Anti Idle Advice

I spent 3500.00 of my money to keep their trucks from idling & the mechanics were glad to install the unit. I change trucks, the unit goes with me. 3 trucks before I had my own truck. A/C Heat, electric. 1.3 gallons per 8 hours. Monkeys live in trees, I live in a truck. Changes have to be made, behavior has to modified. Don't have to live like a caveman. 2.5 years I made payments for the unit. To each their own.

 

What did you buy? Is it easy to change from truck to truck?

 

Kohler, with a heat exchanger, 4500 with fridge unit. Under bunk. Existing holes in the sleeper. This was 15 years ago. Still works. Hang on the frame, plumb it, feed it. I changed the oil, had all maintain for my wife & me. They must drill a hole in a diesel tank. Take it out of my pay, I'm not an animal. It's pretty quiet, and a value to your employer. 32.6 days of diesel is a figure they like. 4.00 a night is cheaper than a motel.

 

Its all about revenue.Troopers should stay out of our territory.Noone at trk stops care that we idle.

 

I care when it's 55 degrees outside and some ###### parks next to me so now I can't sleep because his fan is kicking in every three minutes or the pos won't fix that air leak so the dryer spits every 45 seconds.

this is just yet one more example of how truck drivers are their own worst enemy. these laws are here because too many drivers would idle the truck no matter what the outside temperature was.

 

Connecticut is rabidly anti idle. Watch out...all the cops from state to 2 car locals will hang you for it. I heard somewhere that the fine for the first offense in the city of Hartford can be $25,000. Don't like it or can't help idling? Don't stop here. Its a small state and its neighbors are somewhat more lenient (in practise if not on paper).

I'm in CT now actually. And yes, someone in here is idling. I expect a LEO will arrive at some point in the not too distant future.

 

ask the officer why he's idling his car, he's wasting gas, which costs more than diesel, and is harder on a gas engine than a diesel engine. Remind him you're a taxpayer and don't appreciate him wasting your tax dollars

 

Emergency vehicles are exempt. I would hate to need an officer, and his car not start, or the ambulance has a dead battery

 

You are correct...I was wrong...16000 was the correct number

 

Not to side track the thread, but that happened to me. I had imminent kidney failure, I was in a small town, and the only ambulance had a dead battery. It took an extra 2 hours waiting for a guy to show up with a new battery and get me on the way to the hospital.