Comments By James M.

Would help if I post the picture, wouldn't it?

Well, there she is in all her....ummm....glory! Yeah, that's it...lol 😆

Well, there she is in all her....ummm....glory! Yeah, that's it...lol 😆

Wow! And I thought I had a bad 1st day....lol! At least she seems to be running good. I guess that's always a plus.

It happens James lol reminds me of my starting out. They get me and my co driver a rental car to head out to Phoenix. To a sister company's shop for a 2016 FL in 2019. Well, the truck was in the shop still being put back together. My co driver climb in to check inside, it was a total dump and smelt like the landfill. It's front bumper was on a bench etc. total POS,.. NO TY

So after calls to our DM he told us there was a 2019 in their yard there, to check it out and take that tractor if it was ok. Well, it was very low on fuel, front tires were worn out, and they refused to change em. They did replace em after I had a little chat with their shops "foreman" lol

We take off, I follow my Co in the rental to drop it off....I make my left turn and get half a block down, truck just up n dies! I coast to a safe place to park out of the street. We sat for hours waiting for a tow back to the shop, 5 miles away. Turned out the trucks last driver was fired, so when he returned the truck he had filled the fuel tanks with WATER !! I read some of his texts on the Qualcom, they were not good lol

Turns out the shop had "fixed" it drained fuel (water) added some diesel called it fixed. Well, they forgot all that water was in the filters, fuel lines, injectors etc Don't know how we even made it as far as we did. Luckily a female driver was turning her lease truck in at that shop the next day.

We still had the rental car and hotel room so we went back waiting for this 2019 FL. She was nice had taken very good care of her truck. We helped her offload her stuff into a rental pick up, we FILLED that 4 door crew cab UP she had so much stuff hahaha......

So 3 days, to finally get our start, did we get mad? nawwww was just our intro how things can change, 1 minute/day to the next, and just roll with it

One other thing I found out and it sucks. I have a Bluetooth stereo, but the Bluetooth is disabled....ugh! Oh well.

Thanks Bruce and Stevo. She's still running and I got it in the on position. The reason I asked is because my trainer has a 2024 International and he had to push two buttons and actually turn the truck off and it would do it's thing automatically. I guess eventually it will shut itself off.

Ok, possibly one more stupid question. Should I have the key in the on or off position? It had turned itself off when I got that Idle message, then I fooled around and found the Comfort setting and it turned over on its own, but now it's been running for a while and I'm not sure if it's going to shut itself off or not. I don't even know if that makes any sense...lol

Nevermind. I think I'm ok. I got the truck to be like Optimus Prime and turn itself on and off. Now if I could only get it to transform.....hmmmm.

Nevermind. I think I'm ok. I got the truck to be like Optimus Prime and turn itself on and off. Now if I could only get it to transform.....hmmmm.

Hey all. Does anyone know how to keep the truck running so I can have AC in a Freightliner Cascadia? I keep getting a notice that says, "Engine Idle Perfoming Shutdown" and then the truck shuts itself off. No way I could sleep later on in 80+ degree weather. I appreciate any good advice! Personally, I think the what-cha-ma-call-it is interfering with the thing-a-ma-bob and it's causing some kinda do-hickey.....but, what do I know?

Hey all. I'd love to give you all a great update...but, unfortunately I'm still here waiting on my truck. I've checked 3 trucks out and each one of them had some kind of problem with it. I'm just waiting on maintenance now to switch out a tablet that my DM told me doesn't work and the driver's side headlight cover that was cracked and falling apart. Joy.

Hey all. I'm just waiting for the shuttle to pick me up. Scott; the terminal manager; called me up and said they have a truck available for me now. I'm super excited, but nervous at the same time.