Tolerating cold temperatures without having to idle.

you have synthetic oil inside, winter special diesel, batteries for arctic weather... you can avoid idling. it's hard to start my engine if outside is 0-10f and Airtronic/webasto was used entire night.

 

Stopped in Idaho Falls, Id one night, when I parked the truck around 9 pm, it was 40 deg., crawled in my 10 deg. sleeping bag and zonked out. When I woke up at 5 am, it 15 and stiff wind blowing. The truck fired up, but the brief amount of time I was out of that bag, I lay there and shivered, with the truck on high idle, until I had heat. I have this argument with my boss all the time, when he gives up his furnace/central air at home, I'll give up my heat/a/c in the truck, until that time, the truck idles or I get a hotel, and sometimes the hotel is the cheaper option.

 

another problem with trying to use the bunk heater in deep sub 0- that little tiny tiny fuel line likes to gel up

 

5°C is about as cold as I can go before needing some auxiliary heat. Bunk heater usually goes on down till about -10°C. I high idle beyond that because CAT's don't like a cold start in the freezing temps.

 

Yes a window cracked + a CO detector as well

 

No idling required. My Webasto will bake a ham if left unchecked.

 

I idle alot.... and I mean alot...

This should give you an idea of my companies idle policy. I'm in a 2014 t660

Needless to say, they don't give a ####

 

Tri Pac. It charges them.