Taking the plunge. My journey as an O/O.

No. You misunderstood, or I said it badly. The maintenance records do not cost $500. They simply do not provide records with a shop cost less than $500.

EDIT. I responded too quickly. I see it's already been straightened out.

 

Well, I have been running on an inverted schedule for over a week now, since I had one of the rare 2-stop loads that pop up on the account now and then.

Of course, I had an extra 1.5 days on the load, and the first stop delivered at 4 PM.

Did it. Complained a bit about it, but kept on rolling overnights for a full week. Now I have a cross-country load with plenty of time on it.

Shut down on Monteagle, at the Chinese buffet, 8 hours early. By the time I get to CA, I will be starting my day at 0200 or 0300 like I should.

 

Well, I got myself back on the schedule I wanted to be on.

This morning, I woke up at 0300 to a weird tone coming from under my bunk.

Lifted the bunk and took a close look at the inverter for the first time.

I immediately wanted to kick someone in the head for being a moron.

The truck does not have one 1200 watt pure sine wave inverter like I thought.

There are two inverters under the bunk. One is a 1000 watt garbage quality inverter. There is nothing at all connected to it.

The other is a tiny 300 watt sine wave inverter.

That small inverter runs to the UPS battery unit that I use to power my cpap machine, and my laptops when I pull them out.

I suspect I have stressed out that poor little 300 watt sine wave inverter by powering a high power gaming laptop on it's circuit. The battery backup kept the laptop from depowering, but the inverter would have been running full-tilt for hours at a time, trying to keep the batteries charged.

So, since I cannot legally operate a truck if I miss more than 1 day of cpap use out of 10, I can skip tonight, but will have to pull both the garbage inverters and get one that's worth a #### installed.

I was going to take a 34 anyway, after delivery tomorrow, but now I have to spend money on a new inverter as well. I will also be having main batteries and their connections tested, just on the off chance that I am mistaken about what caused the problem.