Schneider Chat Room version 2.0

How many useless technical gadgets are they going to put on trucks.

 

If you read through the website there's just as many driver monitoring features as there are equipment monitoring features. Seems to be just new and more detailed ways to micromanage driver performance.

 

The entire trucking industry is going to collapse now

 

As many as their lawyers tell them to.

 

you don't really believe SNI is going to be proactive instead of reactive on maintaining do ya?

 

So I wasted most of my day waiting for Truck Country to give me my truck back. They had since Friday morning, and as of 0900 Sunday they only had to check the alignment and fix the shifter.knob - delivered by 0800 Monday no problem.

Get to the dtc and trucks not there, call Truck Country and they now say noon, sorry for the miscommunication. Call at noon and they say 1700. I responded pm with a polite version of "stop jerking me around and get the #### truck done already". Finaly get the truck at 13:15. Go to pretrip and except for the 5th grease all over the hood and side of the truck everything looks fine. Do the pump down, set the high idle to build air, try setting the high idle again, try setting the high idle. Shut the truck off, turn it back on, nothing.

Call SEM to get permission to go back. Wait for 45 minutes progressively getting more pissed off. SEM calls back and tells me they changed the parameters - 600 RPMs now the only idle speed.

For years set been toldnlow.idle is too hard on the engine. Can anyone explain why the change.

 

It's a waste of fuel to idle, make your student blow into the red gladhand of ya wanna build air pressure faster, or borrow DFO's Lego idea. I've fought that fight on both my KW's and they won't change it, even KW agrees Sni maint folks are idiots for the parameters they have on these trucks, but maybe if u stop at another OC it could be reversed

 

Schneider's official reasoning, at least according to the papers they left in my truck after my PM yesterday, is that their research on extreme weather conditions shows that 600 RPMs is sufficient to prevent engine damage now. Something about modern engines and all that. I don't have the paper with me right now because I'm at home, but that was the cliffs notes version of what it said. Honestly that isn't the change that bothered me. Cutting the max RPMs in low gears is what bothers me. I almost stalled out twice yesterday driving home because I couldn't give the truck enough power to get up and go without shifting, but the truck didn't want to shift...

 

Schneider's actual reasoning: "Well even if we limit these engines to idling at 600 RPM, the damage done by letting them wetstack for 10 hours will not be enough to cause any issues before we trade them in for the next batch, so it'll be the person who buys this trucks' problem. Who cares if the engine oil drains out containing 50% fuel contamination.".