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It is patently unfair to limit truck idle times to 3 minutes if
shorepower hook-ups are not present AND available for the truck to
use them. Truckers do not idle out of laziness or an unwillingness
to shut off their engines -- they do it because without shorepower
they have no way to modify the climate within the truck cab and
sleeper. Temperatures in the State of California run the extreme
from 120 degrees to near freezing in the deserts, to well below
freezing in northern an mountain regions. 

It is not only unfair to prohibit engine idling, but doing so
creates unsafe, even life-threatening conditions for the trucker
trying to sleep in the sleeper berth. It is therefore mandatory
that anti-idling regulations should only be enforced when
shorepower hook-ups are not only installed in all truckstops and
rest areas, but that they are AVAILABLE for the truckers to use.
In any place where hookups are not provided AND available, idling
MUST be allowed.