Coach Driving with James Ep.2 - Westbury to Steeple Ashton

[@bennycovelly960]

ZF is very smooth in these 👌

[@charliechaz1982]

Thanks for a great video. Soon to start my lessons and exam to become a driver. Really looking forward to starting a new career. Seems there are alot of good people in the industry.

[@TheYutongCaptain]

All the best @charliechaz1982 just finished my testing in Australia. Drivers are in high demand here across the public, private sector.

[@charliechaz1982]

@@TheYutongCaptain Thanks. Have my theory booked in towards the end of the month. Congrats on completing your tests. I have family in Perth Australia. Visited before. Lovely place

[@JackJones-n6l]

Hello great video I have just passed my theory test doing my bus test after Christmas. Can not wait to be a coach driver Happy new year Jacko

[@richardwalker_]

Nice little positioning trip with some varied obstacles. Interesting to hear what you’re thinking as you go along is similar to what I’m thinking! Good camera angle too (even if it decided to move).

[@TheYutongCaptain]

Hi James came across your series of videos (from Australia) and been watching them. Very informative, like the way you narrate your journey, just recently acquired my heavy vehicle license, interesting to watch your driving style and the routes you are on nice to have country-city makes it more pleasurable but some of those lanes are really narrow! Great skill. How long have you been driving coaches and what sort of camera do you use to record your trips. Cheers MrChris.

[@james143611]

Thank you very much! I passed just before the first lockdown in 2020 so didn't get much in before not driving again for months! Since then been doing it properly from 2021 so not many years. I use the GoPro Hero 9 Black

[@ahussain8108]

Hello sir. What sat nav do you use???? Cheers

[@james143611]

TomTom 6250 Pro

[@theeverythingchannel4833]

Why do the tourismos or any uk mercedes bus have the push button gears zf where as in europe they have the standard mercedes gearbox and shifter

[@james143611]

Oh! Never seen the European models, I assume they are ZF as well? I'd otherwise assume it's a ZF thing as our Bova is ZF with the same layout and ZF buses are the same push buttons

[@theeverythingchannel4833]

@@james143611 no in europe they have gearboxes from mercedes themselves not zf so actual mercedes gearboxes also mainly manual as well but also a fee are semi auto well auto and a manual setting too

[@paradoxicalcat7173]

@@theeverythingchannel4833 Mercedes don't build their own gearboxes? We prefer automatics. Most trucks, buses and coaches are now auto. Only older vehicles may be manual, but they are disappearing rapidly from common use.

[@neilyoung5116]

We have the same thing in Oz, the push button ZF.

[@ThePlymouthRoadSurfer]

It is an option here in the UK, my company has a power shift Tourismo and a ZF Ecolife Tourismo 😊

[@kevinanderson5658]

This what coach drivers industry needs Trucker Tim of coaches planning change of careers from security

[@bored742]

I herd security is good money surley better then coach driver

[@kevinanderson5658]

You work longer hours for same money as coach driver without overtime

[@ivanrobles820]

To be honest, j don't like zf automatic gearboxes , I'm a bus driver in London , and most of them are fitted with zf transmission, well far enough, for city buses are ok, but i think of you enjoy shifting gears , feeling the engine asking you for more gears and get the control on it, definitely manual transmision are entertaining, well its my personal opinion,.....

[@dukwdriver2909]

Why do you go to such lengths to documents your shortcomings as a professional driver? Is is the thought of adulation from wannabee coach drivers? Are you dumb enough to think a 25 yard swim males you a lifeguard Is it the hope of Advertising income here? Answer me 1 Question 9.35 in video When approaching a blind bend where the road appears to narrow. Who is more important? The coach with 50+ people in it or the articulated truck driver? you say "sometimes I am lucky" there is no truck. I warn you to be very careful with your answer. Retired advanced level Instructor on bikes, cars, bus/coach, trucks, trucks and trailers of all kinds, as well as maintaining all said vehicles (call me a grease monkey, till you breakdown) specialist "accident" investigator and expert court witness. Your employer entrusts you with 50+ lives. That is for their conscience and their Insureres. West Country trip...shame if the truck is carrying livestock from a market as bought and cleared from stalls. Heavy top, light lower deck. Milk tanker, only 1 baffle plate in a 33,000Ltr tank to stop a part load surging forwards and causing a jack-knife (do the physics yourself). Navy turbines need descaling acid to keep the ships running (it can dissolve solid concrete and steel as well as human bodies) Furl tanker, do the markers mean petrol or diesel when you are in panic after a collision? Please now answer me. Who has the priority? WHO SHOULD RELY ON LUCK RATHER THAN JUDGEMENT WHEN LIVES ARE INVOLVED?

[@richardwalker_]

It appeared to me that he was very well prepared to meet a lorry, but considered himself lucky that there wasn’t one today.

[@alangordon3283]

Proper perfectionist barrel of laughs atmosphere vacuum type aren’t you.