Have you ever had a reefer shut off while you were sleeping?

I am referring to being so worried about your reefer unit that you can't sleep properly. If you can't rest properly, you can't drive properly.

 

Regarding sleep. I sleep with my reefer, but if I do wake up for any reason I’ll check for a green light on the unit and maybe take a look at the set point on the Qualcomm.

 

I've been pulling reefer for almost 8 yrs, I could be in a deep sleep and a slight rpm change that ranges of +-5 has me already up and staring at the display screen, I know when it goes into defrost the moment it happens, high alert is an understatement.

 

Had a 2 for 1 when i was doing food service. Got a flat on the trailer and not 15min later the old whisper took a crap. Was my last stop before i took my 10 so it all worked out. Tech showed up within 45 min. Something electrical don't remember.

Always had it on continuous when i slept. Just like you guys if it shut off i immediately woke up

 

Had a delivery in Henderson, NV once. Got there 2 days early so got a hotel. Night before delivery my phone went off with a message from dispatch saying unit shutoff. This was about 3am. Was out of bed and dressed so fast. Turned out battery was bad. Luckily temp didn't go up too much, was carrying ice cream. What was weird though was trailer was pretty much brand new. Tech said batteries typically last about 4yrs, trailer was maybe 1. Not sure if people steal batteries or not... lol

 

I’ve pretty much always pulled reefers, with a few forays into dry vans and a walking floor. Anyways, So far I haven’t had anyone mess with my reefer. If I can, I park away from everyone so if someone parks next to me, it’s their informed choice. On a few different occasions I’ve had to jump start a reefer, I carry half a set of jumper cables, I set it on continuous, hook up the cable from hot post on tractor to hot side of battery, fire it up. I used to call it my Van Wyk apu.....It kept enough juice in the tractor batteries so the Espar heater would run all night, etc.

 

There used to be reefer company ( L G DeWitt from S.C. ) who had lines ( freon and 12v )run from the unit into their tractor AC.Would run Therm King at night to cool cab while the engine was off.

 

yesterday i Got Loaded and the temperature supposed to be 26 but by mistake and I put it on -10 but temperature stayed between 4 to 13 for 24 hrs and I still got 12 hrs for delivery so is thr any chances I can make it thru the delivery or it will be rejected

 

What are u hauling