Millis OTR journal

Ughhh Opie on vacation this coming week. Let the games begin, and hope I can bite my tongue all week so I keep my job lol. Headed to menomonee tomorrow again. Hoping I just repeat last weeks runs.

 

Sounds like a good time for a breakdown. (Mechanical, not Mental)

 

Enjoying the new truck and all of its bells and whistles. Feel a lot more comfortable on hills in this then I did in the 2016. Strangely enough the quietness of the ride is taking some time getting used too.

 

If it's like any of the 2 new trucks I've ever driven just wait 20 thousand miles, it'll rattle like a 2 dollar POS.....

 

I will enjoy it while it lasts then. This truck goes into neutral when you are coasting. No one told me I panicked the first few times.

 

Never had one that did that, imagine I would be freaking out when it happened.

 

Does it stay in neutral when you brake? I like how the order automatics sense what you're doing when you brake on a grade and grab a lower gear a little early like it's saying "Here let me help you, bruh." If the new ones don't do that, I'm gonna be hauling ### down some hills until I get used to it.

How's the backing with a heavy load? I hear the newer trans are smoother.

 

Yes as soon as you remove your foot from pedal while in neutral the engine brake is activated. You can grab a lower gear if it’s within the safe rpms range. Backing so far has been much smoother no herky jerkiness. It climbs grades much better. The “improved”Bendix system hasn’t been a bother at all except for the first full day when I was driving across MN, IA and KS in a windstorm pretty sure the camera gave up recording and just live streamed me.