This is what I fear the most of being a bus driver and I don't want to be out there on the road and have brake failure especially driving down a mountain or any other type of road condition.. I pray that the most high always keeps protection around me and the students who ride my bus everyday...
Wow. That was some incredible driving, holding vehicles that size on a winding mountain road at those speeds. Plus an unbelievably lucky catch wedging the runaway bus up onto some soft ground with the second bus preventing a rollover accident.
If I'm correct, Rescue911 aired in the very early 1990s, probably 1990, 91, 92. I would have been 10, 11, or 12 somewhere between 4th and 6th grade. I'm now 44. If this helps out. I loved watching Rescue911. I think it aired on Tuesday nights at 7p or 8p. My dad was an EMT when I was a baby
Either its a good driver or a magic man in the sky did it. It can’t be both. besides, it’s not fair to steal a good man’s glory for a fever dream fantasy.
Andrew S most likely lost its brakes due to debris hitting the air tanks. These buses have air brakes. As you saw, they showed how the air pressure dropped which is when he lost the brakes
Older air brake systems did not work that way. Basically if you ran out of air, you had no brakes. In a modern system the spring brakes would have locked them solid and stoped them real fast.
I remember when my bus bursted into flames we all ran out the emergency rear door this happened back when I was in kindergarten in 1999 I can’t believe these buses didn’t have emergency brakes
Yes this bus had an air brake system ,they showed the pressure gauge low, and he tried pushing the YELLOW parking brake button. The thing that probably happened was a line blew, or he simply used up his supply of air from over braking. They should have kept it low gear and crawled down the mountain slow and easy boys. Always check your system before embarking on a downhill journey... glad they were all saved at the end.
For soem resson, i imagine a story of a bus filled with 7th/8th graders loosing control then being saved by a rookie engineer and his old locomotive, the bus looses control and ends up in a rail line, the engineer sees the bus and gets his engine infront of the bus and stops it with the locomotive, getting the old as hell engine into a museum for it and its engineer's brave act.
They re very luck didn't get hurt or kill! Luck have backup other bus.. If no other bus then this bus maybe get hurt or kill! What a bless to 2 both driver bus saved them!
This bus was obviously made before 1975 with cam brakes. With those when the air pressure runs out they had no brakes. Since then all trucks and buses are required to have spring brakes. Now when the air pressure drops below about 50 psi the brake button will pop and activate the brakes unless the brake itself is defective.
If you drive a manual you can always stop by using the engine as a brake, it'll always be there and itll always slow you down if your engine has connection to the wheels
Do teenagers these days have any idea what their grandparents had to go through with buses like these? My grandfather was a truck driver for many years, He drove a lot of cars too and I'm sure he can tell a lot of tales.
The sad fucking thing is that north america deliberately chooses to go with this 100 year old technology called air-fucking-brakes. That fuckin shit is basically a dinasaur anywhere else around the globe. NA though chooses to leave hydraulic brakes behind their back, regardless of the fact they work light years better. Seriously, those fucking drums are another addition to the death trap that na trucks and buses represent. I drove a scania in europe and a 2014 freightliner in Canada. Light fucking years of difference. Just felt like the government did not give a fuck about my life and those of all other commercial operators. There's not a chance in a million years that I'm gonna put my son on any of these joke pieces of shit school fucking buses. To this day I don't understand how parents put their most precious kids on these suicide buses that haven't changed aince ww1. Just blows my mind. And that's why I no longer drive heavy duty.
The break lines might leaked and rusted away or the gear might failed or the break might be empty because breaks lines are made of metal and if moister from rains gets wet it can start deteriorate and rust away causing drivers to lose their breaks
When they leave bus 1 is a Chevy with a Bluebird body And Ernie's bus number 2 is an International with a Carpenter body but when Erine's bus loses its brakes its now a International with a Ward body and bus number 1 that was the Chevy Blue Bird becomes the International with a Carpenter body .
Given that the bus had a manual transmission, it should have been possible by repeatedly dipping the clutch to control the speed and to work it eventually into 1st gear. I drive a school bus albeit with an automatic transmission and on steep slopes I always select L and let it go down on the gears rather than the brakes.
He made the right choice at the end to stop the bus like that.
Alberta.
Ernie deserves my respect. He wanted to make sure that everyone was safely off before he got off.
This is what I fear the most of being a bus driver and I don't want to be out there on the road and have brake failure especially driving down a mountain or any other type of road condition.. I pray that the most high always keeps protection around me and the students who ride my bus everyday...
Downshift my friend. Generally coming down you want to be one gear lower than you need coming up.
Wow. That was some incredible driving, holding vehicles that size on a winding mountain road at those speeds.
Plus an unbelievably lucky catch wedging the runaway bus up onto some soft ground with the second bus preventing a rollover accident.
renegadeoflife87 tteddy304
I'm just blown away from the reenactments on some of these videos. That's some pretty cool stunt driving!
Wow, that was some serious team work and quick thinking. Heroic indeed!!
This must be an ancient story. I haven't seen busses with stick shifts in 35 years.
If I'm correct, Rescue911 aired in the very early 1990s, probably 1990, 91, 92. I would have been 10, 11, or 12 somewhere between 4th and 6th grade. I'm now 44. If this helps out. I loved watching Rescue911. I think it aired on Tuesday nights at 7p or 8p. My dad was an EMT when I was a baby
Wow the magic school bus reboot looks great!
train game 2.0 hang on the Magic School Bus
What a good drivers, what a great team, nobody hurt. Incroyable. Chapeau !
Ernie what a driver! Saved a lot of lives!
lol my school in fort ord california had those buses behind Shatner in the intro, when I went to school there in 1995....
My heart stopped and dropped at the same time thank God for his coworker
He is a darn good driver. I think he's one of the best. God took the wheel.
Either its a good driver or a magic man in the sky did it. It can’t be both.
besides, it’s not fair to steal a good man’s glory for a fever dream fantasy.
@@truthbydesign5146man just let people believe what they wanna believe dude
I remember watching this TV as child growing up. Brings back memories.
We have no idea how privileged we are to have the amazing cars we have today!
YOOOOO THAT WAS A PRO MOVE!!!! Holy shit super mad respect for those guys especially the drivers!!!!
Oh man. That theme song took me back to my childhood. I used to watch this *ALL THE TIME!!*
Ernie had to be scared. The other driver had some quick thinking at the last second
that was one goog save! damn good driving on the drivers part
The guy who saved the bus was a skilled driver and a very brave person..
Look how the second school bus driver comes up alongside and stops the school bus who had lost its brakes by pushing it to the bank side
This was such a wonderful story! Don't remember seeing it before.
HOLY SHIT!!!! These men are real drivers! Real men! Wow! That first bus saved the lives of all those people on the runaway bus...IMPRESSIVE!!
I Like How The Chev Bluebird V.S International Ward S1700 & Carpenter International S1700
I also really! Feel like both of these bus drivers are heroes❤
I really! Feel like it's a miracle that everyone survived this situation ❤
i know this is super serious, but all that goes through my head when theyre going down the hill is
*R U N N I N G I N T H E 9 0 S*
*I T S T H E N E W W A Y I L I K E T O B E*
NICE SAVE...
Sooo, the bus lost it's brakes because it was overloaded, rocketed down the hill, and the bus driver's name was "Ernie Heavyrunner"...?
Andrew S most likely lost its brakes due to debris hitting the air tanks. These buses have air brakes. As you saw, they showed how the air pressure dropped which is when he lost the brakes
Efra The point of air brakes is to lock up when there's no air. You're implying they work the opposite way.
Older air brake systems did not work that way. Basically if you ran out of air, you had no brakes. In a modern system the spring brakes would have locked them solid and stoped them real fast.
Hmmm, good point...
You are correct, the reason on why the brakes had stopped working is because that school bus was overweight.
I loved this show as a kid watching with my grandparents
Rescue 911 got me into learning about first aid and i took first aid class in high school.
I'm glad everyone is safe
I remember when my bus bursted into flames we all ran out the emergency rear door this happened back when I was in kindergarten in 1999 I can’t believe these buses didn’t have emergency brakes
anthony. i can relate to that. i also had a bus catch fire on me. thank god i had no people at that time
That was some good driving!
Fortunately no one got hurt. That could have been a TON worse =P
Daniel Selk #itsmagic
It was a great stroke of luck that nothing drove up that road against them.
How is everyone so chill?
Always make sure that your vehicles are in safe condition
You never know what might happen even if you do check to make sure it's safe to drive. My the pipe broke due to something
Anyone else notice that there are a ton of miles on that bus
Brandon Lusch It's 36 thousand. Not 361 thousand.
Parking brakes should have engaged if there was no air.
yes. thats interesting, maybe they weren't in this case? Older technology perhaps?
@@BarryAllen-no9nj buses back then were more like cars with hydraulic brakes no air...add to that it's a smaller bus and they rarely have air brakes
Yes this bus had an air brake system ,they showed the pressure gauge low, and he tried pushing the YELLOW parking brake button. The thing that probably happened was a line blew, or he simply used up his supply of air from over braking. They should have kept it low gear and crawled down the mountain slow and easy boys. Always check your system before embarking on a downhill journey... glad they were all saved at the end.
For soem resson, i imagine a story of a bus filled with 7th/8th graders loosing control then being saved by a rookie engineer and his old locomotive, the bus looses control and ends up in a rail line, the engineer sees the bus and gets his engine infront of the bus and stops it with the locomotive, getting the old as hell engine into a museum for it and its engineer's brave act.
This is why vehicles with air brakes now have a safety mechanism where the parking brake automatically comes on between 40 and 20 psi.
Amazing, well done
How irony that the passengers didn't panic at all.
most of them were still sleeping
One Of Da Kind That's because Indian Warriors are called BRAVES
Am I the only one that likes the music from 0:46 to 1:11
Tough guys rule! Great job!
Getting a non synchronized transmission into gear is technically possible at any speed, but your clutch better hold out.
Rescue 911 is back on tv the justice channel we fans did it
God. Bless. It. Was. A. Miracle
Now tell me why school buses don't have seatbelts. Never trust the Magic School Bus!😆
Det3ctive Conan because what if the bus flipped over then a kindergartners couldn’t get there seatbelts off then the driver had to helped all of them
Lol, NO buses have seatbelts
This is why you always check ur brakes before going on a school trip
that had to have been scary
Reminds me of the movie Speed.
TampaOutlaw Except in Speed there was a bomb on the bus.
Yes it does
Or to Homer Simpson, “The Bus That Couldn’t Stop”. 😂
One of my teacher was a native American
Please. Bring. This. Show. Back. On. T. V. It's. A Learning. Show. For. Everyone. Kids. Grown. Up. & Older. People.
That was 12 years before I was born when this happened I was born on August 15th 2002 and this was taken on August 15th 1990
One of them wrote a song appropriately called "Runaway bus"
It's a standard transmission. So by not shifting would cause the engine to stall thus bringing the bus to a stop.
The gears would just grind
They re very luck didn't get hurt or kill! Luck have backup other bus.. If no other bus then this bus maybe get hurt or kill! What a bless to 2 both driver bus saved them!
That's what I call scary
I like Shatner as the host...
To my teachers who said that adults cannot ride School Buses yes they can because this video is going to prove you wrong
WOW THAT was amazing... smart nove but that could have gone other way....
nice save at 6:40
I hope everyone knows these are reinactions of the actual stuff that happened.
Got well deserved awards from the federal government,for once the damn government did something right for the native Americans.
N8V the real Americans.
That was the longest downhill i have ever seen!
It's Like A Race!
This bus was obviously made before 1975 with cam brakes. With those when the air pressure runs out they had no brakes. Since then all trucks and buses are required to have spring brakes. Now when the air pressure drops below about 50 psi the brake button will pop and activate the brakes unless the brake itself is defective.
Its a International S Series chassis from 1979 -to 1989 judging by the hood called the ''Schoolmaster'' with a Ward Body
well done guys wow
Thank god for the other bus being there very scary
Holy crap, that would be scary!!
If you drive a manual you can always stop by using the engine as a brake, it'll always be there and itll always slow you down if your engine has connection to the wheels
Praise God
First the buses are a mid 80s Chevrolet Carpenter and an early 80s Chevrolet International, then they're both the latter?
That was amazing
It's Mr. Breakfast again because he hates breaks!
Do teenagers these days have any idea what their grandparents had to go through with buses like these? My grandfather was a truck driver for many years, He drove a lot of cars too and I'm sure he can tell a lot of tales.
Um.... Busses have not changed very much. Accept maybe more power and auto transmissions.
Oh. Huh.
The sad fucking thing is that north america deliberately chooses to go with this 100 year old technology called air-fucking-brakes. That fuckin shit is basically a dinasaur anywhere else around the globe. NA though chooses to leave hydraulic brakes behind their back, regardless of the fact they work light years better. Seriously, those fucking drums are another addition to the death trap that na trucks and buses represent. I drove a scania in europe and a 2014 freightliner in Canada. Light fucking years of difference. Just felt like the government did not give a fuck about my life and those of all other commercial operators. There's not a chance in a million years that I'm gonna put my son on any of these joke pieces of shit school fucking buses. To this day I don't understand how parents put their most precious kids on these suicide buses that haven't changed aince ww1. Just blows my mind. And that's why I no longer drive heavy duty.
Incredible how he stopped the bus. That could have been much worse and some good men could have died.
fast and the furious: bus
XD
+TheToxicy Speed 2: no control
This is exactly like the runaway truck episode.
Brakeless Bus is Unsolved Mystery
the emergency brake is broke
That's just scary
Initial D: Bus Stage.
Are you serious? Reinacted.
Means what. Get out your dictionary.
@@christinemarlow9296 STOOPID
Bravo!
There was a leak in his air brakes system
I guess shutting off the engine while the bus is in gear never occurred to the driver.
I hope you're joking.
LGTheOneFreeMan doesn't shutting the engine off while the transmission is in gear will slow down the vehicle due to engine compression.
Chillkoot Markowee exactly, but the bus was loaded and on a downslope loke that it would be difficult.
Jazzy jas True but anything is better than nothing.
The break lines might leaked and rusted away or the gear might failed or the break might be empty because breaks lines are made of metal and if moister from rains gets wet it can start deteriorate and rust away causing drivers to lose their breaks
When they leave bus 1 is a Chevy with a Bluebird body And Ernie's bus number 2 is an International with a Carpenter body but when Erine's bus loses its brakes its now a International with a Ward body and bus number 1 that was the Chevy Blue Bird becomes the International with a Carpenter body .
What a mess! Did they find out why the runaway bus' brakes were faulty?
Where are those buses at now
This is Brakeless Bus from ep. 411
brakeless insult to crash injuries
um, what?
I'm wondering why this was on Rescue 911 when 911 wasn't even called.
Given that the bus had a manual transmission, it should have been possible by repeatedly dipping the clutch to control the speed and to work it eventually into 1st gear.
I drive a school bus albeit with an automatic transmission and on steep slopes I always select L and let it go down on the gears rather than the brakes.
What happened to the volume ?????!!!!!
Don't know but mine is terrible 😡
Mr. Breakfast is Wanted for getting everyone's cars Breakless!
i had intial d music playing in my head
Bobby Smoke6.0 EUROBEAT INTENSIFIES
The ultimate emergency brake is God
609: looks like there are racing
pfft. I call that a "challenge"
I dead thought there were kids on that bus lol XD
Daniela Mukongo learn how to be polite & write.
Brakes losing pressure should have applied themselves and stopped it.