How do Schneider drivers stay cool?

Don't believe for one second you can't idle.

I was a Pumpkin for 4 1/2 years. NEVER hit the summer bonus, because my idle was always between 48 and 55%. My DBL gave me the annual "try to keep it down...just do your best" talk, with a glint in her eye. I never idled if I didn't have to, and there were quarters where my idle was below 2%, and they knew that.

You do what you have to do. They got a problem with that? Tough.

BTW...I left just the end of this past January. Don't know how or if any policies have changed. The DBL you have will also have his or her own way of dealing with the idle issue. Good luck.

 

well.

some of the new trucks(like mine) have an idle cooling system on them, which keeps the bunk cool while the truck is not running. I am sitting in Queens, it is 95 out, and I am cool as an ice cube.

You are getting some bad information, you CAN idle your truck, you turn on the cruise while it is idling and the truck will stay running. As far as their idle policy, if it is over, I think 80 or 90 degrees, you can idle all you want and it won't count against you. By count against you I mean for bonus, you have to keep your idle down to a certain percentage to get your bonus.

That being said, I have never heard of a driver being fired for idling to much. It may have happened, but I have never heard of it.

 

I'm idling now, I rarely have to idle at night, but on a day I'm sweltering the trucking is running until someone says otherwise.

 

I believe they only ordered 400-500 of them with it to test it out, mine is a 2012 and I have seen 2013 that don't have it, so I don't know, they should, they work great.

 

You can idle 100% if you really wanted to. But then again, that means you'd have 0 miles a week so that won't work obviously.

The only issue you will ever run into is if you are in states that have anti idling laws, such as PA, NJ, any Walmart facility, etc etc. What I would say is screw the law and idle cause I'm not going to boil over some ridiculous law. But then again, you can get fined so tread lightly I guess. You never know if you're at some truckstop, and some Barney Fife trucker calls the cops on you for against the law idling. I suppose that can happen.

 

Some 2013 tractors have the nite cooling system also.

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I don't know if that's the same thing I have. I have a 2012 columbia and it has some sort of "cooling" system. Seems more like a vent that blows out "mild" air at the same exact speed as the bunk heater. Either way, it's still a sweat fest. Maybe i'll just leave it on all day sometime and see what happens.

 

Espar heater? Thats just a fan only that will run when the truck is shut off. Have the same in my 2010's. At least til the week of the 15th.

Was told by the JCP DBL that have just gotten rid of their 05+06's. One of the questions I'll have is what are now the oldest trucks. As long as it runs decent and hopefully hasnt been smoked in, I'm good. Of course I sat that NOW!!