Idleaire closing

Idleaire was a stressful dangerous job and a lot of (not all but most) worked hard at it. I didn't see the comments but I imagine he was working off some years of built up frustration at some of the slobs he had to deal with while trying to serve his customers not realizing very few here were the bad guys.

 

New email from IdleAire:

 

Yea I saw that today. With only a couple locations drivers will not depend on it. and will seek alternative methods which will cause this new upstart to not be profitable. If they keep there price below the price of fuel to idle ( .5 gallons per hour at a low idle, not the 1gallon they advertise) so $1.50 after taxes. Then it would make sense for more drivers to hook up. Of course there will still be tons of drivers who have there own APU's or leave there trucks off, where the idle aire service is not even needed.

Of the truckstops I have been to recently that have Idle aire, I am notcing the infrastructure getting torn up pretty bad, And in a year or two I would emagine most of it will be damaged beyond repair.

 

Their letter says "market proven", I would think that having the entire system go bankrupt twice, the market has spoken!

 

And this is sad evidence of the disrespect SOME "drivers" show for anothers' property.

I, for one, (as a rider, NOT a driver), am happy to see that IdleAire may be returning.
When we are stuck, waiting for a load, for 2 days, IdleAire is MUCH less expensive than getting a motel room, and WAY less aggravating than sitting , unmoving, in this over-size cracker box!

Judi Kay

 

At the old rate of $1.85 an hour X 24 hours = $44.40, and then if you had to pay for a shower, would definitely put you in the ballpark of most economy motels!

 

Less, if you are a "Gold Member"...which we are.

And even the most "economy" hotels, charge $10 extra per pet,per night, and I have two little dogs...3, if ya count hubby!! LOL

NO, I don't consider hubby a dog...although....he CAN be an animal, at times!!! LMAO

 

I've enjoyed the extra parking available since they have been out of business and hope they go out again. I did hear that there is a company called cab-air that is putting in a similar system at a test rest area in PA.

 

The whole "press release" has a lot of vague and not much firm.

I'll be anxious to see where it really ends up.

 

With only 23 sites that are not going to all open at the same time, drivers will not be able to reliably find an Idleaire parking spot and will get frustrated and quit using them.

I also noticed that there are only 2 TA sites and 4 Petro sites, which I believe are franchise owned centers, not corporate owned. So my guess would be that TA/Petro on the corporate level have decided not to restart service, which is where 80 percent of the original sites were at.

I don't know what they think they will do differently that hasn't already been done with the two previous attempts. I still say the numbers from the SEC filings speak large volumes.