Increased it to 45% usage in summer and have made it much easier to send in daily tracking if you have to idle more during normal times for a legitimate reason and not be charged for it.
That is a MUCH more reasonable number. I'm glad that May has improved this for you guys. As I said in a previous post in another May thread, my average in a non-apu truck with Calex was about 30-40 percent each trip, and I didn't idle every night I was out, and even when I did, it was only during my sleeping hours so the cold wouldn't wake me up. All other times the truck was shut off
My bunk heater works well without idling. Every now and then the battery alarm will go off in my new 587. If I idle at all, I just keep track and send it in. They are real good about crediting the time now. They have the trucks wired so the key has to be in the auxilary position for the bunk heater to run. Guess what was happening is guys were taking off for 2 or 3 days and leaving the bunk heater on. One truck burned up as a result. Having it wired this way forces the driver to remove his key, hopefully
I can't stand having to turn the key to aux because it seems like it draws more on the battery with the digital readout lit and the qualcom staying on all night. When I first got my 587 before I realized it had to be AUX to run the heater, I was thinking about taking it in to the shop because I assumed the bunk heater didn't work. My battery alarm goes off within a few hours of running the bunk heater on the lowest, or not much higher than the lowest setting. It's really annoying when it goes off at 2 am when I have to get up at the buttcrack of dawn.
I heard the batteries that came from Peterbuilt were pretty low grade batteries. Perhaps a shop will look into replacing em for you.
My bunk heater in my freightliner runs without the key in Auxillary. And it runs all night. Not rubbing it in, just saying so people know, the Freightliner is better than the Peterbilt. Nanner nanner nanner. Dozzer
The new freightliners have awesome bunk heaters they run all night on low with the key off and it has a bunk cooler
