Just saw where Paccar issued a recall affecting over 220,000 2021-2025 trucks. Something to do with Bendix ECU's causing an increased crash risk.
It reverts to standard braking, if abs fails/becomes in operative.
Must have been some accidents or close calls in order to cause Paccar to issue a recall.
It sounds like a Bendix ABS ECU reflash is the fix.
FFS. That's all I'm going to type on this ridiculous situation.
It's really not new news, our 2022 T990's all went through the recall back in Feb.
Just seemed like a lot of trucks and took awhile for the recall.
Spoke to our PACCAR Rep here as had the reflash done on the truck I drive, current reflash is a Patch, supposed to be rewriting the entire program as covers Auto Steer, ABS, Some applications to other systems as well. Software will not be ready at least until Jan/Feb time frame. Some modules that show distinct issues in their programs will be replaced as well new software installed. I did ask of the Trailer ABS/Disc-reconnect issue been having, he looked/winked and stated could not speak about that problem, shop manager was really close. And yes, were some spectacular accidents according to the shop rep.
That were not the truck's fault. Learn how to f#$king drive.
Exactly, dependency of Outside 'Safety Crap' has really infiltrated the Human Driving scene. Worthless as to actually "Saves Lives", creates ever more intense accident scenes.
The quality of drivers across the board has been going downhill ever since they started putting this safety crap into vehicles.
Kenworth/PacCar has had multiple issues with wiring harness & or modules for the last 12 years, right along with Freightliner. The Cascadia has had the most recalls of any large truck built, but there is also countless more on the road too. * Outside Saftety itemes-- ABS has saved more lives than anyone really knows, right along with seat belts and air bags, that's in general autorotative. ABS in trucks/trucking in general has saved x amount of lives, right along with auto slacks. * As far as folks ability/or lack of to drive properly ---that started about 1988.
Can state not ever have I Challenged a ABS System, tried for fun when first got the Exploder that had it, did not care for the brake pedal float and pulse and wheel random releases so not attempted to challenge since. Too, Too Easy to give decent stopping distances, All too simple to drive Rationally. That stated, have had SEVERAL instances of Out State Idiot Drivers recently. Primaries were VA, GA, TX and NY or NJ. Drive as if own the Highways, no sense, no rationality. Last one where I moved L Lane to pass slower traffic, Hood had JUST passed the first machine and a MOE from VA dove to R Lane almost rear ended that slower truck, tried Desperately to get me to get out of his way flashing lights and weaving as if intended to hit the truck/trailer. As I got back in R Lane the ASS lunged in front of me and attempted a Brake Check where I noted the State, I was already slowing, the Cop coming up on the Left was NOT Amused!! Lights ON!! Older White Guy, BAD Attitude!
Did learnt something else from the Rep and KW, seems the Company can ID any of their Products locations in a few minutes should a Client request. ALL the Products have GPS in the main Processors. been in them since 2010.
Freightliner has had the same for same amount of time. It's a good thing too---helps to be able to track a truck driver serial killer.
Back when I was a field mechanic the company I worked for sent all of us to a defensive driving class. An actual class where we spent time out on the streets and on the track in a half ton pickup. One thing the instructor had us do on the track was an evasive manouver drill in slippery conditions. He'd have us accelerate to a certain speed towards a "wall" of cones. When we passed a particular point on the ground we were to brake and he would shout the direction he wanted us to drive around the "wall". First run he had us hold the brakes hard and try to dodge the cones while relying on the ABS system. Every one of us hit at least one cone, if not plowed right through them. Next test he wanted us to hammer the brakes, then let them off and steer around the cones. Most of us made it around without issue. The third test he told us to hit the brakes and hold them right at the point where the ABS system was about to activate and steer around the cones like that. Not a single issue getting around the cones. I was honestly quite suprised and amazed at just how much control you lose by trying to steer while the ABS system is activated. This is the kind of stuff they should be teaching new drivers IMO.
I worked for the KW dealer here in BC they had seventeen dealerships open in the province. It was common for a dealer to sell another dealer's truck and then send someone to drive it to the selling dealer's location. One day a guy got out of a taxi shortly after 12:00 when all the salesmen and the manager had gone for lunch. He had a suitcase and a dealer plate in hand. He told the parts guy at the parts counter he was here to pick up that new white Kenworth parked in front of the dealership. The parts guy went in the sales office and got the keys for him. The truck was never found.
What is the backhaul, cellular? How does this info get back to the mother ship? Who pays the ongoing cost for this service?
I think the gov't. imposed more/better training for drivers after the Humbolt Bronco's bus crash.
As far as driving ability--evasive maneuvers with or without hard braking--unless a person practices on/or at regular intervals to stay sharp very little will be used in a split second decision. Closed course maneuvers are just that closed. A drivers ability to steer through a mess often involves counterintuitive responses, under high adrenalin situations the brain, vision & reflexes can't compute without a high level of constant mockup of those types of ordeals. When adrenalin hits the system it can cause kind of a tunnel vision, the driver doesn't realize the picture unfolding in front of him completely.
If they did WD, there would not be the issues currently see. I have seen the people coming out of the Privatized CDL Training system, NOT impressed. I had been thrown into a Freightliner Fresh from Trade school and the old Diamond Wrecker soon after, had Old School men as we are now taught me the 'Proper' if not textbook way to drive, learned a lot in a relative short time. Learned the rules in Driver Exam texts, play by the rules most of the time and with one iffy eye my head remains on a swivel. Point of note, passed a Moron yesterday, Box Truck slow and speed up, odd line to line lurches, could of sworn he was doing something else where as passed he was trimming his toenails on the steering wheel as was driving. THAT is the class of idiots out there today. Nothing Safety Equipment wise would save a Moron as that, he was less than 40 feet from truck ahead of him and all over the road at 60-68mph.
Trouble is Dave--the first part of your post is total yesteryear, not knocking it mind you. Truck/CDL drivers of today are driving vehicles that resemble a large pickup until a glance in the mirror. The horsepower/throttle response, air-disc brakes, automated manual trans- missions, super quiet cabs, comfort controlled cabs, full air-ride suspension {steer axle} with air-ride cab and seat with tilt telescoping column, -----it's like driving a Ford 450. Drivers are lulled into thinking it will stop on a dime with air-disc/and it damn near will in some cases. The trucks built today are built to satisfy driver comfort. * All one has to do is look how close truck drivers are tailing each other, they think they have great distance from one another, lulled by their surroundings. Years ago I can't think of anyone with a chauffeur's license that follow as close as they do now. Or just mash the throttle through stop lights. The winter I left the company was going through windshields like nobody's business. Asked why so many, {following too close}, had two drivers that shot through a shield every month for three months. The drivers today--everything is just a index finger away, all positioned on the stalks on column, they don't physically do anything no shifting no nothing just set and steer--everyone calls them {steering wheel holders}---- well that's all there is to do--hold the wheel. With crash avoidance systems to go along with the rest--it's become a brain dead job anymore.
You're not wrong. I hopped into a newer truck a couple years back and pulled a few loads. Hadn't been behind the wheel of a truck in years. By the end of the first block I was already bored. The most exciting part of the day was throwing on some chains to back into an icy yard.
Yeah--it's dumbing down of the work force, I can see some ideas some of it as good, but for the most part these late trucks create lazy people lazy attitudes. The boss on his last order for new trucks finally realized he was spending gross amounts of money with not allot of return.----The last ten came--and no auto chains, no school bus chains. It was 4,000 bucks extra per truck and they still wouldn't move if they saw a snow flake flying. So no more auto chains--He had every truck in the fleet with auto chains, 65 tractors. $260,000 spent on luxuries that really didn't create any extra revenue. I told him when he bought them it was a bad idea and waste of money--it only took five years to figure that one out. But he finally pulled the plug on that monumental waste-could have bought a new tractor for the price of those and a 389 to boot.
Local dry box hauler went to fully auto transmissions in Pete and IH cabs, Cummins 13l engines. All show no go. Driver at our yard worked there three weeks, quit, backing into a dock could NOT use brakes until bumped the pads, if did trans disconnected to N and the instant reshift as let off brake would Bang the dock hard. Hated it. Comes to fruition in the next few years as to no shifter game playing in cab I am completely done any form commercial. Is a accident in engineered space and will not be part nor parcel of it.
Drivers I have to haul with me when towing are just amazed of the lever sticking up through the floor.
Herders Far from Drivers Steering wheel retainers.
6:42 is why computers suck.
Have had three people in KW cab while moving. I may not shift the same way twice up or down. 18 is fun to toy with as see fit to.
It's just 4 low gears to split.
Guess I can see on Monday what boss man thinks on that recall. Not only can people not drive a stick anymore, they sure can't fix them either. Two or 3 stealerships warranty work on one transmission and still not right. Lets see one in North Dakota had their dick beaters on it, Nebraska, and I think here in Montana somewhere, looking at the output shaft as I seen and it's got major movement.
Was just a article on Loss of mechanics on MSN, losing three to five by regions to age out to one entering.
Rear section case needs to be examined where output shaft bearing race mates with case, plus rear bearing retainer and yoke end where it comes in contact with rear/rear output bearing cone. That bearing set is matched/machined front cone goes to front race and rear cone to rear race, so when yoke nut is tightened pre-load is automatically set.
Us old farts are disappearing at a fast rate. Vetech is next, when he goes there goes the midwest.
JY will pull up the load!!!
Perfect! More demand = higher wages.
They say in 2030 all "baby boomers" will be 65 and older. It's up to us Gen X's as they label us to take the reigns. I'm not feeling all that great to take the slack up. Then again I didn't ask to be here in turning wrenches, it found me in a rented garage in Beaver, WA doing my own thing. Within a week of being found I was tasked with outfitting a Navy tug boat to a commercial albacore fishing vessel while rebuilding a Twindisc transmission below deck. Tried many times to put the wrenches away, but it keeps finding me.
2064 will make any boomer born in the last year 1964 100 years old--and will still be listening to the Rolling Stones---Start Me Up.
Do not believe I will be at that party by then. Can already feel the use of heavy tools as escaping capabilities.
And Keith Richards will still be performing it live!
It's not just truck drivers, operators and mechanics. Huge shortage of doctors coming up. Over 20% of people in this province have no family doctor. My doctor died, but he had arranged a replacement while he was sick. This guy stayed for four years, and now he has decided to go back to Greece where it is not so cold.
Family doctor? What's that?
It's why to stay moving, at least getting out and walking a couple times a week I joined the Audubon group here in town. Yeah it's watching birds and other wild life------------- Most all are over 65, one women is 83, small group but it's something different to do a few hours a week and get about 2.5 miles of exorcise, heart doctor likes it.
I get out on our place most days, do some work, walk a lot. At the yard sweep out my own trailer, when using loader is cleaner than when got to it, bucket, rails, inside. When I back down to just retired will be active on my own stuff and have the KATY trail for distance no interruptions.
Find a group of prune eaters---some people your age that understand the reason you have brown spot in the seat of your pants, they are more sympathetic to age.
Jack Nicholson famously said "Never trust a fart!"
Dark colored underwear. I've been making the change gradually
Unfortunately for some, the dark colored underwear didn't start off that way.
Yeah--I've got some PacCar underwear that are beyond recall.
Ask Donald Trump how that worked out!!!!
Yes, well time to go.
Yes it is!
Maybe the same guys that turn their pumps up to roll coal also have the darkest colored underwear?