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

You should be in a hotel, not their parking lot.

 

My 579’s have been hit or miss. Just nursed mine 3100 miles with a bad O2 sensor. Wouldn’t build more than 20 psi of manifold pressure and only got it home because my load was light. Peterbilt service is non existent and that alone would prevent me from ever buying one. We’ve got 300 579’s and purchase about 20 per month off the line in Denton. So Rush Truck Center is pretty good about getting their service truck over to our yard. But on the road…..forget about it. I stopped in Flagstaff and Bakersfield and was told “it’ll be next week until we can look at it” If you did say that you would be waiting then I’m sure they would get to you sooner but still I’m not the least bit impressed with Peterbilts service network.

I do enjoy driving the truck when it’s not flashing service lights and threatening a derate. Good build quality and even our 600k mile trucks ride nice and don’t have that tired worn out feeling. I thought 10 years ago “by 2016….they’ll have all of these DPF related bugs sorted out” not quite yet in ‘22.

 

Rush truck center..I wouldn’t touch them with a 100ft pole…i caught them tampering with my truck…

 

Yeah I’m afraid as I put miles on my Paccar powered T680, the Pete 567 had an X-15 in it, I’m not counting on a bright future engine wise…

 

Hey Snackbar, what’s the latest on your tractor? Hopefully they can get parts quickly.

 

I hear ya, took a fiend of mine 4 days to get an injector replaced. We so badly need more independent shops, the dealerships are a joke! Glad you’re at least in a hotel.

 

Sounds like the luck I have when I drop mine off at Penske for service.