SAV Express Minneapolis, Mn

Smurf are you guys still fueling at Love's and can fuel at whatever Love's whenever you want to, so no forced fueling solutions?

 

Ours will only idle if you up the rpm to 900. They do not restart the truck only shut off the interior power. I always thought this was strange.

 

I don't understand these two sentences, they seem contradictory to me:

"The new trucks idle unlimited."

"All new trucks have idle free units. Which are powered by separate batteries located under the catwalk. When the batteries run low the unit will start the truck and recharge the system then shut the truck off and resume operation."

Okay so if the truck is idling then the batteries should always be charged, so I don't understand these two sentences? Is this some kind of "opti-idle" thing that the new trucks have (I've never had "opti idle" so I don't know much about it)?

 

Do you guys use Qualcomm? And do you have to follow a certain route or can you route yourself if it's within reason?

And how often are you having to start your work day immediately when your 10 hour break is up? Or are 11-12 hour sleeper births pretty common if you want them?

Do they force you to chain?

And they come with inverters and fridges right?

You said you take 3 days off after 2 weeks. What are the chances I run 4 weeks and get a week off, would the owner go for that (it's basically the same thing as what you're doing I would just stay out longer though)?

 

Did it take you a while to get used to the truck starting and stopping all night with the "idle free unit" where you could eventually sleep through the start/stop cycles?

I've done reefer and dry van before. With a reefer unit if it was running on Start/Stop Mode would sometimes wake me up and sometimes it wouldn't. But that was outside of the truck too so the newer and better units didn't really shake the truck too much (where as the old units would rattle the truck pretty bad upon starting/stopping).