Running with JCT, Part Deux

Looks like 2 tires. One of the inside tires is a recap and the cap is starting to peel away from the casing.

 

Anybody with a 2017 Cascadia can you do me a favor? The next time you start your truck, when you have just turn the key to on and it's doing its gauge sweep, can you look at your oil pressure gauge and see if it starts off at 0 when the sweep is done or does or does it start at the first tick before you start the engine?

 

I have a 2015 and the sweep starts at zero and goes all the way to upper limit and then goes back to zero. Gauge shows my oil pressure after I start the motor as intended.

 

After Freightliner of Salt Lake City did some kind of software update to my engine the oil gauge has always been reading High. Then I noticed after the gauge sweep the oil gauge goes all the way up goes back to zero and then bounces up to the first tick. Which is about the same the gauge is reading higher than normal by.

And it's not just the manual gauge reporting that if I pull up oil pressure on my ScanGauge it shows a steady pressure of 12 PSI with the engine off after the sweep. Leads me to believe it's something electronic wrong. And seeing as they just had to replace my entire wire harness....makes me wonder if the bad wire harness fouled the update somehow.

Of course I brought it up to I HF and their response was as long as it showing oil pressure it's good. But it's a false high. Meaning what if my pressure is really 0 but it's reporting 12-15.

Maybe I'm just being picky and over worrying.

 

I call it wanting your equipment to work correctly.

 

Ok, I'm looking into l/p with jct if I do what is asked, after expenses can i Bring home atleast 65-70k? I want to own my own small fleet one day and not be a company driver forever, but I don't want to take a big pay cut either. I've been reading a d talking to drivers and I think I'm ready to make the leap and do what it takes, easy and hard times, but my final out reach would be here. Just remember, this is real life, not a game so be honest and brutal. No rewards if there is no risk. TIA

 

Honest, Brutal answer? Currently, no. Unless you had no truck payment than easily yes.

Actually let me amend that. It would be POSSIBLE with the new raise total and possible new ones on the horizon...POSSIBLE. the .06 raise for me would increase mine by about 5 or 6K over last year which would put me in that wheelhouse, but that means never really going home...

 

i netted about 54k when i was there. however i was on the road over 300 days a year. I ran a ton of miles and was very careful with fuel.

 

I have an 18 not the new body style and when I turned the key on it went to 100 then to zero then it stopped on 12.

 

Yeah I broke 61k this year, same strategy but only taking officially 6 days of home time. Been told that's pretty much the top for a solo driver. If my December wasn't horrid other than home time would have been more like 63k.

I say "officially" since every time I leave Cali on 40 I have an opportunity to drop by home.

If I do the same miles this year and repeat with the raise I'll be at 65-67k ish...

So it's POSSIBLE but get ready for sacrifices....lots of them..