I got back in from Joplin late last night. I got my pm and a/c fixed and 24 other things fixed. I got the "farting machine" put in (uugghhh) but no one told me how to operate it. (Lane departure system) Any help?
I also got something else that I have no idea what it is.... I have a new lock that is attached to the side of the radiator and hung on an odd shaped hook. Now I have no idea why i got a new lock. Thanks TMC... just what I needed.

 

I have to go to DSM sometime this week for PM. I hate going up there for anything. There is no TQM so I can't make the trip pay for itself.

 

If it is the same lane departure system we have in the maroon trucks, you don't need to do anything to make it work. It just does its own thing.
There should be a rocker switch someplace now that you can hit and make the thing shut up for 12 minutes if in a construction zone or in the rain (sometimes it will read tire tracks on wet roads.)

 

Yep, that's it. The rocker switch glows green and orange. The bottom orange light goes out above 35mph. Which way do i rock it to make it shut up for 12 minutes, up or down?
This thing almost caused an accident. They put the left speaker right beside my head. I was in the left lane in a construction zone when it went off, loudly. It scared me enough that I jumped to the right and forced the car to my right off of the exit. Real safe piece of crap. Thanks TMC.

 

hit the top part of the rocker switch, that should shut it up. I know what you mean about it scaring you until you get used to it. Between that, the Vorad, the blind spot car detector, there are just too many noises in the cab to distract me.

 

I've found all of these "extras" in TMC trucks to be essentially useless, ineffective, and very annoying.

I've been cruising along at 65 many times on level road only to have my jake kick in when the system detected some phantom object ahead of me.

We are supposed to be professionals, yet we have to constantly be reminded by these junk "safety systems" that we don't know what we are doing.

I'd like to see some hard numbers showing their effectiveness... but I really doubt they exist.

They should be dumping the same money into optimized fuel idling systems or idle-air reimbursements.

 

Lenny, they may be sinking money into those systems because Insurance is telling them to. Believe it or not Insurance has a lot of say.

 

or maybe it helps the safety rating

 

Anyone ever had their truck backed into? I was sitting at the truck stop this weekend parked in the same spot that I always do, (actually 3 of us TMC trucks park together at the very rear) my truck being on the end,
and some ahole hit it near the rear window on my bunk. Three perfect scratches were the hinges on van door are.. Done called dispatch, the law, took pictures, now just trying to find witnesses... THat's a joke..

 

I had the chrome trim surrounding the exhaust pipe slightly dented. All my straps were cut on the drivers side. They tried to cut partly through so it wouldn't be noticed. Luckily for me they cut one strap all the way through and it was flapping in the breeze. I park down the street from a strip club, I guess someone was pissed because I was taking up some drunk's parking space.