Idleaire ?
#61
04-03-2007, 04:42 AM
Originally Posted by golfhobo
I also want to apologize for the way some of my fellow boardmembers have responded to your "unsolicited" efforts. Please don't feel intimidated by them. They were probably abused as children! :lol:
#63
04-03-2007, 04:53 AM
Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
Originally Posted by golfhobo
I also want to apologize for the way some of my fellow boardmembers have responded to your "unsolicited" efforts. Please don't feel intimidated by them. They were probably abused as children! :lol:
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#64
04-03-2007, 05:15 AM
Originally Posted by golfhobo
Come on, Rev!! You saw my smilie face! You have to admit that you were pretty hard on someone with no OTHER introduction to your nitpicking ways! (5 total posts... all in this thread.)
#65
04-03-2007, 05:45 AM
Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
Originally Posted by golfhobo
Come on, Rev!! You saw my smilie face! You have to admit that you were pretty hard on someone with no OTHER introduction to your nitpicking ways! (5 total posts... all in this thread.)
BESIDES.... what made you think I was ONLY, or SPECIFICALLY, talking about YOU?? :lol: HE (how do you know?) or SHE, didn't come here "claiming" to represent anything. They DO seem to work for the company, and they were giving THEIR experience with it - from an employee's side. BTW, when you quote someone's statement, and respond TO IT, as opposed to "referencing" the information and opining ON IT.... I believe that could be considered "making it personal." Just MY opinion.... I'm SURE you'll disagree. :lol:
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#66
04-03-2007, 05:56 AM
Originally Posted by Lewis friend
What truckstops should do is offer 120V outlets and let the truckers themselves equip the cab to their own liking. I.e., electric heaters, A/C units computers etc.
And charge maybe $1-$2 an hour. I'm becoming convinced that APU units are the only practical solution. Besides hotels. And how much truck parking do most hotels provide? Do ALL hotels provide high-speed internet? First run movies that YOU get to choose? Just askin'
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#67
04-03-2007, 06:10 AM
Dont worry, I am not taking anything personal. I am a male, and no worries about that.
I did this on my own, and I did this via reading many fourms. It would have been impossible to post a thread in each fourm and keep up with it, so I choose this one. I did this becuase I felt that having some sort of connection with the drivers in some way, so that concerns and ideas could come forward could be answered. That is why I posted here, as I felt that having an actual means of speaking to you drivers, even over the net, would be better off then just speaking to your companies, as we wouldnt get a feel about what you think of it. This will all in the end help IdleAire, as more brainstorming is brought up. Now I have heard many negitive responces about IdleAire, but I have not seen much in the way of constructive ideas that could make IdleAire better. I would like to see what would make you as a driver more interested in it. Not just what makes you tick, and hate about it.
#68
04-03-2007, 06:17 AM
Originally Posted by Lewis friend
So, in a way the air sort of is being shared because the same filter is used.
AND Also, air is being sucked out of the cab, the pumped back in; Recirculated air; not good. i always thought that the box thing takes air from the atmosphere and pumps it into your cab, but oh well. i suppose you could roll the other window down in order to have fresh air but things are starting to get complicated. i'm not saying idleair is bad, in fact i may try it. i still say the electrical outlet idea would be better. Lewisfriend, I'm not picking on you but, hmm.... seems to me like the filter in the air conditioning unit in every hotel room probably gets changed LESS frequently. So.... when you stay in a hotel room, you are in effect, breathing air that is circulated through a filter holding someone else's diseases?? And.... what is so "clean" about atmospheric air? Especially, that around and above a truckstop? I share your concern about "re-circulated" air, but is it not then "air conditioned?" Doesn't that include "conditioning" the air? Don't they use some kind of condenser for this? Wouldn't that mean proximity to water molecules? Doesn't H2O include fresh oxygen? I don't know. I'm not an HVAC person. Just wonderin'
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#69
04-03-2007, 06:26 AM
Originally Posted by WildK9
I did try it a few times when it first came out, so I have a member card. Now, I just pull into a spot and do whatever I need to, without hooking up. I've only been bothered once, if you want to call it that. She only asked if I needed assistance and I told her no. If I did get asked to move, I plan on letting them know that I am a member, but I am not sure whether I'm getting a load soon and I'll hook up when I know for sure. I don't plan on EVER, literally, hooking up again. :wink:
But, my question for you, Wild, is WHY you intend never to hook up again? Cost? Service? Principle? Just askin'
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#70
04-03-2007, 06:31 AM
Originally Posted by golfhobo
Fair enough. (although, I'm sure I saw the word YOU in there.) :lol:
BESIDES.... what made you think I was ONLY, or SPECIFICALLY, talking about YOU?? :lol:
HE (how do you know?) or SHE, didn't come here "claiming" to represent anything.
I am an IdleAire site rep that currently lives and works in Oregon
They DO seem to work for the company, and they were giving THEIR experience with it - from an employee's side.
BTW, when you quote someone's statement, and respond TO IT, as opposed to "referencing" the information and opining ON IT.... I believe that could be considered "making it personal." |
