Running With Shipex

Sometimes what you hear and what is reality can be far apart.

 

This is where I saw the problem about shipex and the opti idle. Looks like a serious problem..hot and no sleep . Saving fuel at the drivers expense

@atuckr

 

I worked for Crete years ago when they used opti-idle (before APU's and battery pack a/c cooling units became popular) and I could never get use to it, no matter how long I had to use it. A reefer cycling doesn't shake the truck 1/2 as much as a 12.7 liter truck engine starting and stopping.

 

Agree. The newer freightliners, at least the one I have 2018, does not have a vent in the upper bunk. My wife almost roasts to death when she is up there at night. We easily deal with the reefer noise but I cant imgine the truck cutting on and off all night, especially with a company like shipex where it cuts on and off under 90.degrees ..wifes not gonna put up with that!

 

Well I pulled into the toll booth at the start of the Eastbound Kansas Turnpike tonight and as I was taking my ticket a Kansas State Trooper walked up and asked me to park over on the right shoulder in front of his police car. I did and he walked up and I said, Let me guess its inspection time. He laughed and said yep. My truck has 50,000 miles on it and the trailer is pretty new too so I wasn’t too worried. He did a walk around level2 inspection. Wrote it up and sent me on my way. Hopefully that was the only one I get on this trip.

 

Yes we did and I finally got a chance to buy a microwave and food!! A happy trucker for sure!! See ya at the next one, on to Jacksonville!!

 

This is just a question out of pure nosiness. Does the opti idle also act as a battery monitor? For example could you park and keep the parking lights on for it to idle in longer increments?