They also have to paint the trailer wheels with those white or yellow
patches to make sure they're turning when they drive off or the tire might
burst from the friction. Apparently they wheel bearing grease can get close
to solid.
Another reason they leave the engines running is that some cargoes, notably
oils, liquids, etc can solidify so they have heat-exchangers running along
the bottom of the trailers which is plumbed in to the radiator.
--pat.
On 11/7/02 12:42 PM, "Faure, Marin" <marin.faure@boeing.com> wrote:
> Peter Hope wrote:
>
>>> Just let the diesel idle all night long...everything inside the vehicle
>> stays toasty and no AM starting problems.
>
> Years ago I read an article in the New Yorker about the truckers that hauled
>
> oil field equipment from manufacturers in Texas to the North Slope in
> Alaska.
> This operation went on year round and probably, to a degree, still does
> today.
> In the winter, the trucks were never shut off from the day they left their
> Texas
> starting points to the day they returned. In northern BC, the Yukon, and
> Alaska,
> where it gets a wee bit cold, the trucks were left idling outside the motels
> where
> the drivers slept. Every hour, someone had to get up and go outside to
> run the trucks back and forth in the parking lot to keep the lube oil in the
> gearboxes
> and differentials from becoming congealed by the cold.
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