View Poll Results: Have you used IdleAire?
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#12
05-14-2008, 04:25 AM
Originally Posted by Bumper
I have used it many times. I never thought of it as a scam. Yes you paid for it, but no, your truck was not idling and wasting fuel. And the cost of the fuel you would have wasted was more than the cost of idleaire.
APUs are not legal in CA, yet. A company driver does not and never will look at what it cost's in wear & tear. As an O/O I would be a fool not to take it into consideration. As for the parking situation...IA has never stopped the APU dudes, the reefer dudes..or the idlers from doing so. I see all of them parked at IA all the time. Some of them next to me. I get tired of the APU's filling my cab with their exhaust. They should have the exhaust pipe rigged to discharge behind the tractor, not under the neighboring truck.
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#13
05-14-2008, 07:36 AM
Originally Posted by Orangetxguy
I get tired of the APU's filling my cab with their exhaust. They should have the exhaust pipe rigged to discharge behind the tractor, not under the neighboring truck. Because I had an APU I never had use for IA, and it chapped my backside that some truck stops dedicated half to 100% of their parking to IA customers, I’d like to see how much $ those truck stops lost compared to what they made from the IA company, my $$$ went to the TS across the street. After 1 year of using IA add up what you spent, I’d bet you could’ve bought an APU for that amount.
#14
05-14-2008, 11:58 AM
Originally Posted by Drew10
Idle air (IMO) was nothing more than a means to profit from us drivers by laying the environment and usage of fuel quilt on us and our companies that they thought would "buy" into the scam and tried to ram it down our throats.
What scam? ram down throat? it's a service either you use it or don't Idle air was not and never would have been a solution to the idling problem, It is a solution,one of many available and it created a parking problem at the truckstops. this is a common cry from IA detractors,but I don't believe it A sleeper truck needs to be self sufficient when it come to heating/cooling/and supplying electrical power to the sleeper, without the use of the main engine. Does it? Generators/APUs is the real solution. not finacially feasable,for me Idle air came out way to late to be even alittle effective, just look at the frames of the trucks today and the APUs installed on them, just in the last year or so I have seen a dramatic increase in the APUs on the sides of trucks.
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#15
05-14-2008, 12:04 PM
Originally Posted by Orangetxguy
I use Idleair whenever I can. I plan my stops to be at a TS that is equipped with IA whenever possible. Until fuel hit $3.50 a gallon, the biggest advantage it had was the shore power it provides, and the fact that the engine is not running...so it cuts down on idle wear & tear, which is huge.
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#16
05-14-2008, 12:10 PM
Originally Posted by RottsATruckin
After 1 year of using IA add up what you spent, I’d bet you could’ve bought an APU for that amount.
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#17
05-14-2008, 12:22 PM
Originally Posted by mike3fan
Originally Posted by RottsATruckin
After 1 year of using IA add up what you spent, I’d bet you could’ve bought an APU for that amount.
#18
05-14-2008, 10:36 PM
Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
Originally Posted by mike3fan
Originally Posted by RottsATruckin
After 1 year of using IA add up what you spent, I’d bet you could’ve bought an APU for that amount.
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#19
05-14-2008, 11:53 PM
Originally Posted by mike3fan
Still doesn't mean that IA isn't a anti-idling solution.
#20
05-15-2008, 04:44 AM
Originally Posted by mike3fan
Originally Posted by Drew10
Idle air (IMO) was nothing more than a means to profit from us drivers by laying the environment and usage of fuel quilt on us and our companies that they thought would "buy" into the scam and tried to ram it down our throats.
What scam? ram down throat? it's a service either you use it or don't Idle air was not and never would have been a solution to the idling problem, It is a solution,one of many available and it created a parking problem at the truckstops. this is a common cry from IA detractors,but I don't believe it A sleeper truck needs to be self sufficient when it come to heating/cooling/and supplying electrical power to the sleeper, without the use of the main engine. Does it? Generators/APUs is the real solution. not finacially feasable,for me Idle air came out way to late to be even alittle effective, just look at the frames of the trucks today and the APUs installed on them, just in the last year or so I have seen a dramatic increase in the APUs on the sides of trucks.
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