[Video] Crazy UK Bus Drivers

Took some video yesterday (Wednesday 29th) onboard a volvo olympian with cummins l10 engine and voith gearbox
The vehicle is ex-London 16436 now owned by Stagecoach Transit
The guy was crazy, driving 55mph in 30-zones, and 45 over speed bumps - I'm kind ashamed (or should that be excited?) to say that he is not the only guy who will drive like this at transit!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8976420241354342479
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1889404045360650813

Feel free to post your comments (In english only please )

John

I somehow get the feel of Green maxicab 44, or Tsuen Wan Red Maxicab in NT after watching this.
(Those driver are famous of reckless speeding.)

Then again, this driver is quite good in line control, using every apex to its max.

原帖由 ukbusman 於 2006-3-30 18:22 發表
Took some video yesterday (Wednesday 29th) onboard a volvo olympian with cummins l10 engine and voith gearbox
The vehicle is ex-London 16436 now owned by Stagecoach Transit
The guy was crazy, dri ...

I hv tried sth more crazier than this driver, who sped 65mph and 35 mph zone in the US.

I suggest you forward this clip to Stagecoach, they probably do something about this kind of driver.

the driver is so crazy..and you are lucky to ride on without any accident...

Hey, I was once riding on a Yakima Transit (in WA) Thomas SLF 230 (Dennis Dart SLF with MB Engines), the guy was doing at least 60mph at a straight road that marked 30mph...and he doesn't have his seat belt on...

The bus is running at a crazy speed even passing the roundabout or making sharp turns
Would the bus overturn?

It is impossible to have any standees on a bus running like this...
or they will be probably sitted on the floor after a turn

Wow!! I would be very happy if I ride on this "efficient" bus!!

Well, I saw a preserved (?) bus... seems like ex-Lothian Leyland Atlantean at the late section of the first video....
actually what's that bus?

I wonder how fast will he drive if we give him an un-locked ZF 6-gear ATE / AVBW...

He's pushing to the limit of that Olympian's driveline system...

[ 本帖最後由 ATE24 於 2006-3-31 23:58 編輯 ]

原帖由 ATE24 於 2006-3-31 23:56 發表
I wonder how fast will he drive if we give him an un-locked ZF 6-gear ATE / AVBW...

He's pushing to the limit of that Olympian's driveline system...

It won't be a lot different, consider it has 230bhp to propel itself, not to mention it
is at least 3 tonnes lighter than an ATE/AVBW. On to top that, Volvo Olympians here
are nominally limited at 58mph. With this turn of speed, it is more than capable to
dust a ATE/AVBW hands down.

Comparing the Volvo Olympians in Britain and those in HK is quite pointless because
of the above reasons. Performance-wise, they are in a completely different league.