How to stay cool/Warm when you cannot idle the truck???

my companies idle policy is 30%. If they want that they'll keep the truck moving. If they want me to sit around, I'll sit around and idle. I'm going to be comfortable. I turn the heat down when I sleep, I can't lay under my blankie for 26 hours and I don't feel like standing in the truckstop.

 

we have an idle policy at work as well, and lets just say, if they see you (mgmnt) they tell you to cut the motor and then walk away and go about thier business. its a freaking joke, the DOT man is not looking for idling trucks. At least not yet
I was just reading the CDTOA and it looks like they just extended the new smog stuff for O/O with 3 trucks or less until 2013.
unless I read it wrong thats good for us in california

 

run 'er you are the one stuck in there. I'm lucky enough to have a sensible boss and I'm home every night I was talking about plugging the truck in at night and he said he would rather me leave it running all night even when I am sleeping in my own bed than start it on a really cold morning, than again this isn't the norm he also freaked when he found out the truck would only go 60mph she is set at 99mph now (that's as fast as the mechanic could set it)

 

60 mph now thats hauling ###
so whats up with 99 mphsetting and only doing 60?

 

I don't do 60! when we got the truck it was set at 60

 

In the summertime, whenever I can, I keep the truck moving until the sun goes down. If I'm on a load where I can pick my own hours, I'll wait until at least 9am before I hit the road in the morning, and keep the thing rolling until 9pm or later. This don't work on the hottest days, but most of the time it will.

 

Are you O/O - L/O or are you a company driver?

 

If the company doesn't want you to idle when the temp outside is uncomfortable, they better provide you with an alternative. An apu, IdleAire, something. If not, find a new company.

 

yeah dudes, seriously. There are a lot of BS things going on in trucking that no one can do anything about. Obviously no one is going to strike, there is little we can do to increase wages, but flat out INHUMANE treatments such as this is one small thing you can refuse to deal with.

Others may flood in to take lower paying positions, but everyone should be able to agree on this and not put up with it, newb or not. I've not driven a single day for a company yet as a recent graduate, but I'm already pissed off about this.

 

I don't get this. Guys ask me all the time about idling. If it's cold I say idle all #### day. It comes down to using your #### head. What do they want you to do-freeze to death. On the flip side you have to stay cool in the summer time. I hear about these states with idle laws, but what about the reefer unit, summer time those things run all day long, they want to outlaw them as well. I don't see how any officer could enforce this. Yes I'm a officer, yes my vehicle idles each day for a long period of time. On a stop, on a call, I guess the idle police will be after me next. I guess the tree huggers got that law passed, it just seems foolish to me.