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Ttthhhhat’sss ((((( 
))))) cold!!!
I don’t do nights out… but I put my company issued fleece over me for my morning nap.
For my two afternoon naps, I usually go ■■■■■■■■.
HTH
EDIT: Night heater set to 30℃ (window slightly open for afternoon naps)
double quilt folded in half for me, got to be toasty and warm at night 
I didn’t do too many nights out but I had a sleeping bag that packed down really small in my kit for emergencies. For planned nights - a duvet every time.
I’m in Canada and minus 30c is a bit colder than usual for this time of year, that is normally a Jan/Feb temperature, but it’s usually around -20c for most of the winter, so it’s all relative.
And yes, it is bloody cold, if you’re out in the wind it can be dangerously cold, but on a sunny day with no wind it’s quite pleasant actually, now that may sound mental, but you can walk around in just a shirt, jacket and jeans, obviously not for any length of time, but you don’t need to dress up like Chris Bonnington every time you get out the lorry.
If you’re out in it for a while, then you do need proper protection and I carry that in case of emergencies.
The thing that amazes me is how the equipment copes, I’ve run from California or Texas where it’s in the mid 20s back up to Canada and seen it in the -40s (that’s extreme even up here, but we get days that cold every winter) and the lorry just handles it. The diesel has anti gel additives in it and proper Canadian winter fuel is good for -50c, but the only modification the lorry itself needs is a winter front which blocks air from the radiator and around the engine, quite an amazing feat really when you consider it.
And I use the same (washed weekly) quilt all year around 
My mums hubby worked in the Canadian oil fields and said quilted wins over bulk padded jackets and even bedding. But then when he rretired he took the dodge ram 5+l to Panama beach each winter
these days mum and her hubby just go to goa for three months in the winter 
All my cold weather outer wear has quilted linings, so there must be something about it that helps.
newmercman:
I’m in Canada and minus 30c is a bit colder than usual for this time of year, that is normally a Jan/Feb temperature, but it’s usually around -20c for most of the winter, so it’s all relative.And yes, it is bloody cold, if you’re out in the wind it can be dangerously cold, but on a sunny day with no wind it’s quite pleasant actually, now that may sound mental, but you can walk around in just a shirt, jacket and jeans, obviously not for any length of time, but you don’t need to dress up like Chris Bonnington every time you get out the lorry.
I woke up to a fresh temperature this morning in Maine and while heading north back to Canada it dropped down to -22, and as you say though, you barely notice it when out of the cab if there’s no wind. When dieseling up back in the yard in only jeans and a jumper it felt like a nice spring day, it was only after 10 minutes that the tips of my ears and nose started to go numb!
newmercman:
The thing that amazes me is how the equipment copes, I’ve run from California or Texas where it’s in the mid 20s back up to Canada and seen it in the -40s (that’s extreme even up here, but we get days that cold every winter) and the lorry just handles it. The diesel has anti gel additives in it and proper Canadian winter fuel is good for -50c, but the only modification the lorry itself needs is a winter front which blocks air from the radiator and around the engine, quite an amazing feat really when you consider it.
I got caught out last year when filling up in Maine, which is every bit as cold as New Brunswick in the winter. I assumed that their diesel would have all the same additives as Canadian winter fuel given the standard winter weather there…well it didn’t and the next morning I started the truck at home, got about half a mile down the road and the inevitable happened. Bloody Americans.
As for bedding, like most people its a proper fitted sheet over the mattress and a duvet. I have a nice, if quite loud APU generator on the truck that keeps me and my engine nice and warm at night even at these temperatures.
I’m getting an APU in the new year, but even so at below -25c I’ll still need to run the big engine to ensure it will start in the morning, unless I get the oil pan heater wired in to the APU somehow. It’s something I will explore.
At present I run the night heater down to -15c, but anything colder than that and it sounds like a bag of bolts when it starts and I don’t like hearing that sound at all.
The diesel in the border states is crap in winter, as you found out, but it’s even worse in the southern states, you can use the pour in additives, but most of those are just weasel ■■■■.
I’m not 100% sure but I have a sneaking suspicion that my temperature guage may be a tad out! Currently waiting for a bay in Kempston, of course I dressed according to the guage and am currently swanning about in an Hawaiian shirt, shorts and flip flops. I do look a ■■■■ however with my pretty blue nose and shrivelled manhood.
Buddy of mine used a duvet,obtained from Brittany Ferries and when it was dirty he just swapped it for a clean one on his next trip.Sorted.
Armagedon:
Buddy of mine used a duvet,obtained from Brittany Ferries and when it was dirty he just swapped it for a clean one on his next trip.Sorted.
:lol::lol:
sheet and quilt
I wriggle
newmercman:
I’m getting an APU in the new year, but even so at below -25c I’ll still need to run the big engine to ensure it will start in the morning, unless I get the oil pan heater wired in to the APU somehow. It’s something I will explore.At present I run the night heater down to -15c, but anything colder than that and it sounds like a bag of bolts when it starts and I don’t like hearing that sound at all.
I have no idea why the oil pan heater isn’t linked to the APU but it should be quite easy to wire yourself as they generate mains power so running a cable from an outlet to the heater plug should do the trick. You could keep the end of the cable tucked away under the cab and just plug it in on cold nights.
I’m not sure how low the APU itself would protect the engine to as it only circulates the coolant around and I wouldn’t imagine that in itself would be enough when its really cold but our head mechanic insists that it’ll be fine. I know that when its -20 for example and the APU has been running all night, the truck fires up and sounds just as warm as if she were running ten minutes ago, no sluggishness, no banging and clattering, no bag of bolts so maybe it really does do a good enough job all by itself. Like everything though, there will be limits and you guys tend to get it a bit colder out there than we do. Its not often we go below -30 and even then its only usually odd days totally to no more than a week or two per winter.
Quilt.
Bottom sheet, one duvet in summer (unless it’s really hot) two duvets in winter.
Night heater set to come on half an hour before I get up, can’t have it on all night as I wake up with a gob as dry as a leper’s armpit and a hangover-stylee headache.
Roof hatch and windows open a crack all year round.