Climate Express

It’s going alright, I can’t wait for the rain to come back! I’m mentally over summer already lmao.

 

I also forgot to mention that ya gotta beware of air seeping out of the center plug due to that internal part that goes bad. An then @Thrasher28 it will present signs of oil leakage also.

 

"Left Lane Closed"...."Trucks Use Left Lane"

Pretty much sums up the back-to-back shirt show days I've had. Get back to the yard from Troy yesterday morning and I get a load picking up at the yard going to wallyworld in Pageland. P/u was set at 12:30, so I sat and waited, did some planning, etc. I texted a buddy I was in orientation with cuz I thought I saw his truck in the lot cleaned out. Turns out it wasn't his truck. Then about an hour later he texts me saying he just dropped his last load in the yard and was quitting already. Asked if he dropped my trailer, he said yes. Cool. Originally I had planned on taking a 10 at the yard, and head out in the wee hours of the morning. Laid down and took a little nap. Woke up around 1500 with one of those bad feelings. Decided to go ahead and hook up and head down the road a bit then call it a day. Dang good thing I did. Dude didn't put his bols in the trailer. Left them in his truck. Didn't even turn them in with his trip sheets. Glad I didn't find this out at 0100 last night. Glad I had his number so I could call him and ask wtf lol.
But wait, there's more!
Got the bols situated, and hooked to the trailer. Dude had the tandems dang near all the way back. Why I dunno. In my attempts to slide them up to the front...the dang trailer brakes wouldn't hold for me to slide them. After fighting with it for over 30 minutes, I decided to just let the thing sit for a few minutes, and apparently that's all it needed. Got down to the scale haus and only had to move back 6 pins for a dang near perfect 50/50 split. Made me happy, 3 years out of the game and I still got it lol.
Then today....whiskey tango foxtrot....
Made it thru Nashville with no problems other than traffic, didn't even need my GPS, it all came back to me like I had just done it last week. Was feeling real good.
Then about half way across Tennessee, just past the 4% grade, there was a cop on the shoulder just on the other side of that last big dip. No biggie, or so I thought. Moved to the left lane, jakes on 3, moseying my way down, when this idiot trucker in the left lane about 1/4 mile up gets to the cop and decides to panic stop to like 15mph. Brake lights start flashing, I get down on the brakes like I normally would...but the GD truck wouldn't slow down! I'm coming down a steep-### hill and for whatever reason the transmission felt like it went to neutral, and it felt like my driver's front brake locked up cuz it did a nosedive in that direction and the whole kit'n caboodle shimmied in the lane. Maybe it's cuz I'm not yet used to having to manually downshift the jakes (which is an asinine thing to have to do...every other auto truck I've ever driven did it...automatically). But, I did manage to get her hunkered down...2 foot from the backside of the car in front of me. Turns out the right lane was free and clear all the way back up the hill, so I could've just moseyed over and avoided the whole thing, but in my infinite wisdom thought that might piss the cop off lol. And amazingly enough, it didn't trigger an event, so I won't have to deal with safety lol.
And if that wasn't enough, an hour down the road, the truck tells me it needs a parked regen. Great. Where tf am I gonna go? Thankfully there was a Loves a mile down the road. Got parked, hit the buttons for the regen...."REGEN UNAVAILABLE". ####. Wtf do i do now? Fiddled with it for a few minutes, then called the shop. Got passed around a few times, then finally got ahold of Chirs (I think). Well, while I was holding, I figured I'd shut the truck down, crank it back up, and see if that works. Thankfully it did, got it done, and now I'm relaxing after a very aggravating 28 hours. Sure hope the weekend goes by better. Got a backhaul from Arden going to hopefully the yard Monday morning that doesn't deliver to a wallyworld in west MO Tuesday night.

/rant

 

Crazy that he quit only a week and a half in. I whine more than most people would like to hear and still couldn't imagine leaving a job after a week and a half. Makes me wonder if he 'involuntarily' quit. Either way, it's ridiculous he couldn't put the effort in to put the bills with the trailer.

24 is always a pain. Me and @bryan21384 have spent way more time on 24 than we'd like. At least I have lol. Half of my home time loads in my career have down 24 and usually the same leaving home. I agree about the Jake brake -- no sense over complicating something. Just give us low-med-high settings and call it a day. Once you get used to the Volvo joke, it's kinda nice, but it was irritating at first.

Mack's and Volvos are notorious for parked regen issues. Seems like the 'conditions' are never met. Just have to fiddle with it and hope for the best

 

Pretty decent miles this week considering 5 picks and 5 drops with 11 hours still on my 70. 3069 is enough to make me happy wirh the paycheck. 2 drops and 2 picks today alone. Delivered in Columbus, picked up in New Albany, dropped it at Henkel in STL, and picked up at Midwest and ran out to Vandalia for the night on my way to Indianapolis. 70 used to be pleasant until Illinois decided to put 30 miles of work zones in a 100 mile span lol. Spending an entire week on I-70 did pretty well for my fuel mileage. 8.1mpg is pretty decent, IMO

 

How early will the Pageland wallyworld dc let me in without charging Climate? 30min? 45min? An hour?

 

Even my mack has that extra kick down for the jake. My jakes work really well without it, but if I wanna slow down faster then I just flick it down an it slows me down a bunch faster. It's not a trick. The computers are apparently factory programmed that way. The auto shift has different speed parameters for when it automatically shifts down. Flicking the stalk down manually forces it to drop another gear, effectively bypassing the computer's control.

 

I’ve always went in an hour early no issues

 

The #### show continues. Stopped about an hour after doing my parked regen yesterday. Took off this morning, truck felt like it was running like crap. Wouldn't pull for nothing. Stopped at my fuel stop about an hour down 40, checked everything I could with my very limited knowledge, couldn't find anything wrong. Got back on the road and it felt like it was finally coming around. Got about 40 miles down the road and suddenly the parked regen message popped back up again. Was stuck in a traffic jam at the time, didn't know where tf I was gonna find somewhere to pull into. Luckily there was a rest area a few miles down the road. Doing the regen now. Messaged Travis while I was stuck in traffic, he said to try to get to rec and do my regen there. That would've been fine if I wasn't 160 miles from rec. Soot level on the Guage kept climbing, luckily I got Stopped before it hit orange and went into derate mode. Hope it doesn't pull this crap on the way back to MO tomorrow.