Why do truckers always idle?

because its cool to run your big motor all day and nite, if your not idling your not one of the cool kids. lol

 

-bad starter, cant shut truck off
-fat driver and 55 degrees is hot.
-skinny driver and 55 degrees is chilly.
-likes to burn up fuel then complain about cheap freight
-hauls good paying freight so has money to burn.
-forgot to shut off
-driver is dead

thats about all i can think of lol

 

Hell if I know...I just have a small fan that makes a lot of noise and point it away from me..drowns everything out and uses little power

 

While I don't like Idling while sleeping, I have also considered Idling when I am near noisy trucks or reefers, or by a road with noisy occasional traffic.
(a car screaming past every 20 minutes can be a lot worse than the constant drone of traffic, and the "white noise" (gray noise?) of the truck Idling helps to prevent the startling shock of noise.)

I nest under warm blankets, so I can stay comfy all right in the 20's all night (though it probably only gets down to the 40s in the heat-soaked Cascadia), though if it is that cold, if I have to get up to pee, I probably will run it for a bit to warm the cab up again lol

When summer rolls back around, I am a lot more likely to run it to stay cool on hot sticky knights, so I can sleep well. But even then, I am going to prefer it off, unless I just can't rest,or need to try to avoid sweating too bad for the next customer!

But a lot of people I know just like to leave it always running.
One guy here told me that he prefers the constant temperature control to the $150/month fuel bonus that requires sub-30 idle %.

To each their own!

On the other hand, I do have the propensity to leave it running when doing paperwork, out of the truck working with trailers, or any other time when I am going to be wanting it running again soon is. I am trying to retrain that, since I do like getting the fuel bonus lol

 

Gallon a hour what type of truck you running the most my truck uses is .6 and that is during summer with the ac full blast. mostly it gets .4 or .5 a hour.

 

Elog told me to idle.

 

I sleep like a baby next to idling trucks. I spend 90% of my week in rest areas opposed to truck stops. Idling trucks or 70+ mph road noise, I'll take the idle anyday even if I don't do it myself. I sleep like crap when I'm home where it's quiet.

 

Cause they are Americans in a free country and can do as they choose?

 

It's none of your business why they idle.
Why do you care,your not paying for the fuel.
And who are you to decide what's good sleeping weather
For the rest of us. Mind your own business.

Tell you what,next time it happens just knock on
Their doors and tell them to shut off the truck
Because you've determined that they
Shouldn't idle their own truck.
See how that works out for you.

We got it hard enough with DOT, and state regulators
Riding are butt for everything under the sun,
Now we got brain washed rookie drivers trying to sell
Us out too.
I'm so glad my time is almost up out here.

 

That's ridiculous. Of course company drivers pay for fuel. And we have to make the truck payment too. We may not directly write the check. But if our trucks don't produce the required revenue, the company folds. Everyone has to cover their costs or the numbers don't work.