2013 Cascadia

Truck No. 3462 with 4456 miles and is equiped with an APU and pwer inverter. My Prostar B/D and it was going to take too long to repair so they sent me in a rental car to pickup the 2013. Also, it doesnt have elogs.

 

Elogs are a selected.group for the test. I'm still trying to figure out who I pissed off lol

Your truck being 3462 is not new enough to be in the no APU list. Its all the new trucks thay are coming in now have no APU. Trucks in the 3550 and up range. The elogs are not going in all of them yet.

Just found out this morning not to log off peopleney on hometime. It takes the truck out of the system like it does not exist. Safety freaked out lol. Also was told they are probably going to keep those of us testing the on them at the end of the month and to please log as accurate as possible.

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Some of the initial 2013s were still being equipped with remaining stock of APUs, which is why you will see 34's on the road with APUs. The new ones that continue to be parked by the fence in back of Van Buren by the palace are NOT APU equipped. To those that continue to doubt what has been said as just rumour, I can attest that it is FACT. Unless a policy change occurs, USA Truck is not purchasing any more APUs. I got that from FE dept directly. They said that at $10k plus per unit, it was not producing any type of realistic savings in money in the long term when maintenance was put into the equation. I've already said how I argued and tried to fight the good fight that a lot of the maintenance problems are due to driver abuse and neglect. Fact is they are done with them.

The idle limits on the new trucks are also in the test phase according to FE dept. The opinion from upstairs is that they've set the temp sensors and idle time at pretty "liberal" ranges to collect data on the high and low end of driver usage and that at some (as of yet undetermined) point, they will reach an average that they will use to standardize the settings across the fleet. Schneider or Wernerlike settings come to mind for me. I still have yet to see how they plan to fight the anti-idling laws. CARB approved stickers might or might not work in California but I seriously DOUBT they will work in the Northeast. To my knowledge, we don't run a single truck that isn't CARB compliant, even with clean idle, yet we have testimony RIGHT HERE IN THIS FORUM of idling tickets being issued by local police inside our own terminal in PA. My guess is that the major carriers don't really care about this and factor it in as a "cost of doing business" type thing. Much like how parts are stolen off our trailers in broad daylight in Laredo by Mexican drivers and the terminal doesn't seem to care. The answer always being, just check it into the shop and they will fix it. SMH

 

I tp seethe 20-70 no idle range coming. And that's fine. Ill play my part for now. But when it becomes an issue for me I'm gone. Probably around the time the turn it to the 20-70 range from the current 50-68 range. So far its ok but it is just now starting to get hot. I think they are in for a surprise. With the idling and with driver reaction.

As far as tickets go. USA better be prepared to pay or fight them. I get one ill smile sign and go back to bed with the engine running. Wait patiently for ticket number two in the same night.

I got called this morning on my home time. I was informed to nit log out when in home time unless maintenance is going to do work on the truck. Seems my truck totally disappeared from their system in VB. Freaked safety out. Lol. I just followed the instructions I was given. I guess I was the first one on home time. Also was told to be sure to log correctly on elogs as they are pretty sure I will be paperless at the end of the month. Seems ops is loving peoplenet.

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I can only speak from what I've seen and been told. The 3550 and up was from the trucks I saw the day I got mine. Did not mean to sound as if I was speaking the gospel. My point is for the forseable future no more APUs. Idle only. USA claims thry will fight the idling tickets.

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I heard they last longer then that.

 

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A stitch in time would have confused Einstein

 

I don't know: The driver signs the ticket. I don't see why USA would be responsible for the driver idling. I am sensing skull trickery here. We would have to pay ticket to keep from losing job.