how to stay warm when one can't idle?

Not a bad idea. Do you know what differentiates a doctor from 1800 from one in 2000? The doctor from 1800 was allowed to say "I don't know." Medical mistakes are the 3rd leading cause of death in the United States (and there are many many more people whose lives are altered by non-fatal side effects of medicines & procedures).

 

The companies I'm talking about don't have applications and you wont find many of em on the internet. You talk to the owner and if he likes you he talks to the insurance companies. If they give him the thumbs up he sits you down for a meal and some paperwork in his home and then tosses you the keys to your truck and gives you your first load assignment.

 

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/07/30/weather-death-statistics-cold-heat/13323173/

About 2000 people die in the United States from heat or cold related causes each year. There have been cases of truck drivers freezing to death, and being killed from heat stroke in their bunks, including a fairly recent one at Schneider. I hope the families of these dead drivers sue the companies that killed them.

Life is very short as it is, if you want to be a super big tough guy he man macho man and sleep with no heat when it is 2 degrees out, and sleep with no air conditioning when it is 100 degrees out and sweat all night, have fun with that. Meanwhile I will be comfortable and not shivering in the winter, and I will be cool and not sweating in the summer. And you will be busy proving that you are a super macho man sitting in your freezing cold metal box in a parking lot, you go have fun with your life, and I'll have fun with mine.

 

Great post!

 

That's part of the problem, people are idling constantly not just to stay warm. How many times, on a 70 degree day, do you walk through the truckstop, and over half the trucks are idling? Or someone fueling, leaving the truck idling for the half hour it takes. Or someone inside grabbing a shower, and lunch, idling for an hour and a half.
Then, when they need to idle on a 20 degree night, the company get's upset with their idle %. Then they come on here and complain "XYZ Express won't let me idle".....

 

The real problem is the manufacturers .... Any truck that has a sleeper should have a heat/air system that doesn't require idling as standard equipment . ........

And not the 1/2 wit systems they offer now.I've read on tr that the euro trucks have this kind of system ...

 

I have a battery HVAC that will turn the truck on when the battery gets low, usually once or twice in a ten hour break. Don't know what the cost is, but it works really well. Once you have something to help you not idle, the guys idling for no reason start looking dumb. I think thy just live off the memories of when trucks never shut down because diesel was cheaper than what we pay for bottled,water now.

 

I'd call CPS if I knew you had a child in your truck with you.

"Daddy, I'm so cold!"
"That's part of trucking. Just ignore all the idling trucks full of warm people watching tv. Just do what daddy does to keep warm, hug the pee jug."