Abilene Motor Express....A New Place To Call Home

I'm home. Thank God, one more day in this truck would have ruined me. 3.5 weeks is my limit, my wife's also. I got home last night at 5pm, left this morning at 6:30, was at my delivery at 7:45, empty at 9am and home at 10:30. My new truck, although brand new, came with an issue. I spent all morning Wednesday moving out of my Cascadia into my KW. When I was finished, I drove to the other end of the terminal to find my trailer. On my way, all of 300 yards, a check engine light came on with a fault code. I went to the shop and was told to bring it up to the KW dealer up the street. I got there at 11am, and 3 hours later I saw them bring it in, hook the computer up to it, and in 15 minute was done with it. All they did was erase the fault code. I went back to the terminal, hooked up to my trailer, then left. As I got onto 95, the same fault code popped up. I was about 15 miles south when it happened, at this point I said the heck with it and continued on.

As I was getting off 95 to stop at Kenly NC, a red triangle light that said stop, don't pass go, abort, beeping and flashing got my attention. I pulled in to the truck stop, got my handy dandy owners manual out and found out the reason for all the noise, I needed to do a parked regen. Really? on a truck that had 198 miles on it? Ok, I followed the instructions like a good little soldier that I am, did the regen and low and behold, all the noise and light display disappeared. About this time, Joe, the driver that got assigned my Cascadia, texted me 3 pictures of my old truck, looking ever so cool, washed, polished wheels and just looking large. I called into Tim and asked him if I could get my Cascadia back. I told him that my Cascadia's biggest issue in 9 months I had it was a broken armrest, this new KW hasn't made it 140 miles and I'm already having issues with it. Tim laughed and I took a deep breath and I continued.

Now let me just say this, this truck rides like a dream, handles great and is a pleasure to drive, I drove the rest of my trip home with a check engine light on and showing a fault code. Last night as I was getting home, the fault code went away but the check engine light was still on. This morning when I started the truck up the check engine light was gone. So we'll see how this plays out when I leave Tuesday. Meanwhile, here's a few pictures of the truck.