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Post by admin on Oct 21, 2006 14:37:11 GMT
This bus was seen running today on service 66 where at 10:15am in rotherham interchnage it needed filling up with water, then at about 11am in grenoside the bus nealry broke down, and was making a nasty sound, the driver got onto the radio (which suprisingly was an old one that worked) and asked for a refill of water waiting for him when he got to sheffield interchange, then 1 stop later just coming into foxhillt he bus driver pulled into the bus stop, turned off engine, lit up a cig and walked to back see if there was any water leaking he could not see any so he got back on bus and it would not start he tried it 5 times before it worked and then as we set off there was a large pool of water under the bus, so obviously it had a leak but driver did not see this and everytime at the bus stop you could see a trail of water until when the trail stopped in hillsbrough when it got dangerous, so it should have being taken out of service i think, and especially on a saturday as there is loads of spare buses around but no it got another refil never checked under bus once and to my amasement saw it in wickersley with hazard lights on at about 2pm this afternoon broken down so why was this bus left to run on the road when it had a serious problem?
i mean just imaging if engine had overheated and bus had gone up in flames whilst people was still on board.
So get N758 CKY fixed before it's back out on the road again.
Ta,
sam
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Post by manontheinside on Oct 21, 2006 19:01:06 GMT
OK, lets calm down a bit!
Firstly, whether the driver got out of the bus and sang the entire score of Cats whilst checking around is irrelevant. Whats a cig got to did with the issue?
Clearly the bus had a fault, but so have buses as long as i've known them. Dominators were buggers for it, particularly when idling.
Clearly merely topping up the water wasn't sufficient, but buses do chuck water out, and sometimes thats all that's needed. In this case it wasn't, but in fairness, it wasn't in flames or burnt out when you saw it at 2pm - who says it was the same problem?!
I'm sure any car owner out there would take a sensible view on things, and so long as assistance wasn't 20 miles away would cautiously proceed ready to stop. I'm not saying that it isn't an issue, but perhaps until you are a qualified engineer and experienced driver you may wish to consider whether you are best informed to comment on this! I'm sure the in cab alarms would keep the driver informed.
If the driver / control felt the bus was seriously in danger then it would have been taken out of service - which of course in Sheffield would have been a problem for Rotherham, and passengers alike.
My only concern would be that the bus wasn't replaced when it returned to Rotherham - but PERHAPS the driver believed the problem had been cured.
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