Taking the plunge. My journey as an O/O.

The thing is that the jakes on the truck ALSO operate automatically in response to vehicles detected by the collision detection system. Even if I have the jakes turned off, they still activate to brake the truck if I am overtaking from the rear.

So I knew my jakes were working, because they had worked earlier. But at the same time they were NOT working because of how they were set.

Hindsight is 20/20. I strongly believe I will never have this particular oversight again.

 

It is a serious disease. A lot like a nasty flu. It should be treated seriously.

There is a difference between treating something cavalierly and respecting it's danger in a responsible manner.

Covid-19 will kill people. That's a fact. It is also a fact that overreacting to a threat can be more damaging to a community than the threat itself.

 

Pretty sure it happened during Katrina.

 

Still here. Taking a 34 in Redding, CA while I get a B service done and some codes read. Having an oil sample pulled as well, so I can have it analyzed for signs of engine issues before the 1 year unlimited warrantee on the engine rebuild is done.

Miles are up now that I'm stable on the national o/o reefer fleet. Last few loads have been averaging about 1500 miles, with about half the stops being live. Current load is a slack load which is letting me do a 34 in-route.

 

Nope, mine's red, and in the shop right now. Going to be picking it up tomorrow.

 

Welp, the two codes that were read were low coolant (expected) and NoX (expected.) I had just come off a 34 when the codes appeared, so the NoX was normal after a lot of cold idling for the opti-idle system. The coolant has been very slowly dropping over the last month and I topped it off that day at lunch, and the L1 code went away.

Had the oil sample pulled, but this Freightliner in Redding, CA apparently does not process oil samples. They will take samples, but not send them away for testing, so I will have to get that done myself. Joy.

The amount of official support for older modern trucks from Freightliner is really going to ####. How in the hell can any manufacturer-affiliated shop not have a process set up for processing oil samples? Ridiculous.