One of my fellow drivers as started leaving his night heater on all weekend . Saying keeps cab warm. Ready for Monday morning . And he can’t be bothered working out how to set the timer.
Is this safe . Will the heater cope being left on so long?
I think it’s a bad idea if honest.
The worst part of that idea is telling other people that you do it.
I parked next to his truck last Fri night heard heater running.
Saw him mon morning said you left your heater on all weekend. He said I know I leave it on keeps cab warm saves me trying to set the timer
It won’t do it any harm but if he is too stupid to figure out how the timer works maybe he shouldn’t be behind the wheel
Until one Monday on an early start and Click as the battery is flat
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Drempels:
The worst part of that idea is telling other people that you do it.
Ffs, it’s great to know that no matter what, there are always folk worse off than yourself.
Known plenty,do the same.
No problem.
edd1974:
One of my fellow drivers as started leaving his night heater on all weekend . Saying keeps cab warm. Ready for Monday morning .And he can’t be bothered working out how to set the timer.
Is this safe . Will the heater cope being left on so long?
I think it’s a bad idea if honest.
Easy reply ------
Show him how to set the timer, problem solved
^^^ indeed.
Go on then anyone clever enough, if you drive an MAN tell us exactly how to set the heater timer, anyone?
I’ve worked with lots of blokes who’s idea was the night heater went on in Nov and got switched off in March.
I don’t do that myself but what’s the issue, it uses a couple of pints of fuel over a cold weekend?, which will pale into insignificance when the planners send numerous vehicles criss crossing each other on often completely wasted journeys, and all the incompetence from the admin/suits, costing £hundreds+ every single week.
westermant:
It won’t do it any harm but if he is too stupid to figure out how the timer works maybe he shouldn’t be behind the wheel
Too stupid to figure it out or too up himself to ask another driver or someone from the workshop for advice or to show him how.
I think the obvious answer to this is RTFM
eagerbeaver:
Drempels:
The worst part of that idea is telling other people that you do it.
Fair point
A good set of batteries should cope with that ok. But wouldn’t a deep (admittedly not total) discharge every weekend shorten the life of the batteries?
If I was an owner-driver I wouldn’t be doing that, so won’t do that to a company’s truck either.
Can’t see any fire risk however. If there was a real chance t’internet would be littered with photos of bonfires.
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If it concerns the op, that much, do what any self respecting modern logistics attendee would do go and tell a pointy shoes manager who can escalate the issue,to technical who can then CCC hr in and see if attendee in question could face a disaplanary hearing. Then the op will feel better because he can get a better run.
Drempels:
The worst part of that idea is telling other people that you do it.
The 1st rule of nightheater club …
I generally set mine to come on an hour before I start on a Monday morning (as Juddian alluded to it’s overly complex in an MAN) but a couple of weeks ago I put it on manually as I did my Friday “housework” and forgot to turn it off. I wandered in on Monday wondering why it was the only dry truck in the line up! 28 degrees will do that. Fired up no problem tbh.
Most 5kw diesel buring heaters burn 0.3 to 0.5 litres per hour at full chat.
A properly functioning night heater shouldn’t flatten the batteries. They shouldn’t ‘fire’ up unless there is a good reserve of power left in the batteries.
Takes my night heater about ten minutes to get the cab reasonably warm on a frosty Monday morning; which is long enough to do your walk round check after you’ve put your card in and switched the heater on.
Don’t see the need to leave it on all weekend, that’s just sheer laziness.
Sidevalve:
Takes my night heater about ten minutes to get the cab reasonably warm on a frosty Monday morning; which is long enough to do your walk round check after you’ve put your card in and switched the heater on.Don’t see the need to leave it on all weekend, that’s just sheer laziness.
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