Bus up the hill

Number 54 bus Claycross to Chesterfield going up a snowy hill and slipping

[@kevr1983]

Well done that bus driver! Very impressive driving skills.

[@janatana1127]

DUDE ITS WAS SNOWING SO IT WAS HARDER

[@MichaelJEdwards]

Excellent driving! you have to say the bus driver did spot on!

[@Metallion69]

Gotta love that bus driver!!! He never gave up and he made it. Give him a raise!!!!

[@cumnockmerc-2563]

Brilliant driving he did great to get it up

[@musicmad1982]

fair play to the bus driver for persistance and getting that enviro 300 bus up the hill in those conditions most bus drivers would give up in that i think he has my respect

[@nethalus]

Remember my first time driving a bus in snow. The bloody thing decided to go sideways into a bus stop layby where about 30 school and college students were waiting. It was a real heart stopping moment I can tell you.

[@etshArk87]

Bus Driver is very skilled. Not bad at all!!!

[@mspenrice]

Lack of gritting plus rear wheel drive, great combination :D Balls of steel from the driver...

[@Nooziterp1]

Rear wheel drive yes, but with the engine over the driving wheels or near enough. Plus a big heavy vehicle with the weight in the chassis. I would have expected it to do better. I used to have one of the old Skodas with the engine at the back, and I remember every winter I had it I outperformed all the front wheel drive modern cars.

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

ALL HEAVY VEHICLES ARE REAR WHEEL DRIVE.

[@sillysid123]

the bus driver needs a medal that was brilliant a+

[@S1M8N5ays]

My hat goes off for him :) he did a great job !

[@jimtoiley9595]

Take it from somebody who has driven a bus in the Snow...That was Damn good driving

[@peterbuckley265]

I was lucky back in 2009 or 2010 when working one of my many weekend shifts helping the public at Walthamstow Central during one of the then regular Victoria Line upgrade closures, when I was working in a heavy snowstorm and before I had finished the Bus Station and roads had several iInches of snow, so I was very lucky that a no 48 bus < the 48 was at the 1981 T Leyton Garage of 1913, then London Transport, now Stagecoach London from 7 Sept 1968, continuously for almost 48 1/2 years until Frid 24 Feb 2017, an exceptional longevity record of a London bus route at the same garage without moving garages, before going from Stagecoach to Arriva at the 1981 AG Ash Grove Garage the next day > driver battled it out as far as Clapton to get me home, abandoned getting to London Bridge and decided i that it would be safer to turn back and just go back as far as Leyton Bakers Arms for the Garage. Most buses headed back to their home depots that late evening. Peter, now temp in a wheelchair having lost my left foot ad leg up to my knee in a very rare through the knee operation, mid March 2016, due to Polio and Rheumatic Fever at age 8.

[@tomdude75]

peter buckley which with the life story lol

[@brianayres6018]

yes did it myself that was terrific driving

[@zainasghar9899]

the driver is a legend

[@swisstrucker]

well done ;-) He knows how to play with the gaspedal not tu much and not to less.

[@sturmtiger305mm]

Props to the driver for making that hill.

[@mako7989]

That hill is a proper nightmare in snow, was coming down it last year and nearly went through the bridge at the bottom lol. Shat me sen!

[@botchcasually]

What a star that man is

[@1100HondaCB]

MAN Enviro 300. I love the whine of the Voith gearbox.

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

Sounds like a cat screaming in pain & distress.

[@bebajoro77]

10 out of 10 for that. I wouldn't have been drivng there, but since he was he did a damn good job.

[@bussesandmore1263]

Great driving

[@tmatt95]

That was a great bit of driving

[@annsherry-xz1nt]

My wonderful step dad Michael Brennan was driving that bus ❤️

[@theothertrainee]

skillful driving there!!!

[@joshwheatstonemusic]

Give that guy a gold star

[@MagicMaoam]

Thats bus is legend!

[@S1M8N5ays]

That's that then... good work we didn't know if you would make it but you nailed it lol was going to push with my girlfriend and other by-standers but didn't think it would help :)

[@novaerense]

LIKE A BUS!!!

[@DJRoyMalloy]

HAIL TO THE BUSDRIVER!!!

[@BoilerRoom4]

My understanding is that on ice (it doesn't work on mud), the wheel-spin helps. The friction warms the tyres and they then melt through the ice and grip the road. Naturally, ice doesn't provide much friction-hence the battle for heat and grip.

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

But it damages the tyres & transmission through erosion & overreving much kinder & better to used snow chains like the used to in days gone by.bring back snow chains as they prevent tyre & transmission damage.

[@jt-bg6ey]

Very good driver

[@KiloDelta173]

Would help if he wasnt empty. If he had some weight in there, it may have a help a whole lot.

[@Phil-oj5nr]

Luckily we don’t get snow in Picton, NZ!

[@193gforce]

Good work

[@SPTSuperSprinter156]

What a driver!

[@1100HondaCB]

It's an MAN Enviro 300. I drove them in Liverpool. They have a more distinctive whine to the Alexander Dennis Enviro 300s. Not too sure if both have same engines and gearboxes. I drove a Dennis Trident double decker in ice and that was an experience!

[@leylandlynxvlog]

The Alexander Dennis use Cummins ISB engines, the MAN uses MAN D08 or D28 something engine (MAN engine of some kind anyway). Trident is Cummins C series or ISC.

[@Dsty1985]

TOP bus Driver

[@AllianceB95]

That's a great busdriver.

[@liamhoughton]

impressive!

[@kaibaldwin1759]

We've had lots of snow today (March 2nd 2018) and the buses had similar problems on the hill down my road.. A double decker got stuck on the hill and ended up reversing down and u-turning before coming back the way it had come, then about 20 mins later a bus came down my road, stopped at the bus stop just before the hill before going out of service and going down a back road... That was the last bus I saw for the rest of the day (this was around 5:30pm) and on Fridays they usually go until 11:30pm

[@AndyCreepy27]

Great driving, Stagecoach drivers in my local area should watch this as one look at an icy hill and they won't go near it!

[@wifwat]

Brilliant driver

[@B58PMCSA]

You can just hear the poor ZF wooing and whining away. Great video! ;-)

[@johnhall4917]

4 speed Voith.

[@Nooziterp1]

The bus company would probably complain about the fuel it was using!

[@finleytransportfan]

I think it’s a Voith Gearbox

[@jonny2k100]

the engine sounds nice on that bus

[@jonathan4171]

that one awesome bus driver

[@cyberknue1598]

That E300 is a fighter.. RWD + night time slip = this

[@foodman4444]

i am a uk stagecoach bus driver myself now been for 2 months and i must say that is very good driving up that hill. but try driving an optare up where i live with the mega steep hills were is cover in ice god its torcher but a coach would go up it like nothing dam light buses

[@staceymcgrath6971]

Needed to get some people on the back of it then voila we have traction. Great driving anyway regardless

[@AndyCreepy27]

@Cazkumali It's an Enviro 300. The 200 looks the same, but is shorter. The 400 and 500 are both double deckers

[@connorwatson7823]

Well done driver! 😃😂

now that's a driver..

[@psq43]

You mean the 55 plate Volvo's with computer controlled brakes? Must be seeing as they dont have any 56 plate vehicles, and the 55 plate volvos are known to be out of control even in the dry! What is wrong with a driver pressing the brake, and the regular air/hydraulic system? Why does a computer have to decide how much to give the driver? This was a fantasic bit of work by this guy, pinpoint judgement, and not over the top with the right boot!

[@raffiquk]

That is crazy!

[@bmwnasher]

This why we fail in this country, what about a bit of grit on that road, Thumbs up for the driver and thums down for the idiots who did not give him a push.

[@leekim19831975]

we got these in south wales god help us when the snow comes :)

[@daniePM]

good busdriver

[@KuntalGhosh]

These busses needs all wheel drive and locking differential.

[@AdamArif-p9w]

Good

[@MattJ83]

good bit of driving

[@karim7852]

like a bus !

[@MrDAZASTER]

whats that tool in the car doing? knowing the bus is across the road yet pulled within 15foot of a bus. knob

[@jumbodoug]

im a driver in edinburgh....i dno if id agree they are good in bad weather. rear wheel drive, engine BEHIND rear wheels. and of course it also depends where your fattest punters are sitting.. only weight on front end is the 20+++ stone driver. not exactly sports car design lol that driver was very lucky to get moving again. hope you sent that video to his bosses lol

[@tnaircollector4370]

Fair play

[@NFFCKido]

haha chesterfield every 10mins. you would of been waitin a while on that night for your local bus!

[@NowWeComeAlive]

What can i say? braver than A2B!!

[@PlastKladd]

We in sweden (Stockholm) haven't even got any "proper" winter snow yet :(

[@uuyittn]

well that was worth a chuckle or 2

[@PashaSiraja]

BUS BURNOUT FTW !! :D

[@MrBooojangles]

Quick everyone get behind it and push, LOL.

[@S1M8N5ays]

cool thanx for the info :)

[@danstransportvideos]

And thats why buses are best

[@S1M8N5ays]

ha ha I went out for a walk in the snow and could see the bus waiting at the bottom of the hill.....you would have watched :) it was ace lol

[@jt-bg6ey]

I'd give the driver double fair

[@S1M8N5ays]

There was 1 person on the bus at the front. Giving him support lol I think it would have rolled back down if it was full ha ha ha

[@f4mb]

Wow :D

[@cocko12]

well done rich london transport not got a clue lol

[@cgd27]

good skills by the bus driver but would have been made easier if the passengers had gone to the back over the drive wheels

[@Lymingeman]

im a bus and hgv driver myself but im not stupid enough tpo try drivin up an icy hill like that, stupidity, leave it an walk!

[@Lymingeman]

if i was still working for stagecoach i woulda left it there. stagecoach bosses are tossers they like puttin people at risk

[@SimpleCarGuy]

@ilovemoviesuk lol... i remember few years back when I was in high school, we had 3 feet of snow (pretty much overnight) and we still had school. This is in chicago, btw.

[@TeRrahiel]

@S1M8N5ays If this bus was equipped with automatic gear (and I strongly believe it was), there was no possiblity for the bus to roll back:)

[@TheKamikaze456]

Good bus-driver

[@mrJackstar9]

THIS IS WHY WE SHULDENT GRIP THE ROADS BECAUSE ITS FUN

[@crabag]

chesterfiled rules !!

[@MisterAki43]

he did a burnout! lol

[@SimpleCarGuy]

do you guys have no salt?

[@cnoshoes7049]

He does that every 25 minutes

[@bluesteamiestudios5395]

That Enviro 300 had a very noisy engine

[@dedogamer]

why is your finger on top of the cam ?

[@bagremhosva]

North Wingfield Church its a steep hill .My old home

[@Nooziterp1]

Is that the 'bent church' because of the twisted spire?

[@bobertkay]

envrios are the shittest bus in the snow. The rear end slides everywhere

[@gycuk1]

what a bit of driving shame u didnt offer to help him

[@systemvoid287]

The best help for drivers like this is to not distract them

[@PaperGraysterYT]

bob kirby, the best help is not to distract them.

[@BlueNovakiin]

omg! when you come to a snowy hill you gotta floor to go up it

[@liuhinson3871]

This bus is e200

[@robinsbusvideos]

It's a MAN e300. No longer has the MAN engine It's got the cummins one now. The only one in Yorkshire that's got one now

[@TESCOSGRESHAM]

the best bus route is the 362 king georges to grange hill, and safer

[@theothertrainee]

Is there anyone on the bus?? Imagine if it was full up!!! lol

[@superdialysis]

lets all go out n watch buses n cars get stuck in the snow, u people have to much time on your hands

[@old64er]

Thats what you call sideways!!!

[@S1M8N5ays]

LMFAO no didn't know who was driving couldn't see you through all the snow. Hope you packed your sandwiches! Video is also on facebook! And On Peak FM he he

[@thomasfluskey5922]

That enviro 300 is strong

[@mibars]

@theothertrainee It would climb up easier (if passenges would move to the back) ;) More weight on powered wheels = more traction! :D

[@Nooziterp1]

That would certainly have helped if the driver could have got the passengers to cooperate.

[@tib1135x]

Interesting,if that bus slides down,it will cause accident.