Go ahead and leave. It gets no better, trust me. No inverters over 300 watt.
"Do what thou wilt."
2013 Cascadia
Discussion in 'USA Truck' started by Thomas0810, Mar 14, 2013.
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It does idle continuously when the temp is below 50 or above 70, no icon, has inverters just like all our other trucks
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I'm patient. Ill wait and see. I'm happy right now but time will tell.
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If the stats are still the same as they were year back:
Idling = 1 gallon per hour
APU = 1 gallon per 10 hours
Another reason for this is, maybe they haven't ordered any new or manufactured APUs yet since they install the APU in house. They may be testing it out and if it doesn't work out they may or maynot install APUs in the new trucks. -
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that's what they told me too when they issued this truck to me also,just don't like the phone calls about idle time percentage when the truck is only being idled at the temps they set it to idle too lol So far I am only averaging 6mpg in this truck also has 9000 miles on it hopefully improves soon
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The APU maintenance issue is pretty simple to fix. At Averitt we have APU's on our trucks. Most of our service centers have one guy who knows the basics of how to maintain and repair them. If he can't fix it they run us through our Nashville service center and they have a shop that knows them very well and gets them fixed. When we start to idle all night because the APU is down we get routed to Nashville pronto. The savings are so worth it and the driver comfort they provide along with the Inverter for creature comforts would do much for USA's driver retention in my opinion. Talked to a USA driver on Friday who was planning on parking his truck in Atlanta and telling Van Buren where to find it. Said he'd been trying to get home to Tampa for over four weeks and they kept routing him away from Florida. He was fed up. Said he was gonna catch a bus home. I tried to talk him out of abandoning the truck but he had his mind made up.
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