Red Horse

Friday late morning-assume group picture at Watts-noon Sat?

Well keep your fingers crossed that the driver is NOT an NRA member or they found a "Make America Great Again" hat in his locker.

Oh- in that case we will probably get some sort of press release about ..."new screening procedures going forward"

Well NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt covered this accident tonight and the big story was seat belts. While this was the focus of the story, and they acknowledged NJ has them, they did mention in a "by the way" fashion that the bus driver had something like 8 speeding conviction. Absolutely NO MENTION of the unbelievable CAUSE of this accident. So much for meaningful reporting. I don't know if the school bu was operated by the school district or a private bus contractor but heads should roll in whatever management oversaw this operation.

Nice- I won't look for it at Brooklyn this year-maybe next for sure😎

Makes you wonder-with that big radiator on the A-car, and the Mack was doing same work?? wonder how the temp gauge looked in THAT truck!

Nice Matt-but I assume when you talk about "replacing" sections this means you are fabricating all these pieces-no donor involved?

Nice-my guess is the crane is a Bay City. Anyone else with an opinion?. Fancy outriggers! I noted the address on crane- 56 w 43rd. I started my career in a regional office in Albany. A month into the job they announce a reorganization and Albany office gone-merged into one at 50W 44th St. Shitkicker from New England gets introduced to the big city. Fortunately that was temporary and got my first field assignment -Buffalo-in the fleet, C-800 single axle Fords, F-2000D Binders and CNT 900 Dodges- that was back when we made things in this country.

You have to wonder what the other adults/teachers who were on the bus did to stop this idiot.

Yeah but same hoses!😎 Low buck operation!

Hippy- All in the family! I didn't know the wife had a class A😎

Hard to believe Bill Ford could pick such a winner in Mulally and such a loser in this guy. If anyone wants to read a good book go to your library and get " American Icon" by Bryce Hoffman. Its all about Bill ford getting Mulally on board and how Ford was saved. I copied one of the last pages that talked about the sad state of affairs Ford was in with all the infighting between the guys at the top and how Bill Ford was trying to stop the bleeding. ....."Mulally ripped off the bandage, cauterized the wound, and cured the disease. Only an outsider could do that. But not just any outsider. It had to be someone who understood the complexities of global manufacturing, labor relations, and heavily engineered products." There was one interesting passage in the book when Mulally has one of his first staff meetings and someone raises his hand and says words to the effect while trying to impress him with the complexities of the car industry.."do you know how many thousands of parts there are in a car"? ..Mullaly says words to the effect.."yeah and there are like 4.7 million parts in a 767". So what do we have? Some guy who understood office furniture (where commercial tenants walk away from leases and leave all their old furniture behind which is then resold for pennies on the dollar)-as well as the bullshit associated with universities and alumni associations and the need to have a winning program blah blah. I think Bill Ford has had too much Silicon Valley wine and it has clouded his judgement.

Kevin-if it ever sees daylight. I was hoping that Brazil 3364 (or whatever-the low roof tandem) would make it here-not likely

He will be back as he is dealing with a tough loss-keep him in your thoughts.

Seems to me Nikola doesn't have a prayer with respect to their suit - what is unique? It is a basic shape-

Well I think the only thing they should really get rid of is Hackett!. As for 650/750 I thought for sure they would be gone given their inattention to the segment-at least IMO. But in one of the press releases this week, "commercial vehicles" were identified as a key market. Having said that, as many commercial customers run the full range of trucks-and for sure if not class 8, class 1 through 6 and 7 for sure- I don't believe they can afford to drop 650/750. For example, look at the utilities. For sure a range from class 1 to 7-with a few class 8's thrown in. Now if you follow medium duty on the BON site-as RoadwayR does- there are plenty of posters who think they are doing just fine selling their internally sourced 650/750 and have no need for alternative power trains beyond the PowerStroke/Torqueshift combo. I disagree. Hopefully a stated recognition of the importance of commercial vehicles will wake them up to the need for more options that will make the trucks more attractive.

Well the good news is you did not try driving it to the breakfast

Still I do believe a family owned business started in late1890's. A rarity today when most of these concrete/aggregate businesses have been bought out by European operators. That CH is just a toy hauler-not in the corporate fleet How about it Black Dog??

Same way everything was moved back then-with a lot of patience! Think of it-534 Fords and 549 Binders competing with 220's 250's. 6-71's and 318's And a 335 Cummins was a "big dog" back then

Invented by a guy named Willets and White one way or another had an exclusive on it. We had a lot of 4564's in mid 60's. 250 Cummins, Rt-910 RR, Velvet Ride and 38 rears. I never thought they were a bad riding truck-for sure when compared to F-2000 D Binders we had with Hendrickson "rubber blocks"- -I think it was called Shear Ride.

Ugh-that is a Luber-Finer right? Why would they jam that under the hood?

And what could that "operator error" be? He landed the ladder on the roof? As GA-D noted, angle of base section says it was either a hydraulic failure or was powered down? I assume these lift cylinders are double acting? And if there is no hyd fluid on ground, that says a valve body was activated? Also have to assume these things are all "fly by wire"and wireless controls at that -any chance these things can pick up a stray signal? I know this thing is 13 years old so it is not that sophisticated but I do know some of the new stuff has a feature where you can actually download your control box function to your Iphone! Talk about scary!

Boston TV reporting tonight Pierce pledged their assistance in arriving at a cause. City also announced they had hired an "expert"

thx guys- well the Commissioner/Chief immediately said ..."truck failure-not operator error. this guy by the way is an up from the ranks guy in the department. The mayor by the way is a former union official- I think in the laborers. This department also had a bad accident a couple of years ago when a truck "lost its brakes on a steep hill and crashed, killing guy in right seat. I believe stated cause was .."driver had executed a three point turn prior to going down hill and lost all his air". I guess they order these things with the "spring brake delete option". Saw news footage in which they showed a crane bringing it down, then unit drove away with all sections in place-looked like it should going down the street.

So here is one for you Fire Pro's. Last night a 13 year old Boston ladder truck (Has a basket-don't know what proper name for that is)- and it is working a 3 decker fire and a guy is in the basket and it is just above the flat roof. Suddenly the ladder collapses-looks like all the telescopic sections just like popped out of whatever the guides are that keep them tracking-or the hydraulic lift cylinders just lost all pressure and the ladder dropped. would the ladder sections when extended have enough strength to remain ridgid/intact with the upper most sections resting on the building.?