Sleeping beside a freaking refer!!!

[COLT]

How can you guys put up with a refer parked beside you! I just use my bunk for "power naps" normaly. Yesterday, I got put on hold in FT. Nelson, 8 hr wait, bush road too yucky. I get paid, truck gets paid, I realy need the sleep... all good. Nope, some lonliy driver had to snugle up to me (only other truck there) Yep, me and refer boy side by side, just us! I just about hit the roof when he parked and set his spring brakes, I'm O.K. with that, then the idleing, I'm O.K. with that, shut it off, all good ... sleepy, Then I thought I heard a thunder clap :shock: Nope, his refer thing ARG!!! 10 min running, 5 min off, 10 min running 5 minutes off :evil: And then the kid with the sled.... First time I slept at a truck stop, last time too! I'd rather sleep in the bush

[silvan]

How can you guys put up with a refer parked beside you!

Ain't as bad as sleeping next to a bull wagon. Mmmm. Fresh air.[/quote]

[LadyNorthStar]

Hey snob who drives by me all the time and never says hi! One night I'll find you and turn my reefer on just to piss ya off! hahaha
Luckily we sleep while waiting for our load so no reefer running for me while I sleep. If I'm doing a longer trip I'm usually so tired by the time I stop for a nap that it won't bug me, if it does I put it on continuous.

Its not just reefers though, last night at the 5th Wheel, there was enough parking to go around but this dude from Red Deer has to come park right beside me with a friggin air leak. pshhh, pshhhhhh, pshhhhhhhh, pshhhhhhhh
ARGHHHHHHHH
I got up earlier than I wanted.

[madbunny]

How can you guys put up with a refer parked beside you! I just use my bunk for "power naps" normaly. Yesterday, I got put on hold in FT. Nelson, 8 hr wait, bush road too yucky. I get paid, truck gets paid, I realy need the sleep... all good. Nope, some lonliy driver had to snugle up to me (only other truck there) Yep, me and refer boy side by side, just us! I just about hit the roof when he parked and set his spring brakes, I'm O.K. with that, then the idleing, I'm O.K. with that, shut it off, all good ... sleepy, Then I thought I heard a thunder clap :shock: Nope, his refer thing ARG!!! 10 min running, 5 min off, 10 min running 5 minutes off :evil: And then the kid with the sled.... First time I slept at a truck stop, last time too! I'd rather sleep in the bush

Ah EXCUSE ME! Do you like eating?? That REEFER <- Correct spelling BTW! Is what puts food on your table. Quit whining you sound like a 4wheeler.

[Uturn2001]

Most reefers and or idling engines never bothered me. It got to the point that silence is what would keep me up at night.

[COLT]

I'm no snob, your the snob. I've been looking for your horse face all winter :b Your shy L.N. I going back up there right now, hopfully the last time for awhile... I'm getting tired. I was parked by that big snow pile, nice quiet spot. Not! You've been checking me out, haven't you :wink:

[COLT]

P.S. I've managed to dodge the Inuvik trip so far, those guys are soo cranky when they get back :shock: One guy had to ware his chains 600 km :shock: "My trailers are too old boss" :wink:

[Mr. Ford95]

Most reefers and or idling engines never bothered me. It got to the point that silence is what would keep me up at night.

I'm the same way, I have to have sometype of noise maker to be able to sleep. Prolly from my days when I was working as a stagehand at concerts. We would sleep during the show in the bowels of the arena, you learned how to sleep during rock concerts real quick.

[LadyNorthStar]

P.S. I've managed to dodge the Inuvik trip so far, those guys are soo cranky when they get back :shock: One guy had to ware his chains 600 km :shock: "My trailers are too old boss" :wink:

That guy was HILARIOUS! He was chained up on Petersen Hill and it was NOT bad. He said he couldn't make it. Oh he was cursing and swearing and wanted to know how far to steamboat! He was gonna run like 125 km's on almost bare road just so he didn't have to chain up again. I told him steamboat was +6 and almost bare, buddy take the chains off. hahah

I have not been watching you... I don't know who you are. lol I'm the one that told YOU my truck number. And I'm usually the only woman driver there, other than our spare.
The big snow pile, were you backed in to the left of the parking lot? If so thats our spot, stay outta there! hahahaha

[Mtc_Is_Hell]

I like having the reefer trucks next to me, one on each side is nice, I have my air on full blast, I need all the noise I can get. Then I fall asleep like nothing, What bothers me though is the lot lizards.

Staying overnight at a truck stop in phenix city Alabama was hell. I got a knock every couple hours, A long hard knock. Then at 3 am I woke up and felt the truck moving, the bitch was standing on my truck trying to open my door, I forgot my walet on the dash.

[LadyNorthStar]

Staying overnight at a truck stop in phenix city Alabama was hell. I got a knock every couple hours, A long hard knock. Then at 3 am I woke up and felt the truck moving, the bitch was standing on my truck trying to open my door, I forgot my walet on the dash.

Thats unreal!!!!!! I'd pepper spray em all and teach them a lesson!

[Roadhog]

8) EAR PLUGS....ya Hoser...eh?!

My Reefer is a whisper quiet...but some of those older units are LOUD.
When either that or just a yahoo with straight pipes parks next to me...I use ear plugs and I'm sane again. :? (relatively sane for a Trucker)

What I hate is the dickweed with the 25 cent air leak. Lazy bastid. :evil:



..... :? I gotta get me up your way....It's getting too crowded down here....and one of these days
....I'm gonna loose it. :evil:

[TK THE TRUCKER]

The reefer didn't bother me but when I got stuck next to a truck that the air dryer was in need of service and purging 10 times a minute I had a hard time sleeping

[dle]

I had a reefer running on continuous parked in the back pretty much by myself. Went to bed, but woke to the thunderous sound of silence when some nerd came over and switched off the unit. There was nobody parked within 3 spots either side of me when I parked. When I got rudely woken there were no open spots around me.

Turned it back on, stayed up for a bit to see if it would happen again. Sure did. The DA and I had some words.

[mudawg]

Why is it reefer haulers can come into a truck stop that is near empty except for one flat bed way out by itself and that is where they feel they ought to park????
Never do you see a reefer park next to another one,it's always next to some poor soul that does not have his motor racing and wants to leave his windows open on a nice day to get some shut eye and here comes bottom dollar driver that has to go out of his way to park right next to him.
The worst thing that could happen is have reefer with a rigmaster park right next to you on a nice day.Or if not a rigmaster a company driver that for some unknown reason has to set his truck idle as high as he can then go into the truck stop to do everything but shower.
A lot of reefer haulers remind me of smokers,they are completly ignorant of thier ignorance.

[geeshock]

I've just gotten to the point none of it bothers me. Even my screaming miene has a hard time getting me up sometimes

[emerlin]

The worst thing that could happen is have reefer with a rigmaster park right next to you on a nice day.Or if not a rigmaster a company driver that for some unknown reason has to set his truck idle as high as he can then go into the truck stop to do everything but shower.
A lot of reefer haulers remind me of smokers,they are completly ignorant of thier ignorance.

Buy some earplugs, Princess.

I've got a reefer and a Rigmaster and I sleep like a baby!

[TK THE TRUCKER]

As far as I'm concerned getting stuck next to a reefer is simply part of trucking. It's just the way it is. If someone doesn't like it oh well. There's many other things to deal with on a daily basis. If you have to park next to a reefer just nose it in so the reefer drivers can watch you spend 30 minutes the next morning trying to back out of a spot after trucks have filled up the lot overnight

[COLT]

I assure you L.N. it was'nt one of my guys Our b train skiners are the best in the biz :!: You must be seeing our guys all the time, I e.mailed you a pic of my b train 27/2/ 07/ member? And you see me at your spot all the time Our guys where having problems from the Baufort sea down to Klondike corner, very steep, very icy... They could'nt run hills etc. They could'nt load heavy on drives cause the load was frezing before Whitehorse scales... You know exactly what my truck looks like... Silly girl ( I think she has left for her trip already, I'm pulling a diferent trailer tomorow, he he ) Should I stop and surprise her ?

[silvan]

I had a reefer running on continuous parked in the back pretty much by myself. Went to bed, but woke to the thunderous sound of silence when some nerd came over and switched off the unit.

HEY!!! That was NOT a nerd. I am a nerd. That guy was an *******. He's lucky he didn't get killed. You NEVER screw with another driver's truck if you don't want to wind up dead.