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Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by TriPac Dude, Sep 10, 2019.

  1. Sep 10, 2019 #1
    TriPac Dude

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    hi everyone, I’m just curious, but has Melton quit putting Tripac on their trucks? And what does the big white X across the Tripac logo mean? I’m the APU guy, always forever talking about APUs and of course Tripac is #1!
     
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  3. Sep 10, 2019 #2
    INRUT

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    They quit putting APU’s in trucks last year. The big X you saw is an existing APU that’s been disabled.
     
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  4. Sep 11, 2019 #3
    snowwy

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    What's the reasoning for not having them anymore?
     
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  5. Sep 11, 2019 #4
    INRUT

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    Don’t know, I was just a driver, but pretty good guess would be they weren’t cost effective
     
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  7. Sep 11, 2019 #5
    Lepton1

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    I heard from a veteran driver at my company they used to have APU's on all our trucks. The problem is far too many drivers idled their trucks instead of using the APU's.
     
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  8. Sep 12, 2019 #6
    kylefitzy

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    So the solution to high idle times was to force everyone to idle? Sounds like something a bean counter would come up with.
     
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  9. Sep 12, 2019 #7
    INRUT

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    I don’t know, if I was owner & spending thousands on apu’s & drivers were still idling pretty sure I’d take there toy away. I don’t think that’s reasoning for getting rid of apu’s. If you figure all the maintenance & down time due to repairs on those things I bet they don’t save a bit.
     
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