Cooking without apu or inverter

Those military meals are not bad.I drove for and owner op from Pensacola Florida he got boxes of them when the hurricane hit and gave me a bunch of them.

 

What behavior? Regularly dropping $400 at them for fuel? They should come to my truck, ask what I want to eat and drink on the house, then deliver it to my door.

 

Why should the FMCSA get involved?

the next thing you guys want is a foot massager and a movie theater to be also mandated.

 

Never mind the movie theater.

I come from a city near the sea, where a little bit of generator attached to a powertrain of a large ocean going boat (Talking around 40 foot here...) is capable of supporting 120 volt power through the entire vessal for the likes of the Galley and so on.

I see that APU's are coming on to tractors, I like them and support their potential. Two gallons of idle time burned is way better than turning over a 500 horse engine to drive a 3 pound air conditioning compressor or to heat fluids in winter at 10 gallons per night.

I still advocate tractors being wired to 120 volt marine standard so that no matter what the situation is, you can heat water for showers etc. Cook, and live in reasonable small house type comfort. 12 volt is wonderful, but they simply burn through because you are just not going to build a adequately insulated UL and other protections for such a environment.

My last tractor OTR was a JBH International of around a 1989 vintage. It's not much of a tractor, but with a awesome dispatcher who respected my current hours of service and listened to what I have to say when I have to say it the whole time Im there made that truck pretty adequate comfortwise becauwe we are not doing 2000 plus miles in a single weekend.

 

Good idea pre warming. I take it you mean by OLD that that Stanley is not available now for sale. Thanks, El Paso Bob

 

Stanley Thermos are still sold everywhere.

 

You can get a single burner stove that screws on to the top of one of them small green propane bottles. They'll heat up a small sauce pan of water really quick. Just make sure it is level or it wont burn right, and the pan could slide off. I never used mine inside the truck. But it wasnt too much of a problem setting it out on a my stepbox to use it. I don't use it anymore, because this company provides apu, inverter, and fridge in all our trucks.

 

"lunch box" cooker sold at almost every truck stop. That's the way I ####ed when I was OTR, except my oven was shaped more like a very small toaster oven. Very good at heating tv dinners. YouTube channel called 12vcooking has examples.

 

As a student do you mind telling me what you use the APU, inverter etc for? Do you cook healthier, cheaper food and stay out of the restaurants? If you cook what do you use? Thanks for reading this Mr. Ed.