Cascadia lane departure....

Guess I'm lucky, on mine, if I turn it off with the switch it stays off until I cycle the key on/off or I turn the switch back on.

 

ROTFLMAO!!!

 

Depending on your company, you may TEMPORARILY turn it off in those situations.

If you wreck with it off...

Game over for disabling a safety feature that the lawyers will argue WOULD have WITHOUT A DOUBT prevented the accident.

 

Unscrew the speakers, un plug the connector to the speakers. Reinstall.
Unless the safety guy rides with you, no one will ever know.

 

Pull the correct fuse inside the dash and you'll be set. All the cascadia's have a fuse for it. If you're a company driver replace it with a blown fuse to avoid trouble.

 

The number 35 fuse pull it and lane departure will not come on.

 

Ok, sorry not sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but here goes.

I actually like the LDW in Volvos, because it's nice to have a little warning if I'm going out of my lane. However, the Freightliner LDW sound is inexcusably bad. It's shockingly loud, and the sound itself would be distressing at almost any audible volume level. Once it went off when I was on a narrow two-lane road in a mountain pass, lots of cars in the oncoming lane, steep cliff face to the left and steep drop to the right. I was hugging the white line to keep my trailer well away from the center line. When the system reactivated (in a downhill curve), the alarm went off and startled me so badly that I involuntarily jerked the steering wheel. Running off the road with a 3 foot margin between pavement and certain, fiery death because of a "safety" feature will make you take matters into your own hands. That night, I spent a couple hours figuring out how to disable it, and I did, but I spent the rest of my time with that carrier worried about what would happen if I was in a wreck that involved lane departure.

Everything on these trucks is managed by a computer, so I can't help but wonder if there's a way to reduce the volume and change the tone of the alarm sound. Does anyone know how to do that on a Freightliner? I'm not driving one currently, but I'm sure I'll eventually end up in one again.

 

I plan to get it disabled the next time I am in the shop.
I am a company driver.

All it takes is asking the question to the shop person.
They can hook up the computer and turn it off.

Such an annoying tidbit of technology, isn't it?

 

I tried at Schneider but the techs wouldn't do it because of the company's policy.