TRPTA vehicle 802 arrived in the valley last Friday, loaded up with our snow tires and an empty gas tank. This morning I met up with Karen and we moved the tires into our backup bus and then I fueled up for tomorrow. That’s Karens head back there. I tossed the tires to her between the back doors and she stacked them up.
I actually didn’t know that my regular bus had a sister. I thought 801 was the only 16 passenger bus we had in the fleet. This one’s got a lot more miles on her but in great shape, and the on-board computer works! I transport more people than anyone else so I guess dispatch got tired of the headaches and swapped the whole bus out instead of trying to fix the computer up here. And, we got our tires up!
Update: I’ve been doing this job too long. This morning when I realized the bus was lifted with an extra step up, I remember driving it here years ago. Sigh, memory going…
Good to know some things never change, like the ranger ordeal, empty gas tanks on delivery and other fun things like that. Have a good turkey day and tell Steph congrats on the new grandbaby.
You remember that stuff do you? Yep, some things never change :-) Have a good holiday Sally and your congrats to Steph will be appreciated in Tennessee from this comment.
It was hell when all the rangers in the whole company went down, Never a dull day. Tell Karen Hello.
Will do. As I recall you were the first person trained on those things and it’s worse now when they go down…