Jb hunt idle policy

Myself while i can be conscientious about fuel and idle when it’s needed, my comfort comes first..

 

I am seldom that low.
Drive time ~8 hours, with a 12-14 hour break... do the math.
But I like a leisurely pace.

If you want more miles the solutions are rather simple.
Get a on dedicated account that runs you hard.
Get a driver leader that will actually work at getting you more miles.
Go team driving, as those loads are usually longer with less time wasted.

The thing with Swift is, they will run you as you like, and/or as you are able.

 

Please defer any additional comments until others have spoken. As a person privileged with driving an APU equipped truck, your speech does far more harm to those under severed by idling restrictions than help. While deferring, please use the time in reflection. Thank you.

 

Who cares? if you idling to have better sleep than f it. Tho be respectfull when you on duty. I use to idle the truck nightly, cause my apu would cycle every 5 minutes. They fixed it and never said a thing.

 

What IS that odor I am smelling?

 

I'm with Swift also. Never had any 'problems' with my idle time. A couple times my driver leader has mentioned having higher idle times, but never anything came of it.
I do make a conscious effort not to idle my truck if I don't need to. But, not gonna sacrifice my comfort, especially where sleep is concerned. So, alot simply depends on when and where I'm stopped for my 10. I got a new truck a couple of months ago. A 2022 Volvo VNL760 with 'idle-smart'. I think it works pretty good. I set up the temp I want for my sleeper berth and it turns on and turns off the truck to maintain that temp. Being a reefer driver, I'm already used to having stopping and starting engine noise without it waking me up. So, got used to it pretty quickly.
On my old truck, a 2019 Volvo VNL760, it had the stupid idle shut off which gave me some problems for awhile until I found a way to simply cancel it. Never got called out on it. The idle shut off actually gave me more problems in the cold. My bunk heater was broken for awhile and when it was cold, the truck idling would eventually warm up the area where the temp sensor was, truck would think it too warm to idle and shut the truck off. Half an hour later, it'd start getting cold in my bunk. Once I got my bunk heater fixed, didn't have that problem anymore. But, it was what prompted me to find a way to cancel the idle shut off.

 

You can run the truck if it's hot out. I can't remember the exact temp range but if it's above sixty-something your good. The truck will shut down after a few minutes if the outside temp isn't above the designated number. If it's still running after about 10 minutes, you're good.

 

The notions of well as long as your idle time isn’t too high, and it’s cold/hot enough outside, we will allow you to treated as a human being.
The whole idea pisses me off.

 

But... These trucks that don’t idle, don’t they all have some kind of sleeper climate control that works without the engine running? It’s been years since I drove OTR, but when I did I drove a truck with an APU, which worked great. I could park the truck in -60 or 100 degrees and never had to idle. Other trucks had some sort of auxiliary battery pack for running the sleeper when parked. Later I drove a truck with auto start that would run the engine just enough to keep the batteries charged while you ran the sleeper heat/AC. That seemed fine but I really liked the APU, I always thought every truck on the planet ought to have an APU. So all these trucks today that don’t have one, what do they do? They must have something.

 

Idling also hurts the engine, increases maintenance and repair cost, and significantly shortens engine life span.

Think about the poor budding O/O that's going to purchase your truck some day with 5000 hours of idle time on it.

Think.