The adventures of 'Team Klingon'

One of those DD15's?

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for this wonderful thread. It should be required reading for n00b's!

 

chompi that is so true. Keep every receipt you get out there. I love deductions!

 

Long story short, Volvo ended up giving us another brand new lemon and it literally had all the same problems plus more! Ended up catching on fire and toasted the sleeper after a complete re-wire! Guess they didn't hook up the right wires!

Anyway, it took us some time and eventually we had a meeting with Jon Issacson and that's when things went full speed ahead! We were again given another brand new truck, this time a Kenworth and he saw to it that we were reimbursed a good chunk of money that was lost due to our breakdowns. Still wasn't what we would have made were we driving and making money but it sure helped! We spent 8 months total of constantly being in the shop due to breakdowns! On many occasions because the truck was so new and it was a new model they either didn't have the parts or the tools to fix it. So we ended up either renting a car or flying home and sometimes utilizing a rental truck (Penske). The Penske rental was sometimes more of a pain then it was beneficial to us.

Wish you guys the best...

 

Detroit better pony up the $$$$ for your waiting. From your posts it sounds like either bad design or bad mechanics. i am leaning toward bad design. Oh BTW you can thank the EPA for the headache...


Now you know why Cat got out of the on-highway engine market.

 

Is that Waltzing Mathilda?

I had a 1959 Jeep station wagon as a daily driver that I called that. She was very reliable, never failed to start. She did have some peculiarities...the driver's door would fly open making turns. I had to "stick" the gas tank cos the gauge had been broken for years. Would pop out of 2nd gear going down hills. Just a little "personality"!

Wishing you good running miles-