Downhill In Snow/ice/slick Roads

What do you drive?

Then take pictures of this dashboard prompt and post them. I've had 3 FL, 2 IH, and 2 KW company trucks and this was not an option on the dashboard menu screens.

I currently drive a 2019 Freightliner Cascadia Sleeper with a DD15 engine and a DD 12-speed automatic transmission. Trying to post a video.

What do you drive?

Then take pictures of this dashboard prompt and post them. I've had 3 FL, 2 IH, and 2 KW company trucks and this was not an option on the dashboard menu screens.

Link to my video. https://youtu.be/vdgotoYoYKc

Link to my video. https://youtu.be/vdgotoYoYKc

You mentioned disabling the e-coast option. I didn't see where you showed that is possible in that video. You showed several different menu options and settings that can be adjusted, but I didn't catch the e-coast disablement.

When i get back to my truck I will do another video hope to explain it better. I am terrible with videos. Use the up/down arrows on the left side of steering wheel to highlight the option. Then left/right arrows to change from on/off. Then use the back button to cycle out. You have to do it every time you turn key off.

Link to my video. https://youtu.be/vdgotoYoYKc

You mentioned disabling the e-coast option. I didn't see where you showed that is possible in that video. You showed several different menu options and settings that can be adjusted, but I didn't catch the e-coast disablement.

I know our company will not let us disable the E coast. Yes it's an option on many trucks, but the company will not let it happen.

We all have choices to make, I look at it from a safety and monetary point of view.

My company has my truck set up for maximum fuel economy, not winter driving. It has E coast, standard non sciped tires with non winter tread. Manual mode in it is limited and while it functions, it's not ideal. All of these factors mean it's not as safe as it could be to operate in winter driving conditions.

From a monetary standpoint, I get paid by the mile. I don't get paid any more for a job in Wyoming than I do for one in Florida. The jobs in the winter are more hazardous, take longer and are more difficult to produce.

Since I'm not getting any more money to take them, I avoid them as much as possible. I over perform on jobs that I do take, consistently deliver safe and on time and make it a point to be easy to work with. I'll take small less favorable jobs so that I'm left with the choice of not taking the snow routes.

It's a tactical decision that works out well. I just just turned down two high mile loads, one over Cabbage, the other across Wyoming. Both would have left me sitting around waiting on weather. Instead I did a week of small jobs that paid better and helped out my DM.