Surviving Cold Weather Without Idling or APU?

Dogs, You have heard of 3 dog nights?

 

I 2nd a good sleeping bag. Mines rated to -25

 

They make sleeping bags up to like -50 or something crazy. You get one for 2 people you can stick your microwave and your tv in there and zip yourself in.
Depending on how cold it is I usually don’t idle down to 28 anything under that I idle don’t want those truck freezing problems.

It’s -10 right now my truck is off only cuz I’m inside the diner eating/shower. And it’s still in the back of my head like please don’t freeze please don’t freeze lol

 

idle at the low end of high idle and you'll be fine.

3 yrs on a 2016 f/liner, Cummins, idling when hot or cold out.

and I idle a lot.

no problems with DEF at all.

 

A while back the Midwest had a couple of weeks of brutal cold, we're talking 10-15 degrees below zero at night.

I'd sleep with a 12v electric blanket, in sweat pants and a hoody. Double normal blankets. Sometimes I'd be so hot I'd have to turn the electric off. Wake up an hour early to fire the truck up and jump back under those blankets. Even now I'll often not have any heat in the truck, and thats with an APU and a Webasto bunk heater.

 

Every motel/hotel I have ever stayed in all had heat and hot showers. Not to mention a tv!

 

This is what it takes to be a owner operator.
Freezing to death because you can't afford to
Idle the truck.

Get a electric blanket, they sell them at
The truck stops.
Plugs into your cigarette lighter.
Be warned it sucks a lot of juice out
Of your batteries.

Every 4 or 5 hours I would get up and
Idle the truck for an hour,then shut it back off.
But that's Stone Age stuff.

 

I use my espar bunk heater keeps inside of truck hot -15F no problem.