Van Wyk Inc.

I was kidding

 

i knew you was... but since me and you have the same year KW's, when you idle overnight, what rpms you set it on??? trying to avoid the smoke in the morning you know...

 

Don't worry about your job, Matt. It's just going to let Mexicans come in with freight and go out with freight, just like the Canadians. They can't do any freight that originates in the US and terminates in the US.

Also, a lot of Mexican carriers pay equal to or better than ours (relatively speaking, mostly). It's the illegal immigrants to the US that have a reputation for accepting rock bottom wages. Mexican nationals, not so much.

 

I just hit the cruise and run it at whatever the default "fast idle" RPM setting is.

In the AM, though, if I've been idling all night I do a parked regen before hitting the road. With the exhaust down low, one time I was pulling out onto the highway and it was blowing white or blue smoke everywhere when I was on the get-on ramp and pulled over on the ramp to investigate. It was hard to tell where the smoke was coming from but it didn't smell like brakes so I said the hell with it and took off. It stopped smoking after I got to 65 mph. It does that every once in a while. I told "Deano" about it and he said that all the Kenworths do that sometimes and it's nothing to worry about unless it gets bad, like if it's doing it all the time or something.

 

I think I misread your original post on the issue, which makes my response mostly irrelevant.

Oops.

 

Some of the Mexican carriers drive some nice equipment. One I see frequently is Autotanques Nieto, which is a large tanker carrier. The drivers have brand new Kenworth midroof sleepers and the trailers look very well taken care of. The drivers wear uniforms and speak pretty good English.

 

Big businesses in the USA who would benefit from the mexican trucks have reportedly been supplying brand new equipment to the mexican carriers for the sole purpose of tricking the skeptics into believing that mexican carriers can provide decent equipment. Schneider allegedly donated 20 brand new trucks and trailers to some mexican carrier during that cross-border trucking program that Congress had to shut down TWICE during the Bush administration because his DOT secretary found a cute little loop-hole to keep it going after they ordered it shut down the first time.

The biggest fighter in the congressional war against the mexican trucks was a democrat from North Dakota by the name of Byron Dorgan. He didn't seek re-election in 2010, so I don't know what'll happen now that he's out of the fight. Defeating the mexican trucks program was the ONLY thing he was good for. (He still had that "(D)" after his name)

 

You'd best throw up a link or a source for that, otherwise I'm gonna have to kindly ask you to remove your tinfoil hat.