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When things are FUBAR, FIDO!
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we have had times during the past few winters where the new autoshifts, to include the Internationals, Peterbilts, and a Volvo, have all had transmission shift solenoid freeze up and not let the trucks move or some move only in reverse. They were dragged into shop and allowed to warm up and then seemed to function properly. Shop and company swear that it is because drivers are not draining air tanks daily. As far as I know they all have functioning air driers and most were under a year old. I can't really believe not draining the tanks is the root of this problem. I know plenty of people at other companies, in many types of operations where they never drain the tanks and never have a problem with the autoshift system. They are similar makes, models, and years that R&L has problems with, yet no one else has had similar problems. The others run all kinds of schedules like we do, some trucks are used 10-12 hours a day 5 days a week while others run pretty much nonstop 6 days a week. Regardless, I have not heard of another company have the freeze up problems we have had despite not draining tanks. Can someone enlighten me? I am out of 1 of the big Great Lakes area terminals