driver2012:
Years ago on local midlands tv was report of driver who died in Spain from fumes from a camping heater he had used.
year I saw that one as all
poor ventalation is the cause
all fires should be ventalated but with gas fumes you cant see the flames or smell them very well unlinke burning coal or diesle
get one of those kitchen bathroom wall ventalation pipes out of said B&G and run it from the fire out of your window
Is it really worth the risk though? just get some socks, a woolly hat, proper blanket (not a fleece one) and a fleet of hot water bottles
I used to work for Montgomerys. The gaffer used to take the night heater control out from the truck. You had to ask for it back if you were on a night out!
I had a breakdown last year (not me personally it was the truck ), the dash was showing -13 before everything stopped working, couldn’t run the engine or night heater, there wasn’t even power to wind the window up, it took them 4 hours to get to me, it got a bit cold in there, I very nearly swapped my shorts for trousers and was close to puttIng a t-shirt over my vest !!
Sorry if this has been asked before . Is it a legal requirement that sleeper cabs are fitted with a night heater? I seem to recall reading something to this effect some time ago but I may be wrong?
Reason for asking: the firm have just contract-hired a brand new 8-leg rigid complete with a seriously large Hiab but there’s no night heater, and as I’ve been given the keys, I’m not overly looking forward to the winter. And before anyone asks, no, I’m not some homosexual southerner who thinks any temperature below 15 degrees is freezing. And neither am I sleeping with the engine running all night, been there, done that
Thanks in advance.
Martyn.
weve been told to defect any trucks where the night heaters arnt working and they will be fixed a.s.a.p,i had one the other day and just swaped motors and im a day shift driver,its the year 2011,not 1911, we dont send kids down coal mines anymore and we dont expect the office bods to sit there frezing there balls off,so why should you,does your boss know theres not one[boss can only rectify situation if hes told theres not one],if hes not prepared to send motor back and get another one,id be leaving,as i say its 2011,not 1911
Some companies here in Canada still dont have night heaters in the trucks and no longer allow you to idle your engine for heat. They think you should get up every two hours and run the engine for 15 minutes…yeah right, obviously that is rigourously ignored by the drivers involved.
Are night heaters a requirement anywhere in Europe? I seem to remember something from years ago regarding Germany and the driver involved either didnt have one, or it was broken and idled the truck, anyway the police came and ordered the truck to be turned off and when they found out the heater didnt work they apparently took him to a nearby hotel and had it charged to his company. I cant remember if that happened to my dad or it was just a rumour I heared. I know back in the good old days when I spent many a holiday in my dad’s Iveco Turbo’s and Turbostars when the night heater packed in the boss would try his best not to have it fixed or replaced…my dad always responded with something alon the lines of “no problem, I’ll just turn the big heater on all night”…strangely the night heater was soon up and running! By the time I came to work for the same company it was not unknown for him to walk around the yard in the morning when he arrived and moan on to any drivers who had the cheek to have had their night heaters clicking away in the middle of winter and how it had cost him X amount of pounds for the night etc…
mcgregors shafter:
your cab is just a metal tin; get some tar-poll sheeting or a market trader sheet and cover the cab out side with it
most of the heat is loset through the glass so if you can get some bubble wrap and card and cover them inside and out side
and one of those camper gas heater put next to the window with the window open
Many years ago my night heater packed in and I happened to have a camping stove with me. I awoke one morning at a truck stop in the north of England freezing my goolies off and lit the stove just to take the chill off… Next thing I knew I was in a hospital recovering from Carbon monoxide poisoning.
robinhood_1984:
I seem to remember something from years ago regarding Germany and the driver involved either didnt have one, or it was broken and idled the truck, anyway the police came and ordered the truck to be turned off and when they found out the heater didnt work they apparently took him to a nearby hotel and had it charged to his company.
robinhood_1984:
I seem to remember something from years ago regarding Germany and the driver involved either didnt have one, or it was broken and idled the truck, anyway the police came and ordered the truck to be turned off and when they found out the heater didnt work they apparently took him to a nearby hotel and had it charged to his company.
Page 24 of the Big Book of Driver’s Myths, unless you have the version with the pictures to colour in when it is on page 48.
As for using a camping stove and discovering carbon monoxide in an enclosed space is basic schoolboy chemistry. I had a gas fridge and wouldnt even use that without the roof vent open
robinhood_1984:
I seem to remember something from years ago regarding Germany and the driver involved either didnt have one, or it was broken and idled the truck, anyway the police came and ordered the truck to be turned off and when they found out the heater didnt work they apparently took him to a nearby hotel and had it charged to his company.
Page 24 of the Big Book of Driver’s Myths, unless you have the version with the pictures to colour in when it is on page 48.
robinhood_1984:
I seem to remember something from years ago regarding Germany and the driver involved either didnt have one, or it was broken and idled the truck, anyway the police came and ordered the truck to be turned off and when they found out the heater didnt work they apparently took him to a nearby hotel and had it charged to his company.
Page 24 of the Big Book of Driver’s Myths, unless you have the version with the pictures to colour in when it is on page 48.
GREAT !!! I can’t believe I’ve only just found out there is a colouring in version !!
robinhood_1984:
I seem to remember something from years ago regarding Germany and the driver involved either didnt have one, or it was broken and idled the truck, anyway the police came and ordered the truck to be turned off and when they found out the heater didnt work they apparently took him to a nearby hotel and had it charged to his company.
Page 24 of the Big Book of Driver’s Myths, unless you have the version with the pictures to colour in when it is on page 48.
GREAT !!! I can’t believe I’ve only just found out there is a colouring in version !!
driver2012:
Years ago on local midlands tv was report of driver who died in Spain from fumes from a camping heater he had used.
year I saw that one as all
poor ventalation is the cause
all fires should be ventalated but with gas fumes you cant see the flames or smell them very well unlinke burning coal or diesle
get one of those kitchen bathroom wall ventalation pipes out of said B&G and run it from the fire out of your window
Is it really worth the risk though? just get some socks, a woolly hat, proper blanket (not a fleece one) and a fleet of hot water bottles
as I said in my prevuis post
corbon minxide detector from B&Q 15 quid
Darb:
I had a breakdown last year (not me personally it was the truck ), the dash was showing -13 before everything stopped working, couldn’t run the engine or night heater, there wasn’t even power to wind the window up, it took them 4 hours to get to me, it got a bit cold in there, I very nearly swapped my shorts for trousers and was close to puttIng a t-shirt over my vest !!
the problem with a night heater is it powered by an electrical fan from the battery to burn the diesel
. Is it a legal requirement that sleeper cabs are fitted with a night heater? I seem to recall reading something to this effect some time ago but I may be wrong?
