Really? I mean rolling back speedometers is as American as bait and switch!
Do not give this much credence, IMHO...
“...which vehicles had their odometers replaced.”
It’s interesting that they couldn’t just hack the odometer electronics. In fact, the main vehicle computer kept track of total miles irrespective of what the odometer read. They are not very bright not knowing that the main computer was continuing to track total miles and thinking they could get away with the scam by changing the odometer. (if that is indeed correct)
There are two possibilities. One is that the lawsuit is bogus. The other is that FedEx isn’t paying off the necesssary woke groups enough for protection.
When I was in high school, we used to unscrew the odo shaft from the transmission of my buddy’s dad’s Delta 88. My friend’s old man used to check the mileage before and after letting him take it out for the night. We also flipped over the air cleaner cover so it made that Rocket 350 sound badass. Oh, by the way, I now drive for FedEx.
When I was a teenager, all the cheap used car lots had funky paint jobs and odometers that read about 40k miles.
I don’t know the particulars of FedEx’s truck purchasing but having driven for them I do know they keep their trucks for a long time.
I’ve personally driven tractors with over a million miles.
I’ve driven vans with well over 200K.
I don’t think it would make sense to rollback the odometer just to get a better deal for it when sold.
I had to replace an electronic dashboard on a car and when the new one was installed the car all of a sudden had 40k fewer miles.
Fedex when you absolutely positively have to roll back the miles!
I chatted with a driver of an “Airport Shuttle”at DFW as he was putting gas in. He said his van had over 750K miles and they rarely ever get switched off. They use(or use to) Large Ford passenger vans with huge desiel engines.
There was a youtube video about this a year or two back. It concerned the replacement of the speedometer/odometers in the Fedex trucks. When they failed and had to be replaced the new part started at zero and no mention was made to potential buyers of this fact. I believe the person in the video stated you could tell if there was a replacement as the original part did not have visible screws in the mounting to the dashboard, while the replacement did.
The video included an example of a buyer who encountered this and was more than a little bit upset. He thought he was getting a real good deal but wound up with a worn out truck.
On a reverse type of fraud. I read that in the 80’s in Russia, when taxi drivers were paid by the mile...The taxi drivers would park their taxies on blocks in their yard..run the engine in gear and add mileage to the car while the wheels were turning and they were getting drunk. Governments are always being defauded.
Lot of cars in the 2000s still kept their mileage in the gauge cluster.
Personal experience - 99-06 Silverado/Sierra and 99-01 Jeep Cherokee. Ironically, both tend to have cluster issues that mean most owners with high mileage will have to replace them. If you buy new, mileage resets to zero. Buy used and it’s a crapshoot.
They can be reprogrammed sometimes, but usually only with the dealer-level scan tools.
I thought Ernie Boch, Sr. died many years ago. He must have trained the FedEx people before his demise.
I don’t know what type of speedometer/odometer they are using but the VDO units we had in our fire trucks for awhile lasted a few years before the odometer LED’s died and the whole unit was replaced.