That is NOT name calling...it is describing an action/attitude.
THAT is name calling, and skirting the censor.
PTL is treating me VERY POORLY
Discussion in 'PTL' started by Hard Worker, Oct 2, 2014.
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Let's keep the name calling and arguing out of it.
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Sorry to interrupt your argument -
Apparently, you jumped in somewhere in the middle...or most likely right at the end there tucker. Yes; a "day or two" is more than acceptable in any situation...but if you would have read the original post, you would have seen this:
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I worked for PTL with an owner op truck about 13 years ago or so. My experience there wasn't good from the get go. Home time wasn't enough and when I was home the dispatcher kept bugging me constantly to get me to leave out. And when I was out the miles weren't good and sat a lot. Just a waste of my time. Lesson learned. Moved along.
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For information, PTL's trucks have a 4-year life not based on mileage. However, it's normally about 500K when they get retired. I have a 2012 16XXX series ProStar+ that will be retired next year; right now, it just turned 430K miles.
And when it is, I will lose my diesel-powered APU, which I have grown to love, even though it has 1,200 hours and breaks fairly regularly. I'm not excited about getting one of the 8-batteries EPU's that don't cool so well...and that turns the truck on in the middle of the night all by itself. Had one once and didn't like it then, either. -
This EPU cools the rear half of the truck alright, while sitting at a shipper/receiver or wherever. But if you sit in the front seat you can't really feel it. It's about half as strong as the APU. Although for sleeping, it definitely cools/heats well enough. But if you've been sitting more than 10hrs, it starts to auto crank a lot. And sometimes runs 30-60 mins at a time, increasing the idle % which was always below 1-2% when I had the APU. Then like yesterday for example, I got a call from PTL asking if my EPU is working alright cause my idling was around 11%, and I had to explain why. No big deal though. The one thing I really like about EPU is it's silent. I like that for when I'm not at a truck stop overnight, and I don't feel like I'm making a disturbance of any sort, not having that APU motor running. It's not as bad as you think it'll be though, I'm used to it now. It's not a red flag issue for me. -
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