its just the same reversing a trailer with a car. what i would have aimed to do in that situation was reverse out close to the side of the gate on the drivers side straight then when the kerb starts to curve, slow down to a crawl and put on a bit of left hand down to get the back a little further from the kerb then full lock left till before the kerb straightens out straighten the steering till it is about just after halfway to jackknife point then full lock to the right to bring it in line.
If you get to a point of allmost jack knife in a bendy bus it puts the brakes on and you have to go forward to release them(but a crap driver all the same)
Really its not hard, put your hand in the bottom of the steering wheel, and with tiny motions turn the bottom of the steering wheel the same direction to which you want the rear end to go. This driver messed it up from the very beginning. He began as if he was reversing a regular rigid bus. (non articulated, or non bendy bus)
Not same as an HGV, PLEB, a bendy bus only has so much movement before it locks to avoid damage to the body which is what is hapenning here. HGV's much easier to reverse, and yes it only requires a small turn to the right with the wheel and then when the trailer moves where you want it to, follow it through. It is easy to criticise, and believe me, the reversing skills of loads of HGV drivers leave alot to be desired.
Not same as an HGV, PLEB, a bendy bus only has so much movement before it locks to avoid damage to the body which is what is hapenning here. HGV's much easier to reverse, and yes it only requires a small turn to the right with the wheel and then when the trailer moves where you want it to, follow it through. It is easy to criticise, and believe me, the reversing skills of loads of HGV drivers leave alot to be desired.
Not same as an HGV, PLEB, a bendy bus only has so much movement before it locks to avoid damage to the body which is what is hapenning here. HGV's much easier to reverse, and yes it only requires a small turn to the right with the wheel and then when the trailer moves where you want it to, follow it through. It is easy to criticise, and believe me, the reversing skills of loads of HGV drivers leave alot to be desired.
These things are a daft idea in this country. for the same reason the length limit on HGVs has stayed the same for years, and the reason why the govt won't allow B-doubles. (double trailer artics) we simply don't have the room!
I drive artics every day and got to say I wouldn't fancy reversing a bendy. harder than an artic, the front bit is a lot longer so you need a lot less steering lock
@FiringOnAllEight Erm... No it wouldn't. Right hand down is exactly what was needed here - OK, the front of the bus might have gone up on the kerb, but it would have eased the jack knifing enough for him to get out. Have you ever reversed with a trailer before?
@imbethondion Many many times, and still do. Right hand down will put the front nearside of the bus onto the kerb and there won't be enough room to put the mistake right. Needs to go forwards, straighten up and come out at an angle, then apply left hand down when the rear offside wheel is level with the gatepost.
@FiringOnAllEight The original poster is correct - right hand down (which in effect means turning the wheel clockwise) while reversing would have allowed the driver to prevent the bus from jack-kniving. The driver is obviously somebody like you.....clueless when it comes to reversing articulated machinery.
In Hungary, Ikarus builds articulated buses with the back wheels also steering, but in the opposite direction. This way you can back turning the steering wheel in the same direction as with a car, not like in a truck. The video here shows a bus with a simple trailer, it is a primitive design.
Yes... When you have a dumb ass driver it's a problem with bendybusses. Or as some mongolides would say : articulated busses. My god.. If some one in the pub would say to me he came by atriculated buss I would hit him in the face!!
lol. i was a driver myself, artics are fun too drive. its good to go around a round a bout, and having the front of the bus clear, and looking in the mirror to see the rear still coming!!! our artics in south australia are 16.5 meters long, and are scania.
Here in Texas we call them articulated buses not bendy buses and they don't use them in a lot of places. The ones here talk they got one that is so loud you can hear it 1/4 mile away at 5am in the morning. I was mowing one morning I could hear "86 FM 1960 CROSS TOWN!" over the mower its so loud.
trouble here is the licencing! a bendy bus can be driven on a normal cat d licence, most cat d drivers have never reversed a trailer before like c+e drivers
Wow, this guy is qualified to drive a bus? Backing up should be the same as a car pulling a trailer. He should have pulled in further and straighten out first. Give me 5 minutes or less with this thing and I would have it backed up with no problems. I have seen 45 foot motorhomes pull 25 foot trailers and back up much easier than this guy is doing.
He's got the wheel turned the wrong way. The trick to it is to give it a smidge to the left then straighten and the trailer will begin tunring as shown. Then you have to start turning the wheel right otherwise it'll jack knife.
I am a bendy bus driver in Romania,and where do I wash my bus I have considerably less space to go backwards and still I manage to turn the bus.This driver I asure you that does not know nothing regarding how tu turn this bus.
WRONG!! lol . Classic fail. If you do as you say, you put MORE kink into it.
If im manouvering and jackknifing my trailer to MY right, as I'm sat in my cab, then i turn my steering wheel to my right(clockwise) to take the jacknife out and straighten up the combo.
If im STARTING the manouver, then its left hand down to manouver right.
It is a problem that the shorter the rear section of an articulated vehicle is to the front the harder it is to reverse. I've tried reversing with both a small trailer and a fairly large caravan, and the latter was so much easier. Ironically though for towing small trailers no additional licence or training is needed, and articulated buses don't even have a seperate licence class. That said, it's going forwards where the trailer size really counts, and that's what is done on the roads normally.
The proper name might be 'articulated', but over here (the home of the English language, after all) we generally refer to them as bendy buses. If anyone has a problem with that, they can a) not come here, or b) shut up, or c) both. I don't go whining about people refering to sidewalks, when they mean pavements....
@ panticle: bendy buses is an excellent name for those things to my opinion: as a kid I called them 'snake buses' (the term is somewhat better in Dutch) because the things are so flexible in curves. The shaking of the camera was a nice surprise, got me laughing :D
@Panticle yep we call them bendy busses in scotland i love riding on them sometimes their better than a fairground ride when they go round those corners
The citaros and neoplans i was driving you cant really jack knife as such the trailor only swings 45 degrees each way they use the same principle as a train, reversing them is alot harder than a wagon and drag or an artic requires alot of skill and cant be done at speed.
if we did that then the bus wouldnt turn at all the power would be in the trailor unit and push the vehicle forward the trailor unit and the tractor unit would be off to one side jack knifing.
and then if the drive axle ever lost grip the rear section of the bus would slew sideways and be completely uncontrollable, not to mention the stress that would be put through the "bend." Bendy buses are shit to drive as it is!
Travel Coventry who are by me have some Mercedes Citaros & O405GNs and we always park in 2 rows, 1 of each type so it's easy for them to get out of the garage without reversing, they obviously haven't done this. You can't blame the driver if they've never done this before.
Yeah... they're both the same bus type underneath, and ride exactly the same. The P&R artics are W reg and used to operate the Pink Line in Bradford.
How the hell can you jack-knife a rear-engined bus?! I know it's easy to jack-knife a trailer if you're driving a car, but this bus has the engine at the back so the engine is pulling the bus here!
also, when cycling, be careful down James Street as there are a lot of idiot drivers go down there!
Unless you have driven a B7LA ( bendi bus then do not comment, the displacement is 60/40 and there are devices in place to stop a jack knife, once passed a given point a partical brake comes in to work and stops the bus.
@shortbusdriver1969 well said my little friend, they all on here bloody critisising.. have you read that post from a 16yr old who can do it better! just to point out that we get given approx 20 mins of reversing training and then we never do it again, iv been driving them for over a year and have never reversed one since, and i know shorty has been driving them for over 4years and hes never reversed one at all in that time.. dont critisise until youve tried it..
@16shipton You bus drivers are bullys to car and van drivers, you all just pull out when you pick people up. Set off with out looking, dont get into your bus stop correctley ect ect, dont use your indicaters....Get the points
@sarah19766 i cud say car n van drivers are bullys, but not all are! as not are all bus drivers... we are all inderviduals and you obviously have a bad attitude to bus drivers!! some bus drivers annoy me and some van drivers annoy me... you my dear just have a bad attitude lol x
oh yes, a good driver (or bendy buses or HGVs) is brillant to watch, I used to watch HGV drivers back an artic into our carpark when I worked in a supermarket - backing from a normal narrow street into the gap between 2 rows of cars, and often just in once move and at the first attempt. I did wonder if the driver in my vid had ever done it before - so I can sympathise.
Just for contrast, I went to an IMechE lecture about hydrogen-powered buses in London, and a friend of mine (who'd driven for FirstGroup part-time while at uni) reversed an identical bendybus up about 400yds of driveway, in the dark, and parked it exactly 4 inches from the kerb along its whole length. So it can be done...
Oh what a joke. And what a joke yorks ftr service is, I can see they have a use on the park n ride, but the ftr is no use the way its run. you dont put a huge road hoggin machine on a route that carrys no more than about 12 people at a time, then remove the route as its uneconomic / put up fares, you use the right type of bus for the route! hoppa busses would suit york so much better out of peak hours
I dunno if I agree with that. I find that York bus drivers are generally ok. In the centre they have some really tight road layouts to get round. Perhaps they are more careless in suburbs where they get up speed, but in town they mostly hang back and take care around me. I've certainly seen worse, although they are by no means perfect - but name me a group of roadusers who are?
Long tractor vehicle plus short trailer equals nightmare. It's why I got rid of my short livestock trailer and got a long one, even though I don't carry that many animals at a time. Much, much easier to reverse and I don't look a total prat reversing into the abattoir, around two corners and up to the unloading ramp.
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GoVir4l 1 month ago
maybe thats why toronto doesn't by these buses
ttcorionviing2z1 1 month ago
/watch?v=bRDX8z6WLQc
MrCyclesafe 2 months ago
what is this madness??? a bendy bus???
JakeTheBeck 2 months ago
@JakeTheBeck indeed. Supposedly the solution to city transportation where there are low bridges that would stop a double decker.
jimbo80982 2 months ago
But will it Blend?
omipe3 2 months ago
@omipe3 using a joke that died years ago... youre worse than the shitty arrow to knee fuckers
MyNameIsDuffmarn 2 months ago
@MyNameIsDuffmarn Being a troll since the ( But will it Blend ) era your worse the Justin Bieber.
omipe3 2 months ago
@omipe3 wow two shitty jokes in one comment, bravo
MyNameIsDuffmarn 2 months ago
0:35, right hand down, sorted.
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its just the same reversing a trailer with a car. what i would have aimed to do in that situation was reverse out close to the side of the gate on the drivers side straight then when the kerb starts to curve, slow down to a crawl and put on a bit of left hand down to get the back a little further from the kerb then full lock left till before the kerb straightens out straighten the steering till it is about just after halfway to jackknife point then full lock to the right to bring it in line.
stigball2012 3 months ago
I have to tell you I wouldn't even have waited that long. I doubt I'd even have stopped, a slow-down is the best they'd have got from me.
xkylet 4 months ago
Isn't that york? I live just at the end of that street lol
ebayaddict19 4 months ago
@ebayaddict19 eye!
SeamerJunction 4 months ago
@ebayaddict19 yes, it is York.
bckennels 3 months ago
If you get to a point of allmost jack knife in a bendy bus it puts the brakes on and you have to go forward to release them(but a crap driver all the same)
Medleyman10 4 months ago
Why shake the camera so much?
STOPTHEEU 6 months ago
@STOPTHEEU violent wank
pussyenergydrink 5 months ago
@STOPTHEEU its a helmet carmera
nathan11able 4 months ago
Just like truck trailer, he just a shit driver
mudaphucker 7 months ago
@mudaphucker agree
bent540 6 months ago
...is that they need bendy-drivers!
DickHBox 7 months ago
Is that on James Street in York?
philje123 7 months ago
@philje123 Looks like it
jdfi1980 5 months ago
Articulated bus with mid engine is alot harder to reverse as compared to the rear engine ones.
ElevationLowJJ 8 months ago
LOL, even my 15 year old bro could reverse it. He's good with reversing trucks and bendys.
ClubbySuperCharged 8 months ago
HA HA I find it funny that it happens to be FIRSTBUS they cant drive for shit
cai200 9 months ago
self rightous prick on the bike useless wanker driving the bus
hitchhiker38 9 months ago
Really its not hard, put your hand in the bottom of the steering wheel, and with tiny motions turn the bottom of the steering wheel the same direction to which you want the rear end to go. This driver messed it up from the very beginning. He began as if he was reversing a regular rigid bus. (non articulated, or non bendy bus)
BusDudeVancouver 9 months ago
LOL i have no trouble driving a BENDY 44 TONNE TRUCK throught london
tomthepope 9 months ago
oh my good where he buy his driving license????
pumakitty1000 9 months ago
I would prefer to call this ' The Trouble with Incompetent Drivers '
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Not same as an HGV, PLEB, a bendy bus only has so much movement before it locks to avoid damage to the body which is what is hapenning here. HGV's much easier to reverse, and yes it only requires a small turn to the right with the wheel and then when the trailer moves where you want it to, follow it through. It is easy to criticise, and believe me, the reversing skills of loads of HGV drivers leave alot to be desired.
wazibuzz1 10 months ago
Not same as an HGV, PLEB, a bendy bus only has so much movement before it locks to avoid damage to the body which is what is hapenning here. HGV's much easier to reverse, and yes it only requires a small turn to the right with the wheel and then when the trailer moves where you want it to, follow it through. It is easy to criticise, and believe me, the reversing skills of loads of HGV drivers leave alot to be desired.
wazibuzz1 10 months ago
Not same as an HGV, PLEB, a bendy bus only has so much movement before it locks to avoid damage to the body which is what is hapenning here. HGV's much easier to reverse, and yes it only requires a small turn to the right with the wheel and then when the trailer moves where you want it to, follow it through. It is easy to criticise, and believe me, the reversing skills of loads of HGV drivers leave alot to be desired.
wazibuzz1 10 months ago
Look to germany (: We have busses with three of these thinks (enter by search: Doppelgelenkbus München: Ostbahnhof)
RobitschkaPGS 10 months ago
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RobitschkaPGS 10 months ago
most drivers would need training to reverse a bendy, see first buses training is up to its usual standards.....
jumbodoug 11 months ago
I heard the bendy bus song in my head whilst watching. I do like the idea of having them make accordion sounds when they go around a bend.
flooflox 11 months ago
Only BAD ! ;D omg it´s very funny!!!
TilllaBong 11 months ago
just keep driving, just keep driving, driving, driving,driving
JJINCWorldWide 11 months ago
These things are a daft idea in this country. for the same reason the length limit on HGVs has stayed the same for years, and the reason why the govt won't allow B-doubles. (double trailer artics) we simply don't have the room!
I drive artics every day and got to say I wouldn't fancy reversing a bendy. harder than an artic, the front bit is a lot longer so you need a lot less steering lock
mrspivvy 1 year ago
bet its a woman driver
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16shipton 1 year ago
this would be the same as reversing a trailer true?
CentralVisionStudios 1 year ago
Is that in York?
ollyb360 1 year ago
@ollyb360 Yes it is
Cazkumali 1 year ago
like to see him do better tbh
lousplodge 1 year ago
pffff....
this is nothing.Our GSP Beograd(Belgrade Public Transport) drivers will do it with their eyes closed.
I saw a guy doing a double slalom with an articulated Ikarbus(Serbian bus maker) on a turn-around,right here in Belgrade.
didi89s 1 year ago
is this in York? they are a pain especially those purple FTR's
Jimwelly 1 year ago
Right hand down will make it worse. Stick to riding a bike, huh?
FiringOnAllEight 1 year ago 2
@FiringOnAllEight Erm... No it wouldn't. Right hand down is exactly what was needed here - OK, the front of the bus might have gone up on the kerb, but it would have eased the jack knifing enough for him to get out. Have you ever reversed with a trailer before?
imbethondion 1 year ago
@imbethondion Many many times, and still do. Right hand down will put the front nearside of the bus onto the kerb and there won't be enough room to put the mistake right. Needs to go forwards, straighten up and come out at an angle, then apply left hand down when the rear offside wheel is level with the gatepost.
FiringOnAllEight 1 year ago
@FiringOnAllEight bang on thats exactly wat i was thinking??!!!!lolzzz
azy123bob 1 year ago
@FiringOnAllEight It's a catchphrase, from 'The Navy Lark'. Stick to making neutral comments, huh?
DickHBox 7 months ago
@FiringOnAllEight right hand down would have got it out, not made it worse.
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@FiringOnAllEight The original poster is correct - right hand down (which in effect means turning the wheel clockwise) while reversing would have allowed the driver to prevent the bus from jack-kniving. The driver is obviously somebody like you.....clueless when it comes to reversing articulated machinery.
damjord 7 months ago
Ye still wonder if they are there...
Invissibl 1 year ago
In Hungary, Ikarus builds articulated buses with the back wheels also steering, but in the opposite direction. This way you can back turning the steering wheel in the same direction as with a car, not like in a truck. The video here shows a bus with a simple trailer, it is a primitive design.
Csabika30NY 1 year ago
@Csabika30NY Steer tag axle
FederalPolice620 1 year ago
Yes... When you have a dumb ass driver it's a problem with bendybusses. Or as some mongolides would say : articulated busses. My god.. If some one in the pub would say to me he came by atriculated buss I would hit him in the face!!
dipstick3031 1 year ago
its painful to watch....this is their job to drive a bus...and only drive a bus!
quest1931 1 year ago
Thought it looked like James Street in York! Then saw the tags above! :-) Hope it wasn't my mate driving it, he drives the bendies there!!!
iand233 1 year ago
it's like backing up an 18 wheeler. the same rules apply.
jqdsilva 1 year ago
@TheCanucksvideos we call em bendy buses...its like a slang dude -,-
Xiia0Sn00pY 1 year ago
@Dinasdash That would be the easier option, but they wouldn't do that, its first xD
b2311e 1 year ago
Strange. In Europe, the bendy bus is considered dangerous to cyclists, in North America the trolley is considered dangerous.
dumbass1984 1 year ago
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It's bloody first they have no brains. Fact.
LewisParley 1 year ago
lol. i was a driver myself, artics are fun too drive. its good to go around a round a bout, and having the front of the bus clear, and looking in the mirror to see the rear still coming!!! our artics in south australia are 16.5 meters long, and are scania.
stevenbusadl 1 year ago
Here in Texas we call them articulated buses not bendy buses and they don't use them in a lot of places. The ones here talk they got one that is so loud you can hear it 1/4 mile away at 5am in the morning. I was mowing one morning I could hear "86 FM 1960 CROSS TOWN!" over the mower its so loud.
Htown20XX 1 year ago
trouble here is the licencing! a bendy bus can be driven on a normal cat d licence, most cat d drivers have never reversed a trailer before like c+e drivers
mrmanandvan 1 year ago
and its no problem with what u call them, over here we call them artics
jeanetdun 1 year ago
you call them bendy buses? they are called articulated buses or "artics" for short
jeanetdun 1 year ago
Its like backing up a truck and trailer. How hard can it be?
gcrebel2008 1 year ago
Wow, this guy is qualified to drive a bus? Backing up should be the same as a car pulling a trailer. He should have pulled in further and straighten out first. Give me 5 minutes or less with this thing and I would have it backed up with no problems. I have seen 45 foot motorhomes pull 25 foot trailers and back up much easier than this guy is doing.
v12tommy 1 year ago
He's got the wheel turned the wrong way. The trick to it is to give it a smidge to the left then straighten and the trailer will begin tunring as shown. Then you have to start turning the wheel right otherwise it'll jack knife.
MercedesO305 1 year ago
the driver was probably asian
fayette1983 1 year ago
should have got a double decker make it easy but it taller
JawzDiesel 1 year ago
that would be me if my company ever got those articulated AND/OR bendy busses.
busdriverohio 1 year ago
I just refer to them as SH!T!!
RICHTAYL 1 year ago
@rennsta, look at the very end of the vid, he can't turn into it, hes pinned up against the railings with the front end
8nowt 2 years ago
I am a bendy bus driver in Romania,and where do I wash my bus I have considerably less space to go backwards and still I manage to turn the bus.This driver I asure you that does not know nothing regarding how tu turn this bus.
TipulCelRau 2 years ago 2
articulated bus is the proper name
brian252582 2 years ago
go £**&. This is the U.K Bendy Bus!!
heezabirddog 1 year ago
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who gives a fuck
smallz432 2 years ago
@smallz432
Thanks for the profanity. You are stupid.
744boy 2 years ago
fanny holes
smallz432 2 years ago
Aslong as the depot is big enough, in which case they should not be allowed to have 'bendy' buses there. But yeah I agree with you completely.
Platinum306 2 years ago
lol even I can back that one...-.- i'm only 16 btw lol, btw in sweden we got the tripple bendy bus, they are easy to back like [[[]]]||[[]]||[[]]
gampanat 2 years ago
clearly the driver was incompetent
nlty2000 2 years ago
Bus depot near me has a turn around bit for them so they dont need to reverse out.
TheChrisFrom1993 2 years ago
if the back end is going to the left then turn right and vice versa, who ever it was driving makes reversing and articulted/trailed vehicle hard
s34n93 2 years ago
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WRONG!! lol . Classic fail. If you do as you say, you put MORE kink into it.
If im manouvering and jackknifing my trailer to MY right, as I'm sat in my cab, then i turn my steering wheel to my right(clockwise) to take the jacknife out and straighten up the combo.
If im STARTING the manouver, then its left hand down to manouver right.
8nowt 2 years ago
Shitty arse bus drivers they are all shit!!!!!!
sarah19766 2 years ago
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16shipton 1 year ago
@16shipton Your all the fuckin same, wank drivers bullys. You wankers loose everytime when im in a truck!!!
sarah19766 1 year ago
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16shipton 1 year ago
It is a problem that the shorter the rear section of an articulated vehicle is to the front the harder it is to reverse. I've tried reversing with both a small trailer and a fairly large caravan, and the latter was so much easier. Ironically though for towing small trailers no additional licence or training is needed, and articulated buses don't even have a seperate licence class. That said, it's going forwards where the trailer size really counts, and that's what is done on the roads normally.
ChrisCooper312 2 years ago
ANNOYING! Keep the camera steady!!!!
effatastudio 2 years ago 9
@effatastudio it's a head cam idiot do you keep your head still all the time while you're watching something? no didn't think so
altractors 10 months ago
@effatastudio Helmet-cam! Difficult!!!
DickHBox 7 months ago
it was never gonna work he/she needed to come closer to right of gate so the front unit would have enough foom to swing
having the front longer that the back makes it so hard to do
joecroucher 2 years ago
Good old Worst York....
craigybus1 2 years ago
these buses are brill =)
BlacknAmber4Lyfe 2 years ago
they have them on the X66 centrelink buses oparated by go north east
girlslover90 2 years ago
The proper name might be 'articulated', but over here (the home of the English language, after all) we generally refer to them as bendy buses. If anyone has a problem with that, they can a) not come here, or b) shut up, or c) both. I don't go whining about people refering to sidewalks, when they mean pavements....
Panticle 2 years ago 55
@ panticle: bendy buses is an excellent name for those things to my opinion: as a kid I called them 'snake buses' (the term is somewhat better in Dutch) because the things are so flexible in curves. The shaking of the camera was a nice surprise, got me laughing :D
weeardguy 2 years ago 2
@Panticle lol funny the different tems between the UK and canada
walterj89 1 year ago
@Panticle what a lot of rage for something that really isn't important.
dumbass1984 1 year ago
@Panticle yep we call them bendy busses in scotland i love riding on them sometimes their better than a fairground ride when they go round those corners
freacls 1 year ago
@Panticle Did it eventually get out
Cazkumali 1 year ago
@Panticle Goo on son :P.
Iamfukenripped 1 year ago
we call them bendy buses cos errr they fucking bend . . . silly cunt
StolenMonkey 2 years ago 4
Its called whatever the local population calls it.
Now stfu and stop hating like a bitch and hiding behind your keyboard.
Adamw5433 2 years ago
lol 'tard
Danny011189 2 years ago
Once the trailer can't turn anymore, you're supposed to steer in the direction the trailer is turning towards.
I've built LEGO vehicles with more than two parts and successfully reversed them myself lol
sammydenyc 2 years ago
The citaros and neoplans i was driving you cant really jack knife as such the trailor only swings 45 degrees each way they use the same principle as a train, reversing them is alot harder than a wagon and drag or an artic requires alot of skill and cant be done at speed.
VolvoFH12580 2 years ago
if we did that then the bus wouldnt turn at all the power would be in the trailor unit and push the vehicle forward the trailor unit and the tractor unit would be off to one side jack knifing.
VolvoFH12580 2 years ago
Good. Wait until there is snow or ice on the road.
Bendy buses are screwed.
barrhavener 2 years ago 2
mercedes citaros are ok in snow if you take it slow neoplans are just rubbish driven both types neoplan is just crap.
VolvoFH12580 2 years ago
IS this just a cat D or would it be D1?
lea1mercian 2 years ago
No, it's a cat D. At least here in Holland it is.
BarneySaysHi 2 years ago
Cat D no longer need the D+E rating on the licence as its classified as a rigid vehicle because you can walk from the tractor to trailor unit.
VolvoFH12580 2 years ago
its a D+E as D1 would be mini bus, no bigger than a tranny
shortbusdriver1969 2 years ago
well its first ..... what do you expect
tractorboydavid 2 years ago 3
The driver deserves a pay rise!
Dannyhughesj 2 years ago
and then if the drive axle ever lost grip the rear section of the bus would slew sideways and be completely uncontrollable, not to mention the stress that would be put through the "bend." Bendy buses are shit to drive as it is!
au51emu 2 years ago
why reverse out anyway? surley the depot is big enough to run a full lap and exit front ways.
stevelynx1121 2 years ago
is this down james street, or whatever it's called??
bishbadboy 3 years ago
Yep
Boat7678 2 years ago
i live near york in driff
iJessx 3 years ago
the hgv driver probably would have helped
AdamPaulSmith 3 years ago
i also had that problem in midtown madness 2 while driving a MB citaro G in reverse
yeehah188 3 years ago
doesn't look like he has enough room on the other side to turn to counter the oversteer
nbchikoroll 3 years ago
Interesting video clip and thanks for posting.I can't help thinking it serves them god damn right for buying the stupid things.
reynardbizzar 3 years ago
reminds me of reversing landrovers with trailers on! A nightmare, often easier to un-hitch the trailer and pull it into place by hand! LOL
WatchRyder 3 years ago
y cant they realize that it is rlly easy to jack knife!
cactuarizamoron 3 years ago
no it isn't, it's in york. I filmed it!
Panticle 3 years ago
this is in pudsey. yeah i saw it being filmed.
jimmylovesc 3 years ago
yea.... its still there
veredusjr 3 years ago
Travel Coventry who are by me have some Mercedes Citaros & O405GNs and we always park in 2 rows, 1 of each type so it's easy for them to get out of the garage without reversing, they obviously haven't done this. You can't blame the driver if they've never done this before.
Ally31334 3 years ago
This driver sucks. Don't they teach you how to reverse?
eezy1972 3 years ago
is that an FTR bus to the right of this one and also isn't this a York Park & Ride?
XxMCR999MCRxX 3 years ago
Yeah... they're both the same bus type underneath, and ride exactly the same. The P&R artics are W reg and used to operate the Pink Line in Bradford.
How the hell can you jack-knife a rear-engined bus?! I know it's easy to jack-knife a trailer if you're driving a car, but this bus has the engine at the back so the engine is pulling the bus here!
also, when cycling, be careful down James Street as there are a lot of idiot drivers go down there!
mazeteam 3 years ago
bendy bus
waste of tax payers money
jet packs are much more reliable
tgrules565 3 years ago 4
Unless you have driven a B7LA ( bendi bus then do not comment, the displacement is 60/40 and there are devices in place to stop a jack knife, once passed a given point a partical brake comes in to work and stops the bus.
shortbusdriver1969 3 years ago 4
@shortbusdriver1969 well said my little friend, they all on here bloody critisising.. have you read that post from a 16yr old who can do it better! just to point out that we get given approx 20 mins of reversing training and then we never do it again, iv been driving them for over a year and have never reversed one since, and i know shorty has been driving them for over 4years and hes never reversed one at all in that time.. dont critisise until youve tried it..
16shipton 1 year ago
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16shipton 1 year ago
@16shipton You bus drivers are bullys to car and van drivers, you all just pull out when you pick people up. Set off with out looking, dont get into your bus stop correctley ect ect, dont use your indicaters....Get the points
sarah19766 1 year ago
@sarah19766 Meaby YOU ar fucking wanker!!! What???
jarunciu 1 year ago
@jarunciu Speak english thick cunt!!!
sarah19766 1 year ago
@sarah19766 i cud say car n van drivers are bullys, but not all are! as not are all bus drivers... we are all inderviduals and you obviously have a bad attitude to bus drivers!! some bus drivers annoy me and some van drivers annoy me... you my dear just have a bad attitude lol x
16shipton 11 months ago
lol i like it bit of right had down lol
PaulieMac77 3 years ago
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this driver is an idiot! thats all I can say!
piersremus 3 years ago
hahaha the bendy buses in Sydney are wiked :D
LtBarnes2007 3 years ago
oh yes, a good driver (or bendy buses or HGVs) is brillant to watch, I used to watch HGV drivers back an artic into our carpark when I worked in a supermarket - backing from a normal narrow street into the gap between 2 rows of cars, and often just in once move and at the first attempt. I did wonder if the driver in my vid had ever done it before - so I can sympathise.
Panticle 3 years ago
Just for contrast, I went to an IMechE lecture about hydrogen-powered buses in London, and a friend of mine (who'd driven for FirstGroup part-time while at uni) reversed an identical bendybus up about 400yds of driveway, in the dark, and parked it exactly 4 inches from the kerb along its whole length. So it can be done...
jsd23 3 years ago
"...Like that."
Lmao. xP
Melaisis 3 years ago
wat is the point in those buses
wrestleterry 3 years ago
High capacity on heavily patronized routes. A rigid bus can hold 44 to 61 seated passengers where a bendy can hold a few more at 70+ with standees.
B10Mman 3 years ago
its the same thing as a trailer i mean come on
danielhattie2000 3 years ago
Oh what a joke. And what a joke yorks ftr service is, I can see they have a use on the park n ride, but the ftr is no use the way its run. you dont put a huge road hoggin machine on a route that carrys no more than about 12 people at a time, then remove the route as its uneconomic / put up fares, you use the right type of bus for the route! hoppa busses would suit york so much better out of peak hours
lezbriddon 4 years ago
Well, in Germany we hardly see any bendy buses reverse, because they dont need to.
This is problem wat many trucks have ...
Mamakayi 4 years ago
I dunno if I agree with that. I find that York bus drivers are generally ok. In the centre they have some really tight road layouts to get round. Perhaps they are more careless in suburbs where they get up speed, but in town they mostly hang back and take care around me. I've certainly seen worse, although they are by no means perfect - but name me a group of roadusers who are?
Panticle 4 years ago
Typical of driving standards for York buses.
mlambeuk 4 years ago
Long tractor vehicle plus short trailer equals nightmare. It's why I got rid of my short livestock trailer and got a long one, even though I don't carry that many animals at a time. Much, much easier to reverse and I don't look a total prat reversing into the abattoir, around two corners and up to the unloading ramp.
Stonehead52 4 years ago
:) Still I suppose I can't comment. I'm sure I wouldn't do much better!!
magnatom 4 years ago