piece of junk 2013 KW T680. i really hate this truck

Lol that's me too. Trying to get on I-4 at 79k with a 11hp truck while everyone is doing 100mph.

 

Lousy pic but if you ever want to appreciate anything you have to drive just look at this stable lol. We got Navistar international trucks from just after they retired the horses they used to pull the carts, Sterling day cabs which are kinds like a Ford focus with a fifth wheel, old Freightliner century, and a cascadia or two that I haven't driven but they probably aren't that bad. Can't let the old bad trucks get ya down, it's become a joke to me. The worse the truck the more humor I find in it because they still get the job done and 99.9% of people would have a ####ing fit if they had to drive them.

 

Crap hit post too quick.

 

My foreman drives a sterling.

It’s not that bad, it’s a tiny single axle dump truck so I take it all the time to get us food lol.

Worst truck I ever drove was a ford from the 70s. That thing was scary.

I admit I drive a nice truck (379 quad) but I’m ok driving a beater too. I’m more in it to work for a good company and good pay than the truck.

 

That's conjecture, no proof of that at all. Not calling anyone a liar but there are other factors involved.

As for the issue, it seems like others don't seem to get that sometimes you have to just drive what you get to make coin, many many times I drove a customer's truck that was so under powered that it could barely make it up an unloading ramp with a load.

One of these trucks - 1995 Ford with a Cummins was so bad that it could not be driven on anything but surface streets. Another 1989 pete with a cat was such a dog with a light load on it, it took me 45 seconds to get it up to 55 mph on a ramp that would decline - forget bridges, I would have to get going to 65 to make it over some freeway bridges in the area. That pete is plated for 125k and the company put 60k loads on it all the time - the normal driver would take only one load a day because of how slow it was.

 

High soot warning?

Hrm. Can you put the truck into a manual regen mode? Not sure if day cabs would have that option easily accessible for the driver.

I just realized that by manual burns you might mean regens. Not high rpm hill climbing.