For Any Retired People Needing a Few Money
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At least in New York City, you can film "idling" trucks and make $87
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This is an example of what happens when laws get passed by people with no knowledge of things.
One of the first things you are told by the manufacturer of diesel engines is to NEVER turn off a diesel engine until you have allowed it to idle for a while to cool down the engine. If you start a diesel, drive it long enough to bring the operating temperature up to normal, and then shut it off..... you will destroy the engine in short order. Exhaust manifolds warp, pistons seize, blocks crack, etc..., diesel engines are designed to idle using next to no fuel. As for pollution - you'll have a lot more pollution coming from the thousands of diesel engines going down the road blasting smoke because the engine is half shot from forcing the driver to shut it off every time he stops than you'll ever have from allowing them to idle,
New York lawmakers need to stop trying to dictate to people about things they don't have a clue about.
I'm reminded of a story that was supposedly true ( I don't know) about government officials deciding wolves needed to be reintroduced into a region now used to raise sheep. They also passed a law making it a crime to shoot a wolf. Of course the sheep farmers began losing sheep right and left..
The sheep farmers had a meeting with government officials to complain. They wanted the right to kill the wolves. The know it all government officials refused, and one of them suggested the solution was to introduce birth control measures......
One of sheep farmer stood up and said "son, I don't think you understand the problem. The wolves are fucking our sheep, they're eating them....."
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@Larry said in For Any Retired People Needing a Few Money:
This is an example of what happens when laws get passed by people with no knowledge of things.
One of the first things you are told by the manufacturer of diesel engines is to NEVER turn off a diesel engine until you have allowed it to idle for a while to cool down the engine. If you start a diesel, drive it long enough to bring the operating temperature up to normal, and then shut it off..... you will destroy the engine in short order. Exhaust manifolds warp, pistons seize, blocks crack, etc..., diesel engines are designed to idle using next to no fuel. As for pollution - you'll have a lot more pollution coming from the thousands of diesel engines going down the road blasting smoke because the engine is half shot from forcing the driver to shut it off every time he stops than you'll ever have from allowing them to idle,
New York lawmakers need to stop trying to dictate to people about things they don't have a clue about.
Yes and no. Trucks don’t need to idle for hours on end, it’s a 5-minute cool down, and the law does allow for 5 minutes of idling, but the drivers don’t have the time to sit there and wait for 5 minutes of idling. Many types of deliveries only take between 5-10 minutes. Asking those trucks to sit there for 5 minutes will cut their capacity and income by half.
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OTOH, this legislation is little more than carbon virtue signaling, as the truck-idling environmental concern is not the 20-foot delivery trucks, but the long haul trailers that are parked on the roadsides and at truck stops that never turn off and idle 12-16 hours a day… They are idling for a different reason. That’s essentially that trucker’s home. Many have small sleeping compartments with refrigerators, tv’s, and such. That engine is powering their heat/ac, electricity for their fridge, TV, etc…
The best answer for the problem is to get power stations set up at truck stops that truckers can plug into similar to RV’s at a camp sight. That would accomplish a hell of a lot more good and cost a lot less than building hundreds of thousands EV charging stations across the US…
