drivergraham:
Why is it when you are in a Msa some one is reversing with his reversing beeper going off why don’t they turn it off they can see curtains shut on A lot of wagons
This gets right on my ■■■■!!!
The noise is the same as an alarm clock too ffs, the people with them on also seem to need half a dozen shunts to back in too!
A simple fix if you have one that cannot be isolated is to run the earth wire to a sidelight positive terminal, then when the lights are on you have two lives going to the bleeper and it will not bleep, turn the lights off and full annoyance is resumed.
Being as I’m old school driver I am always as quiet as I can be when parking next to a motor where the driver is obviously asleep,or leaving in the morning I don’t sit with the motor running drinking coffee for 20 mins, a lot of “drivers” with the couldn’t give a ■■■■ attitude are just that…couldn’t give a ■■■■. and that’'s about it!
toby1234abc:
Taffytrucker.Does the American and Canadian government know about all these truck engines running at night to keep warm in winter and cool in summer.
At a guess how many truck engines are running over a year and how much fuel is wasted.?
As for the fuel used one of the guys on here his boss looked into the fuel difference of a tri pac or the engine running and they are both about the same cant remember who it was now though
It is illegal in some countries in Europe to run the engine at night to keep cool or warm.They have air con pods on the cab roof and night heaters for the winter.
To be honest i find the trucks in Canada and the USA to be old fashioned and out of date by thirty years, and it is time they caught up with the modern world and get real.
It is hard to digest that all these trucks are running their engines all day and all night.
robroy:
Being as I’m old school driver I am always as quiet as I can be when parking next to a motor where the driver is obviously asleep,or leaving in the morning I don’t sit with the motor running drinking coffee for 20 mins, a lot of “drivers” with the couldn’t give a [zb] attitude are just that…couldn’t give a [zb]. and that’'s about it!
Working nights, whenever I stop at the services for a break Ill always park well out of the way of the overnighters, if that means in the coach area so be it…
Always turn my radio down and not slam my door too…
toby1234abc:
It is illegal in some countries in Europe to run the engine at night to keep cool or warm.They have air con pods on the cab roof and night heaters for the winter.
To be honest i find the trucks in Canada and the USA to be old fashioned and out of date by thirty years, and it is time they caught up with the modern world and get real.
It is hard to digest that all these trucks are running their engines all day and all night.
A lot of things here seem to be 20-30 years behind Europe. One thing I will say though, is that I’ve heard endless anounts of stories from British drivers who used to go all over the place back in the day, and stories of waking up in the morning and having to scrape the ice off the inside of the windscreen and light a fire under the engine sump…er, wtf?! Why would any idiot chose to suffer in this manner and risk life threatening pneumonia amongst other things when the common sense thing, if you have to be stuck out in a truck would be to run the engine in lieu of any other way to keep yourself and the vehicle warm. In my book, the driver comes first, end of.
toby1234abc:
It is illegal in some countries in Europe to run the engine at night to keep cool or warm.They have air con pods on the cab roof and night heaters for the winter.
To be honest i find the trucks in Canada and the USA to be old fashioned and out of date by thirty years, and it is time they caught up with the modern world and get real.
It is hard to digest that all these trucks are running their engines all day and all night.
A lot of things here seem to be 20-30 years behind Europe. One thing I will say though, is that I’ve heard endless anounts of stories from British drivers who used to go all over the place back in the day, and stories of waking up in the morning and having to scrape the ice off the inside of the windscreen and light a fire under the engine sump…er, wtf?! Why would any idiot chose to suffer in this manner and risk life threatening pneumonia amongst other things when the common sense thing, if you have to be stuck out in a truck would be to run the engine in lieu of any other way to keep yourself and the vehicle warm. In my book, the driver comes first, end of.
The only problem was the guy next to you would be gassed to death, literally, from the fumes and reek. especially off the old Gardener engines, no Euro 3 4 or 5 smoke emission bull sh. in those days.
robroy:
The only problem was the guy next to you would be gassed to death, literally, from the fumes and reek. especially off the old Gardener engines, no Euro 3 4 or 5 smoke emission bull sh. in those days.
Is that really any better or worse than trying, and I dont think I could do it, to sleep in lets say Bavaria or Austria where it may be below -10’c at night or colder. I remember only this winter hearing about a driver over here, who because of company idling policy that he was either scared of, or eager to conform to, but either way he had to be rescued from his truck and taken to hospital because he became ill from the cold and damp. I’m sure he developed pneumonia but can’t be 100% sure on that. Either way I know I’ve woken up in winter here and my night heater has turned off due to low voltage cut off and its been extremely unpleasant until I’ve fired the engine up and let the cab warm up again. There is no way I’d live like that every night for 6 months of the year just to appease state, provincial and federal law makers who themselves will never have to experience living in such a way once, let alone every night.
I’m not one for unnecessary idling, I detest doing it but there comes a point where you have to put your own comfort first. You can’t d 13 hours drive a day and 14-16 hour spreads if you’re only getting fits of sleep and feeling ill due to the cold and damp.
12v system running all night in 30 below or +35 on just the batteries just not work lol we had enough problems with a air con pod trying to keep up in spain try that with a cab 2x the size of a european cab
and that’'s about it!
