Team driving with a CPAP Machine

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  1. Oor

    Oor Road Train Member

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    Buy two.
     
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  3. tscottme

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    Yes, there are cheap & easy ways to do both things in a team truck.

    Hang the machine on a hook or from a cubby holes's edge or put it in a cubby instead of setting it on a table or the bed.or use a piece of wire coat hanger and make an S hook for your need. Coat hangers come in all diameters & weight capacity. I know some people only want a purpose-built & advertised item sold at a truck stop or they don't think it can be used in a truck. That's a mindset & self-defeating, IMO.

    It's very easy to temporarily add a 12v outlet near the top bunk or solidly seat the machine's12v plug into a plug near the bottom bunk, or wherever the nearest 12v outlet may be located.

    I'd need to have pics, measurements, & weight of machine & a pic of the bunks & location of power outlets to be more specific.
     
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  4. tscottme

    tscottme Road Train Member

    You can bring anything you can carry into the truck & your team driver will agree to or tolerate.
     
  5. Moosetek13

    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    Let's stay focused here.
    Team truck, CPAP machine, hard braking where something could get broken.

    I would be more worried about a body being broken than the machine.
     
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  6. 88 Alpha

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    I really like this suggestion and want to press the close button but I'm having entirely too much fun reading the responses.
     
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    I see you are easily entertained.

    Excuse me while I try to find a laser pointer emoticon....... :biggrin_255:
     
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    Moosetek13 Road Train Member

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    Entertainment should be easy.

    Not that much fun if you have to work for it.
     
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  9. Long FLD

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    I heard the next gen Cascadia was going to have a dedicated CPAP spot next to the bed but the Indian and Eastern Euro drivers aren’t obese like American drivers so Freightliner axed that design feature.
     
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  10. Kyle G.

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    That's not far off. Mack is already putting those fat guy steering wheels in their trucks. It won't be long till they start coming with an entire built-in CPAP machine.
     
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    I’m sure the OP would enjoy reading the responses as well, unfortunately he has 1/2-3/4 of us on ignore. Because we tried to answer one of his absurd threads. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
     
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