Recent content by Bob Loblaw

Re: Headlights on buzzer... Thanks for the tips on the radiator. We have 2012 and up, 5 total. So far we have been relatively lucky. One truck had lots of issues, they ended up replacing the injectors and now it's fine. What tricks? We haven't had a ton of regen issues yet, but we do in...

Re: Headlights on buzzer... Quick question about coolant. We have shredding trucks and they run really hard all summer in the Texas heat. Is there a premium coolant choice we should make? (We currently use the recommended Hino coolant.) Also, should we increase our coolant change frequency...

Cool. I think we'll set them at 1 minute. I'm wondering if reducing the idle will slow down the soot build up. I'd guess we could save an hour a day of idling. At least, we'll save some gas. Thanks for all your help, appreciate it.

One other question. Our trucks do 20-40 stops a day. Is it worth it to shut the truck down for quick stops? We currently let the guys keep the truck running if it's going to be less than 5 minutes between leaving the truck and the shredder starting. We've considered just having them shut the...

I forgot to mention this. We had brought up the idea about the rental flag setting and allowing us to do manual regens on our own in one of our cities. Our local Rush service guy there basically send that it's impossible and they won't mess with those settings. Hopefully our guys here are a...

So, basically it would allow the truck to regen while we are shredding, am I understanding that right? That sounds great. I'd love the parameters to give to our mechanic.

lol we tried those, but we had too many hop-ons. If we do that, how often should we regen? Maybe do it on an hours basis? And do other brands of truck have a "rental car flag" option? (Just curious if I should talk to my other dealers about doing the same thing.)

Can you give me some tips on driver training to reduce DPF issues? Background: I own a shredding company with 11 mobile paper shredding trucks. They spend hours and hours at idle or running off of PTO. I have frequent problems with my trucks, especially DPF related issues. So far my Hino...