Class A Diesel Idling

harryjr wrote:
Disclaimer: NOT trying to start a firestorm

We were on the road for the last 3.5 weeks. It takes us approx 30min. to break camp in the morning. We then start the truck and position, hook up, do a final walk around and leave. Truck idles for maybe five minutes and is Tundra V-8 quiet.

So why in 3.5 weeks did we run into so many diesel class A's who feel the need to start the engine at 6AM and then do God only knows what for the next hour and a half before they leave? You bought a $400K, 400HP, 40 foot RV. Does it really require a 90 minute warm up before you can safely drive it down the road? We only spent one night together, but I promise to miss you when you're gone. Do you need to wake up the entire park to wave goodbye?

Before you tell me I'm just jealous that I don't have a diesel pusher, I'm not. (Well maybe just a little bit). Saw one today that was such a bargain my wallet started to twitch, but I digress.

If there is a reason for the 90 min. warm-up, please explain it to this dumb 5th wheeler.

Thanks,

They want every one to know they have a diesel. They must have talked back to there mother when they were teenagers also. When they worked at the post office they had to follow the rules, not they are hitting back at all the folks who didn't give them that xmas gift. Or maybe it is because they leak so much oil and they are mad, or because when they walked the cat they forgot to clean they shoes and now all the oil they dripped around the rig is inside on the carpet, or someone has a larger better model then them and the wind is just right.
But they can get to the top of the big hill ten sec. sooner.