Light Sleeper Going reefer??

I'm a light sleeper as well. When there are big temp differences outside your reefer there are all kinds of pops and pings in the middle of the night. Oh #### they're stealing my twizzlers! Plus anybody slamming doors or hammering whatever they seem to be hammering at 2am in truck stops, always sounds like someone messing with your load! I remember when I started locking every load just to sleep. Now if someone wants it they can have it!! They work that hard I'll get up in the am and file a claim. Lol. It's a good idea to lock every load but to help you sleep, not because there's a ring of actual lettuce theives out there...

 

Thats what I always did when I had to sleep next to a reefer. I took the front face off of the fan,so it would rattle a little bit,and that's all you can hear is your fan running continuously. It helped A LOT!!!

 

I remember one of my 1st nights solo, out on the road. Kept hearing footsteps, walking around my truck and trailer. Kept getting up to check my mirrors and could never see anybody. Next morning, when I got up, found that a bull wagon had parked next to me and it was the cattle I kept hearing!!!

 

I use eye plugs I bought at Walgreens. There sponge like orange, you get about ten pairs for about $8.00. I love them, push them in all the way, you won't heat a thing...I sleep like a baby while the refer runs...

 

LOL
Surely that's a typo..

 

Ha, you are right, I wonder how eye plugs would work...

 

I don't think his name is Shirley?

 

This is why you dont read TTR while driving

 

You missed heat a thing

 

The noise never woke me up, helped me sleep actually. But when the older Carrier units would stop/start, it shook the crap out of the tractor, so I had an agreement with my company to run the refer continuous at night so if the unit ever shut off, I would wake up. Never lost a load, but never had a unit die in the middle of the night either.