trife86

We know the DOT does what they want. They choose to dilly dally around all these issues and dilly dally they do! 🤣

Well if you didn't know as well when deblasio gave us the wonderful 25mph speed limit. Absolutely 0 schedules were adjusted to deal with that. There are still schedules now that have the same run time as they did before when local streets had 30mph limits.

I sometimes don't understand the wifi fight. Yea it's advertised and works good most the time, but who doesn't have a decent mobile device anymore that doesn't have at least 3g which should be good enough for anything you need to do on a bus. And if it's for work to do on a tablet / iPad / laptop that someone might have and travel with them than they should already have learned how to tether. Just my opinion but I don't use free WiFi anywhere really.

Some buses just don't show up on bustime but still actually running.

As I'm not sure about the outside link postings on this site. Why haven't you posted a link to it in here? You can still keep postings private on there I believe might help get some more exposure. Not everyone is searching on FB for these issues you are trying to resolve...

So so. A bent wheel can happen without jumping a curb. Flat tire is only your issue if the sidewall is ripped due to the sidewalk or something. If something blew into the street or fell of a vehicle in front of the bus than gets run over that does damage than there would be no avoiding that .

No

Is it appropriate to say DAS BOOOOT

Don't think the engine and transmission are stressed as all, even fully loaded on highway it doesn't need much to maintain speed. I wouldn't say an extra 5000lb over say a 45-50,000pound normal load is really even going to effect anything. I would blame it just more on there getting broken in now and not just brand new and racking up the miles are bound to bring problems.

That doesn't make it safe. Read the sidewall of the tire on any of our coach bus it will say the speed rating of it. Not sure if some of them have been going over to Michelin But here is both, I know for a fact we use the 305width tire and the Goodyear's were 55mph rated not sure what the Michelin are at or if we use them on coach. https://www.goodyear.com/mileage/pdf/goodyear_transit_tires.pdf https://www.michelinb2b.com/wps/b2bcontent/PDF/Transit_Buses.pdf Look up the history of the Goodyear g159 RV tire is a prime example of over running the tire and speed limit. That tire has caused many many deaths from people pushing over the limit of them

Yes not just busses and heavy vehicles but bassicly every car and motor vehicle there is. Some tire compounds get too hot when loaded at speed and become unsafe. Usually higher speed rated tires cost more and they usually don't last as long either.

I don't think that's a option. The tires on our busses only have a speed rating of 55 or 60mph.

You can find em all day long on Amazon or eBay.

What about it ? It's a extra cusion some guys like. Nothing special.

Well RTS and O5s you can really smash the people in there good, behind them is the NG and 3G, and the Nova's are horrible at packing people in due to layout.

When in doubt, do the old route!

Unless you got boots on the ground don't rely on the bustime stuff. Alot of older busses don't update or even work as they should regarding the GPS tracking.

It's not about "having stones" it comes down to just following orders from above.

Open baby strollers are not permitted.

No overhead fans does not mean no ac. The heat/ac is independent of the overhead fans. The AC is what comes out by the bottom of window

No, we are premitted to go the speed limit. The 15-20 is suggested and not a hard limit.

For others looking for info check previous test threads and hiring information, it mostly stays the same for EVERY SINGLE TEST, just do a search it's simple.

A single coach will not stay on the s89, at Yukon it's whatever bus is available at the time, it might always be a coach but not always going to be the same. At Charleston there's a fair amount of coach's assigned to specific operators where they will have the same bus all week.

That part is a 2 edged sword, many times I've called in busses on the road saying I have a yellow check engine or yellow check HEV, and they will just say ok continue call us back if it turns red.

As I only know how to drive them, I wonder why they would be retiring the hybrids earlier, I know retrofits to straight diesels were considered but what about just disabling the hybrid system together and run only on the current diesel engine. I have driven a few with dying HEV systems and while they won't have a good top speed they are still good for city use under say 30mph.