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pet peeve: why do truck and bus drivers neverr switch off their engines when they have to wait for a while??? -- nm

Posted by marcel (aka marcel) Mar 11 '09, 14:17

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I'm not talking a minute, they do it easily for 10 minutes and more -- nm - marcel Mar 11, 14:27 1
- and i asked several of them, none could give me a reason why it was necessary. they all switched off. -- nm - marcel Mar 11, 14:28
It probably turns off their heat/everything else they may have on in their cab. Agreed, it's annyong -- nm - con_carne Mar 11, 14:21
more efficient. -- nm - tRuMaN Mar 11, 14:19
Diesel engines take more energy to get started, so it's more efficient to leave them idle, perhaps? -- nm - znufrii Mar 11, 14:19 1
- and in the case of very cold weather, you're not going to get them restarted. -- nm - Reagen Mar 11, 14:20

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