If you lock your keys inside the truck, just ask other drivers who have the same model truck as yours if you can try their keys in your door. There is a good chance it will open it. Truck manufacturers use very few key patterns.

If I went to a large truckstop and started trying my key in the doors of all the 379's on the lot, I bet I could get at least one of them to open besides mine.

 

every volvo we've had you HAD to use the key to lock the door

 

Same thing on every european car i have ever driven, you can lock the passenger side but you cant do the drivers side without the key, makes sense doesnt it.

 

woke up at 3am to drive to the terminal 40 minutes away get to the terminal and realized i left my keys at home. tried to break in with no luck( had spare in truck) drove all the way home and just went back to bed.

 

I too locked my truck up when i pulled out from the dock and went to close mu trailer doors in the Philly market not too long ago.After getting all crazy about how to unlock it, a driver with a t 2000(same truck as mine) used his key to unlock mine.I really wanted to hug him,i was sooo happy.Saved MY dayy!!!

 

It's not real hard to put a spare key in your wallet.

 

I keep a wire coat hanger under the cross members of my trailer. I can pop the lock in 2 tries once I get past the weather stripping on a FLD. Need to but the under hood key back.

FYI TA shops have a big pile of wire coat hangers. Or any place that employees wear rental uniforms.

 

I once opened my brother's truck with a screen door key, and a woman in TX that locked her keys in the truck... Had had special locks installed so that other keys would not fit... My key for a Renault fit and opened her door. In about two minutes, she was on the phone complaining to her dispatcher that a car key opened her door.:eek2:

 

'06 pete 379 will not lock without key either, have to use key or lock when inside with door shut.

 

I think this is a joke but it was amusing. A driver told me after picking up a few things at walmart he was walking back through the parking lot and saw a woman standing beside her car, keys in one hand grocieries in the other. He approached her and asked if anything was wrong? She told him that the batteries in her (keyless) remote were dead and she couldn't get in here car. He took her keys and unlocked the door the old fashion way. Then gave back the keys and said now you can drive to the dealer for a new battery.