its getting hotter, hows your idling?
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its getting hotter, hows your idling?
i was wondering how my fellow california drivers are dealing with the heat?
are you still idling? has anyone seen anyone patroling the rest/truckstops looking for idlers? i havent been idling in CA. im scared of bears.
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#2
So what if they start finding truckers suffering from heat strokes and other heat related illnesses due to exposure to extreme temperatures?
Could a company face a lawsuit if a trucker suffers a heat stroke?
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Originally Posted by ohiomohawk
So what if they start finding truckers suffering from heat strokes and other heat related illnesses due to exposure to extreme temperatures?
Could a company face a lawsuit if a trucker suffers a heat stroke? kc0iv
#5
I have been watching how much I idle. I ususally run the truck with the air on high for about an hour then I shut it off and go to bed. It doesn' stay cool in here for the whole night but it helps. Our company also reimburses one motel room a week so we have also been taking advantage of that. It has been fairly cool so far so there have been a lot of nights just rolling the windows down has been nice.
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#8
If it's hot and I'm inside the truck, it runs. If I can sleep without sweating, or if I'm not in the truck, I shut it down.
Last week I had an idle time of 1.5%.
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#9
Depends on the outside temp, depends on if I run the truck or not. Last couple of weeks have been nice at night to sleep without the truck running. If I'm unloading at a stop or P/U a backhaul, then the truck is OFF. We have no idle restriction nor computers in the truck that track us or our idleing. All they have said to us was that if we need to idle to sleep, do it. Just turn the trucks off at the stops. If fuel keeps rising though, they are thinking off dumping the sleepers and getting us daycabs(there are only four of us that use sleepers).
#10
Originally Posted by LeBron James
It's OK for the office people to run the central air 24/7 but the driver has to sleep in a pool of sweat to save the company money? :roll:
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