Need advice from someone EXPERIENCED with new freightliner glider kits

Well these are the comments I love. I guess you've had a little more time to think it through than us. I guess we THOUGHT we could trust our much closer Freightliner dealer/shop to be of much more help than they were. In hindsight you are right. But we THOUGHT that it would get looked at "properly" at the much closer dealership that Harrison agreed we could take the truck to. Now that you've read the entire story from beginning to close end, it certainly is easy to poke in an opinion about what we should have done. Oh yes, and if you read the first quote all the way through you would know that our truck will NEVER get close to 7 mpg doing what we're doing with it so you can adjust your math down to closer to 5.5 which is the absolute best we are hoping for and that makes it a difference of $464. I suppose you've never done anything that you questioned afterwards? The purpose of this thread was to find out if anyone else out there with a Glider had experienced the same issues and could help us skip over all of the crap and get to the exact problem. I have received so awesome feedback - and at least 2 that are just plain rude. But I thank you for your wisdom anyway.

 

FYDA of Cincy has been much more helpful and concerned than anyone in D.M. I appreciate his concern and we are keeping in contact on the issue. I will try to keep you all updated but as I mentioned before you may need to remind me. I don't get on the internet a whole lot - I have been more since I started this thread because I have been looking for help. I do all the bookkeeping for our company and also have 2 small children to take care of so if you comment I do so appreciate your patience in letting me get back to you. Thank you!

 

That is alot of money over a year but so far we've with the way we've handled it, not the best way I grant you but, we've brought it up from 4.0 to 4.9 in a week. We also realize that some of the loss right now is due to the fact that it is brand new and needs broke in. Whether we like it or not that part will take time. Just a draw back of buying a brand new truck I guess but hopefully it will be broke in soon. He usually puts more than 1700 miles a week in, that week was slow partly due to other issues the truck had right off the bat. I truly hope you are right about getting 5.8 with what we are doing with it. Our old truck wouldn't get better than 4.6 on it's best week. Thank you for wishing us the best. I have the utmost respect for most truck-drivers always and we wish you the best also.

 

You're right, it won't happen overnight but it's so depressing to have these kinds of troubles with a brand new truck. I do know what you mean about it wearing on you. The reason my husband got rid of the Pete was because of fuel mileage and costly repair after repair over the years. The biggest reason that we can't afford to lose money right now or be off the road right now is because that truck drained us repeatedly. Beautiful as she was, wife #1 (the truck) was a gold-digger! Last December alone we replaced the transmission and pto in one week to drain us of approx $12,000. OUCH! Then a new rear-end in January! Hard to come back from expenses like that in just 3 months. My husband is a big stickler on maintanence so it wasn't because she wasn't WELL taken care of! Even my dad has driven a truck about 3X as long as my husband and he likes to have my husband work on it for him because he knows how picky he is.
Really appreciate your positive feedback. He hates making mistakes and has been hard enough on himself about the situation. It feels really good to get encouragement, especially from other drivers. Thank you!

 

And so comments the other rude one. Thanks but no thanks. I wanted anything but sympathy. But I'm not shocked to have at least one arrogant jerk poke a nose in. You are right. Some people are more assertive than others. My husband HATES conflict. That's why he isn't on here, I am. He doesn't deal with people like you and ####y mechanics well. That's why I posted the thread, so we could possibly learn from someone else's situation and get right to the problem. And just so you know, a "reasonable person" assumes nothing. No, he doesn't have patience. Pretty sure you wouldn't be so ####y if you didn't have a keyboard to hide behind. Good luck to you. Go find someone else to bully. I don't need your opinion.

 

Wonderful. But so far the issue appears to be fixed after he flushed the lines so I don't understand the comment I guess. No, you don't do the same work. It's great that you get that kind of mileage with an older truck in the mountains. But you're probably not idling at all. The truck must idle for approx 30 minutes at a time, approx 6 times a day while it runs the PTO to unload feed into bins. That's gonna eat up the mpg quickly. He does work at it. All day every day. And most of the loads are local. Not more that 45 minutes from the mill. But I'm sure with your 5 years experience you still no more about working at it. I hate the negative comments. I don't need anyone to ruin my day. If you don't have real advice or anything nice to say then please be on your way and go bother someone else with your expertise. I got all the help I needed from some really great drivers. That's all I wanted. And then I got really bad attitude from a couple arrogant ones. I expected it but I still don't like it.