THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - DFO gets a truck and hops on Schneider's IC Choice Program

Thanks for the heads up on the 5th wheel, I'll be extra careful with it. I always get out and check to make sure the handle is all the way in and shine a light on the jaws, takes all of 15 seconds and just puts me at ease knowing the kingpin is completely locked in. I'll make sure to double check the tab and see that is flipped all the way down and preventing the release arm from being pulled.

Digging around on the IC crossroads I found this today, here's Schneiders official stance on logging Line 5:

I removed all the little chain decal things today, the side that was in the sun came off nice and easy, the ones on the shade side left a fair bit of residue even after running a hair dryer over them. I sprayed it with some citrus based cleaner and let it soak in and it really seemed to loosen up the residue, a couple more times and I should have it all cleaned up. I don't think I'll put anything back on there, the metallic gray color looks really really nice on this truck and I'm always been a fan of the nice clean plain-jane look.

My suspicions about the APU were right too - turning the interface ON and the APU power control ON but setting all the heat/cool and fan controls until they are off puts the APU in "null mode" according to the manual - at this point it is just monitoring battery voltage, and when the voltage drops to a certain point it starts up and stops when the voltage reaches another point. Its started up a few times because my fridge, etc., are still on and running, its nice knowing that I can set it up like this to keep my batteries charged without having to do something silly like having the heat or AC come on too.

Service wise the APU appears to have been serviced when the PM was done, oil looks brand new.

I found the data plate in the glovebox and the transmission is one of the Eaton convertible 9-speeds that can be converted to a 13speed (and it obviously has been done on this truck), I had a feeling it might be one of those, kind of a neat idea. As I expected it is rated for up to 1650ft/lbs of torque.

Got all my groceries loaded up for the week, gave the truck a quick wash and we'll be ready to roll tomorrow morning. I've been in touch with Schneider twice since I got home to make sure that I'll have an empty set up for tomorrow morning. I'll get up about 6am and send in a request if there still isn't a pickup task, I'll give them an hour to get me something then I'll start blowing up the phones. If I'm late for the pickup due to an empty search I can't say I didn't try LOL.

 

I'm gonna get some with the big Cummins "C" on them.