idle

Our experience shows for instance that idle time on excavators is lower than that average, while loaders and haul trucks are higher than average as they legitimately have to "wait" in their normal daily operation.

Idle time is a cancer to the industry and to your business.

Before we go into detail about an approach to managing idle time and its associated costs, we have to address an important point about idling.

A recent study suggests that in the peak of winter, Canadians voluntarily idle their vehicles for a combined total of more than 75 million minutes a day--equivalent to one vehicle idling for 144 years.

There are many reasons why people will tell you they should idle their vehicles' engines.

EPA data have shown that a long-haul truck at idle for 1 hour burns approximately 3.8 liters (1 gallon) of diesel fuel.

State agencies, such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority--a pioneer in the field of idle reduction--and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, also have funded numerous projects.

By some estimates, a typical truck driver may idle an average of six to eight hours a day.

The new regulation states that trucks cannot idle for longer than five minutes (with some exceptions) unless a vehicle is equipped with a verified auxiliary power unit (APU) or has an engine that meets the N[O.sub.x] idling emissions requirements of 30 g/bhp-hr or less.

The 12-hour idle period used 116.9 therms of gas and 184.5 kWh of electricity.

During a normal operating year, the foundry has 4000 hours of sand process time and 4760 hours of idle time.