Question about idling/IdleAire

The 35% idle time is attainable, but simply wouldn't be worth it to me. While the outside temperature may not be too hot during some months, it is often very humid, and simply uncomfortable.

One of the major complaints about the trucking industry is that pay isn't good enough for the job that has to be done. Why be any more uncomfortable than you have to when you are living in the truck? Considering that there are times that you may have to go a day without a shower, I have no intention of trying to sleep in the South in high humidity, especially for the big benefit of a penny per mile bonus.

If I am at home at night, I am running the air conditioning or heater most of the year, if for nothing else, to keep the humity out of the air. I am not going to do any different in a truck.

 

I must admit that I long ago thought that hooking some sort of battery powered cooling and heating unit to a jumper cable so that it gets recharged by the reefer would be a simple solution to the problems for reefer drivers. It's always surprised me that one of the large companies with reefers hasn;t come up with this solution. Since you already have to run the engine on the reefer, all you would have to do is add a bit heavier alternator and maybe a pair of deep cycle batteries on the truck side. There are 12v cooling systems in stock that work okay, but cooling duration has always been their Achilles heel. recharging from a running reefer would seem to be a natural solution.

 

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