Pete honestly bro take your truck to a good local mechanic in Arkansas not all the way in Indiana. Ask in the O/O section if anybody has a shop they'd recommend. You might find out that you could be chasing ghost. If it's as bad as you think it is then trade it in. Lone Mountain might be your best bet and they take trades. Get you a new truck and be done with it, guys are having success maintenance wise with them and only have the truck note to really worry about. You already run pretty hard so it shouldn't be much of a issue.
Your example is exactly what I meant. I had thought about it because my coordinator had a guy following me around in Oct. and I had locked #1 while he had locked #2. I saw how it could be manipulated by a coordinator. But my point was I don't believe it is. "Stuck in our ways" is a good point or observation. Most of you never had the load board so you didn't pick freight. You just went by what was offered. That would make a huge difference in how one runs. Now it seems like the zips are at a disadvantage....
Cj, mtoo Is completely right about the old guys need something to complain about. Just imagine how much he #####ed and moaned when Eisenhower started building the interstates to keep trucks off the two lanes.
LMAO. So we have the new guys going on about the 4 digit guys. And the old guys going on about those "gosh dang gadgets". There really is harmony in the world!
That scenario could happen and it's nobodies fault. The coordinator could be on the phone with a truck that has a bad problem and the coordinator just misses it and it times out.
Not Eisenhower, but I did complain when they finished I90 and I no longer got to go around Coeur d'Alene and thru Wallace Id, Glenwood Canyon, Downtown Lincoln on 2
Let the truck sit overnight, loosen the oil drain plug very slowly until it just starts to drip. If water is getting into the oil the first thing to drip will be antifreeze. If a liner is pitted into the combustion chamber you will get a lot of pressure build up in the radiator when the engine is running (pull radiator cap off while idling with engine hot to check that). It could still be the EGR cooler or even leaking in the lines or cores of the main and bunk heaters. There are lots of easy things to check that could be your problem. You could trade off and get something worse. If you're thinking about trading a truck that's about to blow up, how do you know the truck you're looking at hasn't been traded for the same reason.
It also works if the Yahoo never checks the load board himself. You all are missing a piece of the puzzle, the agent. Sometimes actually request certain trucks to haul their stuff. But in reality, the revenue can usually traced to the guy in the mirror. And revenue is less if a consideration than net
