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About 6wks ago, I moved into a Next Gen 680 and doing roughly the same, at similar weights, with no trailer aero. Unfortunately, the POS has the ongoing injector issues. It was in the shop 4wks ago, then, the CEL came back on this week for the same thing. A batch of new trucks came in and the rumor is I’m moving into one of those, now. Ugh!

I’ve been looking at who you pull for, just thinking if I should get serious about other options.

 

Yes. MX13. However, we’ve had so many topend issues and connecting rods disconnect on the X15, I don’t see it being a better option. It’s definitely not as nice of an engine to drive.

Oof! I was thinking you were on with TraLo. I’ve been away for awhile, so my memory is a bit rusty.

 

Yes. It was him.

Friday, a tech dumped a couple bottles of, what is supposedly, a PACCAR-specific fuel additive, into my full tanks. Today, I get 20 miles down the road and the thing started intermittently dropping an injector, which it has never done. It kept doing that the rest of the day. Tomorrow, I’m going to call a service mgr and see how they want to deal with this. I might be moving into a new truck sooner than I thought. And, that won’t be fun, as I run a time-sensitive, dedicated loop and going up to HQ would add 4hrs to it. Ugh!

 

I work for a bunch of underachievers who simply outlasted the other warm bodies who came through the revolving door. Drivers like you and I are looked at as troublemakers, because trucking is engrained in us and we’re constantly seeking better ways to do it, we hold ourselves to a higher standard and expect the same from others, and we came from an era where accountability mattered.

I thought about having them run the new truck to a mutual meeting spot. However, there are very few drivers left, so there won’t be anyone to do it. HQ and my satellite location have less than half the drivers they started the year with. They keep it up and the few of us remaining drivers will be gone, as well.

 

I'm with you. I'm 50 and have no interest in retiring but I might if I ever have to work for anybody again. Every business I used to know a lot about has changed so much I might as well be a new guy.

My tax guy always asks me why I got into trucking and all of its regulations and BS if I want to work for myself. My answer is that I just don't know anything like I know this. And I still enjoy it when it's good.

 

It’s too late for me to do it, now, as I only have a few years left. I got cold feet, in the late-90’s, but, should’ve done it, then. For sure, I do still think about it, though.