DEF cookers starting fires?

And perhaps cars catch a fire lots more today than in yesterday years like the modern trucks of today.

It sure seems there's more fires in today's truck wrecks.

 

Montana used to have signs in some rest areas warning DPF equipped trucks to keep the DPF's at least 10' from grassy areas

 

The other cause is people not knowing how to use inverters.. 700Watt inverter trying to power a microwave or plugging every device known to man into one. Girls are somewhat good at this also with there beauty products.

 

I was thinking electrical, as well. On top of the increasing complexity and quantity of circuitry in today's trucks, if you add in morons who have no understanding of ohm's law trying to power a 46" LCD, a microwave and a playstation off of a 300 watt inverter connected merely to a cigarette outlet, you'll see smoke in no time.

I don't doubt that the cookers are a potential problem, but I see stupidity as the greater enemy here.

FWIW, a truck fire is my greatest fear - in real terms. Hell, I can't even park next to the bbq place up by White's on 81 because the smoke allows me no rest.

 

Said it once and I'll say it again...

If I have a choice, I'm not going out by fire.

 

Have a Freind that owns an excavating company, his Dozer is a 1996 850G Case. Looked at buying a new dozer and was told that the biggest downfall, was that the dozer had the ability to create so much heat from the exhaust it could warp the siding on a home if working real close to it. And he does a lot of close up work on the side of the hills. Not a chance he was willing to take, good to have freinds that will tell you the negatives, not just be a salesman.

 

My sister does commercial insurance. They are seeing quite a few Cummins that crack the fuel line going to the doser. The fuel spills out onto the hot exhaust, and away you go. Six so far this year.

Two of our O/O's were running together, the second guy noticed smoke coming from under the first guys 2015 W900 with ISX. They only had enough time to pull over and dump the trailer on the shoulder. The truck burned completely to the ground.

 

That #### is scary... We sleep in these things!

...enough to make a guy paranoid...

 

And that's just for basic failure of the line during normal operation. Think of all the similar problems (truck fires) following crashes. Detroit, Cummins, Volvo, whatever, they all have the same basic systems, and present the same catastrophes just waiting to happen.

Truck fires happen so often today following crashes, and it was rare before DPF systems to see a truck on fire.

 

Me neither, in late 1948, I was about 22 months old, my mother, sister, brother died in a house fire.

Happy I'm retried with all the truck fires that takes place nowadays.