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Our truck is squeeky clean now, we got it washed yesterday. It may not win best in the show, but it gets the job done.;)

Check this out for some amusement. It never ends, just gets harder............ Planarity.net

Mine was "How much is that doggie in the window" by Patti Page.

We just moved into a motel for the weekend in Seattle, hopefully we can get out Monday. A guy at the truck stop said he drove for Allied movers. He emptied out on January 9th and said he'd been at that truck stop ever since waiting for a load. The moving industry must be slower than expediting...

We sat for 4 days last week in Phoenix, AZ and now have been sitting 5 days in Oakland, CA. It's a little chilly here, 65 degrees, but sunny.:cool:

Wow, I'm glad someone is busy enough out there to refuse loads just because of a little bit of tape residue. Our weekly gross has gone from $4,000/week to $1,000/week. We've been sitting 5 days and driving 2 instead of the other way around. I've heard of cases where driver's were threatened with...

I had the main belt, tensioner and idle replace on my M2 about 6 weeks ago and took three weeks off over the holidays. Yesterday was the first hill climb for the truck since then, south on I 17 from Flagstaff, AZ. The temp went up to 200 degrees and kept climbing. The fan never came on. We...

After 120,000 miles this year, the only stone chip/crack in my windshield was from a car, not a truck! That would be hard to prove, but it was dark and just me and the car in front of me on the road.

I noticed a little bit of wear on the forward edge of the serpentine belt on my 2004 M2 with 560,000 miles on it and MB engine. Looking closer, the idler pulley was about 1/16" further out than the belt. I assumed the bearing was going or gone. I took it to the nearest Freightliner dealer, about...

Yeah, thanks for the info Rob. I think my solution is going to be trying to stay on I-10 all winter!

Sometimes I spend more time under the hood than in the seat of this truck. I bought this truck used and the clamp on the top of the air dryer was probably gone when I bought it so I had no idea there was even supposed to be one there. Neither did the two guys that I paid to do the 6 month...

If you've got a Freightliner M2, do yourself a favor and check the air dryer. There is a big hose clamp on the top and a metal bracket on the bottom. If that hose clamp comes off, the thing will shake and break the bottom bracket. This happened to us, 150 miles from a delivery on I-10 in...

My Powertech APU with 600 hours is down about every 50 hours, yep, that's about right. Once the belt came off and all of the other times it's usually some programming problem. It has never been running when we've arrived at home. The only dealers who can work on it are Freightliner in Columbus...

We have a Powertech APU with 600 hours and it's been on the truck for about 9 months. EVERYTIME we come back home, it's been down. Freightliner has always fixed it, but it has never been running when we've been home and we went home a couple of time last summer because it was down. We have...

We have a D unit and are out 6-8 weeks, then home 2-3 weeks. We did take all of July off since it is a slow time anyway.

My 4 month old Power Tech APU with 500 hours is broke down again (It's a real piece of junk and there are 5 people in the world who can fix it and they are always on vacation), my 2004 M2 with 500,000 miles just had $1,200 of AC work done on it and it just quit. Here we sit in Tulsa, OK where...

Try CR England, I heard they train husband and wife teams together. My wife and I trained separately with Werner. Not much fun, but we did it.

I've got a metal detector at the house and did think about bringing it along. Next time I'm home I'll put it in the truck. Thanks for the reminder!

FYI, we were heading north on I 75 in KY last week at midnight and it was raining bad. A semi passed us and threw a sheet water on the windshield and "poof", the driver side wiper assembly was gone :eek:. My wife was driving and pulled over and woke me up. She just passed a T/A so I drove about...

I think you'd want to call dispatch first if you are under load and tell them what's going on.