If they want to succeed...they should only offer heat and air conditioning...and offer it at a price any driver can afford. No need for cable TV, phone jacks, internet and all that other stuff...just heat and air, so we don't have to idle.

Most of us have cell phones, TV's, and internet anyway...all we need is the heat and air to keep us from having to idle.

I'd say $5 would cover 10 hours of heat or air conditioning nicely...I'd be willing to pay it.

Talk about kicking a dead horse. Idleaire went bankrupt because it was a dumb idea to begin with. It lasted as long as it did because of government subsidies. My company put a heater on my truck, it works fine. More and more companies are putting APUs on their trucks, I'm willing to bet in 5 years the APU will be standard equipment on all the new trucks, given that Obama is hell bent on taxing energy and CO2.

i can live without the phones and cable tv. but i need that internet service, because i can't play my playstation 3 online with this wifi service these truckstops offer. so i say heat air and a hardline internet service. as far as price i thought it was reasonable i paid $1.79 a hour as a gold member.

when and if it dose come back they should be waaaayyyyy more strick and keep out the drivers not planning to use the service but take up a spot..maybe some of those medal triangle type sign with chains on them and go back to having the idleaire people move or open up the space with proof of purchase of idleaire time or whatever it's gonna be called next.

i think drivers coming in taking spots and not using the service from drivers who wanted to use the service was part of it's down fall.

IdleAire, which claimed its technology prevented 1.1 billion pounds of emissions from truck-engine idling

I'm sure that statement from idleair impressed alot of the typicaly un-informed sheeple who've zero vested interest in trucking....but what idleair omited is the extra billion someoddwhatever pounds of emissions that came from powerplants to produce that juice.

I have never used idleair services in my life. I never liked the reports (if true and I cant confirm) about them being in cahoots with anti idle laws.

i loved the idleaire service i'm excited to see it's making a come back. my company provided the service and i used idle b4 i join this company. i'll sign up again.

Originally Posted by badman976

i can live without the phones and cable tv. but i need that internet service, because i can't play my playstation 3 online with this wifi service these truckstops offer. so i say heat air and a hardline internet service. as far as price i thought it was reasonable i paid $1.79 a hour as a gold member.

when and if it dose come back they should be waaaayyyyy more strick and keep out the drivers not planning to use the service but take up a spot..maybe some of those medal triangle type sign with chains on them and go back to having the idleaire people move or open up the space with proof of purchase of idleaire time or whatever it's gonna be called next.

i think drivers coming in taking spots and not using the service from drivers who wanted to use the service was part of it's down fall.

With all due respect, you are out of your mind. I suppose it'd be fine with you to have trucks parked along the on-ramps for 12 miles and the truck stops empty with a bunch of unused foot in diameter hoses dangling on the ground.

If I park in an Idleaire spot, trust me, it's because it's my only option. I don't care for parking nose in and backing out. It's unsafe. And there is nothing more infuriating than a flunkee with a yellow vest pulls up in a golf cart and tells me I have to cough up $2 an hour or get the hell out of the truckstop after I just spent $400 at the fuel desk. Before Idleair became a fixture at TA, TA was my preffered truckstop chain. If there was a Pilot and a TA at any given exit, I'd go to TA and buy fuel. I haven't bought a DROP of fuel at a TA in over two years. Why? IdleAire! I refuse to buy fuel at any place that tells me I can't pull my brakes unless I purchase a "service" I don't want or need. The fact that on any given row of Idleaire spots on any given night, only one or two trucks is actually using the service, and the fact that the company has gone bankrupt twice, and the fact that it only came into existence in the first place because of government grants, should tell everyone something. Idleaire is a loser of an idea!

Now get that garbage out of our way so we can park our trucks.

Just give me air. I agree. $5 for the whole night and I'm sold.