⭐️Explain it to me ⭐️

I like reefers parking next to me. If they are on continuous anyway... The steady hum tempers abrupt noises that would usually wake me up.

Like the pair of guys 5 spaces down standing right in front of an old truck with a clanky Cat idling and then needing to yell at each other to get over the noise. It's not the truck either, it's the loud yelling in the worst possible place to have a "conversation"...

 

Lol!!!!!! I am guilty of doing that. I'll be honest, I've nosed in trying to get a spot late at when I know another driver has seen it, and sometimes I have to straighten it a little. He's coming from one side I am coming from the other but I see it first and if I go to turn around, I wont get that spot. Then I am hoping the driver in front of me is gone in the morning. Then I can pull on out. On occasion that backfires

 

I'll nose in if I think my reefer will bother other drivers, or if the late afternoon sun will be beating down on my windshield and making it an oven inside my cab. Both cases are only if I think it will be easy to get out later on.

 

I don't see nosing into the end of another truck. but I 'nose in' to the edge of the lot 1/3-1/2 of the time. 1- I find nice views...don't like looking at parking lots if I don't have to. 2- if I feel exposed I can pull my curtains up the sides but leave them open across the front. private but not walled in. 3- quieter all around, reefers, talkers, trucks driving thru. I can leave my windows down and still hear the radio. 4- pull the cab apart, put my crap out on the grass and wash the floors and scrub the superglue bugs off the windshield and then sit in my camp chair right there on the outside perimeter...like I'm in my own personal domain lol

 

When i did OTR i usually nosed in because i shut down rather late----like 10:30p-12:30a . And thus, when my 10 hr break was over, usually everyone was pretty much gone and it was relatively easy to back out.

More cozier and quieter this way, i think.

 

So swift doesn’t tear off your hood.

 

I have never nosed in. It’s embarrassing

 

That too, especially when I had my long truck down there. lol

 

In my first year, I had 2 different drivers on 2 separate occasions back their trailers into my front fender while I was backed into a stall, sleeping at a truck stop. I drove a company truck, so it didn't cost me anything, except a rude awakening, and the hassle of calling it in and reporting it, pictures, exchanging information, etc.
If I owned a truck, especially a nice one that I was proud of, I would probably nose in most of the time, to protect it from some idiot who can't back...