The point is "Excessive Use" and that is what is hard to understand, why every other truck that passes by here and so many other places similar, and the driver uses all 3 stages, (yes I have heard the stories about using all stages or none, partial is not good for the engine...) for no good reason. I can hear them 1/2 mile as they pass or approach. Try to sleep in the summer with a window open and one with 6" straight pipes comes by, rattling you out of bed.
There are times you absolutely need and should use the engine brake, and other times you should not, these idiots don't know the difference and are the same ones you see looking down at their phone while driving a tractor trailer. I see it daily, they ought to have their license revoked for driving distracted. The caliber of professional drivers out there today lacks common sense.
We owned 2 rigs at one time, ran the east coast, + straight trucks, certainly know what maintenance and repairs cost, even more so with a careless driver that has bad driving habits.
At work, we just replaced a new clutch that an idiot driver tore up, you cannot believe what this jerk did, and he cut someone off with the tandem boom truck, almost killed the woman, totaled the car and tore off the ICC bar on the back, she hit perpendicular, I have the photos. 2016 heavy spec truck that we need daily to make our deliveries, he cost me all kinds of down time on the job with union ironworkers, + my time to deal with it. I don't need to hear about the costly mistakes or the cost to operate trucks, been around it most of my life.
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