Not idling in the winter, is it just me?
#41
02-03-2007, 08:06 AM
Originally Posted by Colin
Originally Posted by Birken Vogt
Just a dumb idea, I am not OTR, but does anybody ever get out and chock the wheels then idle with the park brake released?
Birken
Originally Posted by Mtc_Is_Hell
Never done that nor have I seen another truck doing it.. One question comes to mind though, how come i've never seen a double's parked in the truck parking spot? I've always wanted to see how different backing with them is.
Originally Posted by Fredog
doubles cant be backed up, thats why they always park where they can pull out
#42
02-03-2007, 08:11 AM
Originally Posted by Fredog
Originally Posted by Mtc_Is_Hell
Originally Posted by Birken Vogt
Just a dumb idea, I am not OTR, but does anybody ever get out and chock the wheels then idle with the park brake released?
Birken I used to haul a set of flats up and down the Calif. coast. Where I worked an old Mexican driver we had could angle back a set of flats into a parking space! Don't under estimate the older driver, who have been doing this longer than some of you are old. The drivers of today, some of them anyway would have not made it in the old days....lol
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#43
02-03-2007, 08:15 AM
Originally Posted by Colin
Originally Posted by Birken Vogt
Just a dumb idea, I am not OTR, but does anybody ever get out and chock the wheels then idle with the park brake released?
Birken
Originally Posted by Mtc_Is_Hell
Never done that nor have I seen another truck doing it.. One question comes to mind though, how come i've never seen a double's parked in the truck parking spot? I've always wanted to see how different backing with them is.
Originally Posted by Fredog
doubles cant be backed up, thats why they always park where they can pull out
Originally Posted by Fredog
you arent going to back it into or out of a space at a truckstop, no matter how good you are
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#44
02-03-2007, 10:15 AM
Originally Posted by Colin
Originally Posted by Colin
Originally Posted by Birken Vogt
Just a dumb idea, I am not OTR, but does anybody ever get out and chock the wheels then idle with the park brake released?
Birken
Originally Posted by Mtc_Is_Hell
Never done that nor have I seen another truck doing it.. One question comes to mind though, how come i've never seen a double's parked in the truck parking spot? I've always wanted to see how different backing with them is.
Originally Posted by Fredog
doubles cant be backed up, thats why they always park where they can pull out
Originally Posted by Fredog
you arent going to back it into or out of a space at a truckstop, no matter how good you are
#45
02-04-2007, 04:55 PM
Re: Not idling in the winter, is it just me?
Originally Posted by evertruckerr
Am I the only one who loves the cold. I will not idle a truck unless the temp hits 0, and that is only to keep the truck fluid moving. Even when it drops to the single digits, my breathing keeps the truck interior around 25 degrees. Two blankets, sheets and a heavy duty sleeping blanket keeps me toasty and I sleep like a baby. Jumping out of bed to start the truck in the morning is a slightly different story, but it sure wakes me up.
I'm not even an O/O, so it not because I'm cheap. But I do enjoy having one of the lowest idling% in the fleet.
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#46
02-05-2007, 08:21 AM
Originally Posted by Highwayman
I pretty much idled all the time I was in the truck.
Being away from home was bad enough, I wasn't about to do without the comforts of home. Unless of course there was a significant fuel bonus involved.... EXACTLY! That's how I thought too... Only the guys who had some seniority got one of the 100 thermo king tripac's. So that left me idling basically 24/7
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