Van Hool | The History
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- Van Hool's are one of the 3 largest and most popular coach brands in the US as well as all over the world. Van Hool's history is a rich one starting from its founder, Bernard Van Hool.
In this video, we take a close look at how the company formed and get to know Bernard and how he came to start building buses.
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Van Hool is our pride. When I was travelling in Egypt with 2 friends in a rental worn
out car from AVIS, we came across a beautiful new coach made at Van Hool, as a villager
of Koningshooikt I felt proud and it touched me
The moment you have nothing to do with motorcoaches whatsoever but watch these videos because how passionate this guy is and how well his storytelling is
Keep up the good work!
I didn’t know I wanted to know about buses until I found your channel. I get antsy waiting for a new video make more !!!!! 🤣🤣
I remember I was one of four drivers that were picked to go to VanHool and see how these buses are built. Which never happened. As the company I worked for at the time went bankrupt. I think I still have the silk VanHool tie....lol
James, your passion for history really comes shining through in these videos.
The whole Van Hool story reminds me that companies like Van Hool are more than just faceless corporate giants. There is a kernel of focused passion that gave birth to these companies.
When you talk about updated models, I wonder how much consultation there is with the major motorcoach carriers. Here in Seattle, the Boeing company gets a lot of feedback from major airlines before it rolls out a new model.
I would imagine that for any large vehicle, a large amount of design and specification comes from the input of the customers who will be placing orders for that thing, particularly if they were to place large orders. Someone like Greyhound could probably order whatever the hell they want because the manufacturer has agreed to a contract or a firm order for such a large amount of coaches, that they could make the costs work even with a custom design. Although I would defer to the true bus geeks here for this!
Huge flag carrier airlines like Emirates could have a very large amount of sway in the design process of an aircraft. Look at the 747. It was a side project at best, because Boeing was betting on the SST at the time, so that project basically lived or died by the say so of one man, Juan Trippe. When your customer is Pan Am, you will absolutely bend over backwards to give them what they want, because you can all but guarantee an order large enough to pay for a big chunk of the development cost straight away just with that order. I guess it goes for anything. If your order is large enough, risk to the manufacturer is lower, because you have agreed to be buying what you said you would, so they would be happy to work more closely with what you want, as a large order takes away a lot of the risk with a flop project that doesn't even break even for the cost to develop it.
Especially for things like trains, a huge amount of specification will come from the railway where those trains are to be used. Of course, this is to hammer out things like dimensions, power requirements, often times purpose-built depots will need to be built if the railway is expanding the fleet instead of just replacing it, that sort of thing. At least for trains, the customer is highly integral to the design and specification of the end product. Even weight is a consideration, so where there might be an issue, they could modify and adapt an off-the-shelf traction package to be set up differently, to make the train conform to axle loading restrictions on some parts of the network, say, you have a limit of 14 tons per axle or something. You would need to discuss with the manufacturer to potentially modify the design to comply with this restriction so you could use the train in more areas.
Although, there are always standardized parts. The traction packages will often be more-or-less off the shelf, and where possible, designs may be used on different railways to a large extent, although usually with modifications and customizations the customer requires.
You'd also have to discuss things like maintenance facilities, parts supply, and even warranty, because even trains costing millions a piece will have some form of warranty, so that any large failure or maybe design flaw, could be costs borne by the manufacturer, not the railway as part of that warranty.
I can't imagine aircraft and indeed buses being much different! A bus may be something that one could buy basically off the shelf, but I would think that if you were to be placing a large order for an entire fleet of them, then not only would you get discounts, but you could probably have more of a say in custom designing that bus for the company's needs.
I wonder if this could be a video topic in the future. Can you just show up to the dealer and buy a bus out of the box, or could you work with the manufacturer and hammer out custom details but also cheaper unit prices for large orders?
FYI, Van Hool is no longer being run by Bernard Van Hool's sons. Several of them have passed away, the rest are in their 80s or 90s. The current CEO (whose picture you show at 15:03) is Filip Van Hool, who is Bernard's grandson. The head of development is another one of Bernard's grandsons.
James, you are a gifted presenter with the ability to make a story of little interest to most very informative. I hope now that the pandemic is winding down you're able to produce more trip style content on your other channel
Yeah, and more trips to Jim's Original 😀
Thanks so much Gerry! Appreciate reading comments like these.
@@stevedavenport1202 lol 😆
DITTO Squared!! Well, actually, this content IS very interesting!! But he has such a great voice and the story development and writing is amazing! Truly some of the BEST content on TH-cam (bonus that the content is about 'buses'!) :-)
Great to know about Van Hool's history. In the 00s decade there was this articulated city bus (actually it appears in one of the images in this video). I saw it some times in my hometown (Barreiro, Portugal) and I even watched it once (Lisboa, Portugal). It had the engine mounted vertically on the left side after the front axle. It was very quick and very light. Now I don't know why they didn't keep producing those. They are also famous for those bi-articulated buses in Amsterdam, although I saw a video last year where the drivers were showing some tendency to prefer the O530 Citaro Capacity. That because this one is close to 20,50m in length and provides better maneuverability on tiny corners.
My first exposure to VanHool coaches was a school tour in the UK, in 1982. That had its engine under the floor someplace, and a huge rear luggage compartment. And manual transmission, that required our driver to lean far out of his seat to the left to get into first gear. It was my first time in Europe and the different buses left an impression.
Another great video, thanks James! I started off my coach driving career on the Vanhool C model so I pay almost an obsessive amount of attention to try to keep up with all of the generational changes. It is annoying as Vanhool is similar to Toyota or Honda where they must make minor discreet tweaks every few years. The following is what I've been able to gather/observe of the C model:
1st Gen (2000-2003ish)
-Framed windows
-Single flourescent tube down the middle ceiling
-Full height horizontal sliding driver's window
-Single center brake light
-Steam gauge driver cluster (no multiplex yet)
2nd Gen (2004-2006ish)
-Frameless windows
-Redesigned interior lights feathering the hockey pucks you described
-Dashboard went from steam gauges to multiplex screen
-Triple center brake lights
-Driver's window redesigned to the current design (sloped opening)
3rd Gen (2007-2010ish)
-Redesigned triangular headlights
-Redesigned rear end/taillights
-Side markers went from square to pill shaped
-Steering wheel went from pizza sized 2 spoke to smaller Peterbilt-common style 4 spoke
-Driver's area was redesigned to introduce more storage along the side console
4th Gen (2011-2012)
-Redesigned stepwell/aisle
-Updated steering wheel to current style
-Front bumper was facelifted
-Rubrails were facelifted/made taller
-Driver mirror moved from corner A pillar to center windshield
-I BELIEVE this is the generation where the lane departure system was introduced
5th Gen (2013-2015ish)
-What debuted as the CX45
-Redesigned exterior
-Interior lighting and parcel rack changes you've described
5.1th Gen (2016ish)
-Front cap redesigned to include the black insert
5.2th Gen (2017ish)
-All driver control switches updated from the flat rocker style to the TX-45 style switches.
6th Gen (2018)
-Front face lift with new LED headlight assembly
-Rear face lift
-Interior ceiling lighting redesigned to be more 737MAX-ish
-Fuel tank shifted forward I believe?
-Fuel tank now has filler on both sides of the coach.
-Slight change to hazard light switch design/placement
7th Gen (2020?)
-Major overhaul of passenger entryway
-Major redesign of driver's cockpit and controls
-Introduction of high definition all glass dashboard, similar to current J4500
-Redesign of lavatory.
Well I'm exhausted and I'd be impressed if TH-cam allows me to post this comment as long as it is. Hope that's helpful! The C model has a special place in my heart as it's where I learned much of my coach experience in. However, when I have a choice between a C and an MCI or Prevost, I stay far away from the C when able. :D
Woah this is great Stuff! I wish I got to interview you before making this video. Thanks for the comment and great info
Nothing like a Van Hool!
I’d love to see an informational video about that double decker variant sometime
Aloha James, at 11:30, that C2045 and 3 others like it went to Jack's Tours, Hilo, Hawai'i. Unit #'s were 901 to 904, powered by the 11.1L Detroit S60.
Jack's Tours has since went out of business a few years back.
Thank you for posting up that image and from experience, the C2045 is my fave Van Hool coach to this day.
Aloha from Nanakuli, O'ahu, Hawai'i
That was a really great history on a line of buses I knew very little about. Keep up the great work! We appreciate you!
Thank you Scott! Appreciate the comment!
I always had a soft spot for VanHool´s. I learned to drive in the early 90´s in a Van Hool Alizée on a Volvo B10M chassi. In some ways I think the Alizée was the best bus design ever. They somehow still looks modern, to me at least. And thank´s for the metric translations. The imperial system makes my Swedish brain hurt a bit. :)
"Bernard was very fond of the concept of working as a team..." With ten kids, he was very fond of something else too.
Great content, great channel.
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As my grandmother would say about a large family, "I guess they still haven't figured out what's causing them."
I looked on their website and they also list a CX45E battery electric version. Would be great to do an episode on all the EV models from the various manufacturers, and how they compare with range, charging speed and price.
I like how I never new i was interested in motor coaches until I discovered your channel, thanks for the entertaining informative videos.
Van Hool always meant quality in my book.
Absolutely love your channel and all your videos, James!
A content suggestion if I may: If possible, I'd love to see you do a video on the history of another iconic coach manufacturer that is sadly now gone, but never forgotten; Silver Eagle.
Keep up the good work, and stay safe out there!
Hey James. Thanks man. Yes that's on my list 😃. Ive actually started to research the eagle in more detail
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Sweeeeeeeet! Looking forward to it! 😊
My company has a few 2018 CX45’s with the DD13 and Allison. Definitely the nicest coaches I’ve driven.
The lane keeping assist program is… a tad interesting for drivers not expecting a seat massage!
I remember working on the T2145 and the C2045 series busses and the double decker mega buses I went to Orlando ABC location in 2008 for a week
You should have mentioned the double decker Van Hook buses used by Megabus.
And google
Yeah sorry. I wanted to keep it around 15 min. So I had to cut a lot out. But I stayed focused on the history. Which was the goal for this video. Thanks for the comment.
LOVE VAN HOOLS
ABC is a pretty good company and helpful. It didnt work out in the end, but they spent a few days tracking down fittings that would fit on my bus.
James, Thanks, great video.
Amazing Video Sir. Keep them coming!
Will do
Great job James. We have 12 t45s
When I was driving I was always try to get a Van Hool. To me they handle better than MCI in town.
Your channel is awesome.
Hey thanks
In 2016 I delivered a new CX45 from Orlando to Seattle for my employer. It was a great trip. The coach was our 1st to use DEF and the 1st tank of fuel went from Orlando to Omaha, NE running at the speed limit of each state. And moutain climbing performance was back to the days before emission requirements. On the 2nd tank of fuel, I discovered the fuel gauge was very optimistic: the gauge showed 1/4 while there was only 10 gal of fuel remaining. Had I not stopped for a leg stretch and fuel, the tank would have run dry before reaching Seattle. As you know, a fuel starved diesel must be primed to restart and probably towed to safety for that process costing big $$$. I also learned the drive train was slow to engage from a hillside stop. The coach drifted back a VERY LONG DOSTANCE before moving forward. Popping the E brake kicks the trans into N, so it was not a solution. Seattle is a very hilly region, so drivers have learned to use left foot braking on hills while reving up the engine to prevent rolling back on the vehicle crowding the rear bumper. The switch for engine brake is in an ackward location on the lower right panel (we use engine brake a lot in the mountains). To use the switch, drivers have to take eyes off to the road and look thru the steering wheel spokes. Above the driver's seat is a control panel for fire suppression. It is oriented backwards to a driver looking up. ABC wouldn't address any of these issues (safety hazards).
Over the subsequent years, the drive train has held up. But the interior and exterior have been disappointing. There seems to be a quality control problem leading to components failing or falling apart. My biggest issue is the limited overhead stowage. Nothing beats the J4500 for stowage.
Eagerly waiting this!
Great you have a Facebook page. I can post some pics of what I drive and have driven.
Love your vids mate. Learn a bunch of new things and a welcome break from exam revision. Cheers
I do feel bad because my latest videos have been a big departure from my normal content. Im still going to be around, but I think I might take a break...I found out why my channel has been hit hard lately. Copyright BS....old videos being hit last week, and HARD. So yeah....not sure what my plan is. Might sell the house and take the bus on the road and live in it....
Sorry to hear. The DAK saga is interesting. I like your quirky sense of humor.
Awesome bus
Very awesome i look forward to seeing more.
Always been a Van Hool fan!
Wow. Terrific presentation on a brand I knew basically nothing about. Thanks!
Great video
Another fantastic informative video. I never realised how much innovation went into busses and coaches. I’m more of a plane nut but you have made the topic approachable for me and I look forward to your latest release each time now.
Keep up the good work, you are doing a great job.
BTW, love the Star Trek clips 😀
Haha thanks so much. I actually used to fly commercially. What's your favorite airplane?
@@MotorcoachWorld no way! I've got a soft spot for the A400M but I love Cubs too.
useful info
While in Ireland I could help but notice the huge presence of Van Hools, more than any other manufacturer and quite a wide variety of models.
As a Belgian it was pretty interesting to hear how you would pronounce 'Koningshooikt'. Well done!
That's a big complement. Thank you. I practiced saying that for days before making this video. Lol. Thank you for noticing.
My new assigned coach is a 2014 VanHool, I don't remember what model it is though. It's a nice bus, love driving it.
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Very nice video it was interesting to learn about Van Hool's History! and I did like Motorcoach World's Facebook Page! Have you done any other history videos like the history of Prevost or MCI now that would be an very interesting watch indeed! You will get hooked on these videos before you know it i certainly have!
There is a shorter version of CX-45 the CX-35 which competes with MCI D4005 D4020 D4000CT Prevost H3-41. In the northeastern United States only Academy Bus Lines has them
We actually had a 1995 T835 at my last company. It was very weird given that I hadn’t been on anything older than 2001.
Their semi trailers are excellent too, if a bit heavy.
Vanhool also build transit bus for Viva (Yrt) but getting retired with Novas
Are sure that the Post WWII bus that you featured wasn't named the "Bird of Prey"? 😊👍
Lolol they should have been!!
Just wondering what the Ford vans are @1:04. Also, you could do a video describing the support vehicles used by charter companies. Thanks, love your vids!
Why do I keep thinking about Eddie Van Halen every time a Van Hool comes into my life in any way
EDIT: a Eddie Van Hool lol
Thank you for taking the time to research and present the design lineage of these motorcoaches! Each of your videos gives a boost to the passion of the coach drivers in our industry. I'm assuming Van Hool changed to larger suspension air bags to provide smoother rides on rougher North American roads. Given two coaches of the same class size, (an MCI J4500 and Van Hool, both 45 foot coaches) what factors determine the right coach for a particular trip?
Ok, I'll step out on the ice: seating capacity?
Very interesting history of the company.
While vanHool travel coaches mostly seem to be preferred by Belgian and Dutch operators in Europe, I know the company for their trolleybuses. Salzburg received 29 of them (AG300T, single-articulated) from 2000 to 2005 but later turned to Solaris and Hess for further deliveries. Linz received 20 Exqui.city 24T from 2017 to 2019, those are Austria's longest buses at 24.7 m with two articulation joints (the law had to be changed so that they could be ordered; Salzburg now also has the option of taking delivery of such long buses). The Exqui.city has a full width cab and streamlined front, with the first door behind the front axle. While this means the loss of a little passenger space it also means the driver can work undisturbed by passengers.
Double-articulated buses were tried in other cities as well but in Hamburg they were unsuccessful (diesel version). It's a bit difficult to steer such a long articulated vehicle through dense city traffic, and I don't know whether they could even go backwards.
Nice video enjoyed it a lot. Interesting to see the differences between US coaches and AU. Here in Australia our coaches / buses are mostly European chassis Mercedes, Scania Volvo etc with some variants of Cummins. Detroit is not prevalent and definitely not Cat anymore.
i love Van Hool they come from Beligum
5:37 Hey my town is on that bus! (Kontich)
Great content and thanks for sharing! VanHool is one of my favorite brand. I like the European coaches better.
Wow nice video ! Being Belgian I don't know their US coaches but know too well their European city buses since, as their home country, bus companies here were their "testing grounds" and up until around the mid 2000's the vast majority of buses and coaches in the country were made by them. Since then, and the obligation from the European Union to hold public tenders instead of doing straight orders to avoid monopolies, Mercedes-Benz became the most widespread manufacturer. Not only that but their choice to focus on hydrogen-powered city buses and bus rapid transit buses, and that their design of city buses hasn't been updated since 2002 (apart from a few visual details) where other manufacturers introduced one or even two more generations of buses since then, basically made new orders to them from cities unexistant. But on the other hand their coaches still sell pretty well ! I've visited their factory back in 2018 as they made an open day back then and it was very cool. Also just to mention, Van Hool is pronounced like "Van Hole" as it's a Dutch name ;)
Hey thanks for leaving this comment. I really enjoyed reading this! I would love to visit Belgium some day! Thanks for teaching me the actual way its pronounced. Here in the US everyone calls it a Van Hool but I will start calling it the proper way. Van Hole. Much appreciated!
I was always told that the V in Van should be pronounced as an F in German and Dutch names (so it would be "Fan Hole"), but apparently not..?
@@lrander In Dutch from the Netherlands yes, but Dutch from Belgium (or Flemish) has a lot of influences from French as Belgium is a bilingual French and Dutch country (there is also a small German speaking community), so most letters are pronounced like in French so the V is a V ;)
@@MotorcoachWorld No problem ! Van Hool buses were always very innovative and flexible. The ongoing health issue was a hard hit for them as they faced financial issues due to what's happening in the world as well as some family disputes, luckily for them after some financial help from the Flemish region government, business has come back as our transit company here in Brussels are sending back their 2012 NewA330 city buses so they get a new engine (they're switching motors due to Brussels anti-pollution measures getting more strict, they're taking off the Euro 5 MAN engine and are getting a new Euro 6 Cummins engine), and they're making hydrogen buses for a German transit company as well as for a transit company from the suburbs of Paris, France. And rumors are going that they will unveil a new family of city buses after sticking to the same design for the last 20 years (and their main competitor, VDL, a half Belgian half Dutch bus manufacturer, has unveiled their new range of city buses recently so Van Hool has to respond) so hopefuilly everything's good !
@@MotorcoachWorld Oh I almost forgot: Van Hool is one of the very few bus manufacturers to offer extra long 24 m (or 80 ft) long bi-articulated buses, with one front part and two trailers ! The only manufacturers to offer these are Van Hool, Swiss company Hess, Polish company Solaris (they only started in 2019), Swedish company Volvo, Chinese company BYD and Brazilian company Marcopolo
You can add a new chapter: VanHool was declared bankrupt yesterday in its country of origin (Belgium). The location where the buses are made is taken over by VDL Group, the one where the trailers are made by Schmitz Cargobull. Thanks to the eternal bickering over a legacy between the Van Hool's. 1600 to 1800 of the 2500 employees lose their jobs.
Thanks James. Great history lesson. I’m not as familiar with them as the other major manufacturers. Are they being manufactured in the US yet? I know they were going to build a plant in Tennessee . Cheers. Rick
You know.. I don't know. As far as I know they haven't started building them here yet
Another nice white coach with a good name as well good inside looks big too
I like.. transit commissions around Toronto have Van Hool's within the fleet albeit just city transit buses.
Great video. There's also a shorter version of the Vanhool C series call the CX35 .
Yeah sorry. I wanted to keep it around 15 min. So I had to cut a lot out. But I stayed focused on the history. Which was the goal for this video. Thanks for the comment. I wanted to add the 35 footer as well as the double decker.
I enjoy your videos. Have you done anything on Silver Eagles. I can't find it if so. I love those buses. Can you cover something on Silver Eagles, thanks.
Hey thanks John. Not yet. Its on my to do list
Can you talk about the types of charters in your next video
we got some ag300 in the city i live, but sadly are retiring
Can you do a history video about Alexander Dennis buses they are an exelecnt double decker and coach brand
I thought this brand was Vanttool. Would have never known...
Great story about overcoming adversities with perseverance, teamwork, innovation and hard work. Not well understood by many today in the U.S. James, did your research disclose the source of the injury above his left eye? Thank you.
Who's? Bernards? No I wasn't aware of an injury to his left eye.
Enlighten me please
Heh, I've never heard of Van Hool, although I'm a rather mild bus geek. I think purely because we're so far away from, well, everyone else, that here in Australia, it actually can be cheaper to build buses here. I live less than half an hour from not one, but at least *four* major coach and truck builders - Denning, Volgren, Volvo, and Mack. The latter two being in the same suburb, down the road from where I live. So that's some trivia nobody wanted to know!
P.S. Even more trivia no one asked for? Sure! We also had a whole bunch of other local builders too. Leyland was huge here, Comeng (Commonwealth Engineering) was even bigger, and also made trains.
There were also companies like Athol Hedges, later Austral, which later was absorbed into Denning. Volgren too is a portmanteau of Volvo and something else. I guess the story here is that, at some point, parts of Volvo were split up/spun off, the bus manufacturing being merged with another company, leaving the truck manufacturing to what is now a separate entity. I believe Scania and MAN also have a presence of some sort here.
It's a shame that car manufacturing stopped here a few years ago with the closure of GM Holden, as we made a ton of cars here, too. On the bright side, heavy vehicle manufacturing is not going anywhere any time soon, probably because it actually is cheaper to make those things here rather than shipping them over on a boat. We also have a fairly solid design and engineering workforce locally, which also means that you will see a fair amount of indigenous designs, pretty well tailor made for conditions here. Often times it seems that they will build the coaches here, and buy the powertrains out of the box and just bolt them in.
Hope this was even slightly interesting to anyone!
Hey Moon Moon. Thank you so much for writhing this post. I love reading about how this industry works from other parts of the world. This was a great read! Much appreciated!
@@MotorcoachWorld Thanks, mate! I did have to go in and re-edit a significant portion of this post, due to losing a significant part of the original edit, so it may be worth giving it a quick re-read, haha. Sorry about that!
Also, I hardly know anything about buses in comparison to trains here, particularly in Queensland, where I'm from, so I could well be mistaking a good amount of the detail.
The trains here are what I know best, having grown up with them, and even having cab rides and being able to drive the regulator/throttle! Even as a kid at the time, you knew that this little handle was connected to no less than 16 motors, chucking down a little shy of 4,000 horsepower, each roughly the diameter of an oil drum, in something like 320 tons of metal, gliding effortlessly and smoothly on welded rail at a tad over 90mph.
Even as a kid, you knew that was a special thing that not many others ever had the chance to do!
Thanks for listening to my rants!
Rory
@@uzaiyaro haha no worries. Keep them coming. I learn more from posts like these then I do making my videos! That's one of the best rewards for me.
Much appreciated
@@uzaiyaro FYI, Van Hool has recently entered the Australia and New Zealand market, with the EX series. They're still very small there, but they are available. Example of an Australian Van Hool: th-cam.com/video/gnO9EsKkddY/w-d-xo.html
I hope VanHools won't have such boxy bodies in the future, although I do like the CX45 rear end design
In Europe the coaches are much better looking I find American coach/buses ugly.
I'm wondering if there's some regulations restricting the designs of coaches in America...
@@tgosuke Possibly
@@mikeyboy200606 I commented that in some other video of his. Busses in Europe are so much better looking compared to US busses and I want to know why.
Thanks for the history of VAN Hol. Would it be possible to do one for Prevost & MCI. Also who composed the music you have during you bus vids?
Hi MCI bus 2000. I have done one for Prevost and kind of one for MCI.
th-cam.com/video/J8UMC3Y1rcE/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/bs0rWlcLIQI/w-d-xo.html
Song is Memory Drive by ELFL
Thanks for the comment!
Good discription video just a question in usa do we have parts dealer for this kind of buses?
Yes we do. ABC is the parts distributor for Vanhool. Great question. Thanks for the comment
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10 kids reminds me of something my grandmother would say: I guess they still haven't figured out what's causing them.
Me too
I seen conveyed double deckers and van holler single Decker buses music bussed and motor home van hools
Please show coach conversions like marathons and other conversation
Surprised that you haven’t reviewed the Dennis Double Deck coaches built in Canada for the Metrolinx Transportion system in Ontario. Around 250 buses.
You mean the ones that you see broken down on the side of most 400 style highways
I wish you had mentioned the double Dekker ones used by megabus.
Yeah sorry. I wanted to keep it around 15 min. So I had to cut a lot out. But I stayed focused on the history. Which was the goal for this video. Thanks for the comment.
Missed the 2019 CX redesign front and updated rear bud
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James, can you do Prevost buses abs the history?
Hey Christpher. I think I did that already. Is this what you were looking for? th-cam.com/video/J8UMC3Y1rcE/w-d-xo.html
@@MotorcoachWorld yes
When is reddit coming
What would you say is your favorite bus out of the three big manufacturers
Oooo thats a tough one.... I like aspects of all of them. I think i would prefer to drive a D4505 over anything else. Those things are reliable and simple.
You forgot about the TX series
The only Vanhools you’re going to see on the East Coast are units owned by Academy.
You forgot the TD-925 Double Decker
Wait. How long is the T40 model in meters. I know the dimensions are 40’ or 12.2m but I don’t know the conversation for the model.
I wonder how common Plaxton is in the US
Hi Tom. What's plaxton
you should also do a discord
I always thought it was Vant Tool >.>
Lol me too at first
@@MotorcoachWorld Glad I'm not alone!
@@MotorcoachWorld The H in Van Hool logo is shaped like the C207 road sign, which, at least in Europe, means you're on a highway. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panneau_de_signalisation_d%27une_section_de_route_%C3%A0_statut_autoroutier_en_France
They seem to strip most of comfort and luxury items from a coach when they're shipped to the US
You mentioned the CX45 but failed to mention the TX45, which debuted at the same time.
Yeah sorry. I wanted to keep it around 15 min. So I had to cut a lot out. But I stayed focused on the history. Which was the goal for this video. Thanks for the comment. 😊
@@MotorcoachWorld gotcha. Even though the CX45 looks great, you know i rock with Prevost all day!
So are motor coaches required to have crash testing?
You know what is interesting, European coaches and trucks sold in US are really cheaper versions of theare European counterparts.I was bus and truck driver in Europe and US and when I sat in US versions it looked like I was 20 years back in to past.I don't know maybe because of different look on driver jobs in the US ,companies that buying these vehicles can companies can afford to buy cheaper product.What I mean by that is once when you drive European Setra ,Volvo or Neoplan seating and driving MCI or any north American commercial is almost joke.Driver comfort in EU vehicles few noches up.It is even more pronounced in trucks.I'm sorry if I offended my American collegs but it is a truth.Again probably because being bus or truck driver is looked more prestige job than in the US so companies have to please if you will drivers to keep them.Cheers
Thanks for the comment. I completely agree with you. Thanks for thr feedback and perspective. I do agree with you that European commercial vehicles tend to get watered down when they get exported here.
I hated the Van Hools’s. I think the dealer in L.A. was part of the problem. If I had the choice at my old job I would always walk past the Van Hools. I was stood the only reason the company bought them was the fuel mileage