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Displace the oxygen? Fill the cab with a couple tubs of liquid nitrogen and close the doors or maybe dry ice. Just let the stuff boil off.
 
cj3a said:
Displace the oxygen? Fill the cab with a couple tubs of liquid nitrogen and close the doors or maybe dry ice. Just let the stuff boil off.
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Dang... You might be on to something....

When I would return home from forign travel... Suitcase stayed in a hot garage for a couple of days. Everything was then washed and suitcase was stored in hot attic. :smokin::smokin::smokin: Even the trunk of the car will work...

IDEA! Electric heated suticase! Plug in and die! :smokin::smokin::smokin::smokin:

French bedbugs can be a real problem... They are different then the local bugs. :smokin::smokin::smokin::smokin:
 
Bifen XTS, kills anything with an exoskeleton. Any chemical that ends in “thrin” is an analog of Bifenthrin.
I put a few drops in the dogs shampoo and it kills the flees, bifen is safe for humans and pets.
 
nahmus said:
Those steam cleaners work well as well. A friend used an Oreck steam cleaner every night for a few weeks along with the Diatomaceous earth.

Worked for her

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This. I had a coworker a few years ago who used to be in pest control. He had fought lots of bed bugs. He said he used those steam cleaners a lot. He also said bed bugs are gaining resistance to the chemicals that are used to kill them. According to him hotels near airports were the worst for bed bugs.

I stayed at one hotel in Boise ID a few years ago and found two well fed bed bugs about an hour after I checked into it. I was not happy, the desk said they'd clean the room for me and I'm, hell no you're putting me in another room. Got home the next evening, stripped down to my underwear outside and everything went in a plastic garbage bag and into the garage for a week at low temps. From there everything went into the washing machine on hot. No bed bugs made it home with me thankfully.

And now I feel itchy all over.:flipoff2:
 
OP, sounds like you need to hire a pest control company that has had experience fighting bed bugs to do your trucks. My coworker said they would down a hotel room for a week or so after treating it. They would also set out traps and if they captured bed bugs after the first treatment they would do it again.
 
DRTDEVL said:
Well, the employment problem has been solved, he just had his third preventable accident in less than a year and failed to report it, so that's done. Now when he gets back here, we will probably have a third truck to quarantine for the nasty little critters.:homer:
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And like I said, hopefully he can get hired by a competitor. Win-win.
 
DRTDEVL said:
Well, the employment problem has been solved, he just had his third preventable accident in less than a year and failed to report it, so that's done. Now when he gets back here, we will probably have a third truck to quarantine for the nasty little critters.:homer:
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His spawns will be employed longer than he was at your company. It's almost like a STD that keeps giving.
 
Gdogg said:
Bifen XTS, kills anything with an exoskeleton. Any chemical that ends in “thrin” is an analog of Bifenthrin.
I put a few drops in the dogs shampoo and it kills the flees, bifen is safe for humans and pets.
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Interesting..... I have been using Bifenthrin for the past couple of years. Yeppers the stuff works on controlling desert cockroches. I have been backing it up with an every other month application of "Onslaught" or "Fastcap". I apply very little indoors; mostley around doors and along patio.

Inside bug population is way down. I do see one or two spiders now and then; but they serve as a reminder to re-spray. :smokin::smokin::smokin::smokin:
 
billdacat said:
Interesting..... I have been using Bifenthrin for the past couple of years. Yeppers the stuff works on controlling desert cockroches. I have been backing it up with an every other month application of "Onslaught" or "Fastcap". I apply very little indoors; mostley around doors and along patio.

Inside bug population is way down. I do see one or two spiders now and then; but they serve as a reminder to re-spray. :smokin::smokin::smokin::smokin:
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Yep, it works. Also it’s the strongest chemical you can buy, it’s what the pest control companies use, it’s their little secret.
 

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gunracer1 said:
our paint booths go to 170, that will kill the shit out of them. get a body shop to cook them overnight.
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Most body shops can't fit a semi truck inside. The body shop we use is the next county over.

Its cheaper (and just as effective) to go with my plan of a propane forced-air heater (125,00 btu), a heavy tarp, and a sunny day to bake the fuckers to death... plus nobody wants to drive them to the next county over.:laughing:
 
DRTDEVL said:
Most body shops can't fit a semi truck inside. The body shop we use is the next county over.

Its cheaper (and just as effective) to go with my plan of a propane forced-air heater (125,00 btu), a heavy tarp, and a sunny day to bake the fuckers to death... plus nobody wants to drive them to the next county over.:laughing:
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Use the steam cleaner on any cloth stuff. Especially around folds and seams.
 
Operation BUG BAKE is in full swing!:grinpimp:

Worked just as planned on the first truck. opened left door and baggage door, put the APU on full fan, key to acc, full dash fan on recirc... digital thermometer on the passenger floorboard held 149.5*f for over 2 hours. Well, we think it did, that could be the limit of the thermometer!:laughing:

Back in a moment with pics
 
Roc Doc said:
You better ask for a raise.
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I'm already the 4th highest-paid in the company (only the CEO, COO, and VP make more). I am well compensated for what I do.

I've been in the position officially 50 weeks. Not sure if there is an annual review involved here, but I'd be surprised if there was any more on the table the way the industry is struggling these days. If I want to make more, I'd have to do this for a large fleet based in a big city, like Chicago... but then my cost of living would go through the roof. I could make 50% more there, but how much more would my expenses be? How much money would I lose by having to sell here and buy there, foregoing my sub-4% rate for a 7-8% rate?
 
DRTDEVL said:
I'm already the 4th highest-paid in the company (only the CEO, COO, and VP make more). I am well compensated for what I do.

I've been in the position officially 50 weeks. Not sure if there is an annual review involved here, but I'd be surprised if there was any more on the table the way the industry is struggling these days. If I want to make more, I'd have to do this for a large fleet based in a big city, like Chicago... but then my cost of living would go through the roof. I could make 50% more there, but how much more would my expenses be? How much money would I lose by having to sell here and buy there, foregoing my sub-4% rate for a 7-8% rate?
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I was just saying that it's doubtful exterminator was on your job description.:laughing:
 
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