Bus Drivers and Brakes

[alkatraz]

Can anyone give me a plausible reason other than fundamental design flaws in buses that can explain why *some* bus drivers seem to think the best way to come to a stop is to slam their foot hard on the brake, lift it off too early just before coming to a stop and follow it with a bunny hop double-slam to bring it to rest? You know which ones I'm talking about!

 

:rant:

 

I have nothing against bus drivers in general, it's even in the family, but good bus drivers don't have this problem. It also seems linked to the similar problem of flying up towards a queue of cars at maximum warp with the intention of working out just how late they can brake without totalling everything in sight and still end up only 3mm from the back of the vehicle in front..

[Yellowrose]

It is how the brakes work on some of the buses.

[bigwind]

Can anyone give me a plausible reason other than fundamental design flaws in buses that can explain why *some* bus drivers seem to think the best way to come to a stop is to slam their foot hard on the brake, lift it off too early just before coming to a stop and follow it with a bunny hop double-slam to bring it to rest? You know which ones I'm talking about!

 

:rant:

 

I have nothing against bus drivers in general, it's even in the family, but good bus drivers don't have this problem. It also seems linked to the similar problem of flying up towards a queue of cars at maximum warp with the intention of working out just how late they can brake without totalling everything in sight and still end up only 3mm from the back of the vehicle in front..

 

well ,stuck in traffic all day, mind numbingly boring,miserable non-smiling passengers , guess they have to break the manotony and get their kicks some how :hihi:

[Squaffy]

When my son was 12 he ended up at the bottom of the bus stairs through exactly this. One broken leg later the bus driver tried to say he was messing around on the stairs and thats why he fell. He wasnt, the case was the driver did exactly what the OP has described. And no compo because the attending police officer didnt take detailed enough statements from witnesses. Oh well, lifes a b***h and all that

[Nyx]

See it all the time, the best thing to do it try and remember which ones do it, you will eventually, ring the bell to get off at the next stop and then take half an hour to get to the front of the bus to get off, get yer own back by makin em wait lol

[ValleyBoy]

The ideas ok but what about the rest of the geezers and geezeretts on the Bus?

[CorkerSWFC]

I broke my hand last year due to a bus jerking while i was getting off, i had my little one in my arms so my weight and his weight crushed my hand on one of the bars,it was the drivers fault he was a shocking driver.

[dynamicdebz]

I have noticed some bus drivers seem to slam the breaks on every minute or so making passengers lurch forwards then back. I am not a driver but my fella is a HGV driver & when we have caught a bus & this has happened he has found it unbelievable. I get a few buses & with the majority it doesn't happen. However on the few that it does it is very scary, why does this happen are the drivers inexperienced?

[dynamicdebz]

BTW my mum-in-law went through a bus front window due to a bus driver slamming the breaks on. However she enjoyed spending the £60,000 + compensation she got with no lasting injuries. Only spent a few hours in A & E.

[Nyx]

The ideas ok but what about the rest of the geezers and geezeretts on the Bus?

 

It`ll probably make em grin as the majority will "get it" and understand why, another idea is to make a short video on the old moby of the lurching and everyone falling about and send it to the bus company.