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

Yeah I end up setting the cruise to a speed that is 4 miles per hour below what I want and then play with the engine brake level until I get the desired target speed. It was an adjustment descending in cruise, but our trucks only engage the engine brake when you hit the binders so that turns out to be the best way of getting a controlled decent. I definitely makes you miss a manual…

 

@supersnackbar will your new FM manage you from Washington, or does he do it remotely from Florida. Not sure that it makes a difference, just curious.

 

It’s growing on me honesty. The collision mitigation is pretty annoying but it will definitely make you think twice about following to closely. So far it has not hit the brakes as long as I have slight pressure on the throttle.

I switched out my reflective banner with a hole cut in it for a regular solid vinyl one. The reflective one is starting to show west already from flapping, they are expensive so I will save that for night running. No blocked sensor with the non reflective sign on the front. Of course I’ve been running that sign on the trailer at night in Oregon because I thought it was reflective this whole time. Oops.

edit to add: with the reflective sign I was still occasionally getting a blocked sensor error. I would loosed adaptive cruise but still had regular cruise, I did not expect that. It would be a real shame to run a full reflective sign all the time………….

 

Off and on I would get a blocked radar error with the solid vinyl sign or the reflective sign with the hole cut for the radar. Next time I get through STL I’m picking up a new mesh sign and will try that. That’s what guys are running with the old radar system. It wasn’t a big deal though, even with the error, my CC still worked just fine. After 10-15 minutes it usually would fix itself.

the only major annoyance right now is the CC keeps failing to maintain speed, even on flat ground with nobody around. It will say its set but I’ll start loosing speed until I manually accelerate. No errors or anything, and it’s not OD banner related because it was doing it when I got empty today.

Kicked my container off at the port and now I’m heading West to intercept wings going to Canada. One of the drivers has an issue he needs to deal with at home.

Due to the construction on the Bluewater bridge, we have to take the ferry out of Detroit. Kind of cool, major pain in the ###, and I hear it’s slammed with OD and hazmat loads right now. Hopefully it doesn’t delay us to much.

 

I’m the first solo to get a new truck btw. All the rest are teams and don’t do od.