S*** Rolling Downhill

That’s the reality of the warm bodies the industry cares about now. Just steering wheel holders.

 

I remember years ago some local O/O told me he mixed kerosene into his diesel to keep it from gelling in the winter. Can't imagine what that did to his diesel fuel pump....

 

Kerosene and jp8 (jet fuel) are just really really high grade diesel, they can all technically run on any of the 3 how ever kerosene will not lubricate and run it hot as hell. I have heard plenty of people saying they add it as a fuel additive in the winter up here, but it is definitely not recommended

 

What the world?!?!?!?! I don't even know where to begin with that one. I think he killed his career for at least a few years!!!

 

Yep. We regularly used it through the winter months, so stuff would run in ~10°F. And, we’d soak rags in mogas and put them over the air intake, as makeshift ether. Ether was too violent and weak batteries simply couldn’t crank against it. The violence is why I still use brake cleaner as starting fluid, these days.

 

Below 10 degrees I kept the truck running to avoid fuel gelling and DEF freezing. Did you do the same at -50?
You failed to mention any real details about your testing.

And at around 15 or lower degrees for a few days it seemed all the DEF pumps at truck stops froze up and stopped working, here in the lower 48.
Did they test for that as well? Did they find any solutions for that problem?

 

So you fired him because he needed the miles to get his full paycheck, and all he did was wreck your truck?
Outlandish.

I was in a wreck and I thought my truck was totaled. (Not my fault, by the way. I was given a different truck the next day after they saw the dashcam footage.)

A few months later they told me my truck was ready to pick up in Phoenix.
That was my special truck. It was my million mile truck reward from Swift.
Perfect inside and out, like it was brand new.

Swift hired (used?) prison laborers to do the work.

The truck was plenty torn up, but they got it back like new.