The day I wanted to kick Henry Ford's ass
Posted: August 4th, 2005, 1:09 pm
Bringing a bus load of kids back from a summer camp in Virginia. I-66, in a drizzling rain. The kind of rain that just lightly wets the road and mixes with the oily residue to make the road surface slick as snot. Air brakes on the bus. There is an emergency feature that used springs to lock down the brakes in case the air pressure is suddenly lost. The emergency valve popped out and the brakes locked up sending the bus into a skid, some how I managed to aim the bus towards the shoulder and we slid to a stop. Four wheelers had no idea how slick the road was, they just flew by us. Montgomery county sent a mechanic out and he fixed the brakes in New York minute. They knew exactly what had happened. Ford Motor Company was using some kind of plastic air lines that cracked from the vibrations of the bus. I was stunned. You mean you know about this and there was no recall? They just fixed them when ever they broke. No preventive maintenance? The banality of evil.