My job (delivery of material) calls for me to constantly stop and start for 8 hours a day. My stops can range anywhere from 1 minute to 10 minutes. I was wondering if it was better to shut the engine off everytime I stop?

 

leave it run IMO, a majority of engine wear comes from starting.

 

I figured it would be better to, I know it will wear the starter out quicker, what else can it do to the engine. I have 'brillant minds' above me that want us to shut the engine off everytime we step out of the truck.

 

Run it!

 

Is there anything in writing to back the reasoning? I work for idiots basically and they have to have things in writing to make some decisions. They've had a couple of the guys tell them that it will wear the starter out sooner and so forth, but didn't listen of course.

 

IMO, shut that mother off every chance you get and when, the starter does goes out, you can say "told ya so"