Re: Why leave Diesel's run?

Posted by F20II on April 13, 2001 at 08:42:45 from (207.202.176.173):

In Reply to: Why leave Diesel's run? posted by Dezel Dummy on April 11, 2001 at 02:11:25:

I read all the comments, driving a truck for over 17 years for a living and now part time I can tell you that shutting down a semi in the winter is a bad idea, even today they are very hard to start in winter. In the summer I will leave the truck running to sleep if I'm in a real hot area other wise I'll turn if off after I leave it run about 20 minutes for cool down, some trucks have a switch/timer that will do this when set. In a small engine such as in a pickup the pistons and heads are small, in a semi the heads and pistons are twice the size or more, you would have to do alot of idleing before you got any build up. Bigger Cummings/Cat engines keep warm while idleing, this you can keep the heater on and stay warm at an idle. GMC's do not, they get cold while idleing and have to be idled up to get heat out of them while sitting stillthus burning a little more fuel. I guess to say it in a nut shell, the truck is like your house, in the winter you heat it, in the summer if it's hot ou cool it, same with a truck, it a home to alot of drivers, they live in that dang old truck weeks and months at a time. Alot of long haul truck run teams (two man - two women - man women team ) this someone is most time sleeping while the other is either driving or maybe stopped for fuel or eating, thus again the truck is left running. sorry to get long winded but hope this explains why you see trucks running in a truck stop :o)

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