Usxpress repair failure

And you really don't think a company wouldn't try it?... I know you can't be that naive... Let me tell you something one thing I've learned in life is just because a company or someone says they can't do it doesn't mean they won't try to do it

 

No. It tells you that the headlights aren't getting power from the batteries when the engine shuts off. Both the engine and headlights suffer from the same problem. The problem is going to be closer to the batteries than it will be an Engine/Computer problem. I'm betting that the problem is a bad power panel. It could be a bad panel, a bad ground or a bad plug/connector.

 

Agreed. Just the way your posts read it sounded like you were trying to say it was an engine shutdown protection issue. Which obviously it isn't.

 

We got 5 different arguments going in one thread.

 

Remember the old Malone & Hyde? They sold all those yellow & black day cabs. The buyers were from all over the country. They inspected the trucks before they bought them. When they had choses the trucks they wanted and left, Malone & Hyde swapped all the tires with bald worn out tires. Malone & Hyde would have security check the cigarette pack in their employees shirt pocket to check the tax stamp to see if it was stolen out the their warehouse, but it was ok if they ripped off other companies.

 

Years ago, I talked with a Celadon driver, who told me they would have a loaded new trailer going across the border into Mexico. The Celadon driver would drop it in say El Paso, and the Mexican driver would take it across.
It would come back a few days later, with the new tires switched out, lights missing, mudflaps gone, etc.

 

Sigh.

Today's computers are nannys to protect the 30,000 dollar blessed engines. (To Paraphrase) We don't get to limp anywhere anymore. So you have a dead truck. Fine...

Stick your triangles out on the side of the road, take a nap wait for the tow man to bang on your door. Don't worry about your yelling and bad words, that falls on deaf ears. What will HURT THEM in the 1000 plus dollars to tow your ###, send people to save the receivers account when they learn your load is not getting there any time soon and document the information told to you the previous driver had the exact issue you did. in case you do get fired. With names.

Money is what bites a trucking company on a dead truck. Just be glad it's summer and you get to sweat a little bit. Not -40 in a winter storm. Be at peace, let the money talk. Help will get to you soon.

Start finding someone else to run for. Piss on the 90 days or whatever it is that binds you. And... STAND with the shop boss and bother him to make #### SURE THAT TRUCK. IS... FIXED. with whatever it is that killed it. Sit there a week if you have to. MAKE. IT FIXED. IF they still fire you... fine. find a lawyer and see about going after them for it.

You are new I think, time to toughen up and do battle where you need to. This is one of them.

Broken trucks literally is not my problem Let the company fix it. Or they can find some other stupid chump to drive it. At the same time it's my problem too. So I go after the shop to spend whatever it is to spend until the ####### thing is fixed. PROPER.

 

Says who? Stuff is subleased all the time. Leasing a truck from a manufacture and subletting that truck to a fleecer is common. Most of the mega's do just that.

 

Leasing allows companies to control their fleet sizes with the economy. If there is a down turn in the economy,they can turn the lease trucks back in instead of having bought and paid for trucks just sitting.