I feel guilty about the noise, but oh well.

Reefers never bothered me. Those infernal back up beepers did though.

 

They built a Love's out on the east side of Rapid City, right at the end of the runway at the Air Force base there. I was about asleep the other night and a couple jets about made me #### myself.

 

Those things should have a cutoff switch. Just flick it on when you’re in the city.

 

Wonder how long till they put mufflers on reefers and put dpf filters to stop the black smoke from coming out ?? Its amazing they focus on the trucks belching fumes, but there the reefers go spewing into the air sitting in a lot, all making the droney sound of buzzing bees.....

 

I sleep ok with reefers next to me, it's those #### backup alarms and air brakes being set that wake me up.

 

I commend you for at least giving some consideration to your fellow drivers.

However, don't worry about it. This is trucking.

Reefers gotta reef.

If someone has a really loud reefer next to me, I turn on my truck radio to a dead AM frequency, and turn up the "fuzz" noise until it cancels out the reefer.

I've had to adapt because for some reason my tanker truck is a "reefer magnet".

More than once, I've been in an otherwise "deserted" truck stop parking lot, and had a reefer pull in next to me.

And yes, there were spaces closer to the building he/she coulda parked in.

 

I pull reefer and keep mine on continuous at night. Never had any complaints. Drivers with old beat up reefers that need service and have squeaky belts every time they start occasionalyl bug me, but not as much as a tuck next to me in high idle with air leaks and their spitter going off every 30 seconds.

 

I like a reefer on continuous parked next to me , it drowns out the horn honkers and low grades that think parking lots are race tracks .

 

I hate this more than almost everything. Only thing I hate more is air horns and unmuffled Jake's inside the truck stop.