Would you work for a company with no APU?

Yeah, it’s actually happened to me twice in my life. The other time it happened was when I was visiting my parents cabin in Montana.

Woke up in the morning and saw it hanging on a wall.

I caught the guy with a fishing net and froze it in a container. I was going to send it in to be tested, but in the end I didn’t bother, because I didn’t want to know. At that time years ago, I was broke and had no insurance.

Emergency rabies shots for people are not cheap like the stuff you inject your dog with. The human shots can cost tens of thousands of dollars depending on what area of the country you live in.

I’ve chanced it twice and lived to tell the tale. Rabies deaths are extremely rare in the U.S. like single digit low per year in a country of 300 million.

 

If they didn't care about me idling and clogging up the dpf, sure I'd have no problem w/o an apu.

How can you not have an apu and they expect you not to idle is beyond me. Bean counters to blame.

 

My truck don't burn through $1,000 a month of idle. And my truck don't get shut off till it's parked in the evening.

 

Doing local short haul ~350 mi a day i don't shut it off until i get back to the yard. My reasoning is it can't not start if i don't shut it off

 

I work for a mega with no apu. They keep stats on your idle time. And, although I have been fussed at a couple of times for high idle times, pointed out where I'd been and nothing ever came of it. I'd naturally prefer an apu. But, don't want to leave the company I'm with, become a flease owner or any of those other shenanigans. Bottom line, if I need to idle the truck, I do. If I'm somewhere cool and quiet enough, I'd prefer not to run the engine anyway. But, at a truck stop, it is usually too loud and unsafe to open windows anyway. Also, not gonna sacrifice my ability to get good restful sleep being too warm. It's a safety issue as far as I'm concerned.
So, if my company wants to save fuel, they can get an apu. But, this driver ain't sacrificing needed comfort because I don't have one.

 

Huh?
Lets take the median of your 3-4k and say 3.5k of fuel at 2.45 average cost, that’s 1,428 gallons. An idling truck burns roughly 1 gallon per hour, so that’s 1,428 hours of idling... you do realize there’s only about 720 hours in a 30 day month right?

 

Jon69 must be using that "new math" they're teaching in school these days.

 

Yeah right Lol. With fuel being low and most mega fleets seeing 7.5+ mpg these days they probably don't spend much over 4000 a month, depending on what states they run

 

All our trucks have APU'S

 

Idling is bad and hurts the environment and the children.