2019 KW T680 DEF System Issues, truck caught fire!

I heard of seven Kenworths going up in flames in 2015.
One of our guys had it happen going down the highway. Another was following him chatting on the CB, noticed flames coming out the bottom of his truck. They stopped and only had enough time to drop the trailer before the truck was totally engulfed in flames. Burned it down to the ground.

 

t680 is a junk century class type fleet truck of this decade.

 

Are they going to total the truck out?

 

Off topic, but I'd rather drive a Freightliner century, Columbia, or FLD.

 

Ever notice those burn spots on the highway?

 

Modern liquid base emissions has to burn really hot, no wonder the trucks burn up. Ive seen or heard of dozens. It is also my belief that such fires are intentionally suppressed from the Public.

The FLD isnt a bad truck nor is the Century back then. However I am not as familiar with the newer trucks these days. And the engines are not that special either.

I'll probably continue to drive my older vehicle past a half million miles years from now. Hardly anything in it that can screw up.

 

Who ever decided to run exhaust pointed at the ground was a fool.
And it was more like a cost cutting item for cheaper production.

 

Those are called weed burners.

They stopped making them decades ago with a very narrow set of exceptions in LOCAL daily trucks. The little ones.

That would be one of the criteria for me to quit on the spot if I saw a company tractors lined up as weed burners in orientation. There isnt nothing as fun as old iron trying to warm up at 50 RPM surrounding you with a cloud of choking blue under the cat walk as you hook trailer gladhands.