Hey folks , please do not fail to leave us " shifters " out either . We suffer brutally in the heat as we are practically sitting on the engine in our "yard birds /yard mules / goats and whatever they are called across the country " , but I can assure any of you that while we in the "shifting " classification are not "in and out" any where near as to what a package car driver does , which means we "shifters" are practically trapped in our oven for longer periods of time , in between switches/shifts of trailers. However we are provided with a "defrost mechanism , in the form of a company installed fan, that is deemed adequate and necessary" as governed by the "D.O.T." . Even by D.O.T. standards which says , the vehicle needs a single "defrost mechanism " to be operated on public roads (which means on private roads and YARDS as we call our driving space around our hub in Tennessee at the "White's Creek facility " , that this fan (same as the fan in a package car) is sufficient to defrost the windshield in the event of a rain , inclement weather and also I suppose this same fan can be used to blow more "hot air" at the operator of these vehicles, in which blowing more hot air on an already hot driver is if its going to provide any type of "cooling relief" to the driver/occupant of these yardbirds , as I can assure you , there is no relief . The best relief that we recieve at my location is to find a shady spot , a shady area , maybe behind another trailer , maybe behind a certain area of the hub , at a certain time if the day as of course the shadows cast differently as the day progresses, but the best shady spot at our hub is , none other than actually piling into the hub itself (lol) after all the package cars have left for the day to their daily deliveries. At this point I have already entered the " T.L.D.R =which translates for all of old heads/tech illiterate and such into : =
T = To
L =Long
D = Didn't
R = Read
So , I'm going to wrap my reply up real swift with these "YARDBIRDS/YARDGOATS/YARDMULES " and whatever else they they are called across our great nation !!!