Snackbar is chillin'....at Shaffer

Got the phone call from JBS security a little after 9 this morning. Then had to drive around the whole property looking for my load. Set temp was right, but load info and numerous signs at the guard shack said trailers must be set to continuous, but trailer was set to cycle. Finally got back to the gate and got my paperwork and left. When I sent in my loaded call, I start getting yellow alarm notices on my Peoplenet. Checked the unit, no active alarms. This time it's a power issue with the telemetrics, says it's running on backup battery power...like I give a flying fornication.

When my truck was in the shop, it got a software update. Now, my cruise control icon has a +5 and a -3 next to it (used to be +3 and -3). I have lost the ability to force shift when it picks the wrong gear or upshifts too soon. I now only have a blue light or no light on the a/c knob (used to blue, green or nothing) which is fine by me, when I need a/c, I prefer it to be blue (Max a/c). I no longer get an "E" on the LCD screen when it goes into E-coast. It still goes into coast, just doesn't tell you. But on a positive note, I now have the ability to turn off the trailer angle of the side scan ##### box. So now when I am bobtailing and turning a corner like a car, I don't get that constant beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep like it thinks I have a trailer and I cut the corner to tight and am about to drag the invisible trailer over something. Oh, and the truck likes to hang in 2nd at least once or twice a day. Step on the throttle and it redlines in 2nd and stays there. The only way I can get it to shift is flip it into neutral, let off the throttle and the put it back in drive. Then it shifts like normal again. Junkliners...I miss the old non-nanny trucks...what did Scotty say on Star Trek, the more they over think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.

 

I use to think that the +3 was the speed over the set speed where the computer would turn on the jake going down a hill. It still turns on my jakes at 3 over, so I don't really know.

 

I think Google Maps might be getting info from the Peoplenet/CoPilot database...I'm in Boonville and it's 60°.....