I was thinking of doing a 4 on 4 off doing fridge work.
Was just wondering if you still get a decent sleep with the trailer on all night/day.
Have never done tramping so never slept in a cab before.
Any helpful comments much appreciated.
Mainzer:
I was thinking of doing a 4 on 4 off doing fridge work.
Was just wondering if you still get a decent sleep with the trailer on all night/day.
Have never done tramping so never slept in a cab before.
Any helpful comments much appreciated.
Never slept in a cab let alone with a fridge running you’ve got no chance
When you are in your own bed, just imagine that instead of it being up against a wall, it is up against a piece of 18 gauge steel, and twelve inches behind that there is a London taxi turning its engine on and off all night, that should give you the idea. 
The loudest thing will be other drivers moaning about leaving it running all night…
Firstly, is it chill or frozen, is it a tracked fridge, If it’s tracked, only option is drop trailer and move forwards few feet, or you might be a real fridge man,and just put up with it running all night and it doesn’t bother you, Once you have been at it for a while others will tell you the fridge boyo’s secrets, 
Leave it on continuous rather than stop start. As others have said you can drop it and pull forward a few feet or get yourself a kingpin lock then you can park further away from it. Might be worth asking your gaffer to get a staple lock for the back doors as well if you’re overnighting with stuff on. The above is what I used to do anyway.
If you’re tired you’ll sleep anyway, earplugs are your friend. Only downside of ear plugs is if you need to hear your alarm to wake up.
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After a few weeks you wont notice it running. You be waking up when it switches off in the night.
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just get on with it and you will sleep fine and as above to start with bung it on constant.
after a while,you will not hear a thing.
if you need a really good kip,park between another two running fridges and nothing else will disturb you.
thats not taking the ■■■■,just a fact.
it wont bother you after a while though with the amount of snowflakes working in here,then the hard part might be doing enough work during the day to make you look forward to a kip at night.
Always found the vibration more of a problem than the noise. So as said wind down legs, trailer brake on, pull pin, ease forward and dump air out of unit’s suspension. No contact with trailer-no vibration. No need to disconnect airlines, just remember to reconnect before you move off
I pulled into the dedicated reefer park at Tebay a few years ago, to be greeted by a brick motor driver whingeing about the noise of the fridge. Him, ‘Is that going to run all night?’. me, Yes, it’s temp. critical! why are you parked in the fridge bay with bricks?, him, the television reception is better here!! I rest my case M/lud. Ps. Keep it on constant, you’ll soon get used to it. Good luck keep dodging the bullets! 
regards Kev.
I dabbled with fridge work on Frigoscandia in early 90s, I was a complete wimp ,.I could never sleep with the ■■■■ thing firing up all night, so I didn’t last too long, even though it was a good job.
So not for me, I need my beauty sleep as it seems to be working great so far. 
I’d have thought that size would be a bigger problem than noise…
Do a couple of nights out per month.(unplanned)
If the fridge is on…I don’t sleep.
As mentioned above - you get used to it.
After a while pulling fridges you’ll sleep better with the thing on.
All you can do is give it a go.
Like others have said at first leave it on constant. Also worth trying a noise app on your phone at home through headphones. Look for one that has white noise and see if you can start getting used to that. Done fridges most of my career and now I use white noise if trying to sleep somewhere noisy as it drowns out all background noise. Same with a fridge esp if trying to sleep in day. Don’t pull them now and believe it or not I miss their noise when parked somewhere busy
I have never pulled fridges so have no experience of having one running behind me! However you can always do what a guy did to me a few years ago at Reading motorway services. I was just getting off to sleep when a fridge guy reversed in next to me but then dropped his trailer with fridge running and parked his unit at the other side of the truck park!
His fridge did not stay running for long when the guy at the other side of the trailer got out of his cab a switched it off!
Some truck parks do not allow fridges to be run overnight, but this begs the question as to why they do not have hook-ups for fridges?
Martin:
I have never pulled fridges so have no experience of having one running behind me! However you can always do what a guy did to me a few years ago at Reading motorway services. I was just getting off to sleep when a fridge guy reversed in next to me but then dropped his trailer with fridge running and parked his unit at the other side of the truck park!
His fridge did not stay running for long when the guy at the other side of the trailer got out of his cab a switched it off!
Some truck parks do not allow fridges to be run overnight, but this begs the question as to why they do not have hook-ups for fridges?
Chaps that do that are often doing swap overs in the middle of the night. Often it’ll be a different trailer next morning, often an empty one, someone will be tipping the drivers trailer during the night as fridge work never stops
If it’s chilled and set at plus 2c, just switch it off overnight in the winter.
kjw21:
As mentioned above - you get used to it.After a while pulling fridges you’ll sleep better with the thing on.
All you can do is give it a go.
Agreed! I sleep beautifully with a fridge rattling away right behind me, even on stop start!
I’m a heavy sleeper though.
the nodding donkey:
I’d have thought that size would be a bigger problem than noise…
Sorry donk took me a while to get that duhhhhh