Upgrading tomorrow!

Yes. Sometimes the distance between parking lanes is short enough that you have to pull forward almost bumper to bumper with the trucks facing you, then worm back and forth to make the tractor turn a few degrees at a time.

 

Steven's Transport does the same thing with leasing trucks to new grads. If you ever express any interest at all at any point in leasing, they will try to hard sell you into a lease truck.

Just keep saying no. Politely. "Sorry, after teaming with my trainer, I now know that teaming is a bad idea for me. I managed to make it through, but cbin fever was getting bad at the end."

Some companies require teaming. If you hired onto one of them, and agreed to team as part of your contract, you might be in quite a pickle.

 

Congrats on passing your upgrade

 

And good work on the "parking without making a scene" too.

 

Your trainer did not train you on the cab climate controls?

Anyway, if you have opti-idle, here is how to activate it on a manual transmission Freightliner.

1. Turn off the truck. Then crank it again.

2. Switch gear selector switch on shifter to high gear.

3. Turn on cruise control. An amber light with the words IDLE MGMT should start blinking.

4. Go into your cab and turn on the thermostat. Set temp. Set temp range.

5. The truck should now run to keep the cab in the temp range you selected.

If you need heat, and your truck has an Espar heater, your opti idle will not work to heat the truck, but it will turn the truck on to heat the block and recharge the batteries.

If the above does not help you. Try Googling with the make of your truck and the name of the cab climate control system.

 

The a/c in the truck doesn't work without the truck running. The compressor is spun by the engine.

Also it looks to be around mid 50's around IL, so how is it hot?