Black Boxes

Yes indeed, and they can make the qual tell them anything they want to know. All the jabba you spoke of is fleet performance. My guy says 60% of his engine time is in idling, not pulling freight as intended. Because of what I do my idle time runs 30% and my guy wants me at 12%.

Our qual resets all timers on Monday at 2am and reports every other Monday except hard baraking etc. That's immediate.

I have had issues with the fuel mileage reporting. Qual tells my carrier I get bad mileage...as low as 4.57 in one period. I say B.S.! I have checked it using the trip o/d and the gallons. Every fillup is over 6.4mpg as it should be...don't get that...yet, but I will.

 

FYI,the average truck running has 7 or more ECU's

 

I didnt know that. I got two faults on the truck showing on the screen. I had our shop run a diagnostic on it and I was told the ecu was bad, after he checked my batteries and all the connections. I know everything electrical inside the cab is on the blitz. The throttle does wierd stuff, the cruise jake only work when they feel like it. My qcom, sterio, cb ets all randomly loose power ets. I just assumed it was one ECU that controlled everything. When I take the time to get it fixed or am forced to get it fixed that might make things a bit more complicated.