I just started driving a big truck locally and today was sent to Paris IL from St. Louis... Tooling up and down interstate 70 / 55 I saw quite a few FEMA trailers geting yanked south... The dodges out numbered all by 40 to 1 (suprised )??? Anyway I got passed by a really nice looking Dark Blue New Chevy Dually, this truck looked like it was decked out for work (hauling trailers)... I thought to myself that the guy must feel like a lost sheep in the dodges, but it looked like a nice truck...

Anyway he passes me doing about 65 and moving along pretty good, about 100 more miles down the road I see that poor truck sitting on the side of the road pouring white smoke out the tail pipe (guessing an injector issue)... So anyway I guess the chevys still aren't up to "it" just yet even though I think they are getting better...

 

I don't care what you drive sitting at the side of the road with a broken down vehicle sucks.

 

Every once in a while I see one of every brand broke down. Several years ago I was driving a 10 year old truck from Ohio to missouri while the temperatures were well below zero. (When I started out that morning it was 29* below zero, and nowhere during my trip did it get above 8* below zero!) I seen several hundred (If not thousands) late model vehicles stranded. Many were that model year. Needless to say, I thanked my lucky star for not being one of them.

Just the other day, I seen a new (Still had temporary tags!) Powerstroke along the interstate. Maybe it was broke down, or maybe someone had to take a pee.

 

You should have stopped and offered him a rope or a chain or anything to get him behind a Dodge.

 

If I was in my truck I would have stopped, but I was in my "Mack" and had to get a container to the Rail Yard and only had a 15 minute lead way... I hope things worked out for him, he was pretty much in the middle of no where...

 

Then why would you buy a Ferd?

 

I've been running the little six since it first came out in 1989 (89, 92, 95, 99, and my sons 94). Two have left me sitting alongside the road on two ocassions. The first one was in my 95 when I ran it out of fuel. They don't run real good on just air. The second time was in my 99 when the last (and I do mean last) LP went out. I even melted number six piston in my 99 pulling Afton Mountain and it got me all the way home knocking like someone was in the block with a hammer trying to get out. Didn't even score the block up with over 400 miles on a melted piston. Scheid ran a glaze breaker in the cylinder, put in new jugs, and she was good to go. Sitting alongside the road does blow but I'll take the little six over those fake diesels any time.

 

well that always sucks when a injector goes like that...

the other day i go out to the garage to start my max up and the second i start the truck it is misfiring and smokeing like he!!, i cannot beleive it!!.... find out latter #7 injector stuck open for no apparent reason, does that EDIT me off....

so i guess till they make a better injector, we will be exsperiencing these crappy type of problems..