Advice for rookie lease op

Now would that double tap be with a sniper rifle or will a 9mm work?

 

I prefer the .50 bmg.

Straight through the block. Least THAT'll stop a big rig & put it out of it's misery.

Sometimes tempting.........eh?

 

I've been reading this thread backwards so I think you already have a plan for this truck. But the SLC Prime shop has an in house Freightliner tech. I've had better luck getting things fixed with him than other FL shops. It's like he wants to find the problem and the FL shops just want to get you in and do as little as possible, just enough to give you a bill.

It's worth checking out if your in the area, if not, maybe next time.

 

You just reminded me, my old KW T660 will have a message displayed sometimes along the lines of Warning, Brakes Not Set or Brakes Not Released, can't remember which now, when I try to set the cruise. What I have to do is touch the brakes or pull down one time on the trolley handle to clear the Warning deal then the cruise works.

 

How hot is the cab when it won't start? It sounds like a relay that when it gets hot is expanding just enough to short out

 

Get ahold of the maintenance shop and have them send you the full maintenance history for the truck. If you are the 4th lease op for the truck but it has shown in the maint reports to have been in the shop 42 times for starting issues by the 3 previous lease ops then you know what is going on, the company just parks the turned in truck out on the ready line fence and hopes the next lease op gets it fixed before they turn it in. Bottom line they want it off the ready line and leased to move the truck payments off their books onto any lease op's books instead.

The truck will go from lease op to lease op and shop after shop til it gets fixed on the lease op's dime and eventually turns into a profitable productive truck for some lucky lease op way down the line after it broke many many lease ops up to that point.