Keeping warm @ night
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Try putting an add in the free EO classifieds. You can put your qualifications, what kind of truck(s) you can drive etc. There are ALWAYS owners looking for drivers.
Unless you're just trying out the company to make sure it's a good fit before you buy your own.
If so, set yourself a time limit. But don't drive for anyone who won't provide you heat or allow you to idle.
Dale
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that owner must be Harry Reed and his wifes name is Nancy. Now my 2cents,,,that owner is full of blankety and other stuff....
Turtle's right,you know. If you're driving for someone else and you've got the cdl, driving a straight is the way to go. The margins on driving CVs are so thin that by the time you divide between the owner and the driver--- nobody got nuthin. Then on already paper thin proceeds somebody has to maintain the van--- there's gonna be problems. The owner is forbidding idling because it's expensive and there's already not much margin.
I have a Big Buddy heater, that helps. You must have the windows open about an inch or so if you use one of these things, but it does allow me to keep warm in my van without idling.
I have a Big Buddy heater, that helps. You must have the windows open about an inch or so if you use one of these things, but it does allow me to keep warm in my van without idling.
Are big buddy heaters expensive? And how does one keep cool on the summer, without idling? Also, it's hard to find a gig for a solo straight truck driver as almost everyone wants teams. I refuse to run as a team with a complete stranger ever again! Teambadexperience.com
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mzraik
Active Expediter
The other reason for not idling could be... Idling the newer Diesels leads to engine problems in short order. EGR's, DPF's, and other parts of the newer gen. diesels don't handle the idling with out gumming up stuff. And it's become too expensive to burn the fuel.
I too have heard of folks using the Buddy Heaters and there is more than one size.
I use a 12v electric blanket and a good sleeping bag, a few other blankets and I'm good to go.
The blanket heats for 30-45 minutes which seems to do the trick. I run a little differently than most, so this works for me. If I had to stay out like most, I'd go the Buddy route, too.
A/C in the summer is handled by my confabulation of a plastic ice box rigged up with a fan to blow air through the ice and it seems to do pretty well, even this last summer when it was killer hot. You can also buy them for inserts into a camping ice chest at most truck stops or online. I just happened to have the pieces parts and made my own.
I guess the point is, it depends on the type of running you do that drives the need for the equipment.
canesman07
Seasoned Expediter
I do not idle my van and what I have is this: I have an extra battery in the back that I disconnect from the main battery and run a 25$ electric blanket that works off a cigarette lighter adapter and I have a Buddy Heater with 20lb propane tank to use when the battery dies after 6 hours. I have idles once this year and this was in Chicago when it was 0 degrees.
Firerescue20
Rookie Expediter
Ask him if they have a apu or the new line trucks that have battery packs. That's the only way for power overnight. If not then I'd say no to that position.