masking the noise of other trucks when sleeping

Those things drive me nuts!

 

I can even hear those sometimes when hubby's parked at a truck stop and someone parks next to him with those darn things on.

 

I used to wear ear plugs all the time, had to get one of those scearmin meanie alarm clocks. You could still hear that alarm if you had on the best ear muffs in the world. Those alarm clocks would wake the dead so loud had to put it under a blanket on the floor and it still scared the crap outta me.

 

I was parked next to a driver who had a Screamin'Meanie,
and when it went off, it woke me, and two OTHER driver up ---
in separate Big trucks --- besides the driver who set it in his own Big truck.

How a driver is able to live through that in his own Big truck is beyond me.

 

Jason.. why not just get a small inverter that plugs into a lighter socket? They're very inexpensive and you can run other stuff off them, too. That would let you run your white noise gizmo (I use one to run my Darth Vader mask - which also handles the humidity thing)

I was taught that when I'm driving a running reefer to park nose-in. The idea being, of course, to keep the reefer away from those who back in. If I'm trundling around the lot looking for a spot and I see several, one next to a nose-in truck - that's the one I'll grab. I'm assuming that he's from the same school of thought as I am.

For me, the rumble of an idling truck is pretty close to white noise in its own right. Ditto for reefers (constant run or intermittent). But those idjits with the air leak will drive me (pardon the pun) to change places in the lot. I find my self lying there timing them (37 seconds to pop... 83 seconds to air pop... argh!!!!!)

For the rest of you - I'll apologize in advance. I'm one of those slobs with the backup beeper (or, at least, was when I was driving for May) and would on occasion take a few (or more) pull-ups to hit the slot. Could always hit the air-horn prior to shifting into reverse, as some instructors would have you do

(headphone/ear plugs - been there, done that, got the scars Hate 'em all. Headphones are ok if you are sitting up, but I sleep on my side. Earplugs just make my ears itch)

Lessee - oh. Fan. My mentor at May had one of those "turbo" fans you can find at most truck stops. He used it to mask engine noise - slept with it right near his head. Worked for him in the summer time, anyway.

 

Buy a $20 inverter with a couple plugs in it. Go to Wal-Mart and buy one of those plug-in sound machines. You could also just buy a decent boom-box and get nature CD's or a white-noise CD. The boom-box comes in handy when loading/unloading for music if you are a flatbed driver.

 

Turbo fan you get in the truck stop... once you get used to the sound you will fall right to sleep..... You will not be able to hear the other trucks using it.. (will not run batteries down)