Why Do You Idle?

I prolly idled like twice in the last week and a half it has been just about perfect sleeping weather..

 

you ask why drivers idel there trucks'well i say when did it turn into everybody's busnes to what a driver is doing.i mean are you paying for the fuel in the truck? if not don't worry about it. just go down the road and injoy the view.

 

After pulling a reefer year round it don't matter anyway. Noise is noise.

 

Unless your a chrome and light salesmen!

 

It becomes my business when I'm trying to sleep with my sleeper vents open and somebody id needlessly putting pollutants in the air I breathe.

Last night 53* in Gila Bend,AZ with a nice breeze blowing. The parking lot is half empty and two trucks, one on each side, pull beside me and sit there idling. I pulled out and nosed in.

 

my tractor is painted black, so i run the a/c alittle earlier in the year than most. i do most of the time try not to idle, but will for comfort and good rest, i will. i also leave the lights on so somebody won't bust off the doghouse while i'm sleeping. i could care less if anyone thinks i'm showing off. it's easier on the guy who is backing in next to me to see, and i sleep better knowing i have done everything i can to protect what's mine.

last summer a guy woke me up and asked if i would shut the truck down so he could rest. i was there long before him, and refused...politely.... but it made him mad. i told him perhaps he was too delicate for trucking and asked him if he had ever considered being a hairdresser. dude really got mad, but shut his yap when i opened the door.

if i have a good year this year, i'll invest in an a.p.u.. until then, i'll idle. i'll nose in when i can, mostly to protect the tractor, but if it helps the next guy sleep, then that's fine too. if you want to whine about my lights being on, well, get over it. i figure the next guy might be tired too, and maybe i can keep him/her from bending their ride. not to mention sometimes it rains....

of all the things to cry about. lights.