Recent content by cbear

Kip, thank you for sharing your experience and your report. It was very enlightening.

Cut away buses are popular car haulers for local /regional race cars around here.

Fine, I guess I won't use a bus for expediting.

Thank you for the replies. The main reason would be initial start up costs. A used straight truck VS a bus, for the same money, buses can be had with 1/4 the miles. There are buses available that will run 70, maybe 75. I would think if I added a rear door, pallet can be moved with a pallet jack...

OK, same could be said for a van. If a bulkhead was installed, strip out the seats and put a roller door on the back, there's not much difference. The chassis and drive line is the same as many straight trucks in some instances. My bigger concern is would it keep me from getting loads because...

I did, most of it seemed unrelated. There was an instance decades ago relating to a under performing carrier using buses, an tainting the concept. So have buses been totally blacklisted by the industry?

I've been seriously thinking about the school bus approach. I'm a total newbie, and have never driven commercial. This is my first post by the way. I seriously think I could make one DOT / FMVSS compliant, with little initial outlay. I was thinking of 40', under 26001, no CDL. I have no issues...