Freightliner stepping away from cracked frame rail.

Thanks for your input, I appreciate it very much!!!

 

would love to see pics of this repair

 

I would love to have GPS tracking, on him, so I can stay away from where that shade tree , so called repair, fails. Frame repairs are not reinforced with angle, they are done with full coverage C-channel gloves to support and spread the stress over a large area.

 

Care to call your friendly Freightliner body shop and ask them how they do a proper repair on a cracked frame?

 

Freightliner tech's know everything and guys who build custom trucks are shade tree........ errkay then.

 

MN rusty frames is what made us park lots of trucks. Our fleet then was never heavy but ran 1000 miles a day 365 days year. So 4 years in when time for in frame , we would check for issues. Will this frame last another 1.25 million miles , if not got to go now. Not spending that on it , replace.
The salt and sand would strip paint off in no time , and did not have time to stop and have truck down that long. We could swap motors in six hours. Two day visit to body shop, oh no. Not right for most apps but we ended up going alum frames on new trucks. No rust! Don't get me started on fuel mileage, just wish we could get fuel numbers our fleet got in the late 80's !

 

I'm just a dumb truck driver, too - but according to your own statements, you are NOT in compliance. You don't have a legal repair, per 393.201(d). If Freightliner recommends replacement of the rail, then that's how it must be done to be legal.

Sorry.