How Hot Does Your Truck Get (Inside) in the Summer?

Thanks everyone for the fast replies. The weather channel says it's 76 degrees outside and it's midnight. Had the truck off and all opened up a couple hours ago. Now I really need to get some sleep so I closed myself in and cut on the "air" (bwahahaha!). Dug out my ice alarm (never used, been kicking around in my tool collection for two years) and here's what I have after an hour with the a/c on. The air from the vents seems "cool-ish" but from this thermometer (placed on the bunk in front of me) I see it's not my imagination. It's STILL effing hot in here. I swear it was over 100* earlier today, even when moving.

With this ELD thing I haven't worked much since April 1 so I'm hating to think of asking the guy who owns the truck to come out of his pocket for this but yeah, thanks to your moral support (and my thermom) I see that it's NOT supposed to be this way.

THANKS A LOT and "safe travels" to you all!

I will post an update when I get it resolved. I'd like to get back to home base tho, because everything is 2x the cost at truckstops. I don't know if I can last four more days like this.

 

The fan doesn't cycle extra. (Like when climbing a hill in the heat.) Manually flipping the switch on makes the "outside temp" gauge rise about 5* with no diff in the a/c. I'll check out the other things you mentioned. THANK YOU!

 

HOLY ####! DUDE!!! 141 degrees inside your truck?? I'm the first to say "but it's a dry heat" (actually you said it first in your post LOL) because I'm from Michigan where it's ALWAYS humid. I picked up 15 miles from Death Valley once and although I was sweating, it felt like a regular Michigan 80* day though it was like 115* that day in dry old DV. Still, 141 in your truck?? I don't know whether to call BS or salute you. (I think I'd draw the line at 110*)

 

Right on, but that's why I wrote that it's not exactly a company truck and not exactly mine. I left a message for the owner a little while ago. The owner will fix anything I ask for, but I look out for him as much as possible because he gives me 100% freedom. Fixing the a/c was on the agenda for May but I was off all of April (ELD) and in May two of my runs cancelled. (I do a dedicated that takes a week to complete the round.) So we're behind money-wise and I had hoped to make him some money before I came with my hand out for a big repair. But yeah, this heat is *wicked* and it can't go on like this.