Good Night From II

That time is courtesy of the #! $& Plus1 program. I'm guessing you have til 2359 on the delivery date.

 

steve.. was told that was the latest time i can deliver it.

 

Prescott, AR. Next stop London, KY, then down to Jacksonville, FL. Definitely paying attention to the weather channel. It is not looking pretty down there on Monday. Glad that I stayed where I did last night. Dallas was not fun from what I was hearing this morning with a tornado touching down in Denton and hail the size of baseballs.

 

I said I was guessing.

 

Home ... beer ... ahhh ...

 

back in my truck and glad to be "home"
took a load back up to Lathrop then decided I was going to shoot to shut down in the big dirt field next to the Loves in Santa Nella, well I get there and the field is empty but what do I see? I #### truck parked on the side of the road blocking the entrance to get into that field, what an arsehole. Went further until I got to the rest area and then shut down on the on ramp since it was full.

 

pilot in stanfeild or. problem spending night in a rest area...... no coffee in the morning . set my alarm for 0400 and woke up at 0300. decided to just get up and go. dropped the load at walmart dc and grabbed an my. now sitting here waiting for a preplan.

 

Just west of Pratt, KS... in the sleeper berth after fighting the truck all night. Drove from Terre Haute, IN to west of Wichita, KS with the solid yellow check engine light on in our '14 Cascadia. Starting with the rolling hills of Missouri on the I-70 it started misfiring pulling hills and the other yellow check engine light comes on (the one that says "CHECK" inside the engine icon).

We stopped at the Columbus terminal yesterday to see if they could fix it. NOPE! They hooked it up to the computer and said they couldn't see any error codes, so they did a Regen and sent us on our way. Last night the problem became worse, to the point we can't accelerate with more than about 1/2 boost without it misfiring and loosing power. When I climbed the grades in the Flint Hills in Kansas (what, about 4%???) I had to drop down to 1st position high range at 25-30 mph and limp up to the top.

Called Albuquerque... they have 5 trucks available to swap, but all are already assigned to incoming drivers from Lancaster. On Road said if we can swap out the truck then do so, but if not we are instructed to continue limping to LA to deliver this load.

At this rate we may not make LA and Albuquerque is in doubt.

A serious flaw in Swift's service is lack of dyno testing. Running a computer program without putting the engine under load can't replicate what happens on the road when pulling a hill.

I'd put money on either a leak in the charge air cooler (reducing turbo boost) or problems with the injectors. Either way the pistons are taking a hammering.

 

Somewhere west of Indianapolis on I-74 eastbound for Columbus.

My co-driver is driving back to the DC then picking up a load heading out to south side Chicago then on to our final in novi, MI. I'll be taking over sometime tonight before we get to chi-town.

If they keep this up we are going to be looking at a pretty good pay week this week and hopefully this is the pace they keep us at if so we will be making more money than in Texas and be closer to home.

 

Similar thing happened to me ... back pressure sensor. Another symptom was it would idle at 1400 rpm on start up, same thing no out of ordinary codes.