An old man's career goes flat, Snackbar moves to open deck

Please. How many times have you been broke down and in a hotel in the last 6-12 months? Every breakdown where I had to go to a dealer was for 1 thing. I have probably spent more time in hotel rooms in the last 6 months than I have at home because of little breakdowns...and now the dealer I was sent to said it might not be until Monday before they even get to look at it, so that's 3 days minimum for this small bump in the road. That is how it starts, 1 thing this week, then 3 or 4 weeks, another small something...then another and another and another. It has happened so much, I have 0 faith in any truck made in the last 10 years. Made In America is no longer a proud label, it's a warning to any consumer buying that product because manufacturing in America is all about screwing the consumer out of as much as possible...much like the movie Gung Ho back in the 80's...botch the production then let the dealer fix the defects.

 

I have no doubt that SPD will treat me right, my issue isn't with them, I still think they're a good place to work. My issue is with another electronic truck having another breakdown. At Creaffer, who has modern equipment traded regularly, I was in 7 different trucks in 20 months because of breakdowns. All of which, except the last 2 breakdowns, started out as small stuff...but remember, the great flood in the bible started with a single drop of rain...one small drop. When you just transitioned over from one company to another, and there is a gap in pay, that was less than a month after a big breakdown at Shaffer that I made $0 for 9 days off...my savings account isn't a bottomless pit, so taking more time off, even if it's paid breakdown pay (or my minimum daily base pay rate here) isn't what I need to start putting money back in savings before the winter freight season. Right now, there is no such thing as little stuff.

 

And, this is how warm it is in my bunk with the APU's A/C on high, and the temp set to the coldest...it isn't putting out cold air at all.

 

That's kinda what I was doing for a whole day, with repeated shut down and restarts hoping that it would get enough good data. I learned that from International with the Maxxfarce engine. But enough time went by that if it were gonna clear itself, it would have. I even topped the DEF off in case I got a bad batch.

And now they decided that they won't put me in a hotel all weekend. Since the APU is quirky and randomly not deciding to put out any cold air, they're gonna have KW disable the idle shutdown, so I can go find a place to park over the weekend and be back here 1st thing Monday morning. The shop said it will likely be Monday before they even get it pulled in to diagnose the problem...then I get to go find a Carrier dealer to get that random APU issue fixed.

 

Are these legal in the USA? There is an email address for the US on their site, but wasn't sure if they meet the D.O.T.'s regulations