How do those budget bus companies do it?

[car]

Ah, I see how they keep those costs down: by employing drivers who can't tell the difference between red lights and green lights! Or maybe by cutting on maintenance costs? New brake pads for you, mister bus driver!

Does anyone know where crazefox works? Feel like recommending a panel-beater in the Porirua area? They'll have to be good to buff this one out.

[obstacle]

Ouch!

Looks like the old Q-Spear rack held up quite nicely though. I assume it's bent closer to the tow ball?

[car]

Ouch!

Looks like the old Q-Spear rack held up quite nicely though. I assume it's bent closer to the tow ball?

Absolutely! It's kinked about 10 degrees, 100mm north of the cuff at the bottom. I'm guessing this has happened to you?

The tow ball bar's bent, too, and the nut holding it still had come loose -- tightened up by a grumpy but helpful mechanic in Waipawa. Amusingly, both bikes appear (disclam, disclaim, disclaim) to be clean an unbent -- just scuffs on the bar-ends.

We were enraged at the time but, meh, all that flying glass never hit the kids in the back seats, so we're sweet. Just as long as I can squeeze repairs out of the bus company, I'm happy. (We were stationary, in stop-start traffic at roadworks on SH2.)

Poor McJim's Odyssey, though.

:(

[tri boy]

How do they operate a budget bus company?
It seems by employing piss poor drivers, with absolutely no idea of "Proximity Awareness":Pokey:
Be prepared to require an interpreter when contacting the company.
And put on your "angry face".:devil2:

[car]

Just as long as I can squeeze repairs out of the bus company, I'm happy. (We were stationary, in stop-start traffic at roadworks on SH2.)


The wife's just spotted this quote on the bus company leaflet:


We go the extra mile for you... there's room for you and your bike!

Heh! It's the extra foot they went that did the damage.

[Mikkel]

I must say I love your bumper sticker mate! :niceone:

And good thing you're all alright - a bus up the ass is not a nice thing.

[Dooly]

That bus company is based just down the road from me here at work.

[MSTRS]

That bus company is based just down the road from me here at work.

Yep. And none too sharp on the maintenance thing either if you consider one of their's I saw a while back...twas crabbing fully a metre (probably more) over the length of it and when I phoned them the woman I spoke to was fully aware of that bus's problem and gave no indication that it was considered a problem.

[Colapop]

I have Crazefox's number. He is based at... is ok to let it be known on an open forum....? PM sent...

[twinkle]

Or maybe by cutting on maintenance costs? New brake pads for you, mister bus driver!

I was on a bus once when the driver kicked off half the passengers. They asked him why... he said "brakes". That was a fun ride through the 4 o'clock traffic :lol: If he couldn't slow the bus down enough to stop at an intersection he either drove through it, or drove on the footpath :sweatdrop I set the cops on his stupid arse.