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you could always tap on the window and ask.

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No one said it was a good reason. B-) If I was doing that I'd have an aux battery for the chargers to avoid them accidentally being left on and flatening the vehicle battery.

Suspect a combination of heat(*)/coolth and/or listening to radio and/or battery charging are the reasons.

(*) Though diesels barely put out any heat when idling.

I have done this. All I got was a strange look. Of course the driver could have been Eastern European and didn't understand what I was asking.

In message snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk>, "Dave Plowman (News)" snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk> writes

Try tapping on the window and asking? I have noticed the same phenomenon at Hatfield Tesco but assumed they were running aircon or heater. Tool charging does make sense.

Maybe not when they are also parked diagonally across disabled spaces. It's pretty obvious who they care about. [1]

It would if it was but still not really a good justification IMHO.

Cheers, T i m

I wasn?t expecting you to ,there is a meaning behind the word ?Some? which you ought to have got the hang of by now . More I think would be using the AC , being bigger and not always well insulated compared to a car vans warm up quickly in the sun and soon become uncomfortable to sit in.

GH

I did tool charging in the van till I ceased work some 12 years ago, back then due to having different makes of tool non of which AFAIK offered a 12 charger I used an inverter . 850 watts hard wired to the battery .More than the chargers needed but meant I could use the odd corded item like a decent lead lamp ( LEDs have really transformed things since then). Despite the inverter rarely being asked to give its full output I was always a little cautious at running for too long without the engine turning. It would have been a rare thing then but now in tool chargers from the 12v socket are more common as are more modern high capacity batteries but that means you need more juice to fully charge them up.

GH

I would think many such van drivers don?t own or lease the van and could add such things to an employers vehicle even if they had the technical ability . Some employers mind really penny pinch , I knew my tenure with a firm I got tuped to was going to be short when I saw the state of the vehicles their existing employees were saddled with, one afternoon I was contacted and told ? come back to the yard and collect the spare wheel and take it to Peter as he has a puncture.? Peter was a round trip of 120 miles away on top of what I already had to do , THE spare wheel I asked? oh yes we only have the one. The tight owner of the firm never replaced tyres until they had just gone illegal and had the spare wheels of all the fleet removed to be used rather than pay for new tyres.

GH

There's a layby near my house and people often do this. They also have sex with the engine and heater on. I wouldn't be able to concentrate; I'd be worrying about the gear lever being knocked.

Bill

In a Transit it goes off after an hour.

bill

It's their profession.

Bill

Don't they have a row a little valves nowadays then, and an inverter?

Bill

I had an aux battery and charging relay to power an inverter for power tools etc.

Bill

They don't need a good reason to do it and there isn't a good reason from their point of view to not do it.

Bill

think if I had sex with an engine, I wouldnt care about the heater being on.

not that there is much chance after prostate problems eh Bill ?

An inverter would be rather posh. More likely a vibrator power supply.

AIUI there were valves developed to run off 12v HT specifically for use in automobiles.

Yup - and not polarity sensitive, so idea for old cars. ;-)