funny part is the officer that will write you a ticket probably has a system in his car that will allow the cruiser to idle without the key in it. so that he can get back into is ice cold air conditioned car when he is done.

 

What is even funnier is the fact that the uneducated highway heroes don't know that a truck diesel puts out far more harmful toxins and pollutants than a gas engine. :roll:

Ever see a haze of smoke hanging over an area where there are a bunch of cars idling? Me either. But I have seen and felt the effects of the smoke hanging over any truck stop parking lot.

 

These anti idling laws are mostly about control and money....mostly money. Otherwise, there would not be exemptions for pets as they have in some states. If you have a pet in your truck you can idle all you want in most states. It seems that people are not as important as a dog in those states. I did read that Kalifornia is thinking about removing the pet exemption.

 

Ahhh... Chicago. Doesn't get all that cold in winter, and doesn't get all that warm in summer either. Try Corpus Christi, TX in the middle of July, and the A/C pump locks up. The company tells you that they will not have it fixed out on the road, and you have to get it back to the yard in WI tob have that replaced. Didn't have a lot of choice but to sleep under the trailer, in the shade. Had it been a reefer, I would have slept IN IT.

Or, try Minot, ND right behind an Alberta Clipper. Even with an APU, tell me you can shut your truck off and have it start in the morning.

That's what I figured. Hey, did you know that after you've driven local for a while, they won't hire you to go OTR anymore? I understand it has something to do with being "OUT OF TOUCH".


Really? Where have you been?

Don't know if I can find it, but I did read an article a few years ago, where Austrailia did a "REAL-TIME STUDY" of minors, working underground, with diesel equipment. Over a 30-year period, the minors had 15% fewer cases of cancer than the general public. And, that was not using any of the low-sulphur fuels. Think about it. Confined area like an underground mine. How many engines running. Surrounded with the fumes every working day, for years at a time, and less cases of cancer than people that get fresh air. If pollutants from a diesel engine were that great, the cancer rate would have been the other way around.

The engines we had in our trucks 15 years ago put out 30 parts per million of NOX, and only 10 parts per million of Carbon-monoxide. A gasoline engine without pollution controls puts out 130 parts per million of carbon-monoxide, and I don't remember the NOX. With pollution controls, the gasoline engine still puts out 30 parts per million of Carbon-monoxide, and about 10 to 15 parts of NOX.

In FL, during the peak of the tourist season, along clearwater beach, with traffic bumper to bumper, and going nowhere fast, you can see a haze in the air. Same thing at the sponge docks in Tarpon Springs. No trucks, just cars, bumper to bumper... And idling. And, the breeze is coming our of the gulf. No trucks out there either. And, it's worse than the haze I've seen over truck stops.

Take Rte 60 over the bridge to Clearwater Beach, and from the island, where all the cars are, you can see the source of the haze. Same goes for going across Causeway Blvd to Honeymoon Island during tourist season.

Idling cars most certainly do produce a haze.

 

It must have sucked to work for a fly by night company like that. Sorry for your bad choice.
I know I would have been in a nice air conditioned motel in a heartbeat. But hey, I guess sleeping in/under a trailer is part of the lifestyle of the last American Cowboy.:thumbsup:

I believe there are exceptions for conditions like that in most idle laws, isn't there? Besides, my contention is that there is a whole lot of , here, I'll go real slow here just for you WW, UNNECESSARY idling that could have been eliminated before these laws were put forth.



Did you know that what I do as a local driver they won't hire an OTR driver because as a rule OTR drivers couldn't get around without the company planning every move and policy for them? Besides, I have no intention of ever joining the mobile homeless ranks.


Yeah, and there is a study out there that global warming is man made also. :roll: It is amazing how studies always end up with favorable results for whomever is paying for said study.