The adventures of 'Team Klingon'

Well we had to take our truck into the shop for some recall work, and a leak in an axle seal... We took it to a 'Freightliner' dealer to get this work done. Thinking of course that it wouldn't take long... HA! We have a 2012 Cascadia, and it needs a 3.25" socket (or something like that) to pull/fix the hub/axle seal... And guess what?? The dealership didn't have one! AND they didn't know the specs for this repair... What torque etc... 'Its new' they said. They had almost every service tech looking at our truck and scratching their heads. During all of this we had a load waiting on us... Sigh... So now we had to call our DM and let her know we had a catch in our giddy-up. I have a feeling if we weren't on a dedicated fleet... or if there were more teams on this fleet, we would have just had to wait on the truck, however we had a load waiting and our DM said there wasn't anyone else to take it. What ever the reason ey (the company) rented us a truck from Penske and off we go!

I had to they to remember how to do a paper log and figure out a recap (since we have been running on our recaps for the last couple weeks)... Bt it came back AND the truck isn't governed at 65, but at 72! You have no idea just how tempting that is...LOL!

I do miss OUR truck though... I almost feel like we are camping or roughing it. No fridge, no mattress pad, no CB... I'm glad the company did this though... At least we are earning while the truck is being worked on, so it's a win/win... They get their load delivered and we earn money WITHOUT having to pay excess milage

 

I just pray that they are all done scratching their heads by the time we get back there!! We will have given them almost a week to get it done by then

 

It 'should' be under warrantee ... Notice I say 'should' we'll see when we get back there... Gary called yesterday and they are STILL working on it THAT'S what concerns me! I don't think Central will continue this rental for another run... Just to keep us moving. I sure am glad the did though... For us to be down this whole time would have put a big dent in our pocket!!

 

We dropped in Jacksonville and picked up in Orlando... We are now in Texas between San Antonio and Huston.

 

Seems like that's what happened, and why all the service guys were scratching their heads. They didn't have the right wrench to work on it... Sigh...