Hardest service life?

[scdan4]

Walking home past the bus station tonight (having had a few) I thought it was nice to see all the buses all tucked up in bed and having a rest for the night.

This lead to me wondering whether buses or trucks had the hardest, most unremitting daily grind. Trucks do mega miles and the wheels never stop turning, which racks up big miles with associated wear and tear (everything has to wear out sometime) but buses, although doing relatively few miles over half the day do them over stty city roads and are always starting or stopping, their mode of use seems to be always accelerating or braking, never cruising, and how many times must their doors open and shut in the course or the working life of a bus?

But surely most wagons aren't always running and aren't non-stop cruising on the motorway, some stuff must get seriously abuse daily.

So i've no idea really. Anyone care to enlighten me with tales of bus or truck automotive hardness?

[James_N]

I'd say busses. Especially the way they get driven round here! How they last 5 mins is beyond me! Sure the drivers think they are on a rally special stage. Think when Richard Hammond and the touring car drivers had a race round an oval with a selection of buses and your not far off

[Nickyboy]

I'd go with my truck, a bus runs constantly for the majority of its day, a truck will run constantly also for the majority of its day.

My truck drives in traffic all day, the engine is switched off and restarted on average 150 times in 10 hours, it goes down farm tracks, over speed humps all day, parks on kerbs and bangs through dozens of potholes every day

[Jimbo.]

Trucks, easily. Buses aren't banged against bays or under trailers, and aren't loaded to anything like the weight of a truck (which will be, day in, day out). Also, it's rare for busses to be switched off, whereas a truck will be off at every drop.

[rumple]

My current unit has 730k on it and its an 09 reg.

[wavydave13]

rumple said:

My current unit has 730k on it and its an 09 reg.

fookin' hell

[philmots]

wavydave13 said:

rumple said:

My current unit has 730k on it and its an 09 reg.

fookin' hell

IF you're not a trucker, that'll be KMS

Still a lot.. Our 60 plates are getting onto 550k.

[s p a c e m a n]

I still giggle at getting phone calls from head office for not inputting the correct mileage when filling up with diesel. No love I am putting the correct mileage in, its just that it has gone around the clock

One million kilometers

[rumple]

philmots said:

wavydave13 said:

rumple said:

My current unit has 730k on it and its an 09 reg.

fookin' hell

IF you're not a trucker, that'll be KMS

Still a lot.. Our 60 plates are getting onto 550k.

They are run day and night, Daf CF's.
I always thought some off the bigger buses used base artic mechanicals, I.E a Volvo b10 is a Volvo FM10 .

[handpaper]

s p a c e m a n said:

I still giggle at getting phone calls from head office for not inputting the correct mileage when filling up with diesel. No love I am putting the correct mileage in, its just that it has gone around the clock

One million kilometers

My first truck in 2009, 02 plate DAF95 had 120,000 odd showing.
Had been 'round twice