What is this light and why is it on!!!!

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  1. GA-TRUCKER

    GA-TRUCKER Bobtail Member

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    Hi, I currently work for a small company out of Chicago OTR. The owner is very poor at maintenance, I have been having this light pop up along with the check engine light and I don't know what it means. It seems to be more common when I have a heavy load, when it is on I cannot use cruise control. To make it go off usually I have to turn off the power switch and sit for 15 min or so but that doesn't always work. The boss always says it's nothing, well it's obviously something! I have a Freightliner cascadia evolution 2014 with 323,000 miles and it is an automatic. The light looks like a truck climbing a hill circled with a line through it exactly like the HSA OVRD switch picture but I push it and it doesn't take the light off. Any help is appreciated!
     

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  3. wichris

    wichris Road Train Member

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    Hill start assist.
     
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  4. w.h.o

    w.h.o Road Train Member

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    ^yup

    The truck will hold the brakes so you don't roll back during takeoff. I'm assuming you have an automatic
     
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  5. Blackshack46

    Blackshack46 Road Train Member

    That's a good assumption! How'd you figure it out?
     
  6. w.h.o

    w.h.o Road Train Member

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    Because in an automatic u need all the help you can get with them fancy electronic, like holding the brake for example
     
  7. Cw5110

    Cw5110 Heavy Load Member

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    Which is why i will ALWAYS prefer a Clutch.
     
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  8. Retired2015

    Retired2015 Light Load Member

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    Automatic Volvos used to be bad about kicking themselves into neutral when you stop at a redlight. You really had to watch them when you stopped on a hill.
     
  9. dngrous_dime

    dngrous_dime Road Train Member

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    I drive a '16 auto Cascadia Evo, next time your cruise quits, cycle the cruise off and on 5-6 times. I have adaptive cruise with radar, and when it's raining a lot, it likes to disable cruise. But you should also have an HSA override switch on the dash. When you say "loaded heavy", just how heavy do you mean?
     
  10. The Gryphon

    The Gryphon Heavy Load Member

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    You shouldn't be using cruise when it's raining anyway!! That's a great way to become a statistic!!
     
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  11. GA-TRUCKER

    GA-TRUCKER Bobtail Member

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    By heavy I mean a load of 40,000lbs or more. It comes on when I turn the truck on after I shut it off. So I leave the truck running constantly whenever I am loaded heavy because otherwise when I start it the light will be on and the cruise won't work. The over ride switch does not make it go off. I am trying to figure out why it comes one when I start my truck and doesn't go off causing my cruise not to work. Other guys in the company don't have this issue with the same truck.
     
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