I think the transmission fault, at least the one i experienced had something to do with the idle shutdown. When mine faulted i never got the countdown to shutoff for idling. The 300 seconds. It just shutoff on its own. And when i started it back up thats when i couldnt get it into gear. For my money, the new Freightliner’s seem so much better than the new twin screw KW’s. I really never experience any issues when i cover a job that has that tractor.
I dont know why the company feels the need to buy all different brand’s of new tractors. Makes no sense. Buy one kind. And then the mechanics will only have to worry about fixing one kind of tractor. We still have a bunch of old tractors but we have plenty of new. Mechanic in my building told me the KW’s are the biggest pieces of sheet.