2013 Cascadia

You're lucky to even have a truck that idles. Pumpkin patch drivers have to put window screens in.

"Do what thou wilt."

 

Yeah the effects of the company budget sequestration are kicking in. I suppose Fuel Economy and the new management team only looked at saving $10k per unit by not purchasing APUs. They didn't think far enough into the equation that the driver still needs to be able to sleep comfortably at night. I remember when I had my first Prostar with ICON. It would idle non-stop no matter how you set it. I'd have to physically turn the truck off to get it to stop. They were up my rear about idle time then. I even remember somebody telling me that I should just leave the windows open at night unless it just got too hot to bear. The boneheads that suggest things like that don't take into consideration all the riff raff that walks around in truck stops at night. Yeah I'd sleep a lot better if my windows were open. Lol! Then you get to hear the reefer units, honking, the guys who MUST use high jake coming through the parking lot, and the guy with the long hood Pete with 10" stacks thats at high idle all night next to you. Great idea!

Its not surprising. I had a major hub failure on my trailer yesterday which caused an overnight stop in Colbert, OK for repairs. Two studs broke leading to vibration which broke several others and I almost lost a wheel. Mechanic explained to Breakdown 2 days in a row that in his opinion, the studs were corroded and old and that they were likely to have failed due to heat making the metal brittle. The heat was determined to be caused by a brake pad that applied on the bottom of the drum on only that axle on one side due to a spring failure. Yet Breakdown asked 9 million questions about any stretch of the imagination possibility that the driver could have been at fault. They wanted to know if there was any way that I had left loose lug nuts, if I had run without hub oil (which was full BTW), etc. Not too mention I picked this trailer up at Van Buren after it had been through the "DOT Safety Inspection lane."

I can see that I'm going to end up having interesting conversations with management types if they feel they are going to enact cost savings solely upon the drivers.

 

Go to TA and buy window screens.

"Do what thou wilt."

 

Hey Thomas:
You know what is bad about that? I hate to see them starting that. Schneider started that. They put sensors on the trucks. They won't idle between 20 degrees and 70 degrees. I don't know about you but 20 is a little cold. I didn't think USA would start that. That really bumms me out. Also there was a little bunk heater for the winter. After about 4 hours the cabin batteries go out. Then you can't idle the truck to charge them. Suction is applied.

 

i think everyone got a call, my fm called me about my fuel econ. i got a 2010 cascadia, and im only at 8% idle from when my apu went out. Per joe from fuel econ. There are doing a study on fuel optimize, from what i was told today, from where they buy fuel from etc. It's why they started wanting to know how much fuel we have before we start are runs now. i have had 30%+ on over idle when my apu was out to keep warm this past winter, never got a call about it.

 

Not true we can't idle between 20-70 not to bad to deal with.

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"Do what thou wilt."

 

Yea, go with it. They also don't have any inverters to handle any creature comforts. Stuck in the truck twiddling the thumbs.