idleaire to return from dead as something else!!!

Happened to me twice, sir. Once in Dallas, at the TA on the south side of town, and in Bloomington, IL. Most of the time they don't bother you, but it HAPPENED, and I'm sure someone else has had it happen to them and will chime in as well.

 

Oh BLAH BLAH. What happened, where you one of the one or two trucks in the truckstop on any given night that actually used it?

 

the TA in harrisburg, PA i pulling into an idleaire spot and the attendant came up to my truck wanting to hook it up to the window told him i wasnt going to use it and he said i couldnt park there but there were no other "regular" spots available asked him where i was supposed to park and he just said again not here

 

also the TA in London, oh told me that i couldnt park in an idleaire spot if i was going to idle my truck lol it was december i was going to idle and it was like 2am so i wasnt going anywhere else

 

Well, the guy who purchased Idleaire really ought to look at the SEC filings that were filed when they were trying to go public. The numbers speak for themselves. Idleaire was NEVER profitable since its inception in June of 2000. Idleaire only averaged about a 25 percent utilization rate on an annual basis.

If the banks (secured bondholders) couldn't make it profitable and the original owners with all of their federal subsidies, private stockholder funds and massive loans that weren't paid off couldn't make it profitable, how exactly is he going to make it profitable? The math doesn't compute.

The one thing I suppose he could do is provide a simple electrical outlet like Shorepower does for all of the APU owners who simply want to plug in their units to save on their engine hours. I believe Shorepower was wanting to charge 50 or 75 cents per hour for this service, depending on location. That would be one way to significantly improve the system.

But as far as the overblown all-or-nothing system that is in place now, I just don't see it turning a profit. I'm sorry.

 

why didnt you just hook it up? they have no way to know if youre using it or not....

 

I was once told at the Gary, TA i had to leave an idle aire spot. I just wanted to run in and get my fuel ticket and most of the other idle aire spots were open, and that ta does not have room to pull up at the fuel island and they were very busy and i wanted to let the driver behind me use the pump.

So it DID happen. Interesting.

 

You have to purchase a window adapter to hook it up.

 

I thought those were free? Can't cost too much anyhow.

One time i had a crst company truck and found one under the bed. Wish i woulda kept it LOL

 

Mine was $7.00...Cheap!