Bus Q&A

Wow. The cover photo for that group is a bus just ten minutes from my house

Aging Wheels

One of my friends is considering buying a bus to turn into a camper / toy hauler. I told him about your channel of course, but then he also invited me to a facebook group called THUMB --Toy Haulers Utilizing Municipal Buses. I just wanted to make sure you knew that was a thing (if you're even on facebook) -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/133943281351902/about

Garrett Rabenold

Hmmm... I might know why that is...

Evan Sonin

On the flipside, Netherlands has 3.8 road fatalities per 100k people while United States has 12.4. For the state of Missouri specifically, it's 15.

The most annoying thing about the inspections is the trip to an inspection station. Last time I was due, the guy walked out, started the car, looked for a check engine light, and I was good to go in minutes.

another idea is to get into accidents with smaller cars such as the Smart and the Trabant first so that the family builds a natural resistance to car accidents, preparing them for an accident in the bus

Ok, the rules on what you can drive are VERY different there.... Here anything over 3500Kg is a Truck (not the pickup kind, but the semi kind) and requires a different license. Any bus with more than 8 passengers is a different license....if you actually want to take those passengers, extra license. Trailer of any kind behind a truck or bus: you guessed it, extra license. Trailer behind a car that can haul more than 750Kg? Seperate license! To be fair, if you get your trailer license for truck or bus, you get the car one for free. So here it's class A: Bikes, B: Cars, C: Trucks, D: Busses, E: trailer (seperate for B, C and D) and T for Farm machinery (we call them Tracktor) And that's not counting the subclasses for A and B. For fun: https://expatinfoholland.nl/help-guides/transport-mobility/driving-license-requirements-in-the-netherlands/ Let's just say I am jealous of how easy it is to drive all sorts of things out there :P

Buzzin

Using lap belts on furniture is just a horrendous idea. It will provide very limited protection to occupants during accident. You need to have proper seats and 3-point seatbelts everywhere. Also pay a lot of attention to structural aspects of things inside. You and your family do not want to end up like these dummies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEjqKQtOXRk

You could avoid using loading ramps by having a deep pit dug out in your Workshop , putting the bus in there, and loading the cars directly from the side of the pit. Of course there'd need to be another pit at wherever you want to unload the cars.

Other than annoying vehicle inspections and personal property taxes Missouri doesnt have laws. I love it.

A class B CDL would only be required if the weight was more than 26,000 lbs and you were transporting 15 or more passengers. So, you're good 👍

I look forward to seeing how the electric system gets implemented! Though I know you have a loooong way to go before that happens.

Guardian Lion

If you make it gray, make sure it doesn't end up looking like a prison bus. 😂

Madd's over at Sail Life is doing a huge refit of a pretty generic boat. He's often been given a hard time for putting so much time and effort into restore a "nothing special" boat. His answer to that is; "This is isn't something I have to do, it's something I GET to do.". I think people who aren't makers have a hard time understanding how a project can be self-justifying.

Madison Kelly

For the back: roll back or hook loader with a flat deck.

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