Schneider idle policy

We have new Qualcomm systems, you don't want to unplug anything now. That worked back when we had the SatNav systems, the newer models will most likely rat you out if you tamper with them. And as for what happens when you idle a lot, it depends on your DBL. I had over 45% idle over this summer and didn't hear a peep. Some people get the soup nazi calling them and yelling no bonus for you! But I've yet to actually see someone get punished passed a griping by someone sitting in their airconditioned office.

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SNI has officially gotten rediculous with their idle requirements. They installed "ambient temperature sensors" on all company trucks, so that if it is between 10 degrees and 70 degrees, your truck will not idle.

So recently I was down in Hotlanta at the OC trying to finish out my 10 one afternoon. The heat in my truck had woke me out of a dead sleep earlier that day, so I started idling with the AC cranked and went back to bed. I got a knock on the door a few hours later from an extremely rude OSR demanding that I shut my truck off and threatening to call my DBL. According to the National Weather Service (not my truck's outside temp indicator) it was 77 degrees outside. So what's the deal? Are we not allowed to idle at all now?

 

Why didn't you just open some windows?..turn on a fan or two?
77 degrees is not hot

I don't blame Schneider for not wanting you to idle.
It costs them about $3/hr for you idle....and at 77 degrees, it's far from necessary.

I don't idle unless I'm trying to sleep in Phoenix during the summer or something...where it's 90 degrees plus, at midnight, or in severe cold to keep my fuel/engine from freezing up.

I wish truckers would stop idling so much period. Too many idle for no good reason. I always try to shut down as far away as possible from other drivers because of all the noise idling engines make ( and reefers).

Ya know, you can just about get a cheap hotel room for the night for the same amount of money spent on fuel..idling.

 

"We are so Proud of you". He was in policy parameters. Your thumpin shouldn't even be heard at this point. Not everyone sleeps well at the same temperature. "You must be one of those Pumpkin Narcs". You probably reported him. What a jerk.

 

note, he said "finish his ten one AFTERNOON"!!!!!
I was in Michigan a few months ago. 45 degrees outside. Had to open the windows a bit and the vents due to the warmth the sun was putting on the truck in the afternoon. Wasnt comfortable to sleep. Add in humidity with higher temps?? No contest.

 

Oh good God, get over yourself.

 

lol...sure, and you are next on my radar, watch out !

Idling at 77 degrees is ignorant and wasteful.
I'm no narc...just a company driver who is sick of listening to people idling all the time for BS reasons.

77 degrees is a nice spring day...that loud, stinky engine ruins it for us folks trying to relax in peace and quit

To me...the real jerk is the guy making all that noise, pollution, and waste!

 

It's guys like this guy...wasting fuel for no good reason...who make it necessary for the rest of us more reasonable folks to have all these rules.

Open some windows, buy a fan, park out of the sun...park with you trailer blocking the sun, trip plan to sleep at night....there are lots of options.


I don't blame the guy for waking you up and telling you to turn that engine off.
I feel like doing that to drivers 20x a day.
Turn that #### engine off!!
It's loud, stinky, and expensive!

$3 /hr is about what it costs to idle...Schneider as thousands of trucks, do that math...that's millions of wasted dollars.
I would rather see those dollars in my paycheck!!

The more money Schneider makes, the more I help them make it...the more likely some of those dollars will find their way into my paycheck.

 

"Heads Up Everybody". Her is your next corporate "BL".

 

That is no joke. It' a bit painful to read. By the way 68 degrees and idling.