Comment by close04
1 day ago
> Yep, grab a sleeping bag or take your clothes off and use evaporation cooling on yourself.
Talking about driver education, refrigerated trucks never get to turn off the engine until they unload the cargo. So it's not always for comfort.
> if you can readily stop somewhere for a safe place to sleep
That's the missing infrastructure. Drivers pull over to sleep when they hit their daily driving limit and in Europe most of the places to pull over are plain old parking lots maybe with some services like a gas station. Motels are relatively uncommon. I think losing some of the driving day and paying for a motel more than make up for the benefit of a lighter cab.
Talking about driver education, refrigerated trucks never get to turn off the engine until they unload the cargo.
The refrigeration unit often runs on a separate unit powered by its own engine, not the engine powering the truck. Don’t get excited just yet, as those engines do not run clean. They do use less fuel than the truck’s engine, though.