Securing personal appliances inside truck.

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  1. spark528

    spark528 Bobtail Member

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    New driver here, doing teams and we have recently purchased a microwave and refrigerator for our truck so we don't have to constantly eat out.

    My question is, seeing how at times while driving you can be tossed around a bit depending on the speed you're driving and how rough the roads are, is there a way to secure the appliances so that they aren't thrown around or into the air on these occasions?

    And if so, how should we go about doing so?
     
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  3. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    Ur cabinets should have a velcro strap or something similar. If not , ask a flatbedder if u could have a bungee and see wat u could put together
     
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  4. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    Harbor freight. 4 pack of ratchet straps for $13.
     
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  5. D.Tibbitt

    D.Tibbitt Road Train Member

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    Where do u hook it to
     
  6. ZVar

    ZVar Road Train Member

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    Whatever works. Brackets, braces, holes for wire runs, back of the seat platform, bed platform, etc.
     
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  7. zaroba

    zaroba Heavy Load Member

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    Most trucks will have a small cabinet spot with an attached and very flimsy, hardly useful strap to hold a microwave. All I've driven also had a removable bar that went across the front so the microwave couldn't even fall out without the strap.

    As for a refrigerator, do you have an unused top bunk?
    Great place for storage if you remove the mattress.

    Chest freezer, not a fridge, but to give an example
    For a fridge, could use a ratchet strap over the top and around the bunk with the ends hooked to each other. A bungie cord around it to keep the door closed.
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  8. Jenn72

    Jenn72 Medium Load Member

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    When I had my Volvo (2015) I removed my bottom cabinet doors behind the drivers seat. Fridge fit perfectly. Behind the passenger seat I removed the doors where the clothes rod is. My 1.7 fridge (used as a freezer) went there and I used industrial velco on top of the fridge to hold my microwave on top. It worked perfect.

    In my 2020 freightliner. My 1.7 fridge sits on top of the fridge that came with my truck. It fit in perfect no wiggle room. Microwave on the shelf above the mini fridge. I use a ratchet strap to hold it. My top bunk was to short for my old fridge.

    I do have the plastic storage bins on my top bunk. I use bungee cords to keep them in place.
     
  9. x1Heavy

    x1Heavy Road Train Member

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    We used small ratchet straps to hold our TV in place. It had not escaped yet. The thing would last another 20 years before finally failing mechanically.

    We used 4 green tote bins with snap lids that flap on the ends. Upper bunk they went along with a one inch rope through all of them by the handles and over the tops. We were a team truck then and carried a awful lot of stuff up there. If we were stopped together somewhere for a while like a day, then it's no problem setting down the totes and one of us getting up there to sleep well. Otherwise it's a hotel room. (Ugh...)

    The one thing I have always done inside a tractor is that everything is stowed. So no matter what that tractor does on bad roads, bad bridges or off road with catching air time etc everything stays put. Ive had too many cabover contents explode and spill out the windows on some of the harder smashes. The trash talking and teasing on the radio had to be remembered.
     
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