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Mr. Dennehy has been V.P. of Marketing and Communications with Espar for 9 years. He has played an integral part in working with several levels of government agencies in both the U.S. and Canada to bring awareness to the challenges of idling, anti-idling technologies and the reduction of green house gases. Mr. Dennehy will entertain questions on anti-idling technologies, state regulations and state/province initiatives regarding rebates/incentives and also idling laws and fines within each state.

percentage time on idling

July 17, 2007 @ 3:40 pm


Q.		We recently started watching our idling time very closely and have reduced our numbers greatly but would like to do better. What is the an acceptable percentage time for idling.

A few years ago the average idle times were between 40 - 50%, that is and was staggering. With new initiatives and regulations we've seen these numbers come down to around 30-40%, however I know there are fleets who are religious about not idling engines and they have gotten them down to as low as 7-10%. One very large fleet that we have worked with in the past and continue to today has there idle time in at 19% and they are happy about that. So I would say to you that 15-20% would be a good target.