Kenwoth conspericy

South Park is the shiznit! :smt023

 

be very very careful did u knw dat KW was code 4 (K)ILL (W)ITNESSES

 

And here we go keeping the thread alive. Bump!

 

No it stands for King Walking lol

 

After working for Wabash National for years and knowing what goes on there, it would not surprise me in the least bit to find out very bad things other manufacturers of whatever said product may be.

Just a few things off the top of my head from Wabash.
1. 10-12 suspensions a week would go out without a cotter pin in the hub. Luckily, the hub usually falls off as it's still rolling down the line, but there were a few that made it on to I-65 heading towards Indy. I'm sure you can guess what happened. A Roehl inspector witnessed one roll off on the line and simply said, "I see nothing has changed here."

2. 3 trailers that were on the road had the axle break off within 200 miles of being on the road. The axle welders never could grasp that you can't just keep cranking up the heat and wire speed to get faster production. All they did was make the metal brittle and the rest is history. They ran like this for about a year before Wabash caught them.

3. If a suspension frame is actually built by Wabash(mostly doubles), the newest and the worst of the welders will be building them. It is the slowest part of the bogey department so anyone not worth a crap is thrown over there. The new guys take a one week, 40 hours welding class at Wabash then are thrown into welding frames right off the bat. 40 hours welding nicely cut sections of mild steel in class does not prepare you for production welding of a frame.

This is just a small view into what they do there.

Does this mean everything this guy is saying is true? No. But don't think that practices that put your life in danger don't exist in manufacturing because they definitely do. This also doesn't mean every factory on the planet has poor practices like this. I simply am just trying to point out that you can't take quality for granted.

And I'll finish with my favorite motto an undercoat painter told me once for Wabash. "If in doubt, ship it out."

 

i kinda like the way my 8 inch stacks look. but i draw the line at 8 inch i once saw a peterbit with 14inch stacks it had the standard unibilt sleeper and the stacks stuck out farther than the sleeper fairings

 

Different movie,Ithink.....Or on the History Channel now..

 

a peterbit with 14inch stacks just stick 2 CULVERTS on , be the same GOOFY look

 

We pulled an American trailer from OKC factory and got to CA where they inspected it and found a cracked brake drum. It was Mfg inspection fault but we had to have it fixed and pay thhe $450 fine. Be careful how you state things on here as a manufacturer can come back and sue you for it.

 

If it was a mgf defect they will replace it on warentty and if your loud enough they might do something about the fine(well they might)