How many times will you deal with the same maintenance issue before quitting?

What are the issues you’re dealing with? Someone may be able to offer a simple fix.

And the deal about the Marshalls is a running joke. Drive truck long enough and you’re guaranteed to hear an old timer blowing smoke about getting a Marshall out to a scale house to put some young DOT cop in their place.

 

Top secret maintenence issues, seems odd to me.

 

US Marshals are routinely lampooned by the old ones in my childhood times.

Anytime the shipper, reciever, DOT in particular or some rabble rouser interferes with trucking the cry rises near and far. CALL THE MARSHAL.

They would do better to get on their knees in the Covenant and call on God to beg forgiveness for all the things we have heaped on the US Marshals in story telling. Particularly to children straight from big kid school learning to drive a truck.

Poor Marshals.

Now that I got the teasing out of the way, they do have their uses. But you don't waste their time.

 

I've asked this very question 2X already and I received a smart ### answer. Sounds to me like we have a whiner.

 

Well I am going to vent a little bit, I had a team just quit on me, not a big deal but it was the lamest excuse I have yet heard - didn't get the truck repaired fast enough. They were on the way to make a pickup on Monday, they needed one more day of driving and was going to stop at a couple parks and take a few days off.

This past Wednesday they were driving then a check engine light went on and derated the engine.

Had them drop the truck off at a recommended shop, and had them picked up for a hotel stay at a resort type place.

It was a guess that it was the DEF doser valve issues and confirmed it. The local dealer didn't have it in stock until next Tuesday so I had one next day from a dealer here, actually had one of the office girls drive 100 miles to get two and send one out. Then the shop discovered that there was a problem with the DEF quality sensor and we did the same thing again because the dealer didn't have access to one until Tuesday.

So after being paid for sitting at a hotel including meals and other perks with the truck ready to go, they decide to quit and take a flight home. Never had an issue with them ever, and the other team that recruited them was upset how they left, they said they never heard a complaint or anything bad.

 

So they enjoyed their little vacation, then left the truck just sitting at the dealer? That's horse ####.

 

I'm sorry to hear they did you like that. It sounds like you went waaayyyy out of your way to make sure they were comfortable and to get the truck back up as quickly as possible. I won't refer anyone to where I work for that exact reason, I don't wanna look like an a hole if my buddy decides to be a jerk.

 

One of the things I do for Centerline is retrieve abandoned trucks, I ve seen this before where they expect the boss to be a mind reader.

 

Relays get corroded wiper contact area and do funky things from moisture. Swap one forcthe other and see if it moves. Then take your pocket knife and cut the bad one open, they pop apart at the seam. itll be all rust on the iron core control voltage coil.

Another is old toggle switches on classic trucks. Pull dash panel forward and youll be looking at the terminal legs on back of switch. If theyre rivet on style, see if they wiggle. A wiggle is a bad connection and itll draw a lot of heat. A temp gun will help you find failing electrical components too.

A headlight is a great load testing tool for a circuit that passes the beep mode on your meter but still dont work. Put battery at one end and headlight at other. If it aint bright youve got a poor circuit. The bulb should have a direct jumper to battery ground or battery positive terminal depending on if youre testing a hot or a ground.

 

my best guess would be that they already had another job lined up, and was waiting for something to happen, to qualify thier exit.

 

2017 freightliner, there was no sign of corrosion. The bulbs were good, they were not the problem. I don't really care at this point left there a while ago, the driver who has it now said it still does the same thing, goes int derate, forcing regen, and low beams go out, high beams work, but in a while somewhere between 200 and 300 miles the headlights return to working normal.