Stuck In Victorville

JoAnne

Yes I have the house to myself. At first after he left, I sat in the driver's seat and just thought now what do I do. I knew I was going to do laundry, take a shower and clean. But then what? Anyway, too much thinking. Not that we talk all that much anyway.

Well it sounds like you had a decent night so that's all that matters! =)

Raptor what you described; reefer shutting-off then restarting is normal. If it suddenly revs-up, it’s in defrost mode for a bit.

All you need to-do is make sure it’s maintaining the set temperature and that there are no alarms. The alarms would’ve visible on the monitor screen and if you have a remote running light on the front, driver side cornerpost of the trailer; the color will be something other than white or green, likely amber if an alarm was triggered. If that is the case, perusal of menu options on the monitor will define what the alarm(s) is and how-to reset. If in doubt, call your DL.

I do have a question for Rainy, I think you said you haul refers? Anyway, this last one we picked up is the loudest we've had and it runs and then shuts down then in a little while starts up again. Is this normal?

Woot! A question I can answer! Every reefer has a quirk. Some are quiet, start easily and run smooth as other are super loud, start rough and vibrate like an earthquake.

The frequency of starts and stops along with its running duration have several variables involved. Ambient temperature is one. Temperature setting and the variance is the other. An example, if the temp is set at -10 with a variance of 10 and the ambient temp is -5 the reefer will run very little. Change the variance to 3 and the ambient to 60 or higher it'll run a lot and frequently.

Hope that helps.

Well my mentor said nothing is wrong with it. It is the green and has been since picking it up. It's just loud and restarts up all the time. I'm not concerned about me, it other drivers trying to sleep, that's all.

But I did ask the two drivers that were on either side of me and both said they didn't here a thing. So it must just be me. It's been the same temp since we left.

The reefers have two modes. Continuous mode will keep the reefer running the whole time. Start Stop will turn the reefer on when the temp range gets to the edge of the acceptable range.

Thanks guys. That helps.

JoAnne

Yes I have the house to myself. At first after he left, I sat in the driver's seat and just thought now what do I do. I knew I was going to do laundry, take a shower and clean. But then what? Anyway, too much thinking. Not that we talk all that much anyway.

Robert, this is what I was referring to with the comment about parties. JoAnne’s comment reminded me of parents leaving their teenager home alone, so I said “ and no parties, mister”. :)

Good point Grumpy. I don't think I have parties sin e I quit drinking in '94! So I don't think that will be in the cards.

Anyway we picked up from another driver a 8000 lb.. load in Yermo and brought it to Lancaster, Ca.