Looking to buy ice cooler to keep drinks cold 6 days

Yeti coolers are going to be the best but you also pay for it.

 

Coleman 70-Quart Xtreme Cooler is what I've used for years. It sits between the two front seats for easy access (cascadia). $40ish at wallyworld.

Precooling items will make the ice last much, much longer. Typically I add ice every other day at a rate of 2-3 10lb bags. If items are precooled I can easily get 4 days of good ice storage. I'm always adding at least 12 cans of warm soda every other day.

Typical contents include; 24 cans soda, 3-4 water bottles, subway sandwich, breakfast burritos/biscuits, quesadillas, cheese sticks, jerky/pepperoni sticks etc. I store the food in Ziploc plastic storage containers (not the bags) of various sizes if they aren't in sealed packaging.

Draining the cooler everyday or every other is mandatory otherwise the rising water tends to seep into the packages.

If I had a trunk monkey I would probably get a fridge but I need stuff accessable while cruising.

TA

 

Well here is what I did in the past.

I bought an Engel portable fridge, I was driving a truck with battery problems and no APU - my first one.

I would get a small container to put ice packs into it, let them freeze when the truck was running - that was about 12-14 hours a day while on duty/driving, it would get cold enough to to keep the thing cold when it was off for 10 hours. I would pull my food out when the truck was running and let it cool down and shut the truck off. In the middle of the reset I would grab something to drink and it was always cold.

So yes you can have this, but I have to wonder about the batteries on the APU, aren't they separate from the truck batteries?

 

Kodi coolers from HEB.

 

My orca will usually still have ice in it on the sixth day

 

My new truck has an electric apu that is wired for shore power and has a 12 volt socket plug on the back of the cab to connect to the reefer battery , fire up the reefer plug it in and the apu batteries never go down .
Mega fleets might not like this tho .

 

I suggested a setup like that to our maintenance guy, he said the battery pack works fine.... Except when I'm stuck for 28hrs.....lol

 

Typical shop response lol

 

I have a yeti roadie, keeps 1 bag of ice 3-4 days, I keep only my sandwich meats and cheese in it but in my opinion a great investment since I do not have an apu.