Sad Safety Reminder

[PM7088@...]

If you were to have some type of catastrophic air system failure, would you not
be better off with some solid blocking or cribbing under the bus?

Pete


-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Ryan Wright"
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 4:36 PM, mbulriss <mbulriss@...> wrote:
> > Our understanding is that Jim's passing was due to his bus falling on him.
>
> Does anyone know how it happened? What was he doing, what went wrong?
>
> I crawl under my bus all the time under these circumstances:
>
> 1. Parked on a flat, level surface.
> 2. Parking brake set.
> 3. Air bags inflated.
> 4. Leveling jacks down as a safety against airbag failure.
>
> I've never had cause to jack the bus up beyond normal airbag operating
> height. I'm small enough I can work around it without lifting it. I
> can't see the airbags and the jacks failing at the same time. I'd
> imagine most of the danger here is when you've actually lifted one or
> more tires off the ground, yes?
>
> -Ryan
> '86 PT-40 8V92