hdonlybob Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 I often thought of driving a School Bus after retirement, but knew I didn't have the temperament to put up with the bratty kids now a days... However, if I could drive a bus like this one ... ???????????????? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broncohauler Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 That would work. Maybe leave a dividing wall on the back of the sleeper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SIBERNUT Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 Drive in an area that has lots of cliffs............................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beyerjf Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 Some kind of remote disciplinary device, some sort of cattle prod arrangement built into the seats (which for safety reasons they would be firmly belted to) "I told you Johnny 3 times to quit pulling Mary's pigtails-ZZAAAPPPP. Boy does that date me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickeieio Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 My bride recently "retired" from bus driving. She misses it, not. Several years ago, I considered getting my CDL w/ passenger endorsement so I could sub in the winter months when I'm not so busy with farm tasks. After talking to a few drivers, I quickly realized I would either be fired or kill some kids. I don't tolerate brats with no respect for others well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 Maybe the semi truck up front and a separate trailer for the kids? I worked in a school system for 18 years. Some of the bus drivers would say they really didn't have to much problem with the kids. It was the parents who were the problem. It was never their kid who caused the problem on the school bus, had to be someone else's kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeBeFulltimers Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 That's a sorry old Freightshaker.......make mine a Pete! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom& Posted August 30, 2015 Report Share Posted August 30, 2015 Drove a school bus for 10 years after retirement, it was an enjoyable experience, would have been even better with a bus like that, the kids would have loved it too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dollytrolley Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 Back when wheels were square and made of wood..........the local school district had a buss route that had to cross TWO cascade mtn passes on the Santiam highway from Sisters, OR to Salem, OR. At the top of the second pass was a gas station / shop/ wrecker service named Sandos Service that was run by a Swiss family....The snow-fall was huge all winter and the wrecker biz was very good and half of the call-outs was to pull the school buss out of the snow banks........ Things got so bad that the school district could not get any buss driver to drive the pass in the winter storms.......so.....the oldest Sandos boy turned 15 and applied for and got a special young-age-school-buss-driver-license (remote routes only in Oregon) to drive only the buss to and from school up and back over the pass for the next four years with no wreckers needed.........The Sandos boy was the youngest buss driver in the U S at the time.......oh ya the kids helped folks stranded and would stop and help old folks chain up and take chains off while going to and from school.........oh ya the Sandos kids were all 4.0 graded students as well. These days the pass would be choked up with lawyers and do-gooders protecting the kids from................being responsible kids.......... Drive on .........(don't get stuck in the snow bank.....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch_12078 Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 I wonder if that bus has one of those "CAUTION: Vehicle makes wide right turns" signs on the back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Schneider Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 I'd love to see the geometry that works that second steering axle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broncohauler Posted August 31, 2015 Report Share Posted August 31, 2015 It's photo shoped but if it was real how about the drive line. I'm looking at it on my phone and it looks like that's still the steer axle In the middle. The rear is duals so that's your drive axle Talk about a long drive shaft. And how many carrier bearings would there need to be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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