Max force crazy regen?

Team driver for a company. Just recently got out of a really bad 2012 freightliner having regen/def issues breaking down a lot and into a 2013 international with a Maxxforce engine. I've read about the problems but right now it's running. Wheels are moving and that means paychecks. I'm sure it will break down eventually.

te company has it set up to only allow idling when it's below or above certain temps. Well we have definitely been at the lower end. But the truck freaks out sometimes when we idle. It will rev up to about 1500 RPMs and hold it there for awhile. I'm thinking regen, right? But when it's done the RPMs drop, truck sputters like it's drowning, and would stall if I didn't give it throttle. Then it smokes. I couldn't see where the smoke was coming from cuz it wasn't that dark, but it stunk. I thought it was from the exhaust pipe. But we had the hood open once and we could see the smoke come from engine compartment. This is a company truck and as long as it keeps moving the company doesn't really care too much. I'm just wondering if I should be watching out for a disaster...

Thanks ked to anyone who can provide info!!

 

We are a team so it rolls quite a bit. Something I neglected to mention is when it's done regening, less than 5 min later it does it again. And once it starts on this cycle, it will not stop until we drive. I never notice a regen while driving. And the only time we idle is when we are waiting on a load over night and it's so cold our bunk heater just won't keep up. So we need the heat on. We dealt with the cold one night cuz I was afraid of carbon monoxide poisoning it was happening that often...

 

I only notice the smoke when it's doing the idle regen.i understand it has to do this sometimes. It just bothers me that if we have to spend the night waiting for our delivery point to open and it 5 degrees outside, the truck will rev up, hold, release,smoke us out like a bug bomb, then stall. If I throttle when it wants to stall it will stay running, only to rev up 3-5 mind later. And it will do this over and over for hours. HOURS!!

 

Yep. Mines nondef also. We haven't been told by the truck to do a manual regen yet. I just can't understand why it's doing it automatically over and over. If we let it, it would do the same process for at least 8 hours straight. I also don't understand why it wants to die each time the regen is over. Weird. I guess as long as that is a normal process- I can't b*%#h.