Light Sleeper Going reefer??

Age of the Units is going to make a big difference....
So that depends on who you go with.

The newer Carrier Units are pretty quiet.
The TK Precedent Units are supposed to be really quiet as well.

And if you're really that light of a sleeper consider doing Dry Van, Flats or Tankers.


Me? I do nothing..I'm NOT a light Sleeper at all..
Some of our Older Units are annoying when I'm sitting on the Bunk...but once I go to sleep...I'm out.

 

I drove reefer for Roehl and Marten. Marten definitely had way better equipment and I hardly noticed. Roehl, (which I'm going back to BTW after taking some time off the road) had some units that were terribly loud. The trick that I used was to set it to continuous run when I slept, at least that way the engine was on all the time and I could sleep. It's the starting up that wakes me up. I just ignored messages from dispatch to change the setting until I got up.

Sometimes I had a reefer that was so loud that I would park as far away from other trucks as possible just to be courteous. I felt bad for the last driver to show up and had to take the spot next to the noisy reefer.

 

I'm a light sleeper, but I've found that I grow accustomed to any regular noise I hear at night. My ex-boyfriend pulls a reefer, and when I rode along with him, the first two days were awful, but after that I stopped noticing. Hopefully you will have a similar experience.

The only other thing I might suggest, if reefer is your only choice, is to buy a white noise machine or put a white noise app on your phone and play it while you sleep. It can help counteract some of the noise of the unit.

 

One thing I used to do is unhook and pull out from the trailer just enough so that the truck and trailer dont touch. For me it wasnt so much the noise as it was the vibration. Some trailers are worse than others, even some new ones suck. I had an apu on my truck and that helped hide some of the noise. You do get use to it,a little. Good Luck

 

you might try a fan.

 

Two good recommendations on here that I used also; set on continuous run & unhook and pull up just enough so there's no contact between the trailer & tractor. A co-worker would also drink a dose of Nyquil & he slept soundly and it didn't interfere with him hearing the alarm clock.

 

I always slept with the TV on so background noise was never an issue.

It seems quieter with one behind you than one beside I guess because of the exhaust blowing sidewards. If you are tired enough you will sleep. The new reefers are much quieter today.

I would wake up if I didn't hear it after awhile.