Had great time at work, last week.
Started out with 2 hour delay on thursday the Jan11, than no school on Friday the Jan 12.
Had Monday off for the holiday that was good still very frozen, about 22 deg.
Than came Tuesday the Jan 16, school was on and it was about 20 deg. out and I got to the shop about 6:15am and help with the phones and all was going okay, till about 9:30am and it started to snow, and of couse the snow stuck very quick and it turned to a mess real quick.
School thought it was going get worses so, they going to sent every one home at 1:00pm when normal time is about 3:00pm it realy did help, because most the kids go home about 2 to 3 house late then they normaly did. The sherlf was closing road in a lot of place so are bus would be sitting for 2 to 3 hours, and some driver did know how or would not put the tire chains on. So I sent a mechanic out to help but he could not get there for about 3 hours.
Had 4 buses stuck in ditches that need a tow trucks to get them out, the next to the last bus was out of the ditch by 6:30pm, about 3 hours in the hole.
The last one that was pull that night was not out till about 8:30 pm.
Both need two truck to get them out. One bus the tow truck could not get, so we left it till Wednesday. I left the shop about 7:30pm and was home about 8:15pm.
There was no school on Wednesday, thanks goodness.
So we left the chain on all of the bus and thought that we would be ready if it started snowing again, we end up pulling the chains at 2:00pm on Wednesday, that went realy will, no trouble with this at all.
I was so drove out about 11:00 to the bus we left out over night in the ditch, the boss guess that I could drive it out, up the hill, even with all four chains, on the front and back tires it would not even move 1 foot up that hill and out of the ditch at the same time.
I said lets back down the hill in the ditch, the boss thought the bus would turn over on side once the other front wheel hit the ditch.
Lucky for me I did not think it would, do this, a bus can get way over be for it will rolls on its side. I start back down and sure enough the right front tire went in and when it came up the other side of the ditch the back right back tire came out, and the front axle was straddle of the ditch, I stayed that way for about 150 feet till I came to the covert and I had to jump the front end out of the covert and out onto the road. The boss was realy pleased with this, no tow bill and the only damage was to one smal mirror.($21.00 for mirror)
Drove about 2 mile and took the chains off and got back to the shop by 12:00, the end of the day of fun.
Will this did not rap up the week, come Thurday morning some one had removed the valve cores out of 36 tires on 9 buses at Fleming middle school, we did not find this out till about 30 minutes before the buses had to roll on route,
Called in two tire company road service place and our own service truck, we had three air compressures going, cover 3 of the bus and got the others on the road, about 15 minutes late.
And about the time we finshed this a nother bus had slipped off the road, and the boss spent about 2 hours being tow out, no damage, that good.
Will friday was realy good, not a problem at all, spent all my time getting my desk cleared off and putting parts away.
Will
No comments:
Post a Comment