Our cameras go in October 21st, not really thrilled about it, but what do you do besides find a different employer? Cameras and EOBR's will find theur place in all trucks before too long, and these new young drivers starting out won't see a problem with it, as it'll be all they know. They've never ran down the highway in an ungoverned truck, that hasn't had it's nuts cut off, no monitoring, or tracking devices, etc.
As for the Sterlings, and 7 speeds deal...I usually shift 1-3 short anyways, 4-7 I wind to 1700-1800 if I'm heavy...only way to make those long legged bastards move. I'll keep on doing it my way, and it can chirp, ding, ping, bark, whatever the hell it does, all night long to and from the FAC. I am the professional driver, not somebody in a suit in an office claiming the trucks pull better, and get better mpg when you lug the hell out of thwm. I've experimented with it, and wound up dropping a gear and standing on it..you'll creep to 62..eventually, with 43k in the boxes, in 7th gear at 1k rpm, like they want.
And Freightshaker, all the Nancy's who are happy with their surging idle, in the shop constantly for this and that sensor acting up, dpf and def equipped with plastic wheel covers flapping in the breeze Cascadias can keep them. I can live with 3 less gears, and manual windows, and keep my reliable truck that actually pulls. All of the freight my sic sends out, and hauls back is heavy, with low cube...and up and down the i35 corridor, I've never been outpulled by another truck, especially a cascadia...but I sure have passed a lot of them.
As for the Sterlings, and 7 speeds deal...I usually shift 1-3 short anyways, 4-7 I wind to 1700-1800 if I'm heavy...only way to make those long legged bastards move. I'll keep on doing it my way, and it can chirp, ding, ping, bark, whatever the hell it does, all night long to and from the FAC. I am the professional driver, not somebody in a suit in an office claiming the trucks pull better, and get better mpg when you lug the hell out of thwm. I've experimented with it, and wound up dropping a gear and standing on it..you'll creep to 62..eventually, with 43k in the boxes, in 7th gear at 1k rpm, like they want.
And Freightshaker, all the Nancy's who are happy with their surging idle, in the shop constantly for this and that sensor acting up, dpf and def equipped with plastic wheel covers flapping in the breeze Cascadias can keep them. I can live with 3 less gears, and manual windows, and keep my reliable truck that actually pulls. All of the freight my sic sends out, and hauls back is heavy, with low cube...and up and down the i35 corridor, I've never been outpulled by another truck, especially a cascadia...but I sure have passed a lot of them.
