Climate Express

They mean only set your tractor brakes!!!!

Leave the trailer brakes released.

Unless you’re on a pretty steep incline the tractor brakes will hold. It’s mainly for when your running in wet road spray the brake shoes on the trailer will freeze to the drums when you set them.

 

I get that. But that doesn't answer my question. How do we bypass the auto shutdown so it'll idle thru the night without setting the trailer brakes and releasing the tractor brakes?

 

Oh sorry, I can’t help you with that. You asked about your brake shoes freezing. They should have a sensor on there trucks that will allow it to idle under a certain temp. If you’re talking single digit temps, it should idle.

 

Finally got my phone to work where I'm at an managed to get ahold of the shop. They said the truck should idle on its own if it's reading 18 degrees or below...I'm reading 15 degrees and it keeps shutting down. Lovely. Guess I'm chocking my wheels til I either get out if this crap or get back to the yard :/

 

Talk to the shop. They will change the setting in the computer that turns off the auto shut down. Till then carry wheel chocks. Other method is ya can use slight pressure on brakes while moving in an out of a parking spot for a bit to dry brakes off. Then sit for awhile to let the brakes cool off before setting them.

 

The computer will not distinguish between temps to decide not to shut down. They have to change the setting in the computer. Besides that if your apu is working fine then there should be no reason to need to idle in single digits. As long as you have additive in to prevent fuel gelling you should be good. Apu will keep the block at 60 degrees and keep batteries charged up.

 

APU should be good down to pretty low temps for a basic 10 hour break. At least for comfort reasons. I know on an international I used to drive with the same carrier APU, the idle shutdown would turn off below 15 and above 90ish and APU was good down to 0 or so as far as comfort. Even kept things bearable on a -10 night in Gillette.

As far as setting your trailer breaks, just dry em off and drag your brakes, like Professor said.

Better to be safe than sorry, but don't lose sleep over it if you treat the fuel. Think of all the day cabs sitting around the upper Midwest, Colorado, etc. every night and over the weekends.

With that being said, don't forget about the reefer. A truck can be unthawed, but a milk load with a temp recorder can't