Knight Idle Cutoff

Wow they made it worse. Pretty much 90% of the company goes 62 because of this would be my guess.

 

Nope, still see many fellow knight drivers at the yard or truck stop with trk off and windows open. (I mean really its July) (grow a sack! ). That's why these mega carriers that. Don't use APu still get away with these stupid idle policies, to many folks that will eat sheet with a smile on their face.

 

I really wish they'd use APUs.... Why don't a lot of companies use them? It'd get rid of the idle issue.

 

I don't idle unless there is a particular need to, and I'm always passing other trucks at 65 MPH.... Thankfully enough I drive during the day and I'm usually in the northwestern portion of the US or in Canada.

 

Pretty simple, the fuel they save in the time they have the truck doesn't equal the cost of the APU. If they kept there trucks longer then it would be more cost affective. Instead they just tell the drivers, "Sweat you #######."

 

80 degree weather doesn't bother me, and in 90 degree weather I'm in a pair of shorts, sandals, a bikini top, and sunscreen soaking up the sun with my 85 on and reading a good book. I get a lot of looks. But if I'm trying to sleep in the heat I will have the A/C cranked all the way up. Other than that I have never really felt the need to idle, and there's a way to fool the idle gauge on the qualcomm itself, I won't say how, but I've idled 10 hours and my qualcomm says no RPM as if the engine's not running.

 

I was down south once and it must have been 105f with a broken AC. I just fired up the trailer and crawled in back, got some pretty good sleep.

 

The advantages of a reefer unit o.o

 

Hey, shoot me a PM about this qualcomm thing. I am gathering all the info I can on how to get all the different trucks to idle. I have heard about stuff for all the trucks. Let me know what kind of truck you have. Thanks.

 

Latest and last I heard, Knight did away with the "rewards" deal where you could go faster if your idle was below a certain %. AFAIK, all the new trucks run 64, no matter what your idle % .

When I started with them, they did do the % thing, but that was kind of sucky, depending on what time of year you got your truck: get your truck in the Spring or Fall, and either you didn't need A/C and/or the bunk heater would be fine; meanwhile you were building up the driving time. Get it in the Summer and/or deep Winter, and you had to idle waaay more, and there went your low %.

Why they just don't go back to 64 cruise and 66 pedal, I will never know: stick it in cruise, and if you come across a slower truck, push the pedal, get around them in a reasonable time, and go back on cruise. Ah, bean counters, the saviors of the trucking industry.