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Message:: [QUOTE="Truckerjo, post: 491857, member: 3972"]When it is hot this is what I done in order to keep my Idle low... You need a decent A/C that blows pretty cold air.. If not then take your truck to the shop and schedule it to have the A/C charged (I always tried to talk to the actual tech that was going to do the work (they usually are right there when they page you to take the truck into the shop) this way you can tell them you are just trying to save on idle time so the colder he can get it the better, if he is cool then he will hook you up, if not he is just going to do what company tells them to set it at) Anyways run your truck till it is ICE COLD inside, shut it down and that usually will get you 3 hours (takes you an hour of idle to get your truck ice cold so that's 4 hours) then idle it 1 hour to get it nice and cold again.... So if you done this right you had your truck ice cold when you pulled into the truck stop... you idled 1 hour half way threw the night and you now have been in bed for 8 hours... now you have 2 hours to get your butt up and running...  Winter? use a sleeping bag and don't idle... (you will wish they would make a key less starter lol) when you get up is the worst part because you have to crawl out of that bag and start the truck... Somedays I would just hop there in my bag lol to dang cold..[/QUOTE]