Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

Actually I started out driving million mile equipment, spring ride Armstrong steering no less than 10 drp an hks a day pulling mostly overweight ocean cans in an around Oakland/ San Francisco. Never once on a hook
Then relocated and it was ltl local an line haul multi stop an breaking sets an trips with half million mile equipment again never once on a hook. Granted I've only been at this 26 years I certainly don't know it all or even close to it.

So please enlighten those of that read your statement on how this could be.

 

Unrealistic emission standards were shoved down the trucking industries throat. The time table did not give enough time for technology to catch up. In fact, an actual working technology may not catch up to a heavy diesel engine.

It started with low sulfur fuel that created all kinds of fuel pump and injector problems, especially for older trucks. Additives, mostly the crud in bio-fuel that messes up fuel systems was one of the answers for that. Next was EGR and its problems. Before the EGR system was straightened out, DPF was introduced due to even tighter emissions.

Now we have a combination of low sulfur fuel, Egr, DPF and DEF, with variable turbos, loads of sensors, and truck manufacturing companies that buy outsourced parts from who knows where, use wiring and connectors that will not hold up to today's salt brine and rough roads, and here we are.

Back in the day when you could get any brand engine in any truck, except for Mack at one time, you could order whatever cab you liked with the engine you thought best. Now you get what they give you, and have to live with it. Since most every truck is built to the same shoddy standards, it comes down to a matter of what style you like and what creature comforts you like.

If you read through the garage section, you will find the same problems over and over again, with each specific engine having their own problems that goes on for years. They know they have problems, but don't care because they know the competition is no better. For every customer they lose to a competitor, a competitor loses a customer to them.

 

Double post

 

I have couple of friends who have the kw as well. In the that really big book kw gives you called a user manual it talks about the proper shutdown procedures. If you let the truck idle for 10-15 minutes I think he said it will cool down properly and help keep the dpf system from having issues. He's had a kw now for almost 3 years and hasn't had any dpf issues all once he shut the truck down the way the manual says to. I think there is actually a shutdown idle timer in the menus as well.

Just something to think about.

 

Lol cool started in the same place, man I miss the bay area

 

I always sit for about 3- 5 min to cool. More for cooling the turbo down.

 

I can feel your pain. I had a 2011 Volvo (Volvo lease) signed on with SNI in 2014. I basically was down 3 weeks in 2 shops. First was injectors (2nd set). In shop one week with $400 recovery and motel room. Volvo paid for injectors but I had to pay labor. Headed out of shop on a SNI trailer chase and said there is still something wrong. Check engine light. Back in shop for another week with fuel pump (shops are always behind). Cost me labor, down time and rental car to go home to WI (Thanksgiving week). Got truck back. Booked load to OK. Grabbed a Lawton load to DeKalb. Auto transmission started failing. Limped into Joplin. Down another week. Another $400, rental car to friend's house and lost wages. Trany under warranty. However, this put me so far under I could not recover. I sold truck in Jan 2015. Tried to get out but can't live on minimum wage. Ended up coming back late in 2015 and doing a SNI lease. So far so good.