How to stay cool

get yourself one of those little plastic pools and fill it at fuel island and drag it over to your truck

 

Get a 5 gallon bucket, a 10 pound bag of ice out of a 7-11 or something fill bucket. Aim fan across the bucket. Cooled.

For a while anyhow. Do not whatever you do fill that #### thing all the way. And make sure you buy just enough ice for one bucket. Anymore than that is just a waste.

You might try rock salt as used in making icecream to lower the melting temperature of that ice. The result will be a soupy mess over time but you will extract a larger amount of cooling.

You can rig up a bank of 4 220 mm computer fans off 12 volt on a picture frame of wood and blow off your 12 volt batteries overnight. (These probably pull 1.5 to 3 amps each and not much voltage or wattage) I think its 50 bucks for the fan, 20 for a basic frame big enough and a spool of wire. Done. Run the wire directly to your cigerette lighter with a snipped off adapter from something else considered junk. Tie the two wires together (Make sure you have large gauge wiriing here) and plug into cig lighter.

 

I hope that's your truck and not a company truck.

 

I know it's not damaging anything. For me if it was a company truck I wouldn't be concerned about cutting back on idle time to keep myself cool when it's hot out. I would be idling day and night with AC on. If the company had issues with that the only thing I'd be cutting would be ties with them.

 

Ya on them cool nights you better set a extra alarm clock you will sleep like a baby that's for sure lol.

 

If your coming any doesn’t have APU or restricts idling, then you’re at the wrong company.
As many help wanted ads out there, it befuddles me why people take those jobs..
stop working there and they will be forced to upgrade or get out.

 

Take clothes off to stay cool. Get APU or Detroit Optimized Idle, it will start the engine for a/c when needed or an electric APU that run on batteries.