Roehl Driver Check In Continued

yeah. If you do this in the dark in a TS I highly suggest open hood so lights n brights shine onto the ground not into another truck

 

I really like the light check feature (forgot to mention that in my list of things I liked about the Prostar). However I did not notice that it turned on the ABS light. I pulled the same trailer for 10 days with a freshly repaired ABS light. I'll watch more closely when I go back out tomorrow.

 

Yep, I know about it...Bayle can attest to that; he said it's how he knew I was "technoroom" before we'd introduced ourselves.

FWIW, pressing any light switch will stop it; I usually press the WORK light twice to shut it back off. Since the Prostars don't have a trailer trolley brake lever (that you can hold down with your ignition key), this self-test feature is about the only way you can check the trailer brake lights in the daytime.

Agree with the comment about having the hood raised when in a darkened truck stop.

TS near Ringgold, GA for the night. Didn't have quite enough hours on my 70 to get up the hill to Monteagle, TN. Fully loaded up with particle board from Adel, GA; we're talking 30 mph going up that hill....

 

Saw a Roehl truck hauling a Brock trailer today. On I-55 heading north in Illinois.

 

i'm still home for 1 more day. my luck got sick again. hopefully better by friday morning.

it cost money to take those labels off trailers and trucks....

 

Another thread (life after Roehl) under the Roehl heading has a post that says 50 drivers quit in one day within the last month.

Is this hearsay or truth.

If true, what was the issue?

 

^^^ These kinds of rumors seem to come up from time to time....

 

Haven't heard anything about a mass of drivers leaving at once either.

 

Unless it's aiming at a Swift truck.

 

Going to the truck. Stopping off at the grocery store on the way and going out for dinner with Mrs. DsquareD.

I like to get everything settled in before that urgent dispatch comes in in the AM only giving me 40 minutes to get to a shipper 45 minutes away and haven't even hooked an empty yet.