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[Mugarolla]

Maybe you were using different tractors?

246 KW

I've heard UPS is going to change providors for their cellphone/computers because the service is so bad, at least down here.

We use Verizon here.

I don't understand how they could not recommend that..

The brake switch signals certain things for the tranny and clutch to do. They do not recommend "2 footing" as it could cause problems.

And no, they are just like any other Company. No driver input. The suits, or engineers, that never left their office and saw what the real world was like, made these decisions.

Sounds just like UPS, right?

 

[govols019]

246 KW



We use Verizon here.



The brake switch signals certain things for the tranny and clutch to do. They do not recommend "2 footing" as it could cause problems.

And no, they are just like any other Company. No driver input. The suits, or engineers, that never left their office and saw what the real world was like, made these decisions.

Sounds just like UPS, right?

True...I would love to have 15 minutes in a locked room with the person that signed off on buying the KWs.

The only good things about them are the middle visor and red light for the floorboard.

Don't even get me started on how they are made mostly of plastic.

 

[Rick Ross]

I've heard UPS is going to change providors for their cellphone/computers because the service is so bad, at least down here. I think they currently use Sprint. Is this a national issue? Is this just sleeper teams or brown tractors as well?

We are Verizon as well.

 

[govols019]

We are Sprint...I will lose a signal twice a night while driving down I-40.

 

[Indecisi0n]

We are Sprint...I will lose a signal twice a night while driving down I-40.

Easy fix, don't drive down I40.

 

[Poop Head]

They don't care about service just what's cheaper

They switched to Boost Mobile here.

 

[retiredTxfeeder]

We are Sprint...I will lose a signal twice a night while driving down I-40.

They have sprint down here also. The service is so bad, they are going to Verizon. I guess it's nationwide, but they are always the last to do things down here. Word is, everyone is going to go to Verizon.

 

[Indecisi0n]

They switched to Boost Mobile here.

Maybe in the ghetto hubs.

 

[Poop Head]

Maybe in the ghetto hubs.

"Ay, where You at?"

 

[Poop Head]

Maybe in the ghetto hubs.

We lost a couple guys when we switched cuz the wouldnt stop chirpin at hoes

 

[Johney]

246 KW

Instead of different maybe I should have said multiple tractors or are you driving the same tractor # every night?

 

[Mugarolla]

Instead of different maybe I should have said multiple tractors or are you driving the same tractor # every night?

Same one.

 

[govols019]

Wonder what the failure rate is for the KW transmission?

I hated automatics in package and I don't like them in feeders.....I'm a truck driver, I want to shift gears the way God intended.

 

[Yeet]

Wonder what the failure rate is for the KW transmission?

I hated automatics in package and I don't like them in feeders.....I'm a truck driver, I want to shift gears the way God intended.

Give me a manual Mack any day. We have guys here that refuse to drive a manual and I just don’t get it.

 

[Big Arrow Down...D]

Give me a manual Mack any day. We have guys here that refuse to drive a manual and I just don’t get it.

I get it... but the traffic tho... we spend more time in traffic than we actually do working. Need an automatic for that .

 

[Yeet]

I get it... but the traffic tho... we spend more time in traffic than we actually do working. Need an automatic for that .

Got a night run. No traffic.

 

[Jones]

Got a night run. No traffic.

Especially with the current pandemic, it's really been a piece of cake.
Rush hour in DC the other night:

 

[Indecisi0n]

Got a night run. No traffic.

I took someones morning run the other day.....never again. I stick with my nights where most idiot drivers are off the road.

 

[Mack37]

These new auto transmissions are awful, I’m not sure the appeal. All postal tractors have been spec’d with Allison transmissions since the 1990’s and they are fantastic, it’s like driving a car more or less.

 

[Indecisi0n]

These new auto transmissions are awful, I’m not sure the appeal. All postal tractors have been spec’d with Allison transmissions since the 1990’s and they are fantastic, it’s like driving a car more or less.

But the automatics make it a lot easier to text and drive.