22 or 24 tires?

[daddysgirl]

I appreciate the load information. I'm going to replace the tires, but the two I could see (before I got too cold) were G rated 12R-22.5 and they were tubeless and re-groove able, but I've never done that. I need to get her weighed when I'm finished because she's always been heavy as conversions go.

Thoughts on brand? I do know a bus shop that won't sell Michelin's for busses because the lead tech says they tend to dry rot and crack more easily.

[Dreadnought]

It got me thinking too...and I've been on a bus, one way or another (built three of them) since I was 12. I'm almost 46 now.
I have always known and understood the significance of the responsibility that is inherent when driving a bus. Safety has always been #1. Safety for everyone on the bus (my mom and kids, which is why the SS panel and bar are still on the passenger side stepwell)...Safety and responsibility for everyone else on the road, even the idiots...Being strong enough to know that if a dumbass in a VW is more worried about being in front of you when there is NOWHERE else you can put those 40'...that you will hit him before swerving and killing the people on the left...

But it took this to happen for me to have the first thought for my safety...as a driver. If something happens to me while traveling, no one is safe. That hit me like a ton of bricks yesterday. And I'm sorry for rambling. This has really shaken me, and if this accident causes one person to consider driver safety, something good will have come from it.

I guess the only real comfort you can take is that a conventional RV is far more dangerous than even a 1960s MCI bus.

[Dreadnought]

B-K I don't doubt that added mass when crashing with an immovable object helps, however - having bars helps against other minor annoyances such as Deer.

I hit a deer at 70 mphs in my Dodge Ram with bull bars. Result was no damage to the truck and a slight dent to one of the cars