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As far as how much they'll cost if mandated......how much did a fancy TV cost when it first came out and only a few people bought it? How much do they cost now that there's a market for a billion of them and the Japanese, Mongoleans, and Nordic Fisherman are making them? I think it's the truck manufacturers themselves and the regulators who make the artificially high prices. This is a portable heatpump we're talking about. We're not gonna shoot it into space.

A driver above showed how you can do it yourself for $700.
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Was talking with my brother about the huge demand that I feel is coming for APU's. He has a shop that builds custom trailer conversions and used to build sleepers too. He said one of the major APU manufacturers offered him a dealership and his profit would be about $2500 per unit, including installation.
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I think if the APU market was going to go great big guns it already would have.

As it is the companies are being jerks to their drivers and not buying. The market is coming from mainly small fleets and O/Os that have the spare coin to buy one. The rest are just struggling to get buy.
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I agree with you in theory. It is expensive up front, it is not causing discomfort or money to fleet owners, so they have little to no motivation to buy them.

I just think that the states and maybe feds are going to provide the motivation by mandating sweeping no idle laws to reduce emissions, noise and fuel consumption. For example, here in Florida there will be no idling for more than 5 minutes (I think its 5 min) allowed after Sept 30th 2008. The states that already have idling laws are setting the standards for things to come.

What are drivers gonna do, sweat/freeze to death in their sleepers? What will happen to the industry if drivers are treated even worse than they are already? Without decent rest they accident rate will go up, then insurance... Eventually companies will see the benefit of the added upfront cost in lower fuel consumption and insurance rates. Just my 2 cents worth... I'm done opining.
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I understand that but for the price someone pays for these APU's you ought to be able to freeze a side of beef in the cab...LOL

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There you go. Where's the space heater? I know an old-timer who heated his rig and plugged in his block heater with a small generator. Cost him about $100.
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Yeah, I got a friend who mounted a dsl generator on his frame and put a small A/C unit where the window usta be in the back wall of his sleeper. It works, but he has to replace the A/C unit about every 6 months or so due to harmonic viberations causing it to quit working? They're not made to take the abuse of trucking. I don't know why he doesn't buy a roof mounted unit built for RV's... I think its the up front cost - he pays about 100 bucks for the little units, but its a pain in the a*# to change, we pulled his headache rack to change it the other day.
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