Why Do You Idle?

Im at the hook in Eloy and it's a beautiful night in the desert. My truck is off. I have no idea why this reefer truck next to me is running.

 

Well, it depend's on the weather. Most of the time I don't but under the right condition's the night air can make you get sick or like guyslady states about allergies. But normally if it's nice out I don't. I'd rather have the peace and quiet anyway from having to listen to the motor run all the time.

 

I am having power issues but I do not idle all night. I will let the low battery alarm come on and then shut off everything before I go to sleep. My APU can still run but fails to recharge the batteries when it is running on Air Conditioner. My refrigerator still runs off the inverter, stereo, Tv, Xbox, and the truck saves enough charge to start in the morning.

Then I have to idle for about 10 minutes to run the coffee maker in the morning. My idle right now is at about 6%.

 

I always tried to shut it off it it was nice. As long as it was fairly quiet I was fine. When it got noisey, reefers, stereos, people banging on crap or hooping it up in the parking lot I would start it to drown the noise out. All in all I like many others get used to sleeping with it running and sleep better that way. I run a box fan at home so I can sleep. It just gets to quiet. At $3.00 a gallon these days I do a bit of tossing and turning now. I'm about ready to buy a small generator and A/C unit, or maybe a big bag of dry ice to throw in the cab.

 

Well for instance like right now,bout to go to bed at the Hook in San Antonio
and I killed my truck and everyone else is idling.

I can't sleep when every truck next to me is running, so I run mine to mute out
their noise. If I can, when possible, I will park away from everyone so I can kill
the truck and go to bed.