now you can fill up with computer parts and bring me some

Hooray! What next?

No I can't do doughnuts in this semi. These are very limited on power, designed for fuel economy. However, mine is a brand new 2018 FreightLiner with an automatic transmission so advanced it will detect hills before even beginning them and change gear accordingly. As of right now we are picking up a load in southern California and delivering to Portland, Oregon.

Also its fuel economy is fantastic. It will disengage the transmission and allow the engine to idle and neutral-coast down hills that are not steep. As a result this truck is capable of nearly 10 MPG.

I used to work in the factory making freightliner trucks. 

They aren't bad trucks, I just wish we could use the performance mode for climbs. Apparently drivers were over-revving the engines so the company disabled it.

i know nothing of the mechanics, but the company making them is crap to employees

they have a ridiculous turn over rate, basically every year without fail they lay off a bunch of their staff

Well that would explain why they are pretty cheap trucks lol

i mean from what I could tell they were well built, just don't work for them

Well its got a lot of dumb safety features like a collision warning system that will lock the brakes up in a construction zone because it will pick up barriers and cones as cars and think that you are going to hit them. Happened the other day in the middle of a corner, damn near jack-knifed the trailer in the middle of the highway!

But yea its mainly C.R. England's programming is the main issue. So they had new drivers over-revving the engines beyond 2500 RPM, so they disabled the manual shifting and performance modes. As a result, with any kind of load this thing can't climb hills worth of shit. 30,000 lb load (which is fairly light considering maximum load is 44,000) and we struggle to do even 30 MPH up 4% grades. This is because the trucks are now stuck in "economy" mode ONLY and that means the truck is shifting too early, I rarely see it hit 1500 RPM even going up hills. Its a big problem.

Turns out England is a POS company so I'm going to be looking into having another company buy me out of my contract here in a month or so.

interesting...