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Sleeping with reefer noise

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by I_HATE_MINIVANS, Jul 21, 2011.

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  1. Jul 21, 2011 #11
    lostNfound

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    Port Hueneme (Oxnard, CA) is another one.

    Then you have to bypass all the CA coops because the trailer tandems are always over. :biggrin_2552:
     
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  3. Jul 21, 2011 #12
    Jfaulk99

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    One guy said he parks his lawnmower outside his bedroom window at home and lets it run so he can sleep when he's not in the truck.:biggrin_2559:
     
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  4. Jul 21, 2011 #13
    CondoCruiser

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    Ah, the other side, makes sense to leave west and feed the west coast.
     
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  5. Jul 21, 2011 #14
    I_HATE_MINIVANS

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    I just remembered several times new hires at my company would be complaining about adapting to the reefer noise. So I figured I'd provide some tips.

    When I started pulling the noise-boxes in 2005, I couldn't sleep without ear plugs for nearly 3 months. But after having them fall out of my ears when I'm sleeping, I eventually learned to deal with it. Unless it's an especially loud unit or I'm trying not to idle and I've got the windows open.

    We haul our monkey food from ports all over the east coast from Delaware to Connecticut. We're either a buyer's truck or it's brokered in most cases. Bottom dollar CH Robinson crap. If the receiver is our customer we go where they send us to pick it up. If it's a brokered load I think we just grab whatever's near our current location. Never pays worth a #### cuz it's just brokered back-haul freight. Plus it's heavy and sucks down the fuel.
     
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  7. Jul 21, 2011 #15
    DirtyBob

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    From the start I had no problem sleeping with the reefer. Start/Stop, high idle, whatever. It's harder for me to sleep if I'm running a dry load now. I'm weird though. I sleep easier when running team, bouncing around knocks me out.
     
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  8. Jul 21, 2011 #16
    ironpony

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    I just put on my headsets and listen to a DVD if I'm having trouble sleeping due to the reefer running. Puts me right out. OTOH, I tend to run nights so the reefer being too noisy for other drivers usually isn't a problem.
     
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  9. Jul 21, 2011 #17
    AZS

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    I like it. Drowns out the Jake brake dummies and people who leave the fuel island with the rpm at 2k and hold it in a ts.
     
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  10. Jul 21, 2011 #18
    Colorato

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    I don't pull a reefer and never had any problems with someone else's. Whats been bad lately is the truck with an air leak somewhere and there compressor cuts out every 60 seconds or so. Psssht, psssht, pssssht, all ###### night long.
     
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  11. Jul 21, 2011 #19
    I_HATE_MINIVANS

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    Every once in a while I'll be parked next to a truck that has something on his air compressor unloader valve that makes it sound like a rattlesnake. It's kind of strange but at least it's not loud.
     
    I_HATE_MINIVANS, Jul 21, 2011
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  12. Jul 21, 2011 #20
    lostNfound

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    Or the guy idling next to you and his frickin' fan that cuts in-and-out every eight minutes. :biggrin_2552:
     
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