Let's Drive POV: Beautiful Sunrise with a 2009 IC CE300 (22 May 2024 - No commentary)

[@BusDriver71]

I just finished watching another video and thought about commenting for a CE video.... Refreshed the page and lucked out!

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

All our CE's are spare buses now so driving them is a bit rare lol but I try to record them when I can. At the moment I am mostly uploading stuff I filmed last school year

[@pit_viper9164]

@@LMDProductionsOfficial ur my favorite

[@usaelliot77]

I remember last school year, spare bus 09-36 was a route bus, now it’s now a spare after the driver got 14-100

[@FBHSswimmer2006]

Definitely a nice sunrise that morning. I’m surprised to see your buses don’t have white roofs like ours in FL.

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@FBHSswimmer2006 the only two that do are a pair of 2007 twins that we bought from another county used

[@malikkyle4115]

Do you have 2015 or 1010 bus

[@isaiahanderson7237]

Seems like the transmission shifts really weird like it’s going out or something. It doesn’t have firm shifts. It shifts like the slushy AT545. It sounds nice though.

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@isaiahanderson7237 oddly enough this bus just went in for “transmission problems” just last week. It’s had a warning light on forever but it ran… so up till then we had chalked it up to “a problem for future us” 😂

[@isaiahanderson7237]

@ oh sounds like it went out because it shouldn’t be shifting like that. It seemed the torque converter would never lock up.

[@isaiahanderson7237]

@@LMDProductionsOfficialweird. Hope it gets fixed. That’s not normal at all for a newer Allison to be slushy like that.

[@Aymvnz]

why does it make that fan-ish sound at 3:59? i need to know because i always hear it with trucks and buses

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@Aymvnz that is the sound of the radiator fans spooling up. They kick into gear when the engine temperature starts rising to help cool it back down and then they back off once the temperature is down far enough. That’s why you only hear them occasionally.

[@Aymvnz]

@@LMDProductionsOfficial oh wow! Thanks for Telling me. I love that sound

[@isaiahanderson7237]

@@Aymvnzon this bus it was running because it was cold. The fluid inside the clutch when it is cold will cause it to stick on momentarily until it warms up. Once it gets hot it’ll turn back on

[@dustin5925]

my daughter rides a 2010 International CE and this one is in so much better shape than the one she rides daily (she rides one of two of the 2010's left on a daily route). The salt has really rusted her bus out. Hopefully one of the buses on order will be replacing her bus later this year when one of the new ones come in.

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@dustin5925 yikes… glad I live in the south where we don’t typically have road salt (I’m assuming from snow?)

[@isaiahanderson7237]

@@LMDProductionsOfficialthey choose to use ice melt due to bad ice on the roads. My state gets snow yet very little to no ice melt is used. It’s mostly gravel or sand for traction and roads are plowed often.

[@LoganFireAlarmMomoning-j4j]

My school district just got brand new 2024 school buses from IC

[@IceTheFanDude2379]

Do you guys have any 2010 or 2011 buses?

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@IceTheFanDude2379 2011 no, 2010 I think is like one or maybe two CE sped buses that I’ve never driven

[@ChrisSaf-T-LinerC21719]

I'm not gonna lie the MaxxForce DT does sound really good when it reaches high rpm during take off. But I know it's an upgraded version of the DT466E. When it comes to maintenance it is crap. But one thing I noticed about a CE is how low it is compared to the C2. From a point view, your camera being on top of your hat, it looks like it touches the ceiling of the bus. I kinda don't like that on a bus. I like the head room being high on a bus. Especially if you're doing videos like this. I noticed that when you drive a C2 recording it so well balanced like you don't touch the ceiling. That's another reason why I like C2's. I do like CE's however. Just the lower you are touching the ceiling is just a N-O.

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@ChrisSaf-T-LinerC21719 yeah the C2 has always seemed “taller” to me. The 1st Gen CE and the bluebirds feel so crunched inside I hate it

[@saturnworld1840]

Is it the maxxforce engine?

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@saturnworld1840 yep

[@chrise8555]

How long have you been a school bus driver?

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@chrise8555 finished training in October 2023 did my first driving November

[@chrise8555]

@@LMDProductionsOfficial how are you liking being a school bus driver. i remember in one of your video's you mentioned you where in your 20's. is that correct?

[@Pokeballer-j8q]

99 wanted to break on the last day huh?

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@Pokeballer-j8q she was finally exhausted

[@Pokeballer-j8q]

@ is 99 fixed?

[@CRISPYDAKING]

Is that a sub bus

[@LMDProductionsOfficial]

@@CRISPYDAKING this one yes

[@CRISPYDAKING]

@@LMDProductionsOfficial that explains why it was so lound

[@MaxxforceDT]

Maxxforce DT's are the best!

[@isaiahanderson7237]

Definitely. Cummins is easier on the ears tho. I prefer older engines like the maxxforce due to having so much unrefined loud diesel engine noise.

[@MaxxforceDT]

@ Yea, having rode a Cummins for a year and a half then switching to a 2014 DT, I can say the newer DTs sound good but Cummins is quieter

[@isaiahanderson7237]

@@MaxxforceDT what do you prefer tho?

[@MaxxforceDT]

@ Most of the time the DT because of its sound

[@isaiahanderson7237]

@@MaxxforceDT I do too. I wish CE’s still had them as an option especially if they made them more reliable and toned down the noise. Basically it could sound like a 2009 DT but quieter.

[@matejšabec-y5d]

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