How Hot Does Your Truck Get (Inside) in the Summer?

Typically the engine fan will cut in and out quite frequently when parked with the A/C on. Sounds like you've possibly got a small refrigerant leak.

 

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dash looks like a fld, fld's can certainly benifit from heater hose shut off valves. esp on the rear ac. when i had my fld the ac worked pretty good but you had to turn it on full blast first thing in the morning before it started getting warm in the cab, you would freeze right away in the morning but as it got hot threw the day it would keep up. if you let it get hot in the cab first before you turned it on it seemed like it would never catch up.

also at least once per year that truck needed to have the dust and dirt blown out of the cores in the dash to keep good airflow.

may not be a expensive repair. could be a bit low on Freon or something simple like that as well.

 

@pxdetroit_ if you have Sirius XM radio in your truck ch146 Kevin Rutherford can answer any questions or look him up on YouTube

 

I thought this was the Trucks forum, not the Jokes forum.

 

I was pretty disappointed in that radio show. Gets like 2 questions in over the course of an hour and it seems like they take a 5 minute break every 5 minutes.

 

This would be the mid 90's prices.

I don't know what it will cost you these days.

I forgot to mention one little lesson they beat into my head when the yelling did not work. It's always cheaper to go to the Company's main shop or a shop under their control such as a outlying terminal etc and have them do it.

I don't possess the memory for the small stuff associated with the compressor replacement, however I recall very well the TA bossman asking me twice if I was sure if I want that kind of work done. (It's pretty major surgery if you want it to be put that way. Expensive too)

A very long time ago before that was a problem any time you don't have heat in winter, your life is at risk you went and found a shop (Preferably one with a good wood stove to stay at while they fix it) or you found a shop to fix the air conditioning should it go out. It's way cheaper, much easier to take care of a driver than to not do anything until you have now a truly angry driver in a position to do actual financial harm to your company. Among other things.

Yes the dispatcher got what was coming. But not in the way I expected to. In those days I was just me. I had friends and a few family to be sure. But it's essentially me. No one cared if I was still with us on this world. (Until dispatcher notices your truck is not yet moving...)

That was the third thing I worked on. I had two people enlisted to chat with me over the qualcomm (Now at 50 cents every 5 words. that can be expensive) And I remember one stayed with me from his home computer chatting with me on my satellite (At my cost I think 30 dollars all together) for several hours as I fought a really bad ice event across Mississippi that night. Once I got into Tennessee across the old river and out of the ice things got better. At some point in our life much later he more than made up for that 30 dollar expense. You cannot put a price on checking on those you love or call friends in this life to be sure they are doing well or need help with a problem.

Dispatchers are not THAT bad. But if you did find a GOOD dispatcher who seems to know what you are thinking of doing to solve a problem and goes ahead and solved it for you... those are the ones you want to keep. Generally because you already proved to them your value as a good driver for them to do the things they do to help you.

 

Ta won't do any butchering on your truck now without calling the company and getting authorization. They chuckled at me when I made the mistake of asking for a simple oil change last winter.

I guess I am one of the few remaining fools dumb enough to even drive in the shop bay of a ta, and they knew it but I didn't. I won't make that mistake again.

 

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