No idling law without APU

Im thinking about switching careers to driving truck. How many of the companies actually have APUs in their trucks now since Idling is a problem? Is that a thing the companies are adding for the most part or is that behind?

 

I did read it as it was printed to be given to a friend of mine that drives 48 state. He has already successfully beaten a ticket in CA because the temperatures, if not controlled inside the truck, would have posed a health risk to himself. He was issued a ticket, he fought it with this information, and he won without a court appearance. A few phone calls is all it took.

 

Really? I never go west so I haven't had any dealings with CA. I have never had an issue up here in the winter. The NYDOT tends to look the other way in the winter. I had an APU installed on my truck last april so I really don't have to worry about it anymore.

 

A lot of the bigger companies have started installing APU's on their trucks. You just have to call around and ask.

 

You take your chances with the locals . I haven't had a problem on my runs . We run regional and don't have APU's . They may not return the investment before the truck is traded when trucks are away from home only 2 or 3 nights a week . We have no idling restrictions and company pays IdleAire when available . We can charge it right on our Comdata card .

 

My company policy is this, if I'm sitting at a customer and need to idle I can (heck considering the last 3 days the highs have been in the low single digits), if I'm stopped for the night (8hrs or 10hrs) and need to idle I can. BUT, it is also dependend on certain conditions. In many some cases they have told me to get a hotel and not idle the truck. Two recent examples, blizzard on the eastern plains closed I-70 for 20 hrs, they didn't want the truck to idle for that long so they told me to get a hotel room. On another trip down to Albquerque, I was going to get there at 3pm and not have to load until 1pm the next day. They didn't want the truck to idle for that length of time, it was late summer (when I hit Alb. at 3pm it was 99, the next day loading at 1pm it was 102) in the heat so they told me to get a room.

As for the website listed, a couple of corrections. The two listed for Colorado, Denver and Aspen. Aspen does not enforce if the temps are below 20 deg, except in the downtown/hotel area where they don't enforce if below 0. Sicne the only time a semi can be downtown/hotel area is to unload with an appt., they are pretty leniat on this one. The law in Denver is only randomly enforced, and even then it is only enforced in a very few select areas of the City, mostly around the Coca Cola plant (which has houses on two sides), downtown, and during the DNC.