Truck With No APU

Hi,

Turns out Western Express’s trucks don’t even have APU’s, so what does this mean for me? If I idle the truck at night won’t I still be able to hook up all my gadgets and run the AC? If I’m not mistaken the only difference between a truck with an APU and one without is you can kill the truck, but the APU will turn on and you can do all I mentioned above.

Best regards, John

 

Correct but what's Western's policy about idling and do you have a fuel mileage bonus?
Some companies will penalize you for idling long periods and some trucks will shut down after a period of idling.

 

Hmm that’s just what I was wondering myself; all I know is I’m not sleeping without the AC on, need it feeling like the next Ice Age up in my truck

 

While not familiar with Western Express’s idling policy, I’m sure you aren’t going to like it.

 

They idle their trucks constantly around here.

 

You can run whatever with the truck idling. There are some areas with no-idling laws and some facilities that don't allow idling either. I find it's always better to pretend you don't see the signs and wait until you are told you have to switch off the engine.

 

They could also have outside temperature limits. Like you can only idle truck when it above 78F or below 40F. They can use the trucks thermostat that reads the outside temperature. Not many companies just idle the truck all weekend or 34 hours reset.

My truck has an electric APU. It has 8 batteries to power a electric a/c in sleeper and it had diesel fired heater for winter. Then the computers will start the engine to recharge the batteries when needed.

 

Thanks for the responses everyone; can I buy a dang generator or something for myself and use it if I’m not allowed to idle?

 

yeah, you can buy a generator, then an a/c, then several "jerry cans" for the gasoline.

try finding places to store all that crap.

idle the darned thing,
"driver comfort" is allowed in (if i recall) all lower 48 states.

and if not, and W/E has some sort of anti-idling policy?

do it......all the same.

 

Yeah I like the “F that sheet” policy as well