First Load Help

What are you driving?

It's maddening, companies don't tell company drivers anything until they need to know it.

By then of course it's too late. I had to park for a couple days in my new truck, took me a little while to figure out how to do a parked regen on my own, but after some googling and triply memorizing all the dash buttons I did get it to trigger.

(Turns out, I was doing the right thing from the start. The issue was that my truck "likes" to have some sort of input? So after sitting and idling, just holding the regen button doesn't do it. Gotta play with a few switches and hit a pedal or two to make it think you're in the driver's seat.)

 

Prime trucks aren't that old. They only keep them for 500k or less so the majority are SCR trucks now. They don't need parked regeneration as routine procedure. only when something is messed up and only when the regen light comes on will it let you initiate a parked regen. To force a regen without the regen light on requires hooking it up to a computer.

You might see a message from R/A once in a while on how to do a regen but you will probably never need to do it and it was really meant for the trucks 2011 or older.

One less thing to worry about.

 

if they come back, there is a lotion for that....

jitters can itch real bad, and then not take a shower for a day of two, and you got BIGGER JIGGERS.....

 

It seems like every time it appears my husband has a stretched out period of time to get to a delivery dropoff, then he has a trailer that has to have work done on it or occasionally the truck.

Keep track of TA's, and Petro's, and Prime terminals for repairs as needed.

And he would prefer to be early for delivery as needed vs waiting, but hours dictate what happens. He likes to drive at night too, not as much traffic in high traffic areas, and makes it a lot easier to get into a rest area or truck stop.

 

Won't be the last,,,,

 

...dang. A problem free career life. Talk about wishing for a unicorn.

 

These regen systems are killing trucks. I had one in my Cascadia that never gave me trouble (well, aside from surging in stop & go traffic. It's designed to "cook" while rolling down the highway, but if you run local it bumps the idle RPM up to 1200, about double normal speed. Now try to inch forward in traffic with the engine in high idle, argh!)

But most of the other drivers were constantly chasing bugs in the system. If you get lucky and get a new truck off the line maybe you can figure what's good for the DEF and what screws it up. If you get a used truck and/or share? I don't think you'll ever figure out the issues.