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I just left The Capital S----.This was one of the many reasons. Lies lies lies, I was sitting 3 days on 500mile runs..not by choice and with no layover. If your not driving you are stuck in the truck..if its 100 outside you have to run the truck.
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Well, i work for a company with really ugly gold trucks,only run teams, and have a less than impressive record with drivers.
That said they dropped us from 30% to 15% over night! I told my dispatcher when they said to sleep in buttonwillow CA 104 egrees w/o air that they had to get a hotel they refuesed. I lay there till I had gotten a mild case of heat exhuastion. had co-driver call 911 so this is what the 60 dollars in fuel they saved cost them!

Ride in Ambulance 735$
ER 1239$
Overnight hospital 2391$
2 weeks work comp 873$
Truck setting 4 days 3658$
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Total cost $8896
minus savings of $60
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I was immediatly assigned a truck with a APU
My Idle time is now 0.xx% each week
They still complain but it well under 15%

OH BTW my FM ask weekly for our fleet to be under 10%
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Originally Posted by BoDarville01
First off, i've heard APUs suck. They cost $10,000+ and cost a thousand to just look at one when it breaks down. Really not worth it in the short term. LONG term, if you get units that dont break down, and drivers who know how to take care of them.....i mean come on.....if you have a driver who cant take care of a $100,000 truck, and a new truck they put 30k miles on, looks more like a 300,000 truck, i wouldn't put $10,000 apu on that truck.

Get a good APU with a 3 yr warranty, it pays for itself in 2 yrs, yo still have a year of warranty to profit from it. Even if it does fail after the warranty you profited.
TRI-Pak I love it broke down 2 times in 1 month but both were same issue never fixed right first time!
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Well, i work for a company with really ugly gold trucks,only run teams, and have a less than impressive record with drivers.
That said they dropped us from 30% to 15% over night! I told my dispatcher when they said to sleep in buttonwillow CA 104 egrees w/o air that they had to get a hotel they refuesed. I lay there till I had gotten a mild case of heat exhuastion. had co-driver call 911 so this is what the 60 dollars in fuel they saved cost them!

Ride in Ambulance 735$
ER 1239$
Overnight hospital 2391$
2 weeks work comp 873$
Truck setting 4 days 3658$
____________________________
Total cost $8896
minus savings of $60
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Grand total of loss -$8836


I was immediatly assigned a truck with a APU
My Idle time is now 0.xx% each week
They still complain but it well under 15%

OH BTW my FM ask weekly for our fleet to be under 10%
HAH! That's awesome. I'm wondering though. If an APU is so ridiculously priced, why get one? Wouldn't a small diesel generator drawing off the tanks work just as well? You'd need an electric heating/cooling unit But it'd be worth it to save, what, $9500? Even at double the price you'd still be saving nine grand.
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Where can I get one of these tempa starters?
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You can get a tri-pak put out by Thermo king for 5500 used /rebuilt and installed not bad 8500 new SO I SAY WELL WORTH IT
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You can get a tri-pak put out by Thermo king for 5500 used /rebuilt and installed not bad 8500 new SO I SAY WELL WORTH IT
Is there a way to hook up to a regular generator? Those APUs are sooo expensive right now. I might just wait until the Washington mandates push the price down.
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Is there a way to hook up to a regular generator? Those APUs are sooo expensive right now. I might just wait until the Washington mandates push the price down.

There's always a way to rig something up. RV's have generators too. Bet they don't cost $10k. Come to think of it, that much money will get you a windmill large enough to power most of your house.
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Idle time only adds up when the brakes are set and out of gear . Atlest that is how this one works. I dont know if they all work that way or not.
Thanks for the clarification.
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At Crete our idle time comes off the Qualcomm and includes time spent at stoplights and stop signs. When I first got this truck with an APU I was very obsessive about shutting it off as soon as I stopped, sometimes as I rolled into the space. I could only get my idle time down to 7%. To make matters worse the Qualcomm reads over idle % giving one the impression you are already over the allowed amount but that would only be if the goal was 0%, it is 30% by the way but that does include all of our idle time including anytime the truck is not moving.
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My '07 Volvo I had, did not have Opti-Idle. I did have the Webasto heater though. What do you do when you are making a summer delivery in PHX? Pass out from heat stroke?
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