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John Dennehy

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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.

Trailer Heaters

July 17, 2007 @ 4:11 pm


Q.		John, We are still looking for a viable alternative to Carrier Solara and Thermo-King Heat King for Full Trailer Loads hauling flammables that run in regions that we feel do not require the diesel with heat exchanger design. Must have DOT exemption.

Well I had to do a little research on this one. I visited the web sites to understand what these units you are talking about did. Essentially they are generator sets that can provide heat and cool if they have too. Smaller gen sets are quite popular in the truck market now as anti-idling devices providing the creature comforts of home to drivers. Some consider them APU's. To answer your question , the only thing I can think of and recommend is using a high heat out put forced air heater like Espar's D8LC, http://www.espar.com/html/products/D8LC.html It is quite capable of heating a 53 foot trailer and runs very much like your home furnace. It does not have the exchangers like the larger generator units. It does however need a supply of diesel fuel to run.