Bay 34
We got a call last night that we were to have our rig in front of Service Bay 34 at 7:00 AM this morning. We got over here and got put right in the bay. Shane is our service rep. He got hold of TJ Allison to have our sliding door problems fixed. Check! Now he's working on getting our slide immediately behind the driver adjusted. As it is, when it's closed you can see about daylight for about 1" on the leading bottom edge. The gasket material was cut a little short it looks like. He adjusted the slide to pull in a little tighter as well as replaced the weatherstrip on the bottom of the slide.
Where is Shane? hmmm. Ahhh, he was checking on getting us another driver's seat. The one we have has seat-belt-latchin'-uppy-itis. They just decided to replace it and send it back to the manufacturer and let them repair the seat belt.
Just got a call from Gary Harris (the head of the chassis division) about taking the rig to get weighed to make sure the the tag axle bags are inflating to force the tag axle to carry its share of the load. We had weighed and the drive axle was over 23000 lbs and the tag axle was only about 3500 lbs. - NOT GOOD. But he said they have the tag dump anytime the rig is going less than 20 mph and the turn signal is turned because a sharp turn drags the tag wheels. Well, I might have turned my turn signal on to turn into the Pilot Truck Stop to weigh and I KNOW I was going less than 20 mph. Apparently, the tag doesn't re-fill until you've gotten back up to 20+ mph. I am reasonably sure I didn't floor it and hit the scale doing 25 mph. The thing is, there isn't ANYWHERE that it says anything about the tag dump parameters in the owner's manual.
Upon weighing the rig everything is "okey-dokey." The drive axle was 17K+ lbs. and the tag axle was 8K+ lbs.. Both of these are well beneath their Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR) of 22K lbs. for the drive axle and 12.6K lbs. for the tag axle. YIPPEE! This was a primary reason for getting rid of Trekker-II. The front axle was overweight and couldn't get within specs even after the chassis manufacturer (Freightliner) did all they could to adjust it.
Upon weighing the rig everything is "okey-dokey." The drive axle was 17K+ lbs. and the tag axle was 8K+ lbs.. Both of these are well beneath their Gross Axle Weight Rating (GAWR) of 22K lbs. for the drive axle and 12.6K lbs. for the tag axle. YIPPEE! This was a primary reason for getting rid of Trekker-II. The front axle was overweight and couldn't get within specs even after the chassis manufacturer (Freightliner) did all they could to adjust it.
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