{"id":18259,"date":"2025-01-27T15:59:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/is-it-a-good-idea-to-idle-truck-at-feels-like-9f-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:59:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:59:48","slug":"is-it-a-good-idea-to-idle-truck-at-feels-like-9f-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/is-it-a-good-idea-to-idle-truck-at-feels-like-9f-truckersreport-com-trucking-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a good idea to idle truck at &#8220;feels like -9F&#8221;? | TruckersReport.com Trucking Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tI live in SD so im pretty used to freezeing temps. The &#8220;feels like&#8221; as others have said is more what it feels like to you as a person. The truck doesnt give a ####. At worst with enough wind it will cool the truck down faster as whatever insulation is avalible via either actual.insulation or tight spaces is stripped away.<\/p>\n<p>That said with properly treated fuel (anti gel to be clear) your going to be good down to around -10 ambient and with pure #1 fuel will be good down to around -40 (ive had vehicles start as low as -50 with pure #1). However, while it should be fine, its best practice to idle when its going to be below 0 due to the costs of filters, towing, shop time ect.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally as it gets colder the less capacity batterys have. And older worn batterys may not have the umph to get you started even without gelling up at extreme temps.\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\/is-it-a-good-idea-to-idle-truck-at-feels-like-9f.2519699\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I live in SD so im pretty used to freezeing temps. The &#8220;feels like&#8221; as others have said is more what it feels like to you as a person. The truck doesnt give a ####. At worst with enough wind it will cool the truck down faster as whatever insulation is avalible via either actual.insulation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}