With fuel prices climbing all most every other day, most trucking company’s are telling there drivers not to idle there trucks, or if you idle you will be penalized when the idling percentage reaches a idling preset, and then the trucks computer kicks your speed back two or three miles per hour,
Ok fine!
But have you been in a truck stop lately? Not every one is going to shut there truck off and the smell is really some thing you don’t want to think about but resembles something of an out house. So what dose that mean? if you don’t have an APU and you cant get idle-air site, here at the end of your day and if you work days that means you are more than likely parked in a already over crowded paring lot and its hot and the guy next to you is idling and there very little breeze blowing so now not only are you now getting the heat off your truck and your getting the heat from the your new now noise Neighbor. So you go get a shower and that’s helps for a wile and wile you are doing that your truck has cooled down some what However here at the end of the day it won’t really start cooling down late evening. You can not honestly be getting some good comfortable rest for that long day ahead. Is this wise and is this Safe? I say NO it is nether! It is not Safe and we should never ever comprise on safety, there are all ready to many tired drivers out there on the road pressing pick up‘s and delivery appointments. And now some states are getting on the no idling band wagon like California where they are going to fine driver if they idle, and if you talk to local law enforcement they don’t care about your idling when you are private property nor do they have the manpower to enforce such laws. So you do what you can and you park far away from every one as you can and you do you best to plan you trip you stay in route and you try to end up some where that an idle-air or a nice open area, but in the end you are still left feeling disenfranchised.

“Comprising on Safety is never a good idea and will most likely to end in the of failure and man and machine”.

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