Thanks for sharing the startup video, the 95 internationals were favorite brought back memories of when I use to drive school bus in 96 when they were one year old only difference is ours were all manual transmission buses with 5 speeds and 7 speeds and air brakes, and mostly DT 466 or the 444E engines They where fun to drive
Can't believe you still have 95s in service! 😍😍😍😍 Just looking at them and hearing them purr takes me right back to my elementary school days, I lived in Columbia County, FL and my regular bus was in that era, numbered D56...I miss that bus, it was fairly new at the time and just a beauty to behold...😊
In my area busses get replaced every 16 years, my old 2002 ic ce still worked fine but they replaced it with a 2018 ic ce with a Cummins the old one had a dt466 now the spare we have is a 2003 ce 300, some new busses are being replaced with old ones for the rest of the year, like bus 643 had a 2006 ce now the got a 2003 ce I’m not sure if the 06 broke down though,we got a few propane visions, an update bus 606 a 2005 ce broke down
Excellent video. Now all we need is some good engine compartment/under hood. Cold starts when it’s frigid. Gotta love the sound of those.T444E! Also, the genuine caterpillar starter sounds better than the aftermarket one. It seems that it spins the engine over a little faster. I like the sound of both, but personally, if it were -10, I’d rather have a genuine starter. I’d worry that aftermarket one would melt or something. It just turns over so extremely slow.
I've never seen anything bessides Bluebird, because that's all Wasatch County would buy. Now I'm up to college at Utah State University, and they use Thomas buses run off of CNG. I'd like to ride in an International some time.
I live in an IC bus. I wouldn't have a blue bird, their customer service is beyond uncaring, after the school district gets rid of it, blu bird couldn't care less about the 2nd owner of their product. I'd go with either IC or Thomas, their products are better built anyways.
Love me some 7.3L T444Es. One of the best engines to ever be built, right with the old AMC 4.0L Inline 6. The CAT C7s were alright, but I preferred its predecessor the CAT 3126. The older buses truly are "oldies but goodies". They don't make them like they use to.
Our school used to have those 95 Bluebird's with the T44E. There were 3 of them bus numbers 3, 5, and 8. 5 was the first one to get retired. They kept 3 and 8 for some time. 8 is retired. 3 I last saw sitting near a gas station, so I'm not sure if the driver accidentally filled it with unleaded and not diesel or something else happened to the bus. The only problem with those busses is that they didn't soundproof the bus well like everyone couldn't talk so loud or else the whole bus echos. The school busses here are mostly C2's but they have some new or newer Bluebird's.
How come some of your 2008-2012 visions do a second gauge check. I’ve really never seen that before on the other ones. We had 8 2005 visions in Levittown ny with the cat c7 and they were a pure pain in the ass to us. We had to retire them early and replace them with Thomas EFXS from 2013-2015. We have about 13 EFXS now and the drivers love them. Those visions were only like 7 years old. They had always had starting problems and were in and out of the shop. They used the original starter I believe
Long Island Elevator channel Our C7s have been good to us. And yeah some of those I turned the key back off then straight to the start position. Once the computer has cycled you can turn it off and straight to start without hurting it. Just has to do it within 10 seconds.
Fredriq Craft ok got it, idk why but our visions were so bad that we had to trade them out because they just sucked for us, u guys got lucky. I think we even got money back lol
Fredriq Craft yeah, we just couldn’t keep them maintained at all and kept breaking down, one of them would break down every day or every other day if I’m right ! We just didn’t have the guts to work with cat engines, we were better off with Cummins lol
I agree but hate the beeps if pressure is under the low air alarm warning when starting but like the satisfaction of governor cutoff. I love the Amtran cutoff big whoosh and the blow of air from underneath the bus unless i'm using that bus to pick up pre-school kids; they tend to get frightened by it but they all laugh when you set the brake, they like that weird sound.
mine go like this 208094 the first two digits are the year, second two are carrying capacity of the bus and the last two are like the code or order of the bus in the yard of that year model.
Here’s a hint so you don’t have to rewatch the whole video: 00-65, 04-87, 00-76. I already saw 95-44 start so you don’t have to start that one. But if you don’t want to then that’s fine with me
I’d rather have air brakes then squishy brakes (aka hydraulic brakes). Had a friend who drove for a district that had both and he was saying more of the hydraulic brakes was failing more then the air brakes. Such was brake pedal going to the floor, feels like brakes was going out, parking brake cable snapping, etc. Air brakes buses rarely had a problems with their brakes, I drove more buses with air brakes so I would prefer them over the squishy brakes lol. I have driven the swishy brakes buses a few times and wouldn’t be my first choice (and a I had the parking brake cable snap on me when I was setting it to park as well).
lucas vlogs 2007 No hydraulic brakes do not have a yellow parking brake knob unless it has an air parking brake. Which is called air over hydraulic. A lot of districts don’t like both. So we do hydraulic. So there is no yellow parking brake knob.
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Thanks for sharing the startup video, the 95 internationals were favorite brought back memories of when I use to drive school bus in 96 when they were one year old only difference is ours were all manual transmission buses with 5 speeds and 7 speeds and air brakes, and mostly DT 466 or the 444E engines They where fun to drive
Can't believe you still have 95s in service! 😍😍😍😍
Just looking at them and hearing them purr takes me right back to my elementary school days, I lived in Columbia County, FL and my regular bus was in that era, numbered D56...I miss that bus, it was fairly new at the time and just a beauty to behold...😊
Great video. You are actually why I started getting into buses.
Iceeyy I really appreciate that! I’ll be uploading more videos soon!
Me too
7.3 T444E’s for days, One of my favourite engines from international
Jordan Lowe ElevaTours Canada I love them too
I love how they sound!!!!!!!!!
What about the VT365 that's my favorite
Yeah I love the good ol 7.3s as well, mate them to a Allison MD3060 and you can't get any better... Well add water/meth injection and a bigger turbo.
@@lucaslex9327 Yeah but if only their reliability was as good as their sound XD
Startup 1 - 0:53
Startup 2- 1:51
Startup 3- 2:30
Startup 4- 3:11
Startup 5- 4:08
Startup 6- 4:46
Startup 7- 5:35
Startup 8- 6:13
Startup 9- 7:00
Startup 10- 7:49
Startup 11- 9:01
Startup 12- 10:27
Startup 13- 11:46
Startup 14- 12:22
Startup 15- 13:01
Startup 16- 13:38
Startup 17- 14:20
Startup 18- 14:54
Startup 19- 15:55
Startup 20- 16:34
Thats most of it theres more tho :)
You’re so lucky to get to see all these Internationals, yet here we are hanging on by a few Thomas FS65’s.
Does anyone else find this video satisfying
Me too lol
Yea
Yes
Yep
Yes.
In my area busses get replaced every 16 years, my old 2002 ic ce still worked fine but they replaced it with a 2018 ic ce with a Cummins the old one had a dt466 now the spare we have is a 2003 ce 300, some new busses are being replaced with old ones for the rest of the year, like bus 643 had a 2006 ce now the got a 2003 ce I’m not sure if the 06 broke down though,we got a few propane visions, an update bus 606 a 2005 ce broke down
Excellent video. Now all we need is some good engine compartment/under hood. Cold starts when it’s frigid. Gotta love the sound of those.T444E! Also, the genuine caterpillar starter sounds better than the aftermarket one. It seems that it spins the engine over a little faster. I like the sound of both, but personally, if it were -10, I’d rather have a genuine starter. I’d worry that aftermarket one would melt or something. It just turns over so extremely slow.
I've never seen anything bessides Bluebird, because that's all Wasatch County would buy. Now I'm up to college at Utah State University, and they use Thomas buses run off of CNG. I'd like to ride in an International some time.
I live in an IC bus. I wouldn't have a blue bird, their customer service is beyond uncaring, after the school district gets rid of it, blu bird couldn't care less about the 2nd owner of their product. I'd go with either IC or Thomas, their products are better built anyways.
Those last few 05 visions sound like they have the 00-02 cat 3126 starter from the FS-65s.
willicd102892 AfterMarket Delco Remy starter. Not an original CAT starter.
this is by far my favorite school fleet startup video yet!
Love me some 7.3L T444Es. One of the best engines to ever be built, right with the old AMC 4.0L Inline 6. The CAT C7s were alright, but I preferred its predecessor the CAT 3126.
The older buses truly are "oldies but goodies". They don't make them like they use to.
The 2000s buses seemed to be the best
1202, I love the startup chime
Blue Bird has an interesting start chime.
6:47 I was expecting the CAT C7 to be a bit quite because its in a relatively new bus, but no. I was seriously startled when that things started.
Lol. The CAT's are really loud engines even from the factory they were pretty loud.
CAT C7s are larger than Cummins engines
Our school used to have those 95 Bluebird's with the T44E. There were 3 of them bus numbers 3, 5, and 8. 5 was the first one to get retired. They kept 3 and 8 for some time. 8 is retired. 3 I last saw sitting near a gas station, so I'm not sure if the driver accidentally filled it with unleaded and not diesel or something else happened to the bus. The only problem with those busses is that they didn't soundproof the bus well like everyone couldn't talk so loud or else the whole bus echos. The school busses here are mostly C2's but they have some new or newer Bluebird's.
I like the older style buses to
cool buses man I like your video
can u pls do an updated version?
I wonder if the 1995 3800s are still here lol.
You may have to snag me one of those “CE200” emblems off of one of those ‘04s when one retires.
RUclipsr with no comments
I'ma fix that
Note that some DTs are good at starting up
Most of the 95 buses have jackknife doors and buses from 97 onward have normal outward doors
How come some of your 2008-2012 visions do a second gauge check. I’ve really never seen that before on the other ones. We had 8 2005 visions in Levittown ny with the cat c7 and they were a pure pain in the ass to us. We had to retire them early and replace them with Thomas EFXS from 2013-2015. We have about 13 EFXS now and the drivers love them. Those visions were only like 7 years old. They had always had starting problems and were in and out of the shop. They used the original starter I believe
Christopher Hoskins I thought it might be that
Long Island Elevator channel Our C7s have been good to us. And yeah some of those I turned the key back off then straight to the start position. Once the computer has cycled you can turn it off and straight to start without hurting it. Just has to do it within 10 seconds.
Fredriq Craft ok got it, idk why but our visions were so bad that we had to trade them out because they just sucked for us, u guys got lucky. I think we even got money back lol
Long Island Elevator channel Well a lot of people drive them slow. You have to run the hell out of a cat and keep it blown out for them to run right.
Fredriq Craft yeah, we just couldn’t keep them maintained at all and kept breaking down, one of them would break down every day or every other day if I’m right ! We just didn’t have the guts to work with cat engines, we were better off with Cummins lol
You should put a truck stop like lot in that field
My favorite is the 5.9 Cummins and the C7
The diesel fumes intensify
7:39 It looks like the left turn signal indicator on the instrument panel doesn't work.
what a delay on the 2008-2010 range bluebirds for everything to come on
Shayne W Yeah. It’s a computer delay. I kinda like it. Forces drivers to wait for the computer to do its checks.
Man all those ATA545s?
The dashboards on the 1995-2000 school buses are very low as the seats are probably higher
btw 2008 2009 2010 bluebird vision dashboard looks like volvo dashboard
could you do another fleet startup? I really liked this one!
yeah
If all of that fleet was air brakes, it would be perfect!
You have no idea how much I love Air Brakes. The sounds are so awesome.
I agree but hate the beeps if pressure is under the low air alarm warning when starting but like the satisfaction of governor cutoff. I love the Amtran cutoff big whoosh and the blow of air from underneath the bus unless i'm using that bus to pick up pre-school kids; they tend to get frightened by it but they all laugh when you set the brake, they like that weird sound.
7:39 The signal light of the left blinker does not come on.
05-93 and 05-92 have to be repaired or serviced
I could do this all day
My school has the older buses.
This might be the best fleet ever!
In my district instead of like 09-77 it’s 20339 the first three letters oddly enough being the year of the bus then the last to the driver code
mine go like this 208094 the first two digits are the year, second two are carrying capacity of the bus and the last two are like the code or order of the bus in the yard of that year model.
Ok
04-81 fans and 04-86 fans sound the same I guess and here are the timeline for a quick comparison: 12:13 and 14:50
i seen a light on dash saying dont drive me today i think
Did your school district ever have any transit style school buses in the fleet? IC REs/FEs, Thomas HDX/EFX, or Bluebird All American FEs/REs?
Sam Moravec actually we did. Back in 92 we had about 10 TC2000s
the 05 visions don’t sound like cat starters
Shayne W The last two visions 05-90 and 05-91 have aftermarket starters. DelcoRemy to be exact
Fredriq Craft ahhhh. they are cheap. one my my districts buses has one and it takes like 30 seconds to fire usually it takes a genuine cat 10-15
Shayne W exactly. The aftermarket ones are so weak. Hurts my feelings. Lol
Fredriq Craft 05-93 sounds like a DT
@@shaynewaite5329 my thoughts exactly.
Also, Fredriq, what stops you from getting regular Cat starters in those busses?
The 04s have the same dashes as the 95s, 97s, 98s, 99s, and 00s, just redesigned
nice video well done school bus fan ;)
do another one of this
Those steering wheels on the bluebird 3800s need to be washed
Peter H doesn’t help
I’m sad that 95-44’s battery died because that bus because the DTA360s sound great.
chase franklin check out the bus I bought. It has the mechanical dt466 and they sound exactly the same.
Oh thanks for the feedback. Nice video. Loved seeing the variety of buses
And plus can you do a start of all of the buses that were dead or the door was locked or it was trash infected
Here’s a hint so you don’t have to rewatch the whole video: 00-65, 04-87, 00-76. I already saw 95-44 start so you don’t have to start that one. But if you don’t want to then that’s fine with me
DTA360s sound like 5.9 24V
Somehow this was oddly satisfying
I noticed none of them were Air Brakes 😥. And it looks like most drivers really abused their busses.
Jack Schissler actually. Two of these were air brake equipped. 95-44 that didn’t start and 95-43. And unfortunately yes.
Get some 2019 out there
Very true!
I’d rather have air brakes then squishy brakes (aka hydraulic brakes). Had a friend who drove for a district that had both and he was saying more of the hydraulic brakes was failing more then the air brakes. Such was brake pedal going to the floor, feels like brakes was going out, parking brake cable snapping, etc. Air brakes buses rarely had a problems with their brakes, I drove more buses with air brakes so I would prefer them over the squishy brakes lol. I have driven the swishy brakes buses a few times and wouldn’t be my first choice (and a I had the parking brake cable snap on me when I was setting it to park as well).
One of the BBV's has a faulty speedo
If you can, can you do more driving videos of the cat c7 visions? Just like the one you uploaded a couple of weeks ago. Love those cat c7 visions!
Noah's Car Reviews I may have a few more driving videos of my 05s. I really like driving them. My favorite engine and bus model.
Fredriq Craft agreed. Hope to see more vids soon!
Fuel leaking back on the one that takes 3 tries?
TechOut Maybe. That bus is older than I am. But once started it still runs great.
I see. Lol. It seemed like a good bus. Even though it used 3 tries. It was good
Needs more Visions.
fancykat ok
The first 4 bluebirds all have either 24 seats or 26 I have one like the first one in my county !bus #13
26:05 That T444E roar
our district has all lot of vision ALL LOT
The 95s are the most reliable, well built buses
the wait to start light stayed on after you started 05-90
Shayne Waite yeah. The cats do that at times
When
23:14 theres 97-52
How many buses are in the field?
23:45 question… anyone know why the rpms are bouncing around a bit on some of these? Just curious lol
Its normal
7:00
Long Live Cat
Install From school buses with manual transmission please
All these school buses have manual doors
You don't check the oil?
9:12 yeah i agree it sounds to slow to spin that engine over like it should be
Sure Hope Bus Drivers Ever Sees This School Buses Starting Up Every Engines
Does anyone know what causes the "STOP!" light with buzzer to come on?
EmeraldPlaysThings 2008-2010 Vision?
Pretty sure it is an 09, a friend had it a while back
Low oil pressure to be exact once started it will be off
How come on some busses you set the key to run let the guages sweep and then turn the key off and then start it?
Sirens Of Maryland I like to see the second sweep.
@@Bluebirdvision91 ah
@@Bluebirdvision91 ah
@@Bluebirdvision91 glowplugs/grid heater
Wow I dont live close to here but I live in Hancock County
Why did there's no cb radios and camara's on buses?!?
Joshua Nguyen Presents 2 there’s cameras on all of them unless they’re sub buses. We don’t use Cb radios
Different states vary from laws. Where I live we don't require CB's or Cameras. If there is an issue the driver pulls over and whips out their phone.
After you first start is it is good to it on high idle
dutin tabor yes
The Gaming Legends ok
Where is 0489
Why manual doors? I like electric or air doors
Amazing!
Hi, I noticed none of your buses have visible CB radios. Do you not have those there?
T Sharp We don’t.
95 (except 95-44), 97, 98, 99, 00 - Blue Bird International 3800 7.3 T444E
95-44 - Blue Bird International 3800 5.9 DTA360
04 - IC CE200 7.3 T444E
05 - Blue Bird Vision 1st generation 7.2 Cat C7
08, 10, 12 - Blue Bird Vision 2nd generation 6.7 Cummins
22:29 what happened to 00-68?
16:23 & 16:52 Can I use the jackknife door sounds for RoR?
Go for it.
@@Bluebirdvision91 Thanks
Where the 3800 bluebrid
Why was 00-72 and 00-75 running like that?
They need injectors. They're old. Both both run amazing once warmed up
Dustin L Wayne County School District
@@Bluebirdvision91 ok
I want to but a ic ce200 school bus because I love them
connor vlogs I want one of each except the c2s
I love the ic ce200
26:05 LOL
Buzzer is not working on0591
Finally a a fleet with no c2s or minotaur or Collins next u sees ir Mtams
Are all of the busses bluebirds?
95 to 00 International chassis with Blue Bird body
05, 08, 10, 12 are Blue Bird chassis and body
Where is0489 and0482
Why do none of your buses have the yellow parking brake knob
lucas vlogs 2007 Theyre not air brakes.
@@Bluebirdvision91 yeah but hydrolic brakes still have a yellow brake knob
lucas vlogs 2007 No hydraulic brakes do not have a yellow parking brake knob unless it has an air parking brake. Which is called air over hydraulic. A lot of districts don’t like both. So we do hydraulic. So there is no yellow parking brake knob.
@@Bluebirdvision91 could you do a video demonstrating where the parking brake is then I didn't know that
lucas vlogs 2007 if I get time while I’m home I will.
Gauge is not working on0593
also why does 04-88 have a different dash than 04-86
Shayne W the one in 86 quit and I replaced it with an older one that still worked.
im more of a car person than a bus person. why is this interesting? i must have a problem...
Are you a bus driver?
Anthony Torres mechanic
What engine do those Volvo powered bluebirds use?
School buses are the best
05-92 has a dash light out
BusDriver14/ Shayne W it's been fixed.
24:00 what happened to that buses engine
Where is0482