Wife drives coach

Tikvah · December 02, 2016, 07:27:51 AM

How do you feel about the spinner knob?
Is it an asset or a hinderance?

robertglines1 · December 02, 2016, 09:55:08 AM

If mama happy! Don't screw with it!! 47 yrs married.

RJ · December 02, 2016, 05:57:58 PM

Quote from: daddysgirl on December 02, 2016, 07:00:49 AM
What I love the most are all the men who gather around whenever I (smoothly as hell) back into spaces most of them can't master. The looks I get when truckers pass and see a little old girl driving that 40' bus!

NAME?? -

I will be the first to agree that once a woman gets the "feel" of driving a bus, they're much better drivers than the men.

I came to that conclusion after training over 250 city transit drivers during my bus industry career, approximately 40% of which were women. I'm sure that Buswarrior would concur, based on his training experience with Big Transit.

So kudos to you and to Heather!

FWIW & HTH. . .

Boomer · December 02, 2016, 06:16:31 PM

Generally speaking, the female drivers in the fleet I owned were better drivers. I found them to be more apt to follow the rules, less agressive as drivers, and probably a little safer. Did have some great male drivers too though.

Scott & Heather · December 02, 2016, 10:53:19 PM

I'll pass on the kudos. She reads this forum a little when I pass my iphone to her. I'll be honest, Jack and Wayne have a good point. This bus has needed some adjustment and fixing of previous issues along the way so getting a real alignment done is on the list. It drives well and straight down the road with very little wander at all but I guarantee something under there needs adjusting. I'll report back when we get that done. For now, it's really nice to have excellent brakes, repacked wheel bearings, and dry oil seals for once. Now if only I could get that pesky coolant hose leaking under control...

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RJ · December 03, 2016, 08:12:10 AM

Scott -

Just a quick note: When new, the steering wheel spokes on an MCI are horizontal.

FWIW & HTH. . .

Tikvah · December 03, 2016, 08:16:22 AM

That's the exact wheel I have, except properly horizontal

My spinner knob was about 4" below the right spoke. Now there's just a hole in the grip.

Beachfinn · December 03, 2016, 01:27:11 PM

Woohoo! Go Heather !
Kelly has logged few hundred on ours, I just get uber bored if I'm not driving...I need to let her drive more, as she is pretty confident on it.

Scott & Heather · December 03, 2016, 08:52:08 PM

Pics Sami!

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luvrbus · December 04, 2016, 03:58:05 AM

My wife has been driving our buses since the 80's stick,automatic,power steering or non power steering made no difference,lol a 10 speed she had a few problems with.

One time I was trying to buy a parts bus (Eagle) in Texas the school had 2 for sale and I couldn't make a deal so she goes in and buys both for less than I was willing to pay for 1.Long story Sonja comes out and says how are we going to get 3 buses to Idaho.

I told her you bought them now you drive them (4 speed with no power steering) she did drive 1 from Texas to Idaho I felt bad so I flew back and drove the other 1 home.

For 1200 miles I thought to my self how in the hell did she drive one of these things don't under estimate these women if they want to drive let them

DoubleEagle · December 04, 2016, 09:35:32 AM

Quote from: luvrbus on December 04, 2016, 03:58:05 AM
My wife has been driving our buses since the 80's stick,automatic,power steering or non power steering made no difference,lol a 10 speed she had a few problems with.

One time I was trying to buy a parts bus (Eagle) in Texas the school had 2 for sale and I couldn't make a deal so she goes in and buys both for less than I was willing to pay for 1.Long story Sonja comes out and says how are we going to get 3 buses to Idaho.

I told her you bought them now you drive them (4 speed with no power steering) she did drive 1 from Texas to Idaho I felt bad so I flew back and drove the other 1 home.

For 1200 miles I thought to my self how in the hell did she drive one of these things don't under estimate these women if they want to drive let them

Well, I am jealous now, and impressed. She definitely deserves that claw foot tub!

luvrbus · December 04, 2016, 10:10:48 AM

Quote from: DoubleEagle on December 04, 2016, 09:35:32 AM
Well, I am jealous now, and impressed. She definitely deserves that claw foot tub!

Let's not go that far Walter

Scott & Heather · December 04, 2016, 07:20:20 PM

Give her the tub cliff. She deserves it

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B_K · December 05, 2016, 08:10:07 AM

Clifford I think yer gonna have to get that tub figured out.
Looks like your getting out numbered here!

BK

Cary and Don · December 05, 2016, 10:48:27 AM

As a wife, I think it is really important to be able to drive the bus. Don did all the driving for years. In fact he doesn't let me drive the car when he's in it. Not that I'm a lousy drive, he's just, well, he's a man.

Then he got sick on one trip and realized, that if he couldn't drive, we weren't going to get home. We think it is important that I can drive. I can at least drive it on the freeway, get in and out of rest stops, and park it in an RV slot. We don't have to be world's best drivers, we can avoid bad roads or mountains, but we do need to be able to relocate if we have to. We can drive 55 and stay in the slow lane. We can drive behind the big slow trucks, no need for a white knuckle passing experience. We just need to be able to get there safely.

Cary