Morning commute normally at 40/ 50/65 mph was 15/20/25 following white knuckles peering through a little mail slot scrapped on their windshield.
Turns in 30,000 pound bus are exciting. A light tap of the brakes set all 6 wheels to sliding, then you turn into the slide and steer using the throttle. More throttle tightens the turn less makes the turn more gradual. Students warm and sleepy don’t even notice my brilliance.
I’m on time unlike about 220 other drivers who are calling in frantic because they are anywhere from 15-25 minutes late. And this is only the first tier.
RossD
MegaDork
12/5/17 7:38 a.m.
Keep those kids safe!
" Turns in 30,000 pound bus are exciting. A light tap of the brakes set all 6 wheels to sliding, then you turn into the slide and steer using the throttle. More throttle tightens the turn less makes the turn more gradual. Students warm and sleepy don’t even notice my brilliance. "
^ Love it!
Drifting a school bus. Awesomesauce.
Frenchy, would a Gopro get you into trouble?
Snrub
Reader
12/5/17 8:14 a.m.
"I stand on my record. Fifteen crashes and not a single fatality."
Twin 360's in a Saab 99 .....thru in the clutch and slowly drove off....traffic, for some reason was no longer up my arse. disclaimer: do not try this at home. 
I could walk outside and drop a ice cube. Schools would close for three days.
759NRNG said:
Twin 360's in a Saab 99 .....thru in the clutch and slowly drove off....traffic, for some reason was no longer up my arse. disclaimer: do not try this at home.
I accidentally earned myself some following distance with something slightly less spectacular while getting on the highway in the Jeep a couple winters ago.
Roads were dry, but it was mid winter so they were salty. Got stuck behind a slow truck on an on-ramp. Highway is 3 lanes, just light traffic. As soon as I could merge, I pinned it and headed for the middle lane. Without noticing the 1/4" layer of salt dust coating the highway (the on ramp wasn't nearly as salty). The tires hooked fine on the on-ramp, but as soon as the rear end started to come into the right lane, the tail snapped out (sliding on the salt).
Now I'm doing 55-ish at WOT and staring at the median directly in front of me. Chopped the throttle, threw in lots of steering input and got back on the throttle a little right as the rear end snapped back into place. Landed perfectly in the left lane and continued like nothing ever happened, just with my seat slightly more attached to my rear end... Everyone on the highway behind me had slowed way down in fear, probably expecting to see me land upside-down in the median.
In reply to 759NRNG : heck I’ve got 5 cameras watching me all the time with the GPS keeping track of exactly where I am and how fast I’m going
Anything having to do with driving in "winter" conditions and "WOT" should not go together!
I almost got hit by a drifting city bus when I was living in Montreal.
Walking to work along a sharply curved road with a fairly steep slope. The rear end of an oncoming bus swung over the sidewalk and would have taken me out if I hadn’t plastered myself tightly against the building.
The driver didn’t look like he was having much fun LOL
my commute in the southwest suburbs was 2 hours vs. the normal 30 minutes.
Did see one driver get pulled out of a wrecked car and right into handcuffs... Back of the cruiser for you!
77 degrees here in Melbourne right now. I love Florida. 
Heading up north to go skiing with a few friends, in my E30 M3. It had snowed the night before and was still snowing. We come up behind a plow truck clearing the right lane, the left lane had some snow but not many ruts so it as tractable. Just after I gain enough speed to pass a gust comes along causing a white out condition. I do what you are supposed to do, keep steady until it passes. I assumed that I was in the left lane. The next thing I see is a tail light moving rapidly towards the middle of my hood, right in front of me. Rather than panic, I keep in the gas, swerve left, back to the right, a little opposite lock the the left, provoking a perfect power slide back into the right lane just in front of the plow truck.
In reply to rslifkin :
my second tier is an elementary school. With a full load of 77 kids I drove on back streets to avoid the parking lot syndrome. One section had a left right left combination. I felt like I was doing a ballet. On ice skates. As a Hippopotamus, Hippopotimoose? What’s the plural of Hippopotamii?
The kids never stopped writing in the frost on their windows or whatever they were doing
jimbbski said:
Anything having to do with driving in "winter" conditions and "WOT" should not go together!
YOU TAKE THAT BACK ! RIGHT NOW !!!
frenchyd said:
In reply to 759NRNG : heck I’ve got 5 cameras watching me all the time with the GPS keeping track of exactly where I am and how fast I’m going
I was hoping for some out the front windshield action as the neighborhood slid by....
LSD with a torquey and free revving engine is the best for snow. My favorite snowmobile was an E34 that had a close ratio box and a 3:90 rear. The best package you could get in a 525.
On the other hand my 85 RX7 was a fun little snowmobile too as long as there was less than 3.5 inches of snow.
akylekoz said:
LSD with a torquey and free revving engine is the best for snow. My favorite snowmobile was an E34 that had a close ratio box and a 3:90 rear. The best package you could get in a 525.
On the other hand my 85 RX7 was a fun little snowmobile too as long as there was less than 3.5 inches of snow.
My most fun winter car was my Fiesta's. I owned both a '78 & '79 that I drove year round as DD's. They had many advantages, light, not so powerful, skinny tires, always started, and if you ever did get stuck it didn't take that much to get it unstuck "cause" again lighness!
I find my '13 Fiesta is like that.
I drove school bus for 5 years and OFA bus for four more. Routes were mostly rural. Lots of fun.
I happened to park next to a Fiesta today. I noted that it had studded snow tire on front with the normal AS tires on the rear. I was tempted to leave a note explaining why this was not a good idea. But it probably would result in a shrug.
It was a leisurely drive to work this morning, with the ice under the snow. Most people were driving around 30mph which wasn't so bad, it was those people driving 5mph that were really holding things up.
In reply to 759NRNG :
For privacy reasons I doubt you’ll ever get to see the videos the camera took, but the real thrill was that seat of the pants feeling as you feel all six wheels on a 40 foot long bus sliding around.
I was careful to do it nice and smooth so none of the kids woke up. Plus it was like in slow motion maybe 7 or 8 mph. Still I was using the very tips of my fingers in order to control it, which considering the diameter of the steering wheel was really funny
