Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

But why as a company driver would have you pay for anything? That makes no sense to me? What am I missing here?

 

My mechanical problems always develop 30 minutes away from the house whenever possible, so it can sit in the shop while I sit in the house. Am I the only one? Unless it’s an obvious dot issue I avoid shops on the road. Am I the only one?

 

My private fleet also runs turd-liners that we lease from Penske. Thankfully we turn them in every four years before the worst of the problems start. When you work for a mega and the truck is wore out when they assign it to you this is what you end up with.

 

They still make good trucks, but these larger OTR outfits don’t buy them. They buy the cheap, plastic bumper crap, spec them against the manufacture’s advice, run the crap out of them for 2 or 3 years, rinse and repeat.

I run for a small, 25 truck outfit, drive a 2015 Pete 389 with 615k on the clock and there’s no intention of replacing it anytime soon. It’s built better than the plastic bumper Petes, it’s spec’d correctly for the type work it’s expected to perform and it isn’t governed. And, guess what? It never breaks down. The only issues I’ve had with it in the whole 615k is one sensor at around 320k.

 

You are exactly right Frank.

 

I run a 379 for 9 years that needed a injector at a million.2 Fleet truck but well maintained.

 

Where did you get 210K miles? I didn’t mention that. Just said we only keep them 4 years. I’m just thankful I don’t have to babysit a truck for 168hrs a week for 6-8 weeks on road like you do.

 

Mine sometimes crop up when I receive a 300-400 mile weekend load. Or once when I had completed a run and was never given anything else to do.

 

I guess you misunderstood me snackbar. I’m not leasing the truck the company does. In 41 years I’ve never had any desire to own or lease a truck. I pull into the yard on Friday, drop my wagon, pull on to the fuel island and Hose A and Hose B take it from there. Go to the house and it’s clean and ready to ride on Monday.