Can't believe you still have 95s in service! 😍😍😍😍 Just looking at them and hearing them purr takes me right back to my elementary school days, I lived in Columbia County, FL and my regular bus was in that era, numbered D56...I miss that bus, it was fairly new at the time and just a beauty to behold...😊
Thanks for sharing the startup video, the 95 internationals were favorite brought back memories of when I use to drive school bus in 96 when they were one year old only difference is ours were all manual transmission buses with 5 speeds and 7 speeds and air brakes, and mostly DT 466 or the 444E engines They where fun to drive
Love me some 7.3L T444Es. One of the best engines to ever be built, right with the old AMC 4.0L Inline 6. The CAT C7s were alright, but I preferred its predecessor the CAT 3126. The older buses truly are "oldies but goodies". They don't make them like they use to.
In my area busses get replaced every 16 years, my old 2002 ic ce still worked fine but they replaced it with a 2018 ic ce with a Cummins the old one had a dt466 now the spare we have is a 2003 ce 300, some new busses are being replaced with old ones for the rest of the year, like bus 643 had a 2006 ce now the got a 2003 ce I’m not sure if the 06 broke down though,we got a few propane visions, an update bus 606 a 2005 ce broke down
I've never seen anything bessides Bluebird, because that's all Wasatch County would buy. Now I'm up to college at Utah State University, and they use Thomas buses run off of CNG. I'd like to ride in an International some time.
I live in an IC bus. I wouldn't have a blue bird, their customer service is beyond uncaring, after the school district gets rid of it, blu bird couldn't care less about the 2nd owner of their product. I'd go with either IC or Thomas, their products are better built anyways.
Our school used to have those 95 Bluebird's with the T44E. There were 3 of them bus numbers 3, 5, and 8. 5 was the first one to get retired. They kept 3 and 8 for some time. 8 is retired. 3 I last saw sitting near a gas station, so I'm not sure if the driver accidentally filled it with unleaded and not diesel or something else happened to the bus. The only problem with those busses is that they didn't soundproof the bus well like everyone couldn't talk so loud or else the whole bus echos. The school busses here are mostly C2's but they have some new or newer Bluebird's.
I agree but hate the beeps if pressure is under the low air alarm warning when starting but like the satisfaction of governor cutoff. I love the Amtran cutoff big whoosh and the blow of air from underneath the bus unless i'm using that bus to pick up pre-school kids; they tend to get frightened by it but they all laugh when you set the brake, they like that weird sound.
How come some of your 2008-2012 visions do a second gauge check. I’ve really never seen that before on the other ones. We had 8 2005 visions in Levittown ny with the cat c7 and they were a pure pain in the ass to us. We had to retire them early and replace them with Thomas EFXS from 2013-2015. We have about 13 EFXS now and the drivers love them. Those visions were only like 7 years old. They had always had starting problems and were in and out of the shop. They used the original starter I believe
Long Island Elevator channel Our C7s have been good to us. And yeah some of those I turned the key back off then straight to the start position. Once the computer has cycled you can turn it off and straight to start without hurting it. Just has to do it within 10 seconds.
Fredriq Craft ok got it, idk why but our visions were so bad that we had to trade them out because they just sucked for us, u guys got lucky. I think we even got money back lol
Fredriq Craft yeah, we just couldn’t keep them maintained at all and kept breaking down, one of them would break down every day or every other day if I’m right ! We just didn’t have the guts to work with cat engines, we were better off with Cummins lol
mine go like this 208094 the first two digits are the year, second two are carrying capacity of the bus and the last two are like the code or order of the bus in the yard of that year model.
I’d rather have air brakes then squishy brakes (aka hydraulic brakes). Had a friend who drove for a district that had both and he was saying more of the hydraulic brakes was failing more then the air brakes. Such was brake pedal going to the floor, feels like brakes was going out, parking brake cable snapping, etc. Air brakes buses rarely had a problems with their brakes, I drove more buses with air brakes so I would prefer them over the squishy brakes lol. I have driven the swishy brakes buses a few times and wouldn’t be my first choice (and a I had the parking brake cable snap on me when I was setting it to park as well).
Here’s a hint so you don’t have to rewatch the whole video: 00-65, 04-87, 00-76. I already saw 95-44 start so you don’t have to start that one. But if you don’t want to then that’s fine with me
