Since driving the bus, I get nervous every time I come across a height restriction barrier, like at car parks and stuff! Has anyone got a sticker in their bus saying the height? Or is me wanting one being paranoid?!
Measure it. Write it on the dashboard if it makes you feel better. I know mine is less than 2.10m because I've driven under a car park barrier of that height without a "thump" noise as I did it.
I used to have one liberated from a scrapped lorry in mine when I first bought it. It was a red plastic box thing with windy knobs for feet & inches and numbers on great lengths of paper tape. I stuck it above the mirror. Then I threw it away because: a, I found that I could quite easily remember 6'2''. b, It looked crap.
I have glued and screwed a long pole onto the roof of my van. The pole sticks out 30 feet in front of my vehicle and I have fastened a dog toy on the end. I chose a rubber squeaky boot which gives me plenty of time to stop if the pole/boot apparatus hits a bridge which would be too low for my van to pass under safely. The squeak gives me an audible warning if I'm driving at night. I got the idea from looking at my cats whiskers and just adapted it to suit.
Got a feeling mine is just more the 2.1 ,could do with a sticker... just thought I always look up when passing under a low barrier ,not that I can see the top of the van..
I like your style. However, can you hear the squeak over the noise of the engine? And what if the toy doesn't make contact with, for example, a pole going over a car park entrance?
I'm ahead of you there. Obviously if the squeaky toy misses the pole by going underneath, so will my bus. However, if it misses the pole by going over the top the dangling fairy lights I've tied on the pole just behind the boot will alert me. I've used 12v fairy lights so at night I see if they hit something in the dark.
Ah right, that's great. What if the pole doesn't go all the way across, so the fairy lights and pole miss it, but the bus will hit it? Am I in trouble?
I did think about that scenario and quite frankly it had me stumped for a while. I then realised that because I have a Bay window on the front a pole like that would break the windscreen before it hit the 'A' pillar. I have therefore removed the windscreen and rely on me seeing the pole and stopping just before it hits the 'A'pillar.
That's good. But not great in the dark. I would recommend leaving the windscreen in place during dark and waiting for a crunch.
I see what you mean but a crunch means a broken screen. There must be a better way, if we could only think what it was.
I have the help of a friend who is marginally taller than my bus ( which is lowered in order for me not to have to befriend anyone taller than myself) He kindly walks ahead when I am enjoying the pleasure of the open road, it may take a little longer but hey ho.If perchance said friend is unavailable I can rely on the help of someone shorter who dons a stovepipe hat.
