranky from time to time bu throwing things at people is something I've NEVER done before.

BUT....
My APU finally got fixed right (electrical short had fried the starter and alternator...gee...whadda you know....)....

and

Honestly.....it did feel kind of cathartic and liberating....I can't lie.

I probably came close to being fired until I brought up the exhaust leak, mentioned carbon monoxide poisoning and bluntly pointed out that they #### near killed me trying to be cheapskates.

RT
RT

 

If y'all are worried about low levels of CO, then you're going to have to invest some serious money in a detector to do any good. ALL of the semiconductor sensor elements used in moderately priced detectors (what you find in Walmart and the like) are very insensitive to carbon monoxide below 10 parts per million (ppm). That's part of the reason that the UL standard specifies the lowest level time-weighted response at 50 ppm. The CO sensors are all just as good at detecting water vapor as they are at CO - and humidity sensors used to decouple the signals from the two different molecules also have a very poor response in dry climates.

BTW... if you have a CO detector in your truck and you cook in your truck as well... some of that CO response you see could very well be from the vapors given off while you're cookin' dinner.

 

Guess you don't know any diabetics.

 

There's a good reason Nightfall isn't a doctor, making the big bucks.

From what I gather, she has a hiccup in her autonomic nervous system, specifically that which controls body temperature. If she is exposed to extreme heat or cold for not much time at all, her body temperature will begin to fluctuate and create far more problems than a little bit of carbon monoxide. Therefore, she idles the truck to maintain a steady external temperature, which, in turn, keeps her body temperature even as well. And most likely, her temperament.

I see no reason why our "sweetheart" should find another profession.

 

There are quite a few conditions that fall under the umbrella of "Autonomic Disorders" - some minor and some that are catastrophic eventually progressing to death.

There is absolutely no reason why someone with a condition that doesn't impact their ability to perform a job should be prohibited from doing said job.