Engel , Whynter , Dometic?

When you find it, buy it.

It really does not matter what the price you said, therefore after you specified the size required and where it's going to ride, the first one you see is what you buy matching those minimum requirements.

Remember when a box is trying to keep food cool or frozen, it can only do so much specifically considering what the cab's overall internal air temperature is at. The colder the better. Also humid would make things pretty fun. (Make provision for drainage off the coils if any)

We had one under our cabinet 24/7 all year. Filled with all sorts of perishables which had a 3 day limit on consumption for us. (Two drivers) Bacon from Wyoming was the one exception. In the size we bought those at there, it itself became a assisting ice block for a while to keep everything else cooler longer.

 

Engle has been superb for me.

 

Engel units have never let me down. I have used them overseas, in Death Valley, Yuma and other hot places and they kept going with food very cold.

 

I replied to one of these earlier thinking I had Dometic. Its a Norcold. Been running nonstop six months. Zero complaints.

 

Norcold has been making RV refrigerators 40-Years or more. The one in my travel trailer is “new” (1992) as to operation.

 

Inverter and wally world dorm fridge with a seperate freezer. Or wally world small freezer since you said freezer.

Do not buy into the hype over the truck specific units or the thermoelectric junk stuff. I've had 2 wally units, one 11 years, this one 8 yrs, sitting on the floor in shakers. 300 bucks for almost 20 yrs service beats the hell out of ANY $600.00 specialty crap.

 

It's pretty simple. Work. Having said that, my truck will sit all week this week, just like it did last year and start right up. It's a 16 with the original batteries leaving your CB, dashcam, quallcom, laptop or tablet and GPS turned on while parked are more likely to drain the batteries than the inverter and fridge. I'm an owner, it is my opinion that if you forget to turn the running lights off after 3 days and the truck don't start you are slacking on maintaining the truck. Everything sold since 2010 can be set to start on its own to charge the batteries if the voltage drops too low. Dead batteries are a sure sign of a crap owner or operator.