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Drift:
I know moving a bus around the yard many many years ago and I was only crawling and pumped the brakes a couple of times and the thing wouldnt stop the pedal went to the floor and bump hit the wall, horrible feeling being that helpless  :roll:
Not much damage but learnt my lesson to build up the air pressure when you get into a fresh vehicle :oops:
It had gauges and a light no buzzer, it was an old Atlatean  :wink:

gtomo2:
Quick way to comfirm brake system just empty your air out when parked up then start the truck drop the park brake and try and pull away you will find the brakes are locked on till the air pressure is up to the correct pressure before it releases the brakes

Dave_:
Iv been on the buses for about 3 years now, i had the power steering fail on me the other day!  Try driving an 11 ton double decker round a corner with no steering :oops:   needless to say i took out a lamp post and a traffic island :shock:

thermidorthelobster:
Given the driver sits right at the bottom at the front, with many tonnes of bus behind him and a thin slice of metal and glass in front of him, if he knows the bus is likely to be impacting with something very solid at about driver height, would that be enough for the self-preservation instinct to kick in?  To be fair, if bus hits immovable object then the driver's going to come out of it much worse than the passengers surely?

BrumLee:

--- Quote from: "thermidorthelobster" ---Given the driver sits right at the bottom at the front, with many tonnes of bus behind him and a thin slice of metal and glass in front of him, if he knows the bus is likely to be impacting with something very solid at about driver height, would that be enough for the self-preservation instinct to kick in?  To be fair, if bus hits immovable object then the driver's going to come out of it much worse than the passengers surely?
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He hit enough things that wouldn't have caused him too much harm before the single decker hit the houses, one of them been a pedestrian that died. I think the order was as follows: kerb. parked car, pedestrian, lamp post, garden wall, house. He may have missed a few of these if he used the steering wheel.

I remember quite a few years ago a fire engine had a sudden fault with the diff that locked one rear wheel and caused the appliance to veer into a house. All the firemen were un-harmed even though the appilance had imbedded itself that far into the house it was left there for over a week because it was the only structural part of the house  :shock:

Cabs are fairly strong now and offer a good deal of protection. I've seen a few where you would think the driver had been killed but fortunatly that wasn't the case.

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