Idleaire closing

I agree they took up spaces that could have been used for parking with the large overhead trusses that would also block your qualcomm from the satellites, among other poor engineering decisions they made in design. I didnt like having to remove mirrors on company rides to make the adaptors for windows fit correctly. They could have done so much better if they could've designed it without the clunky and sometimes frustrating card readers and touchscreens. The HVAC could have been a centralized unit that regulated a mix of heat, cold, and outside air instead of the individual units that cost way too much per unit to keep running.
These decisions were made principally because of wanting to attract not so much the 'new' generation, computer savvy users, as much as appeal to the 'old school' who they figured in their business plan had the income to support it. Unfortunately, their timing was way off. High prices for fuel kept them alive a bit longer than they might have already lasted, but it was just too little too late. If they DO consider a 'generation 2' of something like this, it'll have to be a bit more basic and cost about 1/3 as much, for ALL the services, not just a la carte this and that...

 

well. you're much to old to date my daughter. You can however date my sister. Heck. marry her. Of course keep in mind I named my GPS after my sister. They both try to tell me what to do and irritate the heck out of me.

 

I still have some money on my card. How can I get it back?
Good bye Idle Aire, your heat(or lack thereof) sucks.(and most electrical sockets didnt work either)

 

I found this in a article.

A call to the Knoxville, Tenn.-based company headquarters yields a recording of the closing date and provides customers with an email address they can contact for receipts until Feb. 4.

 

Haha. Now I can back in at the idleair and not get harassed. Thank God they closed it down since they couldn't make it affordable.

 

i used to move those cones and park in the idle air anyway

 

No remote control capability. Cable TV is worthless to me if I cannot flip channels. There's no tv shows I like well enough to sit through commercials. And I'm not going to get up and lean across the truck for every commercial break to use the touch screen.

But there were plenty of reasons for them to shut down. APU's made them almost obsolete.

I just hope they do take down all the equipment and do a good job of repainting the parking lots to get as much parking as possible. In this economy I'm sure I'm hoping for too much. It will be a big mess.

 

again, things like vucube, apu's, etc. left drivers better cost per use alternatives, and with more company drivers being put on electronic logs, many more drivers are forced to bypass truckstops now and go as far as they legally can to make their deliveries, and not choose places to stop that have things like idleaire. it's too bad they couldn't find another investor, but i think the went into business very undercapitalized. they totally misread the trucking industry in general, hoping the downturn that's hurt the business wasn't going to be anywhere near what it is now and will be for the next year or two. idleaire was a good concept, but i think they did way to much cost cutting during the design phase, which doomed them to fail before they ever put up one facility. if they went for pricing that was more in line with what drivers could afford, and understood the problems in the industry, like lot space shortages, and worked to at least equalize the spots they took up, it may have had a chance.

edit: nope... if you had any $ left on your card, it's gone. sorry. bankruptcy is like that.

 

Sorry to see them go.....I enjoyed not running my old truck. As far as parking goes, well it seems there's a lot less trucks on the roads these days anyways, so there should be plenty of up front parking spaces opening up for you to park in now that they're out of business.

 

If you really want parking, get yourself a good truck stop directory (paper, internet, or built into one of the trucker gps units) and get off the interstate. There's old truck stops scattered all over the country on the two lane highways that aren't that far off the big road. I've been sitting at one in OH since Friday that's been over half empty the whole time.