Okay, so I bought a used truck from Crete Carrier.

From the Newsweek article, "Federal prosecutors were seeking what seemed to be unusually sensitive records: internal data from telecommunications companies that showed the locations of their customers' cell phones—sometimes in real time, sometimes after the fact."

From Lawyers.com, "Government agencies can access to your cell phone records (including call logs and text records) with a subpoena if you're part of or connected to a criminal investigation or a civil lawsuit. Your cell phone company is required by law to comply with subpoenas that request the records."

Given the words highlighted in red I would deduce that your phone's tower pings (regardless if they are in use, just turned on) uor postions can be tracked at anytime.

Also read this article, http://www.snopes.com/crime/prevent/cellping.asp. The second and third paragraghs support my view. Cell tower pings act just as Qcomm pings, thereby making our cell phones tracking devices.

 

But you fail to understand the difference between getting AN IDEA OF YOUR LOCATION and getting your location. GPS will be accurate within feet. Cell site can be within a 50 mile radius or more in rural areas and in cities can be 10 miles. You can be standing under a cell tower in Chicago and for many different reasons be connected to the next tower over. But unless you make or receive call or text, they will not even store what cell sites you have been connected to unless ordered to by the court.
So while driving down the road, your phone is communicating with a cell site. But that connection is not stored. But when your qualcom pings you it is asking for a location and that is stored. Because that is what it is intended for, tracking.

 

That is the price of a PM with 8x the oil and a bunch of more expensive filters. I was planning on doing my own but it is a pain and when I paid $70, including synthetic, I'll pay the $20-$30 bucks not to get dirty and frustrated.

 

JD, sounds like the financing is provided by Crete and conditional to being with Crete. However you want to look at yourself is fine. From a legal standpoint it is an L/P and your contracts and agreements are tightly governed by the Truth in Lending laws under the L/P section. This is a good thing for you.

 

Since you have a TK unit, I will share some possible problems you may encounter...there were 3 of us in SLC the other day, 2 of the 3 had the same problem...our Espar/Airtronics heaters went nutz... It seems as though Thermoking/Airtronics offer a thing called an altitude compensator for their under bunk heater units. When operating between 4000 and 10000', it meters the fuel back because of the thinner air...It's an optional part, that Crete didn't purchase. Without it, the unit tends to over fuel and/or flood, and carbon clogs the burner assembly(not just the screen and glow plug, the whole burner housing) Crete's remedy...they flush the thing with kerosene.(TK actually says run it at max temp monthly...that triggers it into self cleaning...but it didn't work for us, probably because nobody has ever explained that part of the unit's operation and they don't service these units until there is a problem)So, if you venture out into the western 'high fuel price' area(which are also the high altitude area's), and your heating unit acts up...that may be the problem.

Plus 2 of us were having problems with the ECM's overload breaker tripping(must be too much acid in the coolant ). They changed the water temperature sensor on my truck's APU, and it seems to have cured the problem(at least until I mentioned it here...now I've done it)

The one mechanic said that there is also a pre-filter on the fuel line that plugs...his hand motion made it seem like it was something about the size of a lawn tractor's fuel filter. That might have been the brass thingy you were talking about.