An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

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  1. Oxbow

    Oxbow Road Train Member

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    Nope!
     
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  3. Dennixx

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    :)
     
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  4. Oxbow

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    Those def tank inlets are kinda small though, but when it's that cold it fits!:p
     
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  5. kylefitzy

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    I don’t know. If it’s that cold it might freeze before it gets there.
     
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  6. supersnackbar

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    To be honest, in all the years since we have had to use DEF, this is the most widespread shortage I have ever experienced. I have been in bitter cold before, but never saw a 3 state outage before.
     
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  7. Oxbow

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    You would think that the def systems on trucks could be automatically shut off by the computer below a certain temp. I believe it's disabled upon start-up anyway. At least it is on our excavator that uses def.
     
  8. gentleroger

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    I learned my lesson back in 2013 - MN, WI, IL, and IN all froze up. Since then, from November to March if I fuel, I top up the DEF. Then again, I spend most of my time in WI, MN, IA, IL, and IN, so I expect the DEF pumps to not work.
     
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  9. Winnyf1

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    We are moving to Motive (formally Keep Trucking) and the camera will speak to you when you exceed the company speed limit, follow to closely or drive through a stop sign or use your phone. We are also given coaching suggestions and like you have a safety score. Fortunately if there is no event, the camera remains quiet and the driver facing camera remains off. So far the only issue I have with how we have set up the system is the speed tolerance, with the eco cruise engaged on the trucks we can trip the max allowed limit when you are pushing say 5 over on cruise.

    The system is so much easier to use than PeopleNet and has been much more stable, and man so much easier to arrive and depart a shipper now. Like you we will eventually go away from Transflo and use our tablets too…
     
  10. supersnackbar

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    Well, I survived the great frozen def shortage. I stopped at the Walmart in Sioux Falls and bought the only 2 jugs they had available. And those just came in on the general merchandise trailer the night before. One guy even went back in the back room and looked around and said that unless there is more burried in some of the mixed pallets, that's all he could find. Got to Albert Lea and they actually had 2 pumps thawed out, so I topped off all my tanks and hit the road.

    IA's roads were in pretty decent shape until one ramp where US-218 loops around, and it was a Zamboni polished skating rink. Then, on 380 between Cedar Rapids and I-80 it looked like a mix between a demolition derby and a junk yard from all the cars, suvs and big trucks in the ditch and in the median cable. The road wasn't bad today, but the carnage was a result of the storm earlier this week. And the 1st 30-40 miles of I-80 going east was intermittent compacted ice from blowing snow that was just getting run over. There were also a fair number of vehicles in the ditch and cable barrier there as well. You would go 5 or 10 miles with nothing then a mile or two of carnage then 5 or 10 miles of nothing then carnage. I made it all the way to LeRoy, IL where I am camping out tonight. So far the antique has stayed exactly where we secured it, but I still can't wait to deliver this, just to take the pressure of not damaging such a unique vehicle off my shoulders. And I see no coolant leaks...and I am out of the worst of the arctic cold.
     
  11. kylefitzy

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    we were full speed ahead with Motive, even had some trucks in the testing phase. Then Wylie came into the picture. So far samsara and motive seem pretty similar.

    my old truck would ding at me on the peoplenet when I went over 74, our arbitrarily set company speed limit. So far this camera has not said anything about it but I don’t think there’s any hills big enough between the yard and my house to find out.

    with as easy as that truck is to tie down I can’t believe we had one damaged. That’s very frustrating to hear.
     
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