If emissions trucks are bad why are 90% on the road emissions trks

The states that are heavily left politically will all go.

 

I always idle mine down. Good warm up too.

 

I guess I'm more concerned the opposite, not getting hot enough just bouncing back and forth across town all day. Half hour trip each way with interplant trailer swapping at each end. Excuse my ignorance, just never dealt with any of this stuff before. Starting to reconsider the jump into one though as opposed to a glider. I'm starting to worry that California's regs will become a nationwide thing in the not so far off future. Even if not all, NY will be sooner than later.

 

You can. But, the turbo is cooled down enough as you get off the highway, navigate to a truck stop, and tool around into a parking spot. I wouldn't climb a steep hill and shut it down at the top.

Something interesting in the owner's manual on new trucks (FL). They claim you can start the truck in the morning and start rolling as soon as you have sufficient air pressure to release the brakes. Whick, on a new truck is imediate as they don't often leak air overnight. Although they do recommend taking it easy untill it com s up to normal temp.

Just crank the motor and go.

 

I do that with my C15. Let the oil get flowing, air pressure built up and off I go. I think its better to build heat sooner than later than to let it sit idling for a half hour trying to warm itself up on a cold morning.

 

Also a lot of contrats state truck must be newer than 14 or what ever the shipper feels they will bse more reliable if newer less likely to wait on freight

 

Interesting, thanks for the info. I didn’t realize DEF had to only be used with plastic.

Exactly, my shop is just 10 mins up the road and they are locally owned and operated. Trailer labor I’m at $65/hr and truck at 85/hr. They get me in right away which is what I like. In return they get all my repair work except engine which goes to Cummins.

I think people can overthink things sometimes. I have a truck that only does pickups and drop offs around the city and suburbs. I have a few trucks that only run a 200 mile radius and are shut off every night. And I have several that are regional and idle every night of the week and shut down for the weekends. None of them have any better or worse results then the other. As long as the system is working properly then it’ll regen and keep itself clean. One could argue that idling keeps the DPF from hardening or packing since it regens more often since it’s not sitting overnight shut off. One could argue that idling creates more soot and that’ll pack it up. Bottom line don’t worry about it, do what you need to do with the truck and that’s it.

As long as you don’t shut the truck off in the middle of a regen then you’ll be fine. It’ll regenerate while driving, sitting st the stoplight, etc. I wouldn’t worry about it. Buy a Cummins X15.

 

Summer I let my trucks idle 5 minutes and then drive away, just don't drive them hard for the first 5 minutes, but easier on everything else that way to. People seem to ignore the rest of the truck, diffs and transmission need to get gear oil flowing around to. But once the engine is a bit warm so many drivers take off and go hard.
In the winter I let the engine idle up to 10 minutes before pulling away, then i try to be even more gentle as those gears are going to get very little gear oil lubrication with cold gear oil.
I will turn the fan on to manual a few minutes before a planned stop, and try to take it easy on the throttle as well, then depending on how hard it was worked before I stop I let it idle down 2 to 5 minutes with the fan on, then shut it off.