With the MANs,you use the same controls as the running heater,left hand button,push in and turn it to the desired temperature.■■■■■■■ noisy though,the MAN heaters.
I dont know why anyone needs to run them while tge vehicle is running when you have so much heat available from the heater.Ive never known a truck to take an hour to heat up!
Pity those trampers and night workers that work at outfits that have day cabs for such overnight duties at this time of the winter, along with no night heaters so you end up in a layby, engine running but cutting out every few minutes of idle, and impossible to get a proper rest whilst waiting for some remote farmyard to open, or similar…
Isn’t it strange that “Unions” like to bang on about how unfair it is to let agency bods use their facilities, but don’t uphold their own left-leaning worker principles into looking after the WELFARE of ALL workers, not just the ones that pay union dues, jump to throw even their fellow union members under the bus (by grassing them up all the time, thus gaining one notch on some “pecking order”).
…But won’t argue that ALL cabs should have both Night Heaters and bunks in case you break down anywhere day or night in sub-zero temperatures like we have now…
Worker Well-being. Wot a concept - eh?
Nope, this isn’t about myself at all. I’m walking through time backwards like most people, looking at past places I’ve been, and feeling sorry for all those “New Passes” and EE folk who’ve now been forced to work ever-more hours now that their in-work benefits are going or gone…
The 84 hour working week - is still around folks… I wonder what January will hold this year, with this veritable army of people sleeping rough with no night heater in cabs, awaiting their instructions for their first pickup of the day, at “early doors” in the morning…?
I can forsee ongoing “Self-Employment” in this industry as becoming a real scourge of our numbers, over the coming months…
Even those who’ve just taken a well-paid full time job up - will no doubt be run ragged performing the same kind of hourages, if they are not careful…
Councils - are short of road gritter drivers for example, and Motorway tipper drivers - seem to be absent from our long-term roadworks of late…?
“Wrong kind of climate”? - or a shortage of agency bods because they’ve gone off to do better-paid work elsewhere at this time of the year?
You don’t get paid for taking “sick” days and weeks after you’ve just started after all, and to disobey your orders - is surely to fail your “probation” period of new employment?
The time to make a stand then - is surely to refuse to take a job in the first place where you’re clearly NOT going to be looked after by a firm that might well not have basic “comforts of life” kit already in plain sight…
On a different slant, - how many on here would take a truck off the road if the night heater isn’t working?
As a full timer, you’re surely not going to be putting your job at risk by doing that job properly - aren’t you?
“Making Waves” - is surely something only agency bods need worry about?
Personally, I’d not want to go out in -10 temperatures in a vehicle with a busted heater - but that’s me…
Sploom:
I dont know why anyone needs to run them while tge vehicle is running when you have so much heat available from the heater.Ive never known a truck to take an hour to heat up!
You can’t run the night heater whilst the ignition is on in the new gen MAN’s. They cut out as soon as the key is turned.
the maoster:
Sploom:
I dont know why anyone needs to run them while tge vehicle is running when you have so much heat available from the heater.Ive never known a truck to take an hour to heat up!A hot and toasty cab from the engine fan heater - will quickly cool down to minus once the ignition is off - on a cab with no night heater.
If you fall asleep in that position, you’re likely to be rather harder to wake up again with hyperthermia setting in…You can’t run the night heater whilst the ignition is on in the new gen MAN’s. They cut out as soon as the key is turned.
Winseer:
the maoster:
Sploom:
I dont know why anyone needs to run them while tge vehicle is running when you have so much heat available from the heater.Ive never known a truck to take an hour to heat up!A hot and toasty cab from the engine fan heater - will quickly cool down to minus once the ignition is off - on a cab with no night heater.
If you fall asleep in that position, you’re likely to be rather harder to wake up again with hyperthermia setting in…You can’t run the night heater whilst the ignition is on in the new gen MAN’s. They cut out as soon as the key is turned.
Ahh, now I understand why we have videos telling drivers how to get in and out of the cab.
Thank you, Winseer.