What To Make Of This Advice I Got

I was at a truckers lounge at a pickup location and we were discussing idling. He told me you can still idle without it being logged as idling on your Qualcomm. He said you simply leave the engine on and in neutral. You leave the trailer brakes on (engaged, pulled out) and you push in the tractor parking brakes. That way the computer will think that you're simply at a stop light and it won't go against your performance monitoring.

I don't think this is very safe but I would like to see what more experienced drivers think of this.

Daniel, I think the guy is full of B.S.

Now, I'm going to say that I really don't know, but each companies quallcomm is set up a little differently from each others, but this sounds so off the wall to me that it can't be right. My quallcomm seems to catch everything, and I don't know that I've ever come across a way to trick it.

That sounds crazy to me, but I'd like to know what others have to say about it.

Daniel, I think the guy is full of B.S.

Now, I'm going to say that I really don't know, but each companies quallcomm is set up a little differently from each others, but this sounds so off the wall to me that it can't be right. My quallcomm seems to catch everything, and I don't know that I've ever come across a way to trick it.

That sounds crazy to me, but I'd like to know what others have to say about it.

Yeah interesting ain't it?

While closely supervising everything I tried it out. My Qualcomm showed me as Warming as my trip state. However my truck shut off because of the anti-idle built in. So for my truck it doesn't work. So he was right about it not showing as idling but I guess it depends on whether or not your truck is government with the anti-idle device.

So, do you have a APU??

APU:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

Guy, his truck probably doesn't have an APU , but the system that keeps him from idling will allow him to idle when it's above a certain temperature or below a certain temperature. At least that's how mine is set up and I think it is fairly common to have them set like that. I don't have any problems idling when it's hot, but if the weather is mild enough to just enjoy some fresh air the truck won't idle for more than about ten minutes.

APU:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

Well, let me take a stab at this one.... If you set your trailer brakes...thats probably safe enough so that you don't have to set your tractor brakes.....so then you want to trick the idling cut out. I'd try setting my rpms at 1000,like you do to idle, and set the cruise to hold it there.Maybe that would trick the anti idle thingy, with out snitching you off to the qualcom. BUT...in the long run...when your fuel mileage goes in the crapper...your caught anyway, unless you want to put some of your hard earned $$$ into that fuel tank...whatever ya do, its gonna cost fuel...no way around that.

I like Jb hunts idle policy....We idle to stay comfortable but if your not in the truck make sure to turn it off.

My truck shuts down after 4 minutes on idle, but it can be "tricked" by doing what Starcar suggested which is get the rpm to around 100 above the idle level and set the cruise control; it will idle like that all night (not saying that I've actually done it, lol). Now, I don't know what the Qualcomm is recording when doing this, but with a 90 degree heat index at 3 AM in Texas, I don't really care what the Qualcomm is doing.

I am able to idle by setting my trailer breaks and releasing my tractor breaks. We have apus but when it goes out in NM and its 111 well you beat your *** Im gonna idle. I also NEVER showed up on the idle report but then again my company is super lenient.

APU:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

APUs:

Auxiliary Power Unit

On tractor trailers, and APU is a small diesel engine that powers a heat and air conditioning unit while charging the truck's main batteries at the same time. This allows the driver to remain comfortable in the cab and have access to electric power without running the main truck engine.

Having an APU helps save money in fuel costs and saves wear and tear on the main engine, though they tend to be expensive to install and maintain. Therefore only a very small percentage of the trucks on the road today come equipped with an APU.

Hey RedGator, I'm sure you have mentioned it, but who do you work for?