An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

You're fortunate you got one of the 1st batch of the new ones. Based on talking to a few other drivers with trucks from the later batch, they're so castrated they can barely get out of their own way with any weight on deck.

At least you have a more living space with this one. The sleepers on those blue trucks weren't all that spacious.

 

I always thought those T-8's had a lot smaller sleeper than the T-680s for some reason.

Moore's mDrives would do that, they also had performance and economy mode. The 1st one I had would stay in performance mode until you shut the truck off. The 2nd one would only stay in performance for 10-15 minutes the go back to eco. The only thing performance mode did is eliminate gear skips and wound the engine up higher before shifting. Of course the mDrive was maddening because, with glass, you needed to take off smooth and shift smooth. With the mDrive, if you tried to take off easy, it upshifted too early and lugged, but just a red #### hair more throttle and the truck took off hard and torqued the front end up like a tractor at a tractor pull.

Creaffer's D12s did the same thing yours it doing, no matter how much weight you had. Take off in too high of a gear, then downshift, and unless your foot was flat on the floor they tried to skip 2, 3 even 4 gears when it upshifted again, then realize it couldn't pull in that gear and drop 1 or 2.

 

Had to reboot the Sam-crappa every time I stopped today. And instead of logging the location of the 1st change wrong, then the next change right, it logged every location for all the changes of duty as the last location I stopped. Each time, a reboot fixed it. We have been using these for over a year now, that's plenty of time for the morons at Sam-crappa to resolve the issues. Over my holiday hometime I believe I will be filing a grievance with the Feds about the constant issues with these POS. Maybe if Sam-crappa has to deal with the gubbermint, maybe they might be more inclined to pull their head our of their ### and figure out where their flaw is with their software.

 

Hope the crew in SC bundles up. They're under a freeze warning until 0900 tomorrow. Temps as low as 29 expected. That doesn't sound bad for some areas this close to December, but for coastal SC, they'll need snowmobile suits to be outside at those temps