Pilot Travel Centers, the largest interstate travel center operation in the nation, and IdleAire Technologies Corp. have signed a long-term agreement allowing installation of IdleAire technology in the truck parking lots of all Pilot-owned travel center across the nation.

The first locations are already in the planning stages and are expected to be installed in California, Indiana, New Jersey, Tennessee, Arkansas and many other locations over the next several months.
"We’re obviously very pleased to have this agreement with Pilot," said IdleAire Chief Operating Officer David Everhart. "Pilot has a very large footprint across the U.S. that will help us meet our goal of building a widespread nationwide network of IdleAire service locations."
"The best thing that could happen to the Travel Center industry," said Pilot CEO Jimmy Haslam, "is for a company like IdleAire to create a system that solves the idling challenge for the trucking industry and improves drivers’ lifestyles while creating new revenue for travel centers -- all without creating additional expense for our fleet customers.
"Pilot Corp. is going to put its full weight behind this project," Haslam said.
Currently, IdleAire has operations from New York to California. IdleAire’s system is installed in truck parking lots to allow drivers to turn off their engines instead of idling their engine to heat or cool the cab and use in-cab accessories while they rest.
IdleAire has already signed up about 50,000 drivers as IdleAire members. The system is installed in 12 locations with 535 parking spaces with another location with 60 spaces coming on line this month.
It has already been used by drivers more than 72,000 times, totaling nearly one million hours of use, and has reduced diesel emissions by more than 9,000 tons and conserved about a million gallons of diesel fuel to date.
It provides filtered central heating and air conditioning, 110-volt electrical shore power outlets inside and outside the cab, a Pentium-speed computer with color touch screen, high speed wired and wireless Internet/e-mail, free local phone service, satellite television, movies on demand, Ethernet and wireless Internet access, and computer-based, interactive training.
With headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., Pilot Travel Centers has 264 locations in 37 states, 13,000 employees and annual revenues of $5.5 billion.