Punched and shattered company unit

Some are set up differently than others. Some are not properly setup or don't calibrate accurately or on the correct plane. Some are in desperate need of software update. But most all will quiet down with sensible driving style, regardless of their issues.

Most Merritor systems I've worked with would apply brake, regardless of cruise control active or not, if it sensed an object closing rapidly and pretty close and near the path it predicted. In fact they are all supposed to actively brake in "critical situations", no matter the cruise control state. There is a difference between the "collision avoidance system" and "adaptive cruise control system"

 

For the peace and tranqility of your work place I would trade a whole kingdom and it's treasury.

As far as those darn screens, no wonder they keep breaking. Gotta watch it getting out of the seat.

I feel fortunate we never had that kind of technology in our time. Even today we deliberately drive vehicles that are not technological marvels telling us what to do.

The beep is coming from something, either a little pizeo speaker attached to the motherboard or wired to a cab speaker. Find that source and kill it, snip snip. Aw nuts the durn coffee spilled again, but it's nice and quiet aint it?

 

Lmao!!

 

I was a cop for 8 years, taught how to control situations, don't let people get a rise out of me, verbal judo, etc. I even try to laugh at people cutting me off, trucks who wont back out of the throttle to let you pass, and other things.

In a given week, I want to punch, kick, shoot or take my three pound sledge to my Pedigree Oneview ELD. If you were to poll my company, probably 95% would agree. Imagine getting to work 30 minutes earlier than you should just to be on time to your first stop because it's either freezing up, disconnecting the Bluetooth, or having to call customer support to see how to get around the new glitch. I never wanted to punch my Qualcomm MCP50.

Just yesterday, it want going to allow me to take my 30 minute break when I went to edit it. Never a problem in the last three months, but yesterday it was a new glitch. I just kept on and on doing it until it accepted it. POS.

 

Reading through this thread I am getting the impression all these new "safety" features aren't enhancing positive driver attitude. In many cases it accomplishes the opposite.

PDA is key to safety IMHO.

 

That Onguard system reacts faster and can brake more surely in most conditions than any human.

I have had at least two situations occur where if the Onguard had not been there, I'm not sure if I could have avoided hitting another vehicle. Both scenarios were 4-wheelers squeaking in front of me in low speed traffic then braking hard to make right turns.

Yes, the beeping is annoying. It's also meant to warn you. And it can save lives. If the thing is constantly beeping at you in traffic, then you are constantly driving in a way that the Onguard system has been programmed to recognize as borderline risk situations.

I'm guessing that you trying to catch up to the cars in front of you as fast as you can, in order to avoid allowing other vehicles to get in front of you. I get it, and understand. Four wheelers taking advantage of our slow acceleration to make our progress in traffic even slower is horribly irritating. Every time traffic slows, then speeds up, the only way for you to keep a dozen 4-wheelers from cutting in front of you is to go significantly faster than the vehicle in front of you until there is little gap. And the Onguard has serious issues with you moving faster than the vehicle in front of you when you get close to them.

You should have serious issues with that as well. That's unsafe driving if I'm guessing that you are doing what the Onguard unit in my truck taught me that I was doing.

If you aren't driving aggressively in traffic, then ignore what I've said, but I remember what my Onguard did for the first couple weeks whenever I drove in heavy, slow traffic. Beep beep beep beep beep.

I learned. Now I rarely hear a beep in slow traffic unless someone cuts in front of me and slows down. Yes, that also means that 4-wheelers take advantage of my slowness (a lot) but I'm also a safer driver.

 

And that is why companies put that stupid technology in their trucks.

No matter how small of a gap you try to maintain someone will get in there. Trying to prevent that is a fools errand. You're driving a truck, it has limitations, accept them or don't drive a truck.

The same fools who try to prevent that are the ones who are always crying that nobody will let them in.

I was shopping for a new truck and the sales guy tried to talk me into a collision avoidance system. It was $4k and when I asked him about the adjustment range I had to laugh. $4k for something that I would never be close enough to another vehicle to trigger anyway.

 

@Farmerbob1

That's why I hate the cities that put big trucks in the right two lanes. I never get cut off in the inside two lanes, only the slow lanes. When I am in Memphis, I can predict getting cut off when I get near certain exits. A majority of trucks are just passing through, and are sitting ducks to these make-up applying, Facebook status liking, ooh there's a McDonald's, idiot drivers who don't what a turn signal is. I can keep a safe following distance for about ten seconds, until yet someone else cuts me off.

I have only come close to rear ending someone a few times, and it was unusual circumstances. I wish there was more education for young drivers about driving around big trucks.

 

Wait... what? No cruise control in the snow? What kind of nonsense is that?

Pshaw... next thing you'll be telling me is I shouldn't be using the jakes in winter either.