T he parts shortage situation in the commercial vehicle sector has become quite the quagmire: New trucks languish away in OEM lots waiting for semiconductors as fleets scrounge the web to find parts to free trucks from shop purgatory, or strip one truck to get another back on the road-literally robbing from Peter(bilt) to pay Paul in the name of uptime. " It is like a Mr. Potato Head, " explained Cari Baylor, president of Baylor Trucking. " We are pulling our equipment and cannibalizing parts. We pre-bought parts and, over the past 90 days, we shipped out 57 parts to our partner dealerships. An OEM dealership doesn't have the parts, so we are shipping it to our dealer locations to fix our equipment on the road. " December 2021 | FleetMaintenance.com 21http://www.FleetMaintenance.com