Glad I moved over to Poly Trucking

My Landstar fantasy is acting up again ,
hope I don't do something rash like
buy a truck.

 

I don't know man, I would be calling the shop your truck is at all day trying to figure out what the problem is. Ive had to wait 2 days just to get a truck looked at but after that its fixed pretty quickly unless they have to order parts or something major needs to be done. A turbo shouldn't be a major thing. The shop should be giving you an idea of whats going on or how long you should be down. For all you know they could be waiting on approval or warranty issue and you could speed that up with some phone calls. Hell it would have been cheaper to fly you home until the truck is fixed instead of paying for a room that many days. I also wouldn't even talk to coyote, give them polys number lol.

Anyways good luck, hope you get things figured out and don't be patient to long or you may end up being patient through the new year lol.

 

I'm sure Poly management heard their phone ringing off the hook. The problem is, if they don't want to talk to them, they let it go to voice mail...and we all have had to deal with that electronic black hole.

His whole situation has prompted me to further explore future employers. For me and the luck I have had with equipment, it isn't "if" that will happen, but "when" , and I would like to at least have my list of possibles narrowed down so I can make the quick transition.

 

God help them if they are trying to reach back haul ; hell might freeze over before then

 

Dealer repair shop is just across the street ,
truck should be ready tomorrow or the next day.
They only have a few techs.
Turbo exploded , the exhaust manifold went with it , the "thermal event "
was so intense it melted most of the electrical harnesses in the immediate area.
I went over to look at it , the repair job was a massive undertaking.
The truck is right around 260,ooo miles and its self destructing.
If my truck were a living being , it would be labeled suicidal.

 

Ahhh hell you're good to go now. You might even make it through a whole pm before the truck offs itself.

 

oh great ....I just remembered
...the SHOP !!

Once I m/t in Oklahoma
i head straight to PGP for
an over due PM , a broken APU
and several other items that recently
broke .... another couple of days already going
down the tubes and they're not even here yet ...


man ..... i'm a winner

 

if you have a Maxxfarce, I hope they replaced both turbos. If it damaged the exhaust manifold then it sounds like it was the one connected directly to the manifold, which is the low pressure turbo. If so, pieces/parts and debris would be directly shot into the high pressure turbo. If they didn't replace it as well, it'll be next to go. I've seen what a misplaced shop rag can do to a turbo, I would hate to see what solid parts of 1 turbo can do to the other.

 

I did find out one thing ,
it's normal for a MaxForce
to use around 1 gallon of oil
every 2000 to 2500
miles , I imagined something was
wrong with the engine , but apparently
that's not the case.
Keep a check on your oil if you run a Max Force

 

Really? Between Crete and Poly, I have been cursed with 3 Maxxfarces...can't remember ever adding a single gallon, and Crete use to go 40k on their oil changes. I think the tech that told you that was trying to cover for a defect in your truck that they're gonna try to stick it to Poly for the repair cost. Or...they know there is an issue with your engine and are hoping that it exceeds the engine warranty before it blows the motor.