Tour Bus almost cut in two

msmith1199 wrote:

SoCalDesertRider wrote:

RayChez wrote:

henleyd wrote:
There is absolutely no enforcement on ANYTHING on our borders. There have been several bad wrecks and deaths of people in busses from south of our once former border. We have to jump through hoops to keep our stuff safe while we too are at risk from unsafe busses from those areas. I used to drive the 99 all the time. It's awfull.

The bus was registered to Autobuses USA Inc, out of Southern California. They did drive into Mexico to pick up a load to take to Washington. The bus involved in the crash Tuesday was last inspected April 28,2015. The bus had no or defective brake warning light.
To me the bus looks fairly new. I think the bus driver fell asleep.

So the bus missed it's April 28, 2016 inspection.

I have to have my commercial truck inspected anually, and all I do is haul welding equipment, not people.

How do these busses get away without showing proof of annual safety inspection with DOT?

News said it was a 1998 model. So it's 18 years old. I would bet this bus traveled up and down California on a daily basis so easily had more than a million miles on it, probably way more than that. Not that that necessarily means anything, but in 18 years you know it was well used. Those buses don't just sit in a yard, they are on the road all the time.

Yes I read the link where it says it was a 1998 bus that weighed 16000 lbs when empty. A lot of wrong information there, you and know that those 45' buses weigh more then 16000 lbs. Those buses probably weigh over 40,000 lbs. So you can not believe half of what you read.

Rooster is correct that the bus was carrying farm workers from Mexico. California and Washington could not farm without those hard working people. You find very few from this country that will do that hard labor.