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Also while I'm at it, anyone try one of these? http://www.swampy.net/ I'm thinking of getting one before this summer just to take the evening bite off.
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I know how much power you can get out of a cigarette lighter, and i know how much power an air conditioner uses, there's no way that would even help in a truck. What you need to do is find an old diesel powered reefer, keep the cab at a nice chilly 3 degrees.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 01:39 |
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Powershift posted:I know how much power you can get out of a cigarette lighter, and i know how much power an air conditioner uses, there's no way that would even help in a truck. It's a Swamp cooler ya hooser!
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 01:52 |
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I've lived in plenty of houses with swamp coolers. They're absolutely useless if it's remotely humid, unless you load them up with ice. Even then, the ice will melt pretty quick. A whole-house swamp cooler costs a lot less than what these guys are selling. If there's no fresh air intake on them (which I don't see), then the sleeper will get real humid in a hurry - once you get above about 40-50% humidity swamp coolers fall on their face and beg for mercy.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 02:48 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:It's a Swamp cooler ya hooser! well that just sounds worse. You'll be boiled to death instead of baked to death.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 03:07 |
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Didn't lobsterboyx post about a 1940s or 1950s, attachable swamp cooler for his Buick. They didn't catch on and probably weren't around for trucks/cars in the 60s, 70, 80s, 90s 00's for good reason. edit: Page 11 of the "tome of antiquities" thread, near the bottom a 2 tone green Buick. I repair/service and install some swampies for houses in a dry part of the world. Well it was dry here historically, but the past 3 summers have been 60% Rh and made them useless. So they went for good to crap in a couple of years because the weather pattern changed. I prefer refrigerated a/c anyway though. Swamp coolers can be somewhat adequate if they are plumbed in with constant water, but having them is only OK with heaps of fresh outdoor air, and there's no way the effect they give is worth manually filling them up all the time with water and/or ice. Fo3 fucked around with this message at Apr 10, 2012 around 12:20 |
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Fo3 posted:Didn't lobsterboyx post about a 1940s or 1950s, attachable swamp cooler for his Buick. Yea, they only work well when you can get a good amount of airflow. Areas with pavement also tend to have a bit lower humidity so it naturally lends itself to cars. Nutcup and I have had good results with what we call a "swamp rear end cooler" where we fill the sleeper with cans of beans and use a forced airflow device to push high velocity hot air from the cabin through a swamp cooler plumbed up to a water tank in the truck.
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 13:53 |
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I only got as far as beans and "high velocity hot air" 
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| # ? Apr 10, 2012 15:34 |
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Gives the air in the cab a bit of an enjoyable bite to it as well. My eyes water every time muffinpox engages the swamp rear end cooler. I dont see him for hours while i'm up driving, but that breeze i feel slightly spitting in my face assures me he is working hard to make sure I'm riding in comfort.
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I had a similar experience the other night. Driving down the highway at 0200am dodging deer and moose. All the sudden I'm choking light headed and my eyes burn. I yell Fuuuuuuuuuuuck! And pull over. Hit the hazards and jump out. I get back in and look around. Can't find anything making the toxic fumes. Go into the chubby holes outside. Nothing. Jump back in and hear a slight hiss. Yup, glass cleaner can under the passenger seat punctures. And emptied onto my coveralls.
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jonathan posted:I had a similar experience the other night. Driving down the highway at 0200am dodging deer and moose. All the sudden I'm choking light headed and my eyes burn. I yell Fuuuuuuuuuuuck! And pull over. Hit the hazards and jump out. I get back in and look around. Can't find anything making the toxic fumes. Go into the chubby holes outside. Nothing. Jump back in and hear a slight hiss. Yup, glass cleaner can under the passenger seat punctures. And emptied onto my coveralls. Hah. I did that a couple Weeks ago with a can of WD40, it still smells wonderful in here.better than an air freshener.
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| # ? Apr 11, 2012 04:28 |
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 It's the peppermint oil!
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Muffinpox posted:Yea, they only work well when you can get a good amount of airflow. Areas with pavement also tend to have a bit lower humidity so it naturally lends itself to cars. Nutcup and I have had good results with what we call a "swamp rear end cooler" where we fill the sleeper with cans of beans and use a forced airflow device to push high velocity hot air from the cabin through a swamp cooler plumbed up to a water tank in the truck.  Is this guy just upset because because he needed a bean refresh? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIGZgWmFN_0
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And here i thought they spoke english in australia. edit: I like how he stood and yelled at them for an hour, walked out into traffic, threatened them and all he ended up getting was a ticket for his log book and a 12 hour suspension. If that happened in the states, 5 minutes in he'd have a mouth full of concrete and an rear end full of boot. Powershift fucked around with this message at Apr 11, 2012 around 16:44 |
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My company must be very hard up for drivers. We are getting a big enough bonus to find new drivers right now, *I* might try and sign them up.
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I've also spend more on fuel than I've earned so far this year. And I really haven't been doing good on both! I'm smart enough to live poor so that's good I guess.
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Powershift posted:And here i thought they spoke english in australia. That cop had the patience of Job.
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InterceptorV8 posted:My company must be very hard up for drivers. We are getting a big enough bonus to find new drivers right now, *I* might try and sign them up. Yeah, transX here is looking for 100 owner ops, and over 60 company drivers for each of their big branches here. Trican who used to require a clean driving record and a class 1 license will now take anybody with 6 demerits and train them up from a class 5. There's a massive shortage of drivers. As for fuel, i've been on flat land short trips for the past month, and i'm up to about 70 hours per 900 liter fuel-up. Still only about 3.5mpg, but more importantly only about 12.8 liters per hour.
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Interesting. Right about the time I got out everyplace had enough applicants that they could be real choosy. The ads were always WE NEED DRIVERS NOW though. Be fun to try again with the shoe on the other foot :b Don't suppose you'd share info in a PM, IV8?
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| # ? Apr 15, 2012 12:07 |
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After interceptor just said he could barely pay for fuel, you want to get back into that poo poo? You need to get to the oil fields and haul hot stinky sex lube.
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nutcup posted:After interceptor just said he could barely pay for fuel, you want to get back into that poo poo? Nononono! *I* don't pay for fuel, but it doesn't mean *I* can't access my accounts!  Black box givith and the black box taketh away!What I mean is my account is being retarded. And I'm only a part time driver, I only work 40 hours a week. I do about 2,000 miles a week of short hauls and get paid the higher short haul pay. Still, my truck is sucking down fuel faster than I am earning cashy money. InterceptorV8 fucked around with this message at Apr 15, 2012 around 18:34 |
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| # ? Apr 18, 2012 12:21 |
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Javid posted:
That's common actually. If you have an espar or don't sleep with the engine running, you park the other way to avoid the engines of the trucks beside you.
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I more mean the 'no trucks' sign in the background
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Javid posted:I more mean the 'no trucks' sign in the background Looks more like a no bitch rear end day cab sign.
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A little background I have no CDL and I have never driven a semi on the road, and I work at a small wholesale company. We have two semi trucks and about 5 box delivery trucks. One of our semis looks just like this Peterbilt 387, but is a different color.  We used our 387 to make deliveries to a place about 700 miles away about once a week. Well, we lost that account and our driver quit about the same time. So our 387 Peterbilt sat, and sat, and sat. We would only use it like once a week, or once every two weeks. So I said to myself "Hey, you know what? I'm gonna learn how to back in trailers cause I'm tired of my dock doors being full of empty trailers or full trailers, ect. ect." First few days were really scary and it would take me forever to get backed in a door, but after a few months of backing in 3 to 4 trailers every day I got to the point to where I could back in a trailer better than the guy who had been on the road for more than a few years. Well, one day I had a poo poo ton of stuff to do and had to move trailers around so I could get our trucks backed in was an hour before it was time to go home and my stress level was rising. I hooked onto a trailer, moved it out of the way, stopped, got out, put the gear down, pulled the kingpin and hopped back in the cab and started to pull away... *WHAM* Sounded like somebody just smacked the back of the cab with a metal baseball bat. I slammed on the breaks and went "holy poo poo what was that?" I looked at the trailer, and I saw the gear was still down, and I looked around to see if I had ran over something and then it sank in. My heart dropped and I thought to myself "I bet I didn't pull the air hoses off the trailer" so I hop out of the cab and look at the back of the truck  Sure enough, the hoses had been stretched out and the springs were all stretched and broken, and now the hoses were covered in grease from being pulled over the 5th wheel. Also, there is now a new dent in one of the exhaust covers. Lovely.
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Now if you would have had a CDL, that would have never happened. Guaranteed. *backs trailer right the gently caress over interceptors passenger front fender even though he is the only truck parked within 10 spots of anyone else. I just wanna be close to you.
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Javid posted:
I swear I know that parking lot. Telven posted:A little background Yeah, stress causes you to mind fart. Thank god I remembered today I was rolling a high cube when they sent my under a 13'9" underpass..... But you can pick up a set of hoses anywhere. Thank god. nutcup posted:Now if you would have had a CDL, that would have never happened. Guaranteed. Are you one of those loving Eastern European fucks? I had one guy who I had to tell five times to turn off his loving engine, he would just smile and nod at me each time. Parked right next to the SHUT OFF YOUR ENGINE sign. Hard as gently caress to listen to someone trying to tell you what trailer to pick up with a DD15 making GBS threads oil and sound everywhere, then had another one pull out going up a grade on me for no other reason that he wanted to be doing 35mph in the hammer lane without his blinkers on. No flashers as well. Cranky day for me.
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InterceptorV8 posted:I swear I know that parking lot. Do you deliver to wal-marts in Oregon? If so, shoot me a PM next time :b
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Javid posted:Do you deliver to wal-marts in Oregon? If so, shoot me a PM next time :b lol no, but it looked like the West Valley City Walmart!
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jonathan posted:sleep with the engine running Tell this four-wheeler more about this. Are the cooling systems robust and reliable enough that overnight idling is fine while you're asleep? Obviously you do a full work week at highway speeds, but it's another thing to just let it go without paying attention. I assume your trucks all have numerous loud buzzers for coolant/oil loss? What's fuel consumption like on an overnight like that?
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Jonny 290 posted:Tell this four-wheeler more about this. You can idle just fine overnight. The odds of something exploding while idle are waaaay lower than it doing it while you're driving. There are systems that monitor the rig while you're asleep. Also, you don't just leave it running like a car. In most cases, it's on a thermostat that only runs the truck when you need the AC to maintain a set temp, so figure around half the time on average. On fleet trucks these systems tend to mysteriously go "ERR" after a couple hours, and you wake up to a hundred degree cab after four hours of sleep. Fuel consumption: Companies will try to tell you it's a gallon an hour; it's really something like .6 gallons an hour. Some rigs have a separate heater that burns diesel directly without the engine and uses so little fuel it effectively doesn't matter. Like a gallon a night at the outside. There are also APUs which are pretty much a generator with its own AC/heating system that runs instead of the main engine. Same effect. Javid fucked around with this message at Apr 20, 2012 around 08:47 |
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InterceptorV8 posted:Are you one of those loving Eastern European fucks? I had one guy who I had to tell five times to turn off his loving engine, he would just smile and nod at me each time. Parked right next to the SHUT OFF YOUR ENGINE sign. Hard as gently caress to listen to someone trying to tell you what trailer to pick up with a DD15 making GBS threads oil and sound everywhere, then had another one pull out going up a grade on me for no other reason that he wanted to be doing 35mph in the hammer lane without his blinkers on. No flashers as well. I am part czechole, but no, I'm born and raised in the dirty souf dakotass. I only ran into those guys mainly up in the east. Some of them were ok, but I honestly did not know how any of our dispatchers could ever begin to understand what the gently caress they were saying over a phone call. Dudes would sleep outside and in some cases inside the terminal to be the first in line in the morning at the load board. They probably know what youre talking about, because I have had conversations with a few of them, the sneaky russians. It made me feel cool... and sorta sexy. Like I was in hunt for the red febtober. A low budget sequel where they couldnt afford showers or a reason to not kill yourself while on set.
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Jonny 290 posted:Tell this four-wheeler more about this. Diesels also don't make much heat just thumping over at 500-600 RPM. Since most trucks don't melt down pulling 45,000 pounds up a 6% for 10 miles while in 100F, just idling is OK. Yeah, my ISX only sucks .3G per hour, the D13 was about .6. I don't like to idle because really it's a pain in the rear end to sleep. Oh yeah, that diesel heater (Westbo or Espar) can work awesome, or be complete poo poo. I had diesel in the fuel line to the heater freeze before, that was funny.
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I always have to bump the idle a couple rpm at a time to find a harmonic point where the truck doesn't shake, and even then my air dryer dumps ever minute on the nose, so when you can't sleep it's easy to keep track of how long you've been unable to sleep for. Generally, if it's over -15*C and i'm sleeping in the truck, i'll shut it off, over 30*C and i'll get a hotel room. quote:Tell this four-wheeler more about this. My truck starts dinging like a bastard and shuts me down if it sees a car it doesn't like, generally PT crusiers. it's an 04 and with all the sensors and gizmos, you cant really hurt it, newer trucks even have more sensors. my exhaust pyrometer went, and every once in a while would randomly spike up to 1400*F and the truck would give me a stop engine light, and shut the truck off after 30 seconds, so i'd have to quickly cycle it off then on and the gauge would reset and the stop engine light would go off. The trouble there being a sensor failing will cause the same pain as the part it's sensing failing. exhaust pyrometer gone in a DPF truck? you get 1400rpm for an hour to get off the side of the road. Also with DPF trucks, idling them at night causes the filter to gum up quick, which means it has to regen over and over and over, regening on the cats means cranking itself up to 1500rpm, and at -40*C, to get that exhaust up to 1700* takes a lot of fuel and a lot of time which costs a lot of money and makes a lot of noise.
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Powershift posted:The trouble there being a sensor failing will cause the same pain as the part it's sensing failing. exhaust pyrometer gone in a DPF truck? you get 1400rpm for an hour to get off the side of the road. Also with DPF trucks, idling them at night causes the filter to gum up quick, which means it has to regen over and over and over, regening on the cats means cranking itself up to 1500rpm, and at -40*C, to get that exhaust up to 1700* takes a lot of fuel and a lot of time which costs a lot of money and makes a lot of noise. I have no idea how the emissions stuff works, I just hold the wheel.
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As a kid, I always wanted to be a trucker for like, a year, just to see what it was like. Might have had to do with the fact that my granddad was one and crawling around in his old sleeper truck and looking at 8-track tapes was always fun for me. Anyway, the part of that dream that has lived on is wanting a CB radio. I see them in truck stops all the time, but do people still use them a lot? Please tell me people still say "this is Tombo, got a smokey on I69 but otherwise you're good all the way to Durant" and poo poo like that. I have considered getting one for my car many times, just because.
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Friend posted:As a kid, I always wanted to be a trucker for like, a year, just to see what it was like. Might have had to do with the fact that my granddad was one and crawling around in his old sleeper truck and looking at 8-track tapes was always fun for me. Sure, just don't say good buddy. Truckers are so far ahead of the curve, "good buddy" is the first case of hellbanning a overused meme. CannonFodder posted:I don't know what voodoo International did with their Maxxforce engines, but not having to use DEF is a godsend. I have no idea if the engine is doing a proper regen while rolling, but I've never had to do a parked regen in the 4 months I've had it. The Freightliner and Volvo regularly did rolling regens and the Freightliner needed a parked regen every other month. Yeah, the Shitspreaders really don't light up and scream they are regenning, you'll get the exhaust temp light on the panel if you are doing a rolling regen and slow down to kick it on. Why aren't to showing off your pretty chrome doorhandles and maxxfart engine? Too good to show us? Or are you mad that my 15 liters of fun can outpull you? 
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InterceptorV8 posted:Yeah, the Shitspreaders really don't light up and scream they are regenning, you'll get the exhaust temp light on the panel if you are doing a rolling regen and slow down to kick it on. Of course I have a 65mph governor, so you've got me beat on regular flat land anyway.
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CannonFodder posted:It can outpull me, but if everything's going right I have all of one pull a day. Sometimes none. Laredo and San Antonio are in nice flat land, and Denver to Minneapolis is flat and boring as well. I'm so glad I never go west of Denver anymore. I wish  they turned down the fun. That and my drives are getting well worn out, so I'm even slower. If I could figure out what I needed on INSITE and the hook-up in the truck, I'd bump the speed back up again.
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