How to make an emission engine run more reliable

Scoot 1971 said: ↑

Don't idle engine! It literally is that simple for the most part. Do whatever you have to be comfortable with engine shut down. APU, generator with a/c unit, windows down with screens or whatever.
These engines and their epa mandated equipment will run so much better and longer by not idling.
I've already started looking at options for when my Comfort Pro bites the dust and is cost prohibitive to fix or replace. I'm thinking a diesel fired generator in an aluminum box where current apu is plumbed to fuel tank with a bigger portable a/c secured to top bunk.
After 4000 hrs, apu is still humming along great, but I just don't know for how much longer.
The wife and I currently are in a 17' Cascadia, DD15 pushing 800000 miles with no issues. Heck, we still have original DPF in here. Been cleaned once at around 350000 miles.
If I were looking at a used truck with all the current smog equipment, I would pay close attention to the idle hrs
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Yep, thats the ticket, avoid Idling emissions trucks if ya want them to last.

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