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All right, between 35 and 75, they won't idle. They'll idle for about seven minutes, and then they'll shut off. So they won't stay idling. When it gets under 35, and I think mine's more like 32, the truck will idle so I can keep it running and keep the truck warm. when it's over 75 degrees, the truck will idle to keep the truck cool so we can sleep. But they have a bunk heater that's underneath the bunk, uses electricity and diesel fuel to generate heat and there's a fan in the system and it keeps the truck nice and warm when it gets cold at night without having to run the engine, but when it doesn't work and it's not cold enough to run the engine, but it's cold enough that you want to be warm, then that's a problem. You can have the truck hooked up to a trailer because the truck will idle if you release the truck brake, but if you're just bobtail, which means not being connected to a trailer, you release that brake, you better have something holding yourself in place. Otherwise, you could go to sleep and wake up and you could be all the way across the parking lot slammed into another truck or halfway down the hill. If you heard that beep, beep, beep, beep, that was letting me know that the truck was getting ready to shut off. I've got it running right now to get some heat collected in here so I can keep working without being too chilled. So that's what I'm doing this morning. I'm going through and getting things out of the way, sorting things, and organizing some things, making some rooms so the mechanics can work on that heater. And then I'm going to take it over to the shop and let them work on it, get that fixed for me so I can get back to a normal life. Chuck's got, what, 517,000 miles on it? So this is the first time I've had trouble with a bunk heater. So three years, 517,000, bunk heater did a good job. All right, I'm back to KB9RSK from Midnite and OFU.