Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

I thought there was a workaround for the KW's city horn honk before KW's version of opti-idle started the engine. The other day in Mechanicsburg, while I was waiting on the Ops manager to call, one of the new 50### KW's was parked near me and it honked twice every so often before it started. That's got to be annoying to be next to in a truckstop.

 

I've never heard any of the older KW's do it, I doubt all of them have their horn unplugged. Besides, anytime the truck would go into the shop, they'd plug it back in, then threaten (warn) the driver about tampering.

 

Not for a company inspection.

 

I always thought it was stupid for KW to wire the city horn as a startup warning. Even the engineers at Junkliner put a separate low volume beeper as a warning, and those rocket surgeons aren't the brightest bulb in the string.