Like a few others on here my first night heater came with a DAF 2800 in the late seventies although the truck in question was about four or five years old, but the heater mostly worked and at the time gave great bragging rites.
the older control panels were much simpler to use,just a dial with 1 to 6 on it and an on/off switch
to set the one in my actross is like one of those tests they used to have on the krypton factor!
OssieD:
Any body remember the Thermexine heaters you could buy in France really worked a treat and you could do a nice bit of toast on it, no flame but kept the cab nicely warm. My heaters long gone,
But still have the jerry can for the Thermexine.Ossie
had one of these contraptions in a 2800 daf and one night went to bed in the winter up mt cenis i placed the heater on top of the lump in the middle of the dash and the screen got so hot inside and so cold outside i woke up with the screen cracked all over
Middle 80`s and the truck was a DAF 2100. But for the 4 or 5 years prior to that it was two sleeping bags and a woolly hat. I remember clearing at Aachen, Venlo, Basle wherever around Europe and being extremely jealous of all these other trucks parked up with their night heaters whirring away!
There used to be a rumour that if you parked in Germany and the Polizie turned up and found you sitting there with the engine running and no night heater installed then they would impound the truck, ■■■■■■ you to a hotel and you would have to stay there until one was fitted!! I tried so hard, sitting with the engine running, giving it a good rev every half an hour or so but the ZB`s never came around when I was there!! 
I made a nice few quid doing them up for owner drivers 
keith
Reckon it must have been on my then new FL10 lorry and drag car transporter around '92 (K reg anyway), had an old ex Toleman Fiat thing before that with a coffin bolted on behind the cab…that might have had one but if it did the chances are the scabby heap wouldn’t have started next morning so it wouldn’t have been used.
Eberspacher Tornado the Volvo one must have been called, sod me the noise it made could wake the dead.
Had a Webasto in a 3 series Scania, that was bliss in comparison, almost silent.
Don’t do nights out any more thank goodness (unless unforseen circs) so sods law says the one i have now is as quiet as can be.
I can’t remember the first lorry I drove with a night-heater, but when I drove for Breda Transport I was given the DAF pictured below to drive for a week. It had TWO night-heaters because it was assigned to their Minsk depot in Belarus. It also had lagged and heated fuel-lines! Robert
My first night heater was in 1985 in a DAF 3300, before that it was an extra sleeping bag and a candle
Sorry to sound a bit young but I remember my 1st night out without a night heater…
Y reg 2100 daf day cab with a home made fold down bed and a bit of Foam!
Set off to Glasgow around 4.00 pm, load in Bradford, run up and park outside Rowats onion factory at Hillington for a 06.00 tip.
IIRC was late January and bloody freezing. Was the same time I was dropping down half a gear, too quick on the clutch and stalled the engine with the exhaust brake… lost steering and about 2b in weight down my left trouser leg 
Patrick
patrick 68:
…Was the same time I was dropping down half a gear, too quick on the clutch and stalled the engine with the exhaust brake… lost steering and about 2b in weight down my left trouser leg
Gotta love a false neutral, especially coming down the Blanc, Cenis etc! 
Good times!
bullitt:
Middle 80`s and the truck was a DAF 2100. But for the 4 or 5 years prior to that it was two sleeping bags and a woolly hat. I remember clearing at Aachen, Venlo, Basle wherever around Europe and being extremely jealous of all these other trucks parked up with their night heaters whirring away!There used to be a rumour that if you parked in Germany and the Polizie turned up and found you sitting there with the engine running and no night heater installed then they would impound the truck, ■■■■■■ you to a hotel and you would have to stay there until one was fitted!! I tried so hard, sitting with the engine running, giving it a good rev every half an hour or so but the ZB`s never came around when I was there!!
Hi Rick, I remember seeing on a couple of occasions while I had been parked overnight in a West German lay-by, the Police coming around early in the morning and banging on the doors of trucks who didn’t have their night heaters running when the temperature had dropped below zero.
Wasn’t it Bestbooties who once helped the Czech police to pull a frozen driver out of his cab on the motorway just south of Prague. 
My first night heater was in a M.A.N. 16:280 reg no MNC 452W, here she is parked next to The National Hotel in Belgrade.
Regards Steve.
Gday Steve, hows life down under? I always thought that that story was another drivers myth! I know I spent a fair few nights parked up in Germany during the winter months without a night heater. I always ran the engine until I climbed into my two sleeping bags and woolly hat then shut it off. I never had a visit from plod. Sometimes I wished I had as it would have been the only way to get a heater fitted!