Would you work for a company with no APU?
Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by scott180, Sep 17, 2020.
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Bump the idle to ~850 for ac when needed, one nice thing with the upper KW windows is they have screens, idle the truck a half hour before falling asleep to charge the batteries and if I can get by comfortably with a fan I do. I will say one of my favorite things I’ve done to any vehicle i have owned is my espar bunk heater, can be single digits and you can be comfortable in your underwear in the bunk, much colder then that and I’m idling anyways so it doesn’t gel up
apus still burn a decent amount of fuel when on ac, I can do an inframe for the cost of an apu, which will be junk by the time I break even saving a quarter of a gallon of fuel an hour -
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Yeah idling kills these emissions trucks and most mega companies have these trucks running on a turned down eco tune ,low rpm cruising, timed acceleration, 60mph , can't do manual regens so the dpf gets plugged every 200k-250k miles or less ..
The emissions systems (selective catalyst reduction system) are getting more reliable each year though . let's see what comes out next to ruin itLast edited: Sep 20, 2020
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