Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Okay. I'm in a 2021 Freightliner with what sounds like the exact same issue. I have a lead on a solution that seems to match the behavior I have seen.

Would you mind keeping track of your Opti-Idle failures and see if you see proper function on days when you barely idle? I have been told by another forum member here that HIS newer Freightliners have a setting for max time per 24 hours that his trucks can idle.

There seem to be some exceptions to Opti-idle shutdowns. My truck will stay running opti-idle or not, if the temperature is over 95 outdoors, for example.

However, in the last couple weeks, I have been running a whole lot of short runs and shags, meaning lots of idle time. Every single night my Opti-idle has failed to start after the first cooling cycle.

However, my Opti-idle worked just fine when I had a couple back-to back 1000+ mile loads, and barely idled at all for three days.

If there is a max idle per 24 hours limit set in the system, Crete either doesn't know about it, or they are pretending they don't know about it. Either is plausible, I've reached out to both Safety, my Terminal, and some others in the company about the possibility of this flag existing, so I'm collecting more data, and I might go talk to a freightliner dealership on home time.

If we can verify that an idle time limiting setting in the software is responsible for preventing Opti-Idle from working properly, I think we might just wake the beast over at Safety. I doubt seriously that they will appreciate a setting in the software that interferes with drivers being able to get quality rest.

 

I’m eyeing the Galvanz myself, several drivers swear by it and you can airfry as well with it.

 

This is what they are looking for - a change in GPS coordinates while on lines 1 or 2. I am less than 100 feet from where I went off duty.

 

I haven’t logged into the admin side of sleep Truckin for a while but I don’t recall seeing gps coordinates before. I’ll have to poke around later and see what I find.

 

Lol I once left a reefer when I was with Magnum parked in the Coon Rapids yard with beer pouring out of the rear drain holes. Of course it had a bolt seal on it. Good luck my friend

 

It's Platform Science- it's pretty darn accurate. Now the polling data that we use to track the truck, not so much. I don't understand why there is a difference, but it's there.

Regardless of GPS accuracy, when you see an ignition sequence followed by a change in gps coordinates, it's all the officer needs to write the ticket. It's then up to the driver to prove his innocence.