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Epes doesn't give us any grief about idling during summer to stay cool. Lease ops have arctic breeze cool units and company can idle all summer nobody says a word about idle times.

outstanding bunk heaters for winter. Down to about zero degrees keeps it toasty enough I can relax in shorts and no shirt. First stretch of cool weather we get the 'cool weather is upon us message' lol that's the cue that they're going to be watching idle times until warm weather gets here again. Long as you stay around 30% or less they don't hassle you.

 

Western Distribution transportation out of Denver, Idle if you must, try and keep it under 18%, over 18% computer will automatically govern down the truck until you fall below the 18%, but if you maintain under 18%, you can idle almost the entire summer months with out loosing you speed, kind of works on the points system, during the cooler months, there really isn't a need to idle, trucks do have bunk heaters so, staying warm isn't a problem

 

I don't.

 

im not sure about idle time but im going to work for prime in jan and as far as i can tell all trucks have apus and im going to be going through their school as a student. just thought i would throw that out there. but for right now i got a powerstroke and only time it gets shut off is if im going to be someplace longer then an hr. unless im staying in it then it just sits there and idles. but most of the time it dont matter what the temp is out side ill just leave it run unless im home or stopped somewhere and im not going to be in the truck for over an hr.

 

Watkins Shepard has idle bonus. If you don't get the bonus, no questions. A few of the older trucks have APU's, lucky driver who gets one.

 

U.S. Xpress is a five minute idle and the newer trucks will still shut off no matter what you do to over ride the idle shutdown. Trucks will idle above 70 and below 28 and they all have bunk heaters.

 

Schneider trucks cut off after five mins and you can't override it there all equipped with bunk heaters some of the newer ones have cooling units and you can idle if it's over 70 or below 10 with out truck shutting off

 

Fraley and Shilling's idle policy is try to keep it under 30%, but don't try to sleep too hot or cold either.

No impossible "fuel bonus" to strive for here. They pay an excellent safety bonus instead.

 

Our daycabs have a 10 minute idle time, blip the throttle to reset it for another 10 minutes. Our sleepers have a 10 minute idle time, blip the throttle and it clears it, will idle till it runs out of fuel, CARB idle trucks. No temp restrictions.

As for temp. restrictions, what might be comfortable for one person, might not be for another. This past Friday, it was 37 deg. out when I was on my way back to Denver, of course the sun was shining brightly thru that greenhouse I call a windshield, as a result, my A/C was on. Sat at Wallyworld today from 8:30 am till 1pm, when I got there the temp was in the upper 20's, all the bobtails were idling, except those with APU's and those were running. I don't care if it's 90 deg. out or 50 deg. out, if I'm too hot in the truck and cannot get comfortable, I'll be idling for comfort. As for heat, I have a sleeping bag rated to -10, I will generally not idle the truck for heat until it's below 15 deg. out, but even that depends on the situation.