{"id":17824,"date":"2025-01-09T22:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/at-what-temperature-do-you-idle-no-matter-what-even-if-you-have-an-apu-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T22:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T22:11:18","slug":"at-what-temperature-do-you-idle-no-matter-what-even-if-you-have-an-apu-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/at-what-temperature-do-you-idle-no-matter-what-even-if-you-have-an-apu-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"At what temperature do you idle no matter what, even if you have an apu | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"bbCodeBlock bbCodeQuote\" data-author=\"kylefitzy\">\n<aside>\n<blockquote class=\"quoteContainer\">\n<div class=\"quote\">Every def system freezes when the trucks not running and it\u2019s cold enough out. Perfectly normal. The truck won\u2019t call for def until everything is up to temperature.<\/p>\n<p>I never run my truck at night since I have an apu and a bunk heater. Even at -15.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Click to expand&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ok story time. I tripped out when my truck said I had zero def recently when I woke up, it was sounding all alarms at me and I was like yooo wtf do I got a leak.<br \/>Then thought maybe it&#8217;s just big ice cube in there and the gauge can&#8217;t register. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/styles\/default\/xenforo\/clear.png\" class=\"mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8\" alt=\":D\" title=\"Big Grin    :D\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After some driving I was going nuts with the lights flashing, def alarms and derate warning blasting.<br \/>So I got def at the pump and that changed nothing, gauge still showed empty.<br \/>Now I&#8217;m pissed so was like I&#8217;m gonna show you Mr. DEF System so I went in to store to buy warm bottled DEF to melt that sucker in the tank and it did the trick.<\/p>\n<p>So was all that &#8220;perfectly normal&#8221; for the truck to do that? <br \/>I&#8217;ve had many others trucks thoughout my career and that never happened until recently.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n\t!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n\t\tn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n\t\tt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n\t\tdocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\tfbq('dataProcessingOptions', []);\n\tfbq('init', '1812746315680142'); \/\/ Insert your pixel ID here.\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruckersreport.com\/truckingindustryforum\/threads\/at-what-temperature-do-you-idle-no-matter-what-even-if-you-have-an-apu.2518811\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every def system freezes when the trucks not running and it\u2019s cold enough out. Perfectly normal. The truck won\u2019t call for def until everything is up to temperature. I never run my truck at night since I have an apu and a bunk heater. Even at -15. Click to expand&#8230; Ok story time. 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